[Ogre] Re: Ogre-list Digest, Vol 20, Issue 4

[Chris French]

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Subject: Ogre-list Digest, Vol 20, Issue 4
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> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 21:26:34 -0500
> From: David Morse <dcmorse at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ogre] How exactly did Japan conquer China?
> How about total government surveillance, backed up with powersuits. 
> Sure, you can attack that supply run, but then the Nihon spy drones
> have perfect video footage of the entire country, they just press
> "rewind" on the tape, find out who the insurgents are, where they
> live, everyone they ever met in the last month, and kill them all.

First: There's no such thing as "total" surveillance, of any kind; the
cost alone would bankrupt even OGREverse nations, there would al-
ways be holes in the coverage (whether through clumsiness, broken
parts, or what-have-you), and a myriad of other issues.

Same with "perfect video footage" -- the word "mask" springs to
mind.

And, of course, the cruncher: Every attempt by a totalitarian regime
to stop raiding through mass slaughter has failed. Some targets are
missed; some innocents are killed; most people, suddenly realizing
there's no percentage in staying neutral, are driven into the anti-
government camp.

"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've created."

CF