[Ogre] How exactly did Japan conquer China?

[David Morse]

On 1/10/06, Chris French <csadn at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> > 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.

As they say, "Past results are no indicator of future performance". 
Look at the miniturization and performance increases cameras have
undergone in our lifetimes.  Look at networking technology.  Look at
little robots.  And finally look at storage densities, on e.g. Hard
Drives.  I'm just extrapolating a Moore's Law for these types of
things, and we don't even have autofacs yet.

Although in terms of miniaturization, Bushiverse is starting to pull
away from Ogreverse, even with its 60 year head start.  I seem to
recall an Ogre Mk V has 1 gigabyte of RAM.  The computer I'm typing
this on also has 1 gigabyte of RAM.  Maybe Bushiverse is better at
miniturization while Ogreverse is better at Macro.

> Subject: Ogre-list Digest, Vol 20, Issue 4
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