Yes!
Most man made games have pretty simple boundries compared to real life.
While the Vegas scenario can become a relitively harmless recreation for
both parties,
it is important to note that no one is subjected to conditions beyond their
individual tolerences.

Now that the Cold war game is mostly behind us, it becomes visible that it
served the purpose of
driving the involved countries economies.

The Space Race was another such game.

Each PIC project you design is also a resource management game. Your common
parameters are
time, money, parts availability, pin count, memory constraints, power
requirements and (blush!) personal limitations...

PIC'n, Chess, video games and war are all games of resource management...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wagner Lipnharski" <wagner@USTR.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: Anti Anti electronic warfare warfare


> John Ferrell wrote:
> > I agree.
> > War is a game of resource management. Making your adversary trade
> > rooks for pawns is usually good strategy.
>
> One should never forget that IF one opponent can produce as many ROOKS as
> he wants, using his OWN money, producing it in his OWN country -
> factories - material and manpower, it will MOVE more money and create MORE
> jobs, IMPROVE his economy and his factories, cycle his TAXES speed,
PROMOTE
> his technology development and more.
>
> Sometimes it is a good business to trade the 6 adversaries only PAWNS by
20
> of your own ROOKS, mostly when you can produce other thousand ROOKS if
> necessary.
>
> One should never forget that when you expend 60 billion dollars in his own
> country, it means exactly 60 billion dollars in motion money, not a single
> coin wasted.
>
> That's the same old story of two guys in a Vegas Casino.  One is
> millionaire, the other is a common guy who makes $2000/month with a bank
> account with an average balance of $200 and $20k in credit card debits.
> Both guys went to the casino, after 4 hours both get out, smiling.  The
> common guy is happy because he enjoyed playing cards, did it for 4 hours,
> and after all yet made $100 in profit.  The millionaire also enjoy playing
> cards, he is also happy because he did it for 4 hours and at this time he
> LOST only $50 thousand dollars at the casino.  The common guy could say he
> "worked" 4 hours at $25/hour, the millionaire could say his factories gave
> him $600 thousand dollars during those 4 hours, so he made $550 thousand
> profit during the 4 hours at the casino.  Everything is a point of view.
>
> Wagner
>
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