CB, we have already developed the loaded handbag as a weapon, with the All Blacks captain wielding one in a bar fight. A CDMA-powered cyberphone provides the war-head. Heavy duty war-heads include Globalstar phones. theregister.co.uk
NZ is always ahead of the game in social issues. First for women's vote, first total female rule [Queen, Governor General, Prime Minister, Attorney General, Chief Justice, sundry Ministers, Telecom boss and others]. Not to mention our Mums, wives, and daughters. Prostitution a perfectly legal business. All sorts of avant garde social moves. Unfortunately, the suffocatocracy is highly developed too. Maybe Afghanistan would be a better place for Kiwi blokes. Some have been over there checking it out.
No wonder hen-pecked blokes have disappeared into cyberspace, leaving the temporal world to the women. The shed was a good refuge for the previous generation [or wars on the other side of the planet].
You will find the USA will follow years later. Mud wrestling between Condoleezza and Hillary would be an excellent start.
I do admit to poking Islamic Jihad into argument where it was thin on the ground [Indonesia]. And of course Osama wasn't a CIA possession. One doesn't need to be in a pocket to have common cause.
My point in regard to Osama and Gorby is that the USA stupidly backed the wrong horse and the Twin Towers are gone. Gorby wasn't a threat. Hassling him was a big mistake. Yeltsin took the place into a shambles. The coup against Gorby might not have happened but for the problems Gorby was having to deal with, inspired in part by USA Machiavellian Pavlovian auto-response.
Of course he was acting of his own volition and most support for him and his anti-USSR comrades was not directly supplied by the USA.
But I guess you have heard of the Stinger missile and how effective it was against the USSR. The Stinger was invented and produced in East Timor, shipped to the IRA [funded by USA donors which is the only USA link to Stingers] and moved to Osama and co in exchange for IED devices [IRA's favoured weapons].
And watch it, or I'll whack you with my handbag. It's loaded with a Globalstar phone.
Which reminds me. Your next algebra project is to calculate how many square metres of photovoltaic cells are required to maintain lift on a Globalstar satellite [hint - remember that sometimes the satellites' planes are edge on to the sun and sometimes face on [which means they get half dark when edge on].
Mqurice
PS: The biggest part of the blunder of hassling Gorby instead of Osama might be yet to come if the dissolution and shambles of the USSR has somehow or other enabled Osama and Islamic Jihad to acquire some hand-bag nukes which are as we speak sitting quietly in warehouses in the USA waiting for the right time. They are certainly talking tough about BIG things to come. Which might not be casual bluster and bluff. It does have an air of legitimate warning. Perhaps they are pondering the response, which will no doubt be significant. |
