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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
- 06:52pm Oct 19, 2002 EST (#
5055 of 5063) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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WAR
Word History: The chaos of war is reflected in the semantic
history of the word war.
War can be traced back to the Indo-European root *wers-,
“to confuse, mix up.”
In the Germanic family of the Indo-European languages, this
root gave rise to several words having to do with confusion or
mixture of various kinds.
One was the noun *werza-, “confusion,” which in a later
form *werra- was borrowed into Old French, probably from
Frankish, a largely unrecorded Germanic language that
contributed about 200 words to the vocabulary of Old French.
From the Germanic stem came both the form werre in Old
North French, the form borrowed into English in the 12th
century, and guerre (the source of guerrilla) in the rest of
the Old French-speaking area. Both forms meant “war.”
Meanwhile another form derived from the same Indo-European
root had developed into a word denoting a more benign kind of
mixture, Old High German wurst, meaning “sausage.”
Modern German Wurst was borrowed into English in the 19th
century, first by itself (recorded in 1855) and then as part
of the word liverwurst (1869), the liver being a translation
of German Leber in Leberwurst.
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[ lchic | ah AH! So war is a 'Sausage Sizzle' ]
mazza9
- 07:03pm Oct 19, 2002 EST (#
5056 of 5063) "Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic
Commentaries
You may call it a diversion but I am exercising my rights
to comment in this forum. You won't show me your warrant. You
won't divulge the name of the person who assigned you the job
of moderator. You are a blowhard and a mountebank.
lchic posts some of the worst, (wurst) drivel this side of
MAD magazine without any of the humor or intelligence of that
august tome.
Robert you are a blowhard and I have'nt even mined the
depth of my adjectives to describe you.
Once again I ask. Who made you the forum sheriff. Showalter
your badge!! Put up or shut up!
lchic
- 07:15pm Oct 19, 2002 EST (#
5057 of 5063) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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War | chaos
War | removal of civil standards
War | a free for all - death mayham
War | a 'test' without rules for 'WAR-riors'
War | a failure in diplomacy
War | a greed-grab of an-others wealth
War | a whole techno-military industry with Commi$$ions
War | a deflection for the economic - civil
War | a 'game' without penal consequence
War | a death of people, ideas, old values
lchic
- 07:18pm Oct 19, 2002 EST (#
5058 of 5063) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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WAR the free-for-all
Let's put the word 'war' in the
trash bin
Okay so now there is NO-war
Meaning every action becomes a CIVIL action
With a CIVIL consequence
Meaning the victims of improper strikes have rights!
The right to go back to the striking warriors and ask for
'compensation'
lchic
- 07:23pm Oct 19, 2002 EST (#
5059 of 5063) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Diplomacy and good world goverance start to have value.
The functioning of a world LAW body - with an ability to
stop chaos, to stop monsters, to stop disputes blowing out is
paramount.
Nation States not wanting civil compensation claims against
them - would then adjust to working throught the world body -
it backed by Nation States.
Again suggesting that there is a real need for a body such
as the UN to actually function in real terms, to be funded in
real terms, to 'listen' to arguments, to adjudicate them, to
make 'people' (not job labels) ultimately responsible for the
decisions made from their minds.
War is often a 'state of mind' .... and minds should be
civil!
lchic
- 07:27pm Oct 19, 2002 EST (#
5060 of 5063) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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This being so - it then lessens the propaganderists
labelling of people as 'others' ... from 'elsewhere' ....
others without value and standing .... others who can at at
whim be dispensed with!
Others are brothers daughters and mothers
Others want rights not strikes in the night
Others are YOU
Others are me
Others are neighbours we CAN SEE through the
fence!
lchic2002
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