Re: How journalists write 'balanced' shuttle articles -- like watching sausages and laws being made?

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:30:36 +0000, in a place far, far away, Rémy
MERCIER <Rmy.MERCIER.1u2my1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

>
>Rand Simberg Wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:39:50 +0000, in a place far, far away, Rémy
>> MERCIER Rmy.MERCIER.1ttua2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx made the phosphor on my
>> monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>> --
>> Yes, English is not my first language. But do you really mean that
>> ISS
>> is "charitable work" for France, Japan or Russia?-
>>
>> It certainly was for Russia.-
>>
>> ?Russia?
>> I wonder if there is a discernible difference between ?a foreign aid
>> program? and ?an attempt to limit or control technology transferts?.
>> Morally speaking, I can see a huge difference and without my glasses.-
>>
>> Not when it doesn't work, and the people in charge of making it work
>> don't seem to care.
>
>Sorry: I cannot believe in an altruistic motivation (unthinkable).

I didn't say it was altruistic. It was just cluelessness and
indifference to national security, which prevailed throughout the
nineties.
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