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> XYZ Customer Support wrote:
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> > war has never sapped people of their strength of will, has never
> > sapped people of their courage or turned them into chickens,
> > drained people's patience, or hindered technology?
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> Peace has done all of the above as well. When the sum of the game is 0,
> you have to expand your view.
Alex, you state things too conservatively.
Peace does all of the above, "exponentially" more effectively than war!
However, you may want the situation stable enough to allow the
mathematicians to create the math *before* the engineers need it. The
absence of the math was the reason the Harrier jump jet was built ~1992
instead of ~1982.
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