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Re: A question of remembrance...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 7 May 2001 15:58:01 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> The people who least want to see a reduction in the military are those who
> make the weapons. Take a look how much the companies who will work on Son of
> Star Wars gave Dubya for his election.
Ugh! Don't even start me on that ridiculous cash cow! I foresee, shortly
after the implementation of this fine umbrella, someone boating up the
Potomac with a suitcase bomb or a big tank full of anthrax.
I think a real distinction can be drawn, however, between maintenance and
upgrading of existing technologies and the creation of a system to deal with
a created and fictitious need.
In response to the criticism that the technology for Star Wars Jr. doesn't
exist yet and/or doesn't work, George Will argued on Sunday that no one
knows if ICBM's worked, but we built them anyway. Sounds like airtight
reasoning to me! I'll have to get to work on patenting my perpetual motion
machine.
Dave!
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| (...) See today's WSJ. All the pieces of Brilliant Pebbles have been tested and shown to work (although not as part of an integrated system). Most of them in Clementine, one of the most cost effective civilian space missions ever! According to the (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) You are missing the point! It has nothing to do with defence. It has two objectives: 1. Start a "new" arms race and bankrupt China. 2. Move large amounts of money from US taxpayers to US shareholders. Everything else is salesman’s banter. (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) The people who least want to see a reduction in the military are those who make the weapons. Take a look how much the companies who will work on Son of Star Wars gave Dubya for his election. Scott A (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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