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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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lchic
- 04:26am May 18, 2003 EST (#
11748 of 11755)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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It may happen that I don't have access to a
regular computer - for a while - c'est la vie!
fredmoore
- 07:42am May 18, 2003 EST (#
11749 of 11755)
Lchic ....
Y'all come back now ,,, hear!
lchic
- 09:27am May 18, 2003 EST (#
11750 of 11755)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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"" Howell Raines may be forced to resign
Staff accuse Raines of creating a star system that promoted
favourites such as Blair while sidelining experienced
reporters. ...
'Reporters are by nature misanthropic and negative but it's
never been as a bad as this.'
'Everybody is loving this,' said Vanity Fair media critic
James Wolcott. 'The Times is like the Vatican - it never shows
you its inner workings.'
... scandal is indicative of a far deeper malaise in the US
press. ...
The Times, along with other papers, they say, has allowed
itself to be spoon-fed by Bush's neo-conservative
administration.
'Since 9/11 it's been very out of vogue to question
authority,' said Kelly McBride of the media watchdog the
Poynter Institute. 'When it does it gets railed on for being
anti-American.'
... the squeeze on the press, but this is a voluntary
servitude. Both have become subservient to power.'
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,958609,00.html
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It seems there's a need for the NYT to
institute in-house quality standards
restate it's 'purpose'
Is it 'fighting for the reader'?
lchic
- 09:37am May 18, 2003 EST (#
11751 of 11755)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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$250bn required over the decade to re-build Iraq
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,958527,00.html
fredmoore
- 09:46am May 18, 2003 EST (#
11752 of 11755)
$250bn required over the decade to re-build Iraq
Now isn't that a coincidence.
Post #11768 : "Very roughly I estimated (from discussions
on the Space forum) a basic space power generation system
would cost about $250 billion over 10 years. "
HMMMM!
rshow55
- 09:48am May 18, 2003 EST (#
11753 of 11755)
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.
I hope Raines stays. I hope the TIMES remembers what they
have that works well - preserves that - and has sense
enough to see that they also need some exception
handling.
A problem for Raines, and everyone else running an
organization (including Bush) is that, on a day to day basis -
administrators making real important decisions under real
pressures are
"up to their asses in alligators "
and they can "forget that their objective was to drain
the swamp." -- especially when there are many
objectives - not just one.
The Times has a lot to be proud of - a lot to
preserve - and if their exception handling were better - they
could preserve all of it - even make it better - and much
reduce the defects - improving the TIMES both journalistically
and financially.
I once wrote Suzlberger a postcard that included a point
about that. It included a reasonable request.
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