[extropy-chat] War and technological progress

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:19:28PM -0700, Thomas wrote:

> I just looked at the Cost of War 
> <http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182> 
> figure: $421 billion and rising!  Over $6 billion of that came from my 
> state and over 5 million homes with renewable electricity could have 
> been built with that money.1  Instead of a preemptive war on a non 
> aggressor nation or a hype "War on Terror" or a "War on Drugs" lets have 
> a War on Aging and fund nano research to the tune of $40 billion (one 
> tenth the cost of the war) or so for starters.  
> 
> Does your general "Not true!" mean you think Bush a good leader for us? 
>  Does it mean you think war the best choice for achieving progress? 
>  Does it mean you think me seriously wrong or deceitful?  Or do you 
> perhaps think Bush impeachable for mixing politics and religion on the 
> stem cell issue?  -- Thomas

My opinion as a moderator that tagespolitik should have no channel time,
on this list. There are ample opportunities to discuss that elsewhere. 

http://www.google.com/search?q=impeachment
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=impeach+bush&btnG=Search
etc.

(My private opinion: don't waste time about talking impeachment online, just
get off the internets, and do it, for a change).

We now return to our usual programming.

-- 
Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org
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