Monday, March 3, 2003

Beaming Video at the Speed of Light: A New Zealand company's twist on free-space optics -- which broadcasts data over visible light spectrum -- promises to make wireless data transfer faster and cheaper. It can even beam high-quality video. [Wired News] 6:43:34 PM

The Long Bomb: New York Times reporter Thomas L. Friedman says 95% of the American people are now opposed to War in Iraq. It was a gutsy play by the Bush administration, a long bomb that might have worked -- in the right context. But Bush has done nothing to prepare that context. Friedman writes... "... if taking out Saddam and rebuilding Iraq had been my goal from the minute I took office (as it was for the Bush team), I would not have angered all of Europe by trashing the Kyoto global warming treaty without offering an alternative. I would not have alienated the entire Russian national security elite by telling the Russians that we were ripping up the ABM treaty and that they would just have to get used to it. (You're now seeing their revenge.) I would not have proposed one radical tax cut on top of another on the eve of a huge, costly nation-building marathon abroad." " I would, though, have rallied the nation for real energy conservation and initiated a Manhattan Project for alternative energies so I would not find myself with $2.25-per-gallon gasoline on the eve of this war ? because OPEC capacity is nearly tapped out. I would have told the Palestinians that until they stop suicide bombing and get a more serious leadership, we're not dealing with them, but I would also have told the Israelis that every new or expanded settlement they built would cost them $100 million in U.S. aid. And I would have told the Arabs: 'While we'll deal with the Iraqi threat, we have no imperial designs on your countries. We are not on a crusade ? but we will not sit idle if you tolerate extremists in your midst who imperil our democracy.'" If only our President could be as clear-headed and straight-talking as Friedman, and many other Americans who oppose this war. [New York Times] 11:45:24 AM

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