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Re: Computers as weapons

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From: Michael S. Schechter
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 22:56
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Paul George writes:

> Reality here rears its ugly head.  If you wish to work on advanced
> software in a networked unix environment or with the luxury of fast
> equipment & tools (like news), you end up with an aerospace company.

There is always working for university reasearchers, some of whom
have equipment and techniques only 1-2 years behind mil-ind.
This of course, generally means working for 30-50% of your industry
worth. But then, I consider it worth it to simultaneously stay
away from both COBOL and weapons and still have my toys. Various
other fields such as factory robotics and oh, automotive instrument
control, thing like that still get you reasonable 'toys' without
being defence-oriented.

Mike S.
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