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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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almarst-2001 - 11:41pm Mar 13, 2002 EST (#519 of 546)

Since conducting the "humanitarian" bombing, the only acronim I associate with NATO is North Atlantic Terrorist Organisation. The sooner it disappears from the face of the Earth - the better.

rshow55 - 11:42pm Mar 13, 2002 EST (#520 of 546)

lchic 3/13/02 11:25pm Some interviews from people involved would illuminate that !

From all the NATO countries, from Russia, and from other nations that have interacted with NATO.

Things had degenerated a long way from the intial ideals before late last year, when FLYING INTO TURBULENCE by Peter Martin http://www.intellnet.org/news/articles/peter.martin.flying.into.turbulence.html was written.

MD330 rshow55 3/10/02 2:21pm

By Gorbachev's time - things in NATO were a long way out of balance.

out.

rshow55 3/13/02 12:42pm

rshow55 - 11:55pm Mar 13, 2002 EST (#521 of 546)

almarst-2001 3/13/02 11:36pm . . . . I've been too brutal myself to accept Dostoevsky's position. I'd break my mother's arm, for enough money (she'd want a goodly cut of that money -- we've discussed it). Almarst , you have to do some arithmetic. Putin surely knows that.

Would I expect a leader to kill me if it was sufficiently important for "the greater good" ? Sure would -- but (s)he should think about the arithmetic carefully.

We don't have to agree on point like this - to figure out ways to make the world much better than it is.

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almarst , do you know what a jerk Dostoevsky was in many ways? A lot of his social writing was really horrific.

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almarst-2001 3/13/02 11:41pm .... I tend to agree with your conclusion -- but not your acronym. The EU should be questioning US policy -- not always against it, but questioning - - not taking orders.

And the truth on technical issues matters.

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/283

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/285

really out.

rshow55 - 12:05am Mar 14, 2002 EST (#522 of 546)

MD489 rshow55 3/13/02 8:52pm

almarst-2001 - 12:09am Mar 14, 2002 EST (#523 of 546)

"what a jerk Dostoevsky was in many ways?"

May be so. But it does not diminish his words and his genious. It's enough to leave even a single mark among many of his, to be remembered as a genious.

By the way, do you know that most terrible and dreadful criminals usually conduct a respectable family lives and frequently love their pets?

rshow55 - 12:15am Mar 14, 2002 EST (#524 of 546)

On Dostoevsky:

" . . . it does not diminish his words and his genius. It's enough to leave even a single mark among many of his, to be remembered as a genius."

That's right enough.

Almarst , how glad I'd be to meet you!

But I'm knocking off, having a beer, and going to bed. I've been impressed by your postings - today, and for a year now . . but I'm "all in".

almarst-2001 - 12:21am Mar 14, 2002 EST (#525 of 546)

"Putin surely knows that."

Did I mention that I admire the Putin? Not at all. I would not like to be in his place. May be its his duty to deal with such "arithmetic". Which I know I never would nor could. In Russian their is a phrase: "When living among wolves, you have to sound like the one".

May be the Human's World we collectively create by our "arithmetic" does not deserve to see the happines? No matter how many innocent children will be sacrificed?

lchic - 03:43am Mar 14, 2002 EST (#526 of 546)

By the way, do you know that most terrible and dreadful criminals usually conduct a respectable family lives and frequently love their pets?

lchic - 04:05am Mar 14, 2002 EST (#527 of 546)

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