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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
- 06:13am Jan 3, 2003 EST (#
7259 of 17697) 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.
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?224@@.ee74d94/5493
Attack On The Ad-Man
This trumpeter of nothingness, employed To keep our
reason dull and null and void. This man of wind and froth
and flux will sell The wares of any who reward him well.
Praising whatever he is paid to praise, He hunts for
ever-newer, smarter ways To make the gilt seen gold; the
shoddy, silk; To cheat us legally; to bluff and bilk
By methods which no jury can prevent Because the law's
not broken, only bent.
This mind for hire, this mental prostitute Can tell the
half-lie hardest to refute; Knows how to hide an
inconvenient fact And when to leave a doubtful claim
unbacked; Manipulates the truth but not too much, And
if his patter needs the Human Touch, Skillfully artless,
artlessly naive, Wears his convenient heart upon his
sleeve.
He uses words that once were strong and fine, Primal as
sun and moon and bread and wine, True, honourable,
honoured, clear and keen, And leaves them shabby, worn,
diminished, mean. He takes ideas and trains them to engage
In the long little wars big combines wage… He keeps
his logic loose, his feelings flimsy; Turns eloquence to
cant and wit to whimsy; Trims language till it fits his
clients, pattern And style's a glossy tart or limping
slattern.
He studies our defences, finds the cracks And where the
wall is weak or worn, attacks. lie finds the fear that's
deep, the wound that's tender, And mastered,
outmanouevered, we surrender. We who have tried to choose
accept his choice And tired succumb to his untiring voice.
The dripping tap makes even granite soften We trust
the brand-name we have heard so often And join the queue
of sheep that flock to buy; We fools who know our folly,
you and I.
A.S.J. Tessimond.
- 02:03am Aug 13, 2002 BST (#4486
of 4486)
kalter.rauch
- 06:45am Jan 3, 2003 EST (#
7260 of 17697) Earth vs <^> <^>
<^>
rshow55
1/3/03 6:11am
...who knows? Maybe Saddam or Jong Il, is
they saw this thread, would be so out of it that they'd look
at the magnitude of the effort, and the sharpness of the
words, and think something important was going on...
Have you COMPLETELY lost your ever-loving MIND?!?!?
Hussein and Jong Il BOTH have a hobby of watching
videotaped torture sessions of their poor victims...FOR SHEER
ENTERTAINMENT!!!
They would like nothing more than to strap you onto the
rack and savor your stereophonic pleadings through wide-range
HEADPHONES, you sap!!!
Look, Rshow, if it comes down to brass tacks...as I suspect
it will VERY SOON...some exotic brassboard circuits will be
drafted into service such that we'll see Jong Il's squealing
pig face on TV, begging for mercy, as blood squirts from his
ears and porcine NOSE!!!
......and then we'll proceed to fry Sodom Hussy's fat
rear...the old fashioned way...IN NAPALM!!!
kalter.rauch
- 06:59am Jan 3, 2003 EST (#
7261 of 17697) Earth vs <^> <^>
<^>
It's UGLY, Rshow!!!
The time for peace is past and the TIME FOR WAR IS NOW!!!
Donate your aluminum pots and pans to the effort......BUY
BONDS!!!
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