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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

rshowalter - 03:11pm May 4, 2001 EST (#3239 of 3258)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Lots of things need to be cleaned up --- and the US has to face up to that. Which means that the rest of the world has to insist that the US do it.

Billing makes a lot more sense than fighting, about a lot of things, and it shouldn't be all that hard to get some billing to work.

Mostly, that would take organizations that did not include an America with veto power, or did not include America at all.

possumdag - 03:11pm May 4, 2001 EST (#3240 of 3258)
Possumdag@excite.com

On commenting on the Internet, the people of Loas don't feel that they, individually, don't have sufficient 'freedom' to make comment.

applez0 - 03:12pm May 4, 2001 EST (#3241 of 3258)

On the point of mines, I believe the Germans (possibly the Americans, I forget) have developed a blimp with ranged mine-detection equipment on board. It can make sweeping much easier, if not with the same quality of accuracy (wooden & plastic mines, and some signal degradation due to distance, but not so bad really).

braindroppings - 03:13pm May 4, 2001 EST (#3242 of 3258)

possumdag - 03:08pm May 4, 2001 EST (#3237 of 3237)

Hey moron.

The name of the country is Laos.

Not Loas, as you spelled it 4 times in your rant above

possumdag - 03:13pm May 4, 2001 EST (#3243 of 3258)
Possumdag@excite.com

I hear there are comments on 'StarWars' feasibility did anyone put up links ?

rshowalter - 03:13pm May 4, 2001 EST (#3244 of 3258)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

The proposal I made on Sept 25 is based on distrust , rather than trust, and is set out so that everybody, even small children, can understand the distrust, intellectally and viscerally.

For something so primordial as nuclear disarmament, I thought that made sense.
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applez0 - 03:13pm May 4, 2001 EST (#3245 of 3258)

For prosthesis statistics for Laos, Cambodia and others adversely effected by mines, go to UN, Red Cross, and global land-mine ban treaty sites...I'm sure they've got the information you seek.

rshowalter - 03:14pm May 4, 2001 EST (#3246 of 3258)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Let me go back and find them.

possumdag - 03:17pm May 4, 2001 EST (#3247 of 3258)
Possumdag@excite.com

Glad you took the time to read the post, so you're saying the first and last letters were correct, and the two in the middle are in the middle, 3 out of 4 ain't bad.

So, what would braindroppings think were you a tribal villager in lAos ?

possumdag - 03:20pm May 4, 2001 EST (#3248 of 3258)
Possumdag@excite.com

LA OS .. Los Angeles Over Seas it ain't!

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