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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's
war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars"
defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make
the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an
application of science be successful? Is a militarized space
inevitable, necessary or impossible?
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guy_catelli
- 09:40pm Jan 18, 2002 EST (#10872
of 10882)
the trick of Mensa
(#10856 of 10871)
this story (which has always sounded apocryphal to me anyway)
wreaks of antiamericanism.
if there are 200 nations in the world, the other 199 will become
dictatorships way long before the u.s. taking all of the
circumstances into account, it is hard to imagine anything more
maliciously antiamerican than the suggestion that the u.s. could
ever be a dictatorship -- unless it's the suggestion that
dictatorship is logically consistent with our Constitution.
yet, this tale demonstrates not only the malice of the
intellectual types that enjoy its telling and retelling, but also
their stupidity and utter lack of common sense. this is not
surprising -- silicon computers, as well as human ones, have no
judgment.
lchic
- 10:08pm Jan 18, 2002 EST (#10873
of 10882)
Einstein's story - wasn't he an American? lchic
1/18/02 6:52am
guy_catelli
- 11:33pm Jan 18, 2002 EST (#10874
of 10882)
the trick of Mensa
aye read what i think is the most shameful false attribution ever
blamed on Einstein in a (no doubt ghost-written) book about mutual
funds ("Bogel on Mutual Funds"). it was something along the lines
of: "Compound interest is the greatest invention of the twentieth
century."
can you imagine Einstein ever saying anything remotely resembling
that!?! the book itself was actually pretty good; but, authors have
absolutely no shame!
lchic
- 03:22am Jan 19, 2002 EST (#10875
of 10882)
There's reading
And reading with meaning
With adding,
deducting
Between-in
rshow55
- 06:19am Jan 19, 2002 EST (#10876
of 10882) 
There's a search button back. And search works. That's
wonderful.
Found this, which I found interesting. rshowalter
10/9/01 11:13am
rshow55
- 06:27am Jan 19, 2002 EST (#10877
of 10882)
Just after that, I was barred from posting, for a long while. But
the offer I made in MD1025 stands.
Ann Coulter, according to journalistic usages of the phrase,
"made herself unavailable."
A search of kangdawei makes interesting reading.
So does a search of Carlyle , a firm with many
resemblances, and connections, to Enron.
rshow55
- 06:32am Jan 19, 2002 EST (#10878
of 10882)
"Rice and Wolfowitz" is an interesting, compact search, too.
rshow55
- 01:38pm Jan 19, 2002 EST (#10879
of 10882)
THE
CASE AGAINST THE NAZIS . . . Week in Review January 13, 2002 contains this:
One of the leading United States investigators
at Nuremberg, Gen. William J. Donovan — Wild Bill Donovan of the
O.S.S., the C.I.A.s precursor — collected and cataloged trial
evidence in 148 bound volumes of personal papers that were stored
after his death in 1959 at Cornell University.
At Cornell, I spent perhaps 1,000 hours looking at those
documents, and had just about any questions I asked about the Nazis
answered. One thing that interested me a great deal is how the Nazis
used the mechanisms of government power, propaganda, and
inter-relations, financial and social, many informal, between
political and business people.
I find some of the patterns involved with Enron , and
Carlyle , uncomfortably similar to patterns that occurred in
the Nazi corruption of Germany -- and dont believe it is entirely an
accident. At the level of corporate, government, and cultural
relations, there are many similarities between countries -- many of
the patterns that worked in Germany apply, at the level of
structure, to the United States, too.
THE
UNITED STATES OF ENRON by Frank Rich
MD671 rshowalter
7/6/01 10:47am
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/219
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