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To: LLCF who wrote (28977)	2/20/2003 2:21:42 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<If the aborigines of north America hadn't been colonized at great effort by the Europeans who brought the ancestors of Irwin Jacobs and co, people like Cobalt Blue wouldn't have been spending money on cdma2000, thereby reducing the unit costs of producing the software and ASICs which drive cyberspace. That problem solving was very expensive and took a very long time. Solving the Saddam problem will be quick and will not involve much dilution. > DAK, they had to go by sailing ship across and ocean. Then, build wagons by hand [not robots on an SUV production line]. Then, trundle off across a vast continent, being towed by one or two horsepower [not a 300 hp diesel engine in a monster RV]. Then cope with dust bowls, depressions, disease and death. Build houses, roads, schools, factories and work for a couple of hundred years. I mean actual work, not keeping an eye on a few dials at an automatic factory, or hanging out in a store swiping goods past a bar code reader, or getting people to sign their credit cards inside a gas station. <Free everything for everyone [well, except for the natives... ]! Oh, yea, except those prime reservationlands... we only took those when GOLD was found on them!> It was conquest. That was the rule of the road in those days. It still is in Saddam's book. Pretty soon, people will figure out that a revision to the UN constitution is needed to get things back on the straight and narrow. Iraq will make an excellent first country, being the original cradle of civilization, for the new United States of Freedom global federal system. Hopefully the USA isn't so short-sighted that they let the opportunity slip. The ROW must be thinking the UN needs a rebore too - it's obviously ineffectual for the job it was set up to do. Mqurice