Talk:Fail-deadly
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The dead man's switch page says it is a fail-safe device. That makes more sense to me, but I don't know enough to feel confident to remove the link from this page and move it to the fail-safe page. Anyone know for sure? We should certainly be consistent, whatever the real situation is. -- S
- Is seems consistent, look at the beginning of Dead man's switch. I used that to clarify. Besides, note that "safe" for the bomber means no risk that the bomb does not explode.--Patrick 13:42, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
[edit] How about "Success-deadly"?
If a suicide bomber's entire strategy is to explode the bomb and being shot or overpowered causes the detonation of same, it seems to me as though he/she has "succeeded"! -- Jack 2006/01/13
- No, because he did not get far enough into a thick crowd before being overpowered by officers. Besides, the term "fail" in fail-safe still stands, even though if something dissipated safely it's not truly a failure. Both terms refer to backup salvaging strategies when the original plan fails. --Geoffrey 02:52, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
