In 1991 as operation Desert Storm was in full swing and Stormin Norman threw an armored corps across supposed impassable desert into the Iraqi flank, some Iraqi colonel ordered his troops to move forward until they ran into Americans. They hit the American flank at a place called Khafji and were stalled then dispersed by airpower and reinforcements.
But for a few hours CNN was like OMG ITS THE IRAQI COUNTERATTACK WER DOOMED
My friend Jeff Plummer the computer programmer and war geek was at home and his wife told him to look at the awesome danger of the Iraqi counterattack
Jeff looked at the footage of wrecked Iraqi armored vehicles and said "Naw that aint a counterattack, that's a Chinese knockoff of a 1960s Soviet armored personnel carrier. Saddam's best have Soviet Infantry Fighting Vehicles. This is not the assault wave of a planned maneuver by an armored corps. This is just some guys some Iraqi officer ordered to charge into the desert until they ran into Americans. " And he went back to painting miniatures.
Wargeeks are real, and they tend to vote Republican. No way this would have made it to the stage of a GOP convention
The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.