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To: Father Terrence who wrote (3995)	5/31/2006 7:45:09 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4006

The reason you don't see Libertaria is because it doesn't work- -the same reason the USSR came unglued and Chinese Communists decided they really were capitalists. Actually, you can't even get agreement among supposed libertarians as to what libertarianism is. I failed to note your mention of ny degrees or working experience in the sciences or engineering. You got tour of a nuclear sub? Gee, I got a tour of a nuclear missile silo when I was in ROTC. WOW! But in addition, I got a degree in engineering and decades of experience working as one. Oh, I also have read Scientific Americn and science fiction for decades. 15? What took you so long to find them? Over the years, I made a small fortune in technology stocks. Funny. So did I. Writing the code that ran the first product of a startup. I worked for stock alone. And if you can't see the effects changing technology has on ethics, etc., you're not looking very hard.

To: Father Terrence who wrote (3995)	5/31/2006 9:07:12 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4006

Let me apologize for the tone of that other post. And maybe put up some of your side of the story. After WW2 the US was THE superpower- -only we had The Bomb. This made Iosef Ivanovivich Stalin rather nervous. His spies soon corrected matters for him, though, and he exploded an atomic weapon. This made American leaders nervous in turn. They developed the hydrogen bomb, which the Soviets soon also copied. At wars end, neither side had a mens of delivering a bomb from its own territory to the others territory. They got busy on that, first developing transcontinental bombers, the intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs- -those things in those siloes and aboard those nuclear subs). It can be claimed quite credibly that moral values - Western refusal to accept Communism and Russian refusal to accept capitalism- -drove political ideals that drove technological development. It's all one big ball of wax. What it comes down to are both are human activities. We're a restless and curious lot and both characteristics often get us into trouble. :-)