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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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bluestar23
- 06:52pm Oct 30, 2003 EST (#
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Cantabb:
But aren't the numbers way up, the best for nearly twenty
years, eh..?
bluestar23
- 06:53pm Oct 30, 2003 EST (#
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"(at least till the Election time) ?"
Bets President Bush wins forty-five States...
bluestar23
- 07:00pm Oct 30, 2003 EST (#
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Cantabb:
"First, let's spend $87 B !"
Cantabb, it is a committment of Honour to the Iraqi people,
and must be carried through to prove a man keeps his word....
cantabb
- 07:44pm Oct 30, 2003 EST (#
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bluestar23 -
But aren't the numbers way up, the best for
nearly twenty years, eh..?
Growth rate (yes); Joblessness (yes, too)
Bets President Bush wins forty-five
States...
Am not so sure ! NOT if the Dems push someone forward and
early (unbloodied in the primaries).
Cantabb, it is a committment of Honour to
the Iraqi people, and must be carried through to prove a man
keeps his word....
I know we feel morally responsible for their restoration. I
know that it'll pass the Congress, one way or the other. But
imagine we could have shared this burden lot better with
others (through UN). ALL this, still under a cloud of the real
reason we felt we had to go in, all by ourselves (with UK).
lchic
- 08:54pm Oct 30, 2003 EST (#
15994 of 16032) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Bluey knows not a Dickens about expenditure! .... Annual
income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and
six, result happiness.
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.1/bookid.51/sec.12/
""
'My dear young friend,' said Mr. Micawber, 'I am older than
you; a man of some experience in life, and - and of some
experience, in short, in difficulties, generally speaking. At
present, and until something turns up (which I am, I may say,
hourly expecting), I have nothing to bestow but advice. Still
my advice is so far worth taking, that - in short, that I have
never taken it myself, and am the' - here Mr. Micawber, who
had been beaming and smiling, all over his head and face, up
to the present moment, checked himself and frowned - 'the
miserable wretch you behold.'
'My dear Micawber!' urged his wife.
'I say,' returned Mr. Micawber, quite forgetting himself,
and smiling again, 'the miserable wretch you behold. My advice
is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination
is the thief of time. Collar him!'
'My poor papa's maxim,' Mrs. Micawber observed.
'My dear,' said Mr. Micawber, 'your papa was very well in
his way, and Heaven forbid that I should disparage him. Take
him for all in all, we ne'er shall - in short, make the
acquaintance, probably, of anybody else possessing, at his
time of life, the same legs for gaiters, and able to read the
same description of print, without spectacles. But he applied
that maxim to our marriage, my dear; and that was so far
prematurely entered into, in consequence, that I never
recovered the expense.' Mr. Micawber looked aside at Mrs.
Micawber, and added: 'Not that I am sorry for it. Quite the
contrary, my love.' After which, he was grave for a minute or
so.
'My other piece of advice, Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber,
'you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure
nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income
twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six,
result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered,
the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and - and in
short you are for ever floored. As I am!'
To make his example the more impressive, Mr. Micawber drank
a glass of punch with an air of great enjoyment and
satisfaction, and whistled the College Hornpipe.
I did not fail to assure him that I would store these
precepts in my mind, though indeed I had no need to do so,
for, at the time, they affected me visibly. Next morning I met
the whole family at the coach office, and saw them, with a
desolate heart, take their places outside, at the back.
'Master Copperfield,' said Mrs. Micawber, 'God bless you! I
never can forget all that, you know, and I never would if I
could.'
'Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber, 'farewell! Every
happiness and prosperity! If, in the progress of revolving
years, I could persuade myself that my blighted destiny had
been a warning to you, I should feel that I had not occupied
another man's place in existence altogether in vain. In case
of anything turning up (of which I am rather confident), I
shall be extremely happy if it should be in my power to
improve your prospects.'
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