Path: ...!news.misty.com!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ahem A Rivet's Shot Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: Are there any simple BBC internet radio programs for the Pi? Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 20:43:55 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: <20240906204355.d2ec4f816c492e7e173c9c09@eircom.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 22:00:01 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9f73269892e42202011152bd96315354"; logging-data="1003685"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/XitYMFT7x6HGRTa24yersIDbHFDeVj+A=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:2oLz1oEChtD8owMMkkAVJIG+S44= X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; amd64-portbld-freebsd14.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Bytes: 2255 On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:24:17 -0700 wmartin wrote: > You want scary? It's not fictional. In 1985 the Soviet Union activated > what they called the "Perimeter System" aka "Dead Hand", which once > activated would look for signs of a nuclear strike on the "homeland", > and if the algorithm decided they had been attacked, would launch every > icbm in the arsenal, all pre-targeted. Still operational under the > Russian Federation. AT least it would attempt to - I read at the time that when the cold war ended and a lot of weapons were decomissioned with witnesses a good many of them would have failed to either launch or go off. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/ For forms of government let fools contest Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope