Mike in Japan  +  6239 Fri, 29 Aug 03 12:45 PM Does anyone know the logic behind the creation of these terms? Or what they are intended to mean? Mike in Japan Joined on Tue, Aug 19 2003 Senior Member 4,371 I do like to be beside the seaside

	hitchhiker  +  6279 Fri, 29 Aug 03 04:41 PM Are you refering to software / game packages? If so: War "Lite" would either be: -a simplified version, probably free. -a hacked version, advertising removed. -a smaller, easier to download package without all the main features. hitchhiker Joined on Mon, Nov 18 2002 Richmond, UK Senior Member 4,036 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement...

	Mike in Japan  +  6369 Sun, 31 Aug 03 07:51 AM According to a student, they are both terms that have been used on CNN recently. I was able to find that "War Lite" may have been a code name for a military op. in Afganistan recently, but I'm still very much in the dark with both. Mike in Japan

	hitchhiker  +  6370 Sun, 31 Aug 03 08:46 AM Lol, so not a computer game then! Yep, apparently it's a strategy Donald Rumsfeld (Iraq) came up with; that failed. hitchhiker

	Mike in Japan  +  6429 Mon, 01 Sep 03 01:19 AM Great idea Hitchhiker, perhaps we can devise a game where you only half kill your enemy, or perhaps kill only half of him - you know, killing in a Lite kind of way! What kind of cigarettes would these 'half dead' smoke? They would smoke "Empire Lites, when only half cancer will do!" Seriously, thanks for shedding some 'lite' on this. Mike in Japan

	hitchhiker  +  6506 Mon, 01 Sep 03 10:09 AM hehe, just couldn't resist could you? hitchhiker

	Mike in Japan  +  6508 Mon, 01 Sep 03 10:37 AM No one can resist an Empire Lite! Mike in Japan

	moijelesuis  +  6530 Mon, 01 Sep 03 04:04 PM "empire lite" was coined by american media to explain the presence (both military and economic) in such far-flung, and heretofore largely "untapped" areas of the world such as x-,y-, and z-istan in central asia. (ok, the russians were there first, but their "empire" was not labelled thus due mainly to its geographic contiguity.) the term is meant to differentiate from "traditional" empires à la france/britain/etc... which have left such a bad taste in everyone's mouth for decades afterwards. therefore, america's empire "lite" is hoped to be viewed by other countries as less intrusive, but as an american myself, i would hasten to say that a less visible presence does not mean a less insidious agenda. until there is a mcdonald's on every corner in tashkent, there is work to be done! moijelesuis Joined on Sat, Aug 16 2003 usa/canada Full Member 116

	moijelesuis  +  6531 Mon, 01 Sep 03 04:06 PM not to mention the homonyms, lite/light, which might imply the "enlightenment" brought to these countries by the ever-so-righteous followers of king george (w. bush)! moijelesuis