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Missile Defense

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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lchic - 05:42pm Sep 6, 2002 EST (# 4209 of 4229)

Reducing the human labour requirement in process has rightly been an aim, from factory production belt, to integrated Management Information Systems (MIS), reducing costs per widget/unit output.

For the First World this means 'spare labour' with 'underemployment'.

It's the task of Entities such as government to 'redeploy labour' into new areas and new lines of work.

Looking at Trends and into the Future - how should National/International Economies shape up?

What part if any would Nukes play in this?

widget http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213364,00.html

lchic - 08:33pm Sep 6, 2002 EST (# 4210 of 4229)

China restricts internet

"" A search for Jiang on Google turns up a Web page posted by the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement entitled "Exposing the crimes of Jiang Zemin." The group accuses Jiang of killing its followers in the course of a crackdown aimed at eliminating the group, viewed as a threat to communist control. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/headline/tech/1560382

There's also a 'GAME' under Jiang that he's none too happy about!

lchic - 08:43pm Sep 6, 2002 EST (# 4211 of 4229)

Washington is said to funnel 80% of USA communications eMail-internet traffic!

James Bond Meets The 7 Layer OSI Model

http://www.pe.net/~rlewis/Resources/james.html http://cmt.tstc.edu/database/networking/basics/osi.html

lchic - 08:46pm Sep 6, 2002 EST (# 4212 of 4229)

Showalter - The $64,000 question is
can you get into the box -
NO!
sorry to hear that you can't use your eMail ...

How much money have Congress given 'the Shadow' to sit on and in everyone's private communication links ?!

You live in a very Orwellian Country !

lchic - 08:57pm Sep 6, 2002 EST (# 4213 of 4229)

Too much 'monkey business' :)

http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/physio/vlabonline/caplab/biphasic.htm http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/maunsell.html

kalter.rauch - 02:22am Sep 7, 2002 EST (# 4214 of 4229)
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This isn't a forum on "Missile Defense". It's a propaganda monopoly.

lchic - 03:51am Sep 7, 2002 EST (# 4215 of 4229)

Refers not to a specific post - are you saying that the US government relies too much on propaganda rather than factual information, and that it has a monopoly over the 'lines' of communication in the information era?

lchic - 03:53am Sep 7, 2002 EST (# 4216 of 4229)

Big Brother

The government and its agencies, while keen to keep their own secrets, are less willing to allow us ours, handing themselves new powers that let them steadily map our private lives.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/bigbrother/privacy/yourlife/story/0,12384,785867,00.html

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