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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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lchic - 08:13am Jan 23, 2003 EST (# 7941 of 7955)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

If people - worldwide - are starting to view the world from the HUMAN RIGHTS perspective ... why aren't 'dictators' being framed thus?

Nation on Nation is about SIDES - which side? who's right/wrong?

Human Rights are about rights!

What rights should women in Arab nations enjoy - and why?

Why aren't Saudi women allowed to DRIVE?

How much does it cost NOT to allow women to DRIVE and WORK in a National Economy?

TABOO-s

Who's more screwed up about sex - the Arab culture or Deep South America?

Why won't the USA fund educational programs that use 'correct terminology' for the human reproductive organs .... why can't KindyKids speak those words?

lchic - 08:55am Jan 23, 2003 EST (# 7942 of 7955)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/

M. Robert Showalter - 09:08am Jan 23, 2003 EST (# 7943 of 7955)

When you use the words in an agreement to justify actions - it is important to ask. Could the interpretation of words you want to use now have permitted you to get that agreement when it was made. Sometimes, when there is a record, it can be clear that the interpretation being pushed is not the one that the record supports.

Representatives of the United States made a great many promises - and said a great many things - in the course of negotiating the last Security Council agreement on Iraq. I hope they will be remembered.

Gisterme simply says - Robert, you're all wet. Well, people can look for themselves.

almarst2002 - 10:28am Jan 23, 2003 EST (# 7944 of 7955)

funny: PHOTO-OP COVER-UP: BOXES READ 'MADE IN CHINA' NOT 'MADE IN USA' - http://www.drudgereport.com/matt.htm

But TELLING!

wanderer85us - 11:25am Jan 23, 2003 EST (# 7945 of 7955)
The rich have bought Bush and the republicans lock, stock, and barrel.

Bush has lied daily since the beginning of his campaign, nothing his administration says can be believed.

rshow55 - 02:38pm Jan 23, 2003 EST (# 7946 of 7955)
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.

The Bush administration is being shifty all right - but for the life of me, it is hard to look at the way things are unfolding - and not be hopeful. I know I haven't been as concise as I should have been about defining oscillatory solutions - but sometimes it looks to me like the Bush administration understands them very well. If Bush himself doesn't, Condoleezza Rice surely does. . . .

Gisterme , it seems to me that sometimes it is my patriotic duty (and pleasure) to keep you waiting, and maybe even mislead you a little bit, but I'll offer a 0th order case of a oscillatory solution.

A digital instrument (say a volt meter). Always muddled about the last digit. Might be muddled between

- 6.3275 volts and - 6.3274 volts

as an example. The last digit might go 5 4 5 4 4 44 4 4 5 5 5 - just flow around statistically. Never exact - never quite right - when the read is nearest to accurate - the last digit goes would alternate - for instance

5 4 5 4 5 4 5 4

- - - an oscillatory approximation.

But the answer at a lower level of resolution is stable - the oscillation is small - and of reasonably well know size and stable .

Back when I feel like it.

almarst2002 - 02:47pm Jan 23, 2003 EST (# 7947 of 7955)

The Russian News Agency Interfax today quoted a senior military official of the Russian Armed Forces as stating that the USA will attack Iraq.

“According to the data we have, the operation is planned for the second half of February. The decision for its execution is already taken but is not yet public” - http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/01/23/42471.html

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