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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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rshow55
- 10:59pm Jul 13, 2002 EST (#3046
of 3052) 
These are key things to check, every which way, when stability
matters enough to think hard about, for real systems involving real
human beings, and real stakes:
. Berle's Laws of Power
. Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs
. The Golden Rule
MD2906 rshow55
7/8/02 6:56am
Think about these constraints, and sometimes "impossibly complex'
problems become "simple." And practical.
Technical constraints that are entirely inanimate matter, too.
lchic
- 07:06am Jul 14, 2002 EST (#3047
of 3052)
To Err -- is a failure of EU humanity -- an overall, not ad hoc,
system for the EU must be implemented.
Although Bush has hardly heard of Europe, Europe's heard of Bush
...
'My friends are crooks.
The companies
they run look corrupt.
The regulators I appoint are too
soft.
My colleagues in government face lawsuits for
fraud.
But I'm going to solve corporate crime with some
asz-kicking laws.
Hey, and trust me, I'm the
President!' Observor Bush
In the 2000
presidential election, WorldCom, for example, gave 70 per cent of
its $1.9m political donations to the Republicans. For Andersen it
was 71 per cent of $1.4m. Enron - led by 'Kenny Boy' Lay - gave
their buddy $113,800 between 1989 and 2001, while Al Gore got
$13,750. Enron gave $300,000 to the Bush inaugural fund in 2001, and
helped out with the costs of the 2000 poll recount.
There is
also the criticism over Bush's sale of $849,000 of shares in Harken
in 1991. Soon afterwards the company reported heavy losses and its
shares nearly halved. The SEC found no wrongdoing on Bush's part,
but did on the company's, of which Bush was a director.
http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,754731,00.html
The President's men
Thomas White: Army Secretary
White, a former Enron executive, sold $12m of Enron shares
between June and November last year. He was vice-chairman of Enron
Energy Services, implicated in manipulating electricity costs in the
California power crises.
Paul O'Neill: Treasury Secretary
As former chief executive of Alcoa, the world's biggest aluminium
company, O'Neill receives an annual pension from the company of
$926,000. Once in office, he delayed selling his Alcoa shares, until
they rose steadily by 30 per cent.
Larry Lindsey: White House economic adviser
Was a paid Enron consultant still on payroll when devising Bush's
economic policies for the election campaign. Lindsey conducted an
investigation into the effect of the collapse of a major energy
company on the economy just before Enron's difficulties became
known.
Dowd
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/opinion/14DOWD.html
lchic
- 07:14am Jul 14, 2002 EST (#3048
of 3052)
A question to ask is where do these guys get the money to
wheel in such huge numbers of shares. If they are career people on
salaries - even on top administrative jobs - regular folks might
just wonder - mortguage (1,2), schooling, uni-fees, living expenses,
holidays ... etc for most regular folks - even those on high
salaries - there isn't often that much left for the share market
.... and these guys would not have all their shares in the one
basket!
The NET WORTH OF all the presidents men is .... ?
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