From: Paul Grant (shade999@optonline.net)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 00:21:59 MDT
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:30 AM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Re: Being Extropic
On Thursday 31 July 2003 15:37, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> According to a NY Times report today, hundreds of millions
> of dollars may have been raised for terrorist activities (either in
> Palestine or the U.S.) [1].
>
> To my best recollection the 911 bombing financing was in
> the neighborhood of $100-200K.
>
> So one has a potential financing ratio of ~1000:1 (i.e.
> there are 1000 times as much funding out there as what
> may have been spent on attacks thus far) -- i.e. about
> 1000 potential 911s could be currently being financed. Assuming a
> comparable loss of life in such attacks -- 3000 people * 1000 attacks
> = 3 million people, one has to wonder *just* exactly where must we
> draw the line?
>
[samantha] I think you know full well this isn't a very good argument.
That a small
amount of money was required for an act of terrorism resulting in N
deaths
does not say that M times that amount will result in M*N deaths.
<me> I agree completely samantha; I mean, u have to expect them to get
better
at cutting the cost... economies of scale and all that jazz...
</sarcasm off>
omard-out
- samantha
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Aug 01 2003 - 00:33:13 MDT