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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 - 10:07am Jan 11, 2003 EST (# 7590 of 7596)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Spent some time this morning toying with a small idea. Not big. But fun - thinking about a project that might permit North Korea to learn and do many of the things it needs to do - things that the rest of the world also hopes for.

I think North Korea should learn to manufacture and sell, for a profit, the Memorex personal compact disk player, Model # MD3020suffixB - - not hypothetically - but in such detail that they could actually do it - and actually did do it. On a profitable basis for THEIR society. With the sales real - not handouts.

I had an ulterior motive. I was hoping to be involved, in some way. Just dreaming - but small dreams, sometimes, can help people to work things out - in contexts where they can make small mistakes.

If North Korea - itself - could manufacture saleable Memorex brand Personal Compact Disk Players (Model # MD3020suffixB) so that it worked - and was a paying proposition - after a short period of transition - they could make a living for themselves - and we could live with them comfortably.

It might also be possible to work out an industrial base - unique to them - that would sustain the country well, and comfortably - in harmony with their traditions. They could design measurement and precision tool manufacturing equipment - very specialized but general purpose testing equipment - and organize teams to actually do the tests where there is a market for the services. There should be such a market - it should be stable and large - and the North Koreans are well fit for it in a very essential way. They are different from other people. Sometimes, that is precious. It is an essential, when certain kinds of testing need to be done.

mazza9 - 10:39am Jan 11, 2003 EST (# 7591 of 7596)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Kalter:

Surely you kvetch too much. I'm sure that Robert and Lunarchick would espouse the "treatment" you described as a radical hemorrhoidectomy. Surely the acid baths described by a defector on the Fox News channel are just depilatory treatments. Naval Lt. Spicher has been held in protective custody these past 12 years in accordance with generally accepted rules of war, (as published by Atilla the Hun!). Well enough of the Ironic Sarcasm. It is lost on these two dimwits.

I can't wait for the newsfilm "live at 11!". The Iraqi people will honor Saddam just as the Italians honored Mussolini, by hanging by his heals from a lamp post! All those swell statues and billboards will be dynamited and then the people will be given a real chance to govern, grow and prosper under a kindler, gentler regime.

And all despite the "intellectual" prognostications of these two Nobel Peace Prize wannabes! (Although come to think of it, their having saved all these people, might be worth something. NOT!)

lunarchick - 01:36pm Jan 11, 2003 EST (# 7592 of 7596)

Chicago police extracted confessions by torture and beating .... the death penalty process is badly faulted .... DNA testing ..... 13 | 25 murdered by their State - Illinois. Republican Governor (retiring) moves all (156) from 'Death Row' to life imprisonment.

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South Korean public see NK action re Nuclear activity as a 'power-broking' gamesmanship move re USA.

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Americans are bled of $10m per day by Israel & additionally $10bn over 2003 2004 Seems Sharon isn't looking good re rules and use of money.

The's a growth of an 'Anti-Everything Party' in Israel .... that may take the next election .... so what happens in the ME if the NO-POLICY anti-Ev party sweeps to power?

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$10bn is the same figure as the debt Bagdahd owes Moscow.

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North Korea - features in the critical mind of one CD/DVD reviewer here - ""The remote is typical Toshiba fare, which means it looks as if it were designed and built in North Korea."" http://pdxbooks.com/compare/B00006IS65

Suggesting that to position themselves in the minds of buyers would be an challenging marketing task.

DVD the NEW standard http://www.jmnvideo.20m.com/photo2.html

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2008 | sports school in Xuhui - Shanghai http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4423470,00.html

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lunarchick - 03:35pm Jan 11, 2003 EST (# 7593 of 7596)

A shiver of dither !! You've Got Mail !! Iraq

US sending thousands of eMails into Iraq to try to persuade (at all levels)

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Science | censorship | terrorism

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/10/science/10SECR.html

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