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Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch
jangobongo writes "The US missile defense system suffered a serious setback today, just 2 weeks before it was scheduled to be activated. A target ICBM was launched from Alaska, but crashed harmlessly into the ocean as the interceptor missile based on an atoll in the Pacific Ocean shut itself down due to an unknown "anomaly". The cause of the failure could have been anything from a software glitch to a major hardware malfunction."
No, it's because you Canadians spell program 'programme' and that's creepy.
What'dya think, this is Europe?!
We all know it's Russian influence (clearly Europe is influenced because they are close to Russia!)
I haven't posted in so long, my sig is out of date.
And spend it on what exactly? Feeding the homeless? Inner-City Schools? There's already *LOTS* of money thrown at these problems, but many (The Left) doesn't realize that throwing money at it wont fix it.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
That's almost entirely wrong. Sure, in the invasion we destroyed things like bridges. But the vast majority of the work going on in Iraq is on things like the electricity grid and the water network, infrastructures that crumbled under Saddam's woeful misrule. Not to mention building things like schools and hospitals which Saddam let literally fall apart over the past two decades. He decided he would rather spend the country's treasury on war with Iran, Kuwait, Israel, Bahrain, Qatar and the United States than on things like roads and power plants.
Somebody's going to have to chip in and bring Iraq into the 21st century. Why us? Because we can. No other reason at all.
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You are still posting ridiculous attacks from an anonymous account. That's unacceptable - you're not only anonymous, you're indistinguishable from the many other shades of anonymous, rude posters I have to see responding to my posts.
You have the right to your "opinion" - you don't have the right to spout opinionated bullshit at me unopposed. I don't have to pretend you're anything but a full-of-shit coward, or tolerate your nonsense, especially when directed at me. You're hiding behind your anonymous posts, just like you hide behind your childish "marxist" labels and made-up statistics about imagined threats from "cultural marxists". You are a cowardly jerk, and can't influence me with your totally wrong labels, or your onesided demands for tolerance.
Now you know "who" I am, from my Slashdot ID. Start posting with one, to differentiate yourself from the even worse examples of demented posters, and you might get a little respect. If you post something respectful, though disagreeable, that is. Until then, you're just a collosal error.
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That's right. I don't respect you, I don't tolerate you, I don't pretend to. I posted a sensible, polite post, however strongly opposed, in response to a sick one, and I get some rightwing nonsense propaganda. Which is escalated by a response to me with some even more obnoxious nonsense. All from Anonymous Cowards, which I don't care to consider might be a group of obnoxious twits. Even when I have the courtesy to respond to your disingenuous complaints of my distaste for rude anonymous criticism. I have too much self respect to remain respectful in the face of that. You're an obnoxious, anonymous, wrongheaded asshole. You get nothing from me, whether you like it or not.
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First I'm a marxist, then I'm rightwing. You can't even read your own posts, let alone mine. You are the nut job, with your demented abortion fantasies. But at least that kind of childish outburst indicates you are posting from your parent's basement. Either you'll grow up, or you're beneath contempt.
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Heh, these benevolent left wingers bug me. Listen to yourself man. Body armor? Why? I can defeat you with your own argument. Body armor is useless when you're dealing with roadside bombs and high power armor piercing bullets.
Your moral absolutism is worse than any American religion's. All over the bible you find cases of the good guy killing the bad guy in the name of God, for the good of the people. You also find stories where Jesus advocated a peaceful solution. The point is there is no one solution. When there is a fire raging in another country, you're concerned that our government isn't subsidizing the latest wireless technology, or that the rich are becoming too rich, or that corporations get too many benefits, but you can't complain that we aren't able to destroy a rogue nations nuclear enrichment reactor at the click of a button because we can already do that. But no, you wouldn't complain about that because you think Iran will fix itself. In an ideal world, we would not need an army, but this is not a perfect world.
In the same post, you denigrate any funding of "the killing machine", but then you advocate spending $85 on covert operations to hunt and kill terrorists in another country, who we are allied with, without any authorization from them.
The $100B we spent on star wars was what put the USSR in the crapper. Look what they tried to beat us with!
There are always people waiting around telling you you're going to fail. I argued with one last week. I told him someday I will be a millionaire, and he told me I was going to fail (mainly because of George Bush). Now he can sit around and wait for me to fail, and if I do, he can rub it in my face and feel all good about himself. Those same scientists told us we couldn't land on the moon, and that we were wasting there money, and they sat by and waited for the space program to fail. They crossed their fingers and wrote their novels about how they knew all along that we would fail, and when we succeeded, they went back into their caves and sat waiting for the next optimist to come along. Not only did the space program *not* fail, but when the Apollo 13 crew and support staff looked failure in the face, they rose to the challenge and overcame it. That's the definition of a hero. We're counting on the hero's to come through, the determined engineers, the optimists. Now sit there and tell me we're gonna fail, and that we're less safe, and call it "science".