<div> </div> <div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Shikhar <<a href="mailto:shikhar@schmizz.net">shikhar@schmizz.net</a>> wrote:</div> <div class="gmail_quote"> </div> <div class="gmail_quote">>Sugar for the battlefield? I don't see the point of that<br></div></div> <div> </div> <div>Shirkar,</div> <div> </div> <div>My apologies for leaving my words open for misinterpretation.  Allow me to be clearer.</div> <div> </div> <div>I was suggesting quite the opposite, something along the lines of beating swords into plowshares.  </div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swords_to_ploughshares">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swords_to_ploughshares</a></div> <div> </div> <div>In the U.S. one will occasionally see this bumper sticker on the back of a car.</div> <div> </div> <div>"Some day the schools will get all the funding they need and the Air Force will have to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber."<br></div> <div>To avoid further misunderstanding, obviously the Sathi is not designed as an ideal learning machine, and I am not seriously proposing that Sugar should be ported to it, but wouldn't it be nice if it were possible to live in a world where fewer war machines were being designed and that money was spent on more humane priorities?</div> <div> </div> <div>Regards</div> <div> </div> <div>cjl<br></div>