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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 09:02:11 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: <vm0sih$17qa3$2@dont-email.me> References: <vlpb2u$3h575$2@dont-email.me> <vlpl00$3j0d5$2@dont-email.me> <vlpqei$3k5pa$1@dont-email.me> <vlq5i5$3phr6$1@dont-email.me> <vlq89n$3pt22$2@dont-email.me> <76741a45-2b1f-6c0e-ef5f-43fa29c4afa6@example.net> <2ja5ojlu05e7fe707438rm3741ll45khrl@4ax.com> <84f68101-bb4d-f311-7248-0db3a70b10ca@example.net> <tns7oj5aeirp0pjokmoi6iin4d8cq62ou0@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:02:10 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="341efbaff6ffc549630f52d6d05502db"; logging-data="1304899"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/i0ePsIRdedv1/O1/bVcqs" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:S1uoklRIHhuMXhuuLZtOptkI380= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <tns7oj5aeirp0pjokmoi6iin4d8cq62ou0@4ax.com> Bytes: 2330 On 1/12/2025 8:53 AM, Paul S Person wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:46:29 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, Paul S Person wrote: > > <snippo> > >>> People who are panicked can do things that would otherwise make no >>> sense. >> >> If Putins button would be located on his bedside table I would agree with you. >> It is not, and an order needs to go through many levels, by design, before any >> rockets fly. It would be a more or less risk free way to finish the war quickly. > > Never having been in Putin's current location, I have no idea where > the button is. I can only hope you are correct. > > I'm fairly sure the US President is one door and one military officer > away from access to the codes that launch the missiles, however. Codes that authorize launches once the military requests it. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.