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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (43846)	10/8/2000 9:08:37 PM
From: phyxter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Back to last night's business. Supercomputers: a red herring (if I may indulge in a play on words). Today's off-the-shelf computer has more computer power than any computers available when the last generation of nuclear weapons were designed. With unclassified (and unclassifiable) technology to hook these into parallel clusters being widely available, foreign powers (e.g. China) have all the computer power they need for the military. Restrictions on so-called supercomputers are simply silly (it's a rapidly outdated definition), and merely disadvantage US-based computer manufacturers. Missile related: if I remember this Hughes(?) got caught giving help it wasn't supposed to. Not an administration thing. The push to expand trade with China, moreover, has been a bipartisan one. I think Congress and the administration hold equal 'blame" for the actions of the companies that do trade there. Credible allegations the PRC funneled money, maybe. Credible allegations that Democrats knew the source of the money, no. That there was a quid pro quo: obscene. Hypocritical moron: Sorry, no, you don't qualify. Though I will venture, if I may, "misguided"? :)