[dinok]

Ok you Bush lovers to the end, get your Purple coolaid out.

[SBeck]

Ok you Bush lovers to the end, get your Purple coolaid out.

Quit baiting them with common sense and facts, it only confuses them.

[Djarum]

BTTT

[CHUCKfromCAL]

Bush is just being realistic with computer exports. I used to work with SUN and I can tell you that the banned computers were getting shipped to China and Russia with no difficulty anyway. Companies in legal export countries would buy the equipment and then resell it to the banned countries.

The government was always giving SUN a hard time but there was nothing we could really do about it. The US trade restriction laws are not recognized and can't be enforced in many countries.

Besides, anyone with modest technical skills can put together clusters of off-the-shelf Linux PC-based clusters and make a supercomputer. These supercomputer clusters are cheap and excellent for intensive computation - like weapon design.

These trade restrictions are nothing more than "feel-good" BS. They may have had some value when you had to go to companies like CRAY to buy a super computer but not with today's technology.