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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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mazza9
- 01:37pm Jul 7, 2003 EST (#
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"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic
Commentaries
19 meaningless posts! I don't know if that's a record!
Isn't it sad that the tactics of the left are unchanged over
the last 150 years! Stupefy! Stupefy! Stupefy! Stupefy!
Or as Forest would say "Stupefy! is as Stupefy! does!"
lchic
- 10:18pm Jul 7, 2003 EST (#
12883 of 12889)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Can count
Can't comprehend
Schooling - Texicated!
dR3
lchic
- 10:19pm Jul 7, 2003 EST (#
12884 of 12889)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Can count
Can't comprehend
Schooling?
Texicated!
dR3
lchic
- 10:28pm Jul 7, 2003 EST (#
12885 of 12889)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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The nature of process is fine tuning - removing 'labour'
from it - improving method and reducing costs.
On the tax rebate to the rich .... as said above on the
board ... all they can do is spend it on exotic imported
luxury goods or invest it ... and to do that there'd need to
be a demand.
Who would best create demand?
Why the poor of course with unmet needs. This then
stimulating the economy.
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An alternative way of stimulating an economy is to have
innovation in the R&D workship ready to implement putting
new product in the marketplace, setting trends ... and
creating new demand -- that in turn generates jobs.
bbbuck
- 10:44pm Jul 7, 2003 EST (#
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Obviously, as this forum represents, the need to post
jibberish day in and day out is very strong in some people.
Like the salmon returning to his/her birth stream, or the
osprey returning to the lake of it's birth, the desire and
need of the jibbermonger is beyond human fathoming.
It must simply be acknowledged.
God bless the jibbermongers. God bless the nytimes.com to
allow these jibbermongers to voice their jibberish.
ppq:iouIII
lchic
- 11:06pm Jul 7, 2003 EST (#
12887 of 12889)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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That's a fine mess your got yourselves into:
'The Economist' doesn't think that 'god' blesses America
which is falling behind in times of change. ""Like
America only more so The bigger problem is the remoteness of
the politicians. Gargantuan voting districts mean that each
state senator is supposed to represent 850,000 constituents.
But California is an extreme case of something happening all
over America. A combination of voter apathy and partisan
redistricting—the ability to draw constituency boundaries to
make seats safer—has made politicians more responsive to
table-bangers than to voters.
California's Democrats show more interest in the rights of
transgendered citizens or whales than, say, Latinos. The
Republicans' leader in the Senate, Jim Brulte, threatened to
campaign against any party member who voted for tax rises to
solve the budget crisis (even though tax rises are
inevitable). Partisan loyalty is more important than solving a
statewide crisis.
The real flaw in California is not a mechanical one to do
with how smoothly the machinery of government is working
(though it plainly isn't doing very well). The real problem is
that politicians have become divorced from the changing nature
of their state.
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1897472
lchic
- 06:22am Jul 8, 2003 EST (#
12888 of 12889)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Condi lines up the dots
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