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Nobody's perfect

I know, the Hutus turned machettas into more efficient Weapons of Mass Destruction than Saddam's ones.
About star trek, I thought that turning energy into mass by creating short lived black holes would be the first step to bring warp drive to reality...

LO
A blow against European Union ?
Among the main Europe promotors, the frenchies who should vote for the European Constitution in June 2005 are about to say : "Merde", if latest polls are confirmed.

The main reason being the Bolkenstein directive proposal by the European Commission.
This directive should allow a worker from a union member country to work in another country with the laws of his origin country.
If so, a romanian worker could work in Sweden with a work contract being paid with a romanian wage level and having romanian social protection. Then, a swedish society could fire his swedish workers to employ cheap romanian workers.
Some European Trade Unions start mobilising against the european Commission accused to dismantle high social rights of advanced countries.

Second reason is a comment of european Commiission saying that delocalisation of factories is a chance for european economy.
Public opinion sees european Commission as regardless for jobs, and interested only in profits for Big Biz.
The fact is that destroying jobs and incomes in an area is also destroying consumers and clients for Biz in this area and transferring jobs in poorly paid areas don't increase market for the delocalized industries, so, Big Biz miscalculates profits of delocalisation. Ford the 1rst understood that point of view when calculating that his workers would be the best clients for his cars, so that part of wages money would go back to Ford...

Third reason is that, if the number of european parliament members is quite proportionnal to the demographical weight of the Union country members, in the Union executive, the weight of small countries is equal to the weight of big countries, so that  the Union will be led by peoples representing minority of its population.
And unlike in USA, the chief of the european Union executive is not elected, then the european Union is not democratic.

Hi Cindy.
I'm desperately pessimistic about the way thngs will turn after the elections. Fallujah destruction by US Army (more than 60% buildings destroyed) helped by new Iraq Army forces which are mainly Shias gave to the Sunnis a deep hate at the proamerican Shias, and after the siege, Shia communuty turned to be the target for the insurgents and terrorists.
This is now a civil war.
Almost no Sunnis will vote, so this minority will not be represented in iraqi parliament, or represented by traitors to the eyes of the Sunnis.
Among the Shias, 80% want the end of occupation, and the most eager at occupation forces might ally with the Sunnis against the new government if US troops should stay.
Among the Kurds, majority want an independant state, denied by Turks, Iranians and Syrians who might ally against a kurd state, by locking fronteers to strangle it.
Antiamerican Shias and Sunnis could also ally to keep Mossul oilfields off the Kurds.
Not to speak about the relations between Iranians shias and iraqi shias.
The candidates list have been keep secret, but after the election, who can protect them against retaliations ?
Should the coalition troops stay, i'ts a mess, should the coalition troops leave, it's a mess.
Don't know if an election can erase all that mess.

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LO
No matter the number of innocent victims or of Iraqi fighters who sincerely think they fight bastard mecreant foreign invaders, there are numbers of them, and that's no soviet type "de merde" agitprop.
I'm not so interested in your own political partisanery, but in ethic and respect of human life. That's one supposed aim of that war.

I asked you a question about Iraq, not about freeing Australia from some fantasy theorical dictatorship.
Your lack of direct and plain answer let me doubtfull about the way you consider an iraki life.
About France, I can't swear that some unanimous rise against a tyranny would occur, there are numbers of ordinary heroes as well as numbers of cowards or tyranny supporters in here as everywhere (except for Australia ?), as seen during WW2.
But I swear you that if I can take the place of one of my family youngster in a vet batallion for a lethal fight, I would be a volunteer, same as you, that's an agreement point.

LO

We have the example of http://www.bartleby.com/65/lo/Louis11Fr.html]Louis the XIth, may be the greatest french king, who hatred war, because he feeled to be the king of the frenches, instead of feeling to be the king of France.
He, alike Haroun Al Rachid, the Caliph of Baghdad of the 1001 Nights, walked the streets, dressed up as a simple merchant, to see by himself the state of his people. He had a mean reputation, his court wasn't a magnificient one, because he knew the Crown money was his people's money.
Nevertheless, he transmitted to his successor a french kingdom thrice as extended as the one he inherited and much more wealthy. His main aims were to eradicate poverty, spread knowledge, industry, build safe roads and bridges.
Called by his opponents the "universal spider", he got rid of his ennemies by supporting alliances against them, this costed to the french Crown much less money and risks than a direct military involvement. His own army had no more than 1500 horsemen.
Back to Irak, with time and less money, I think that Saddam's regime could have fallen as some other dictatorial regimes this two last decades in some coup d'état or peacefull removals and that sacrificing so many innocent civilians lowes downr the military option defenders to the same level of inhumanity than saddam's.

No sir, not as long as US manoeuvers are read as a will to take a grab on all main oil fields. Threatening Iran and not North Korea is reinforcing that traduction of the US administration acts. Would help someone to hang up yourself ?

No sir, since the 70th, in a MAD conflict, France can sterilize Russia as well in a retaliation second strike, and knowing that Russian satellites such as Polishes and Hungarians would have sabotage Russian Army forces rather than help them, German and French army forces would have defeated a russian conventionnal offensive, a high ranked french general told me (My father was a Major in the french army, and I'm a wachtfull observer of military balance)
Each time the soviets moved more than one hundred military trucks, state of alert was given and troups sent in "exercise" motions
Remember the Russians have been defeated by the Afghans !

LO
Lfting mass at high altitudes is energy waste too.
Since more than 30 years, aircraft companies show their latest plans and concepts for a SST each year. Would be a ten years program when decision has been taken.

LO
How do you turn an analog film snapshot into radio signals ?
Garden dwarfs in the probe ?

Because ESA scientists te pètent au nez !

PROUT !

So, buy a lot of kleenex, you can cry for about 15 more years, if not more

LO
Froggy'spying US debates 
Not so many differences, after all.
Shaun, d'you know that in center Eurasia, some people complain that nowadays, unlike during Gengis Khan era, a young virgin maid may not anymore cross Siberia with a bucket of gold on the head, and jewels round the neck and arms, untouched ?

LO, its my usual science forum, some professionnal physicists do keep a high scientific level, but alike almost all french forum sites, lots of trolls, you know, the kinda people who think that screaming higher or that delivering the last post will prove that they are always right, and arguings turn on very agressive ways. So, when I'm tired of this typical french mess, I come here to have polite chats