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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 - 04:31am Apr 28, 2002 EST (#1825 of 1841)
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Research : News : from JoePublic's angle vmartin "The Collapse of Enron (A Moderated Forum)" 4/27/02 2:27pm

lchic - 02:17pm Apr 28, 2002 EST (#1826 of 1841)
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^{Audit - 30% variance}

Some sites such as The Guardian newspaper and Yahoo now audit monthly to get snapshots of how their site is developing. http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_1943000/1943947.stm

lchic - 02:23pm Apr 28, 2002 EST (#1827 of 1841)
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UN humanRights Seat - read - http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-rights-un-usa.html - but wouldn't the USA also have been accused of violating human rights

Cuba -Prisoners ... are they 'prisoners' ... or as nobodies/nogo ... does this get around the 'rights' issue - they have no rights therefore USA technically hasn't trashed them ?

lchic - 02:30pm Apr 28, 2002 EST (#1828 of 1841)
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South Korea worked hard to stop it's most popular missile being grounded :)

http://www.spikything.com/games/kickups/

mazza9 - 02:34pm Apr 28, 2002 EST (#1829 of 1841)
Louis Mazza

lchic:

I, for one, believe that the detainees are recieving more rights and better treatments than those "alleged" collaboraters that were summarily executed by your friends, the PLO.

Oh, excuse me they weren't "alleged" collaboraters. You can measure their guilt by reading the trial transcripts, interviewing the prosecuter and defense attorney and speaking to the jury. What no judge jury or rule of law? I'm shocked.

Of course, murdering that 5 year old Israeli child is okay. Isn't it lchic?

Say, have you burned any synagogues lately? Viva LaPen?

LouMazza

lchic - 02:41pm Apr 28, 2002 EST (#1830 of 1841)
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mAzzA is happy to voluntarily take the place of a Cuban detainee - 'Good on you mAzzA' - remember no chamber pots allowed - so don't clip one to your kNapSack for the trip down !

lchic - 03:09pm Apr 28, 2002 EST (#1831 of 1841)
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A ... ll the way with their plan .... A

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/opinion/28FRIE.html

mazza9 - 03:17pm Apr 28, 2002 EST (#1832 of 1841)
Louis Mazza

lchic:

MINNEAPLOIS

LouMazza

almarst2020 - 04:31pm Apr 28, 2002 EST (#1833 of 1841)

mazza,

Your main pont seems to be: "We are not worst then some others."

On this I think we may agree.

The question however is: "Can the World afford an allmighty lonely superpower defending his behavier as not a worst one on the planet"?

Don't you think what is permissible for the small puppy dog should not be alowed for an Elefant? The consequences are just so much more serious. And catastrofic for too many.

rshow55 - 04:55pm Apr 28, 2002 EST (#1834 of 1841)

almarst , that's a point that you've made before, --- made last year many times -- and you're right.

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