Current mood:	curious
Entry tags:	banana nut bread, economy, horatio alger hiss, idiot president, loans, pickles, posting, terminator

Just throwing it out there...
I was reading about the forthcoming "Terminator:Salvation" movie coming out recently, and that got me to thinking about how Skynet kicked the whole thing off by making various countries start firing nuclear missiles at each other.

And I thought that firing nuclear missiles all over the place didn't seem like a particularly logical thing for a computer system to choose to do.  I mean, there are more effective ways to bring down countries than blowing them up and potentially destroying or negatively impacting the infrastructure that the machines could rely on as well.  It seems like a rather irrational decision for a computer to make, or impatient, and wouldn't a computer system have tons of patience?

I think if this vast computer system decided to take out humanity, a good place to start would be to make sure an idiot got elected to leadership of the most powerful country in the free world.  Maybe cause problems in intelligence so that this idiot gets that country bogged down in an endless war.  It could also create sub-prime loans, to balance the economy rather precariously on the housing market, so that eventually the whole thing stumbles, causing economical problems world-wide...hmmmm.

Anywho, I just thought the concept of what was currently going on in the world being the beginnings of our war with the machines was an interesting concept, so I thought I'd throw it out there and see if anyone had any thoughts.  In other news, I can now comment from work, but I can't post, hence the lack of posts of late.  Sorry about that.  No worries, though, as I'm planning to start making time at home to do so, so I'll be back...heh heh.  ;)