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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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rshow55 - 01:54pm Apr 1, 2003 EST (# 10902 of 10906)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Otherwise, we have a bloody mess. So far, losses on all sides have been pretty moderate, considering. If this fight goes on - losses won't stay that way.

lchic - 01:57pm Apr 1, 2003 EST (# 10903 of 10906)
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Definition for Pyrrhic victory

Pyrrhic victory (noun) - 1. a victory that is won by incurring terrible losses

Source: WordNet ® 1.7, © 2001 Princeton University

http://define.ansme.com/words/p/pyrrhic_victory.html

victory > noun (event)

Meaning: A successful ending of a struggle or contest.

http://www.hyperdic.net/dic/v/victory.shtml

Liberty

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/liberty

The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other. --Locke.

rshow55 - 02:08pm Apr 1, 2003 EST (# 10904 of 10906)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Negotiation is important, and a basic aspect - that in itself involves and embodies negotiation, is persuasion.

People, these days, are getting stuck more often than they should - taking poses that lock things down and classify progress out of existence - when some more tactical flexibility might have its uses.

Especially when people already have a good deal of common ground - and when double and multiple teaming can be used to make things more complex - enough more complex that insincere poses can be made awkward.

Here are some references on this thread to negotiation - many nutsy-boltsy - that I set out because they might be useful.

"Let us begin again: 9815-6 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11357

Instabilities, dither, damping, and stable outcomes: 9818-9 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11360

Neirenberg: taxonomy of gambits 9821 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11363

9822 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11364

9824 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11366 9825 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11367

9829 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11371

We need new rules: 9831 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11373

Almarst "No partial laws" 9834 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11376

Almarst: 9838 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11380

9856 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11398

9857 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11399

control systems: 9859 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11401

exception handling: 9860 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11402

key questions: 9861 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.nBPDaAf36wJ.2719033@.f28e622/11403

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