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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 - 09:53am Aug 15, 2002 EST (# 3723 of 3741)

Mentioned above there were community concerns that Lebonese male youth (plus their families) had a 'peculiar attitude' to young western women. The gang leader - who lured and took young woment to locations where they were 'mass' raped - has been sentenced http://abc.net.au/news/2002/08/item20020815173149_1.htm will making the punishment fit the crime deter?

mazza9 - 10:21am Aug 15, 2002 EST (# 3724 of 3741)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

lchic:

What are you suggesting? I personally believe that the crime of rape should be punished by a lifelong of anguish. The hurt inflicted on the victim will never go away. Why should the rapist experience anything less?

Maybe the punishment meted our in Kafka's "Penal Colony" where the criminal evenutally "sees" the error of his/her way is the ideal conclusion. Although one must remember that Kakfa wasn't exactly "all there"

LouMazza

kalter.rauch - 04:06am Aug 16, 2002 EST (# 3725 of 3741)
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lchic......

Have you heard?!?!? It's all the rage at the Space Exploration Forum. Now you can put the names of those whose posts "irritate" you on a "Block List" in your personal preferences. Think of it......all you have to do is enter my name and you won't EVER be bothered again!!!

Bye......Have a nice life!!!

lchic - 05:50am Aug 16, 2002 EST (# 3726 of 3741)

Don't usurp yourself by purporting to speak for an other.

lchic - 06:01am Aug 16, 2002 EST (# 3727 of 3741)

'Other people think differently from you. Other cultures speak differently from you. If you don't respect that you get 'mass culture'. Inga Clendinnen

– Writer and historian Inga Clendinnen’s interests lie in understanding how people think and introducing people to the problems and lessons of history. Her book Reading the Holocaust was voted Best Book of the Year by the New York Times in 1999.

lchic - 06:15am Aug 16, 2002 EST (# 3728 of 3741)

Are people, like yourself, who support the nuclear annihilation of the world - 'all there' ? mazza9 8/15/02 10:21am <<<< my comment was clear.

Problems arise when incoming cultures have insufficient respect for the women in the resident majority culture. Those in the Middle East must raise their standards and respect women.

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lchic - 06:31am Aug 16, 2002 EST (# 3729 of 3741)

"" FOXP2, the gene is known to switch on other genes during the development of the brain, but its presumed role in setting up the neural circuitry of language is not understood ...

Paabo contends that humans must already have possessed some rudimentary form of language before the FOXP2 gene gained its two mutations. By conferring the ability for rapid articulation, the improved gene may have swept through the population, providing the finishing touch to the acquisition of language.

lchic - 07:03am Aug 16, 2002 EST (# 3730 of 3741)

Has the 'finishing touch' with language been reached?

Is the language of diplomacy and negotiation the 'finishing touch'?

The 'touch' that sorts out problems and stops them disolving into the mayhem of war and distruction with the aftermath ...... the legacy of unexploded mines and cluster bombs embedded in the earth awaiting a child's approaching, and last, footsteps.

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