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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 - 09:30am May 20, 2003 EST (# 11814 of 11821)
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.

The answers I was asked to find deal with questions that are no longer "politically correct" - in part because we've given up hope.

In part because we've "connected the dots" wrong in some key spots.

I have reason to be afraid, today, to say things that would have been perfectly reasonable things to say, among senior Republicans - two generations ago.

lchic - 09:46am May 20, 2003 EST (# 11815 of 11821)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Small enterprises seem to have been given the task of job creation ... but they aren't succeeding as the gap between those with and without jobs widens ....

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/emire/FRANCE/JOBCREATION-FR.html http://www.eurofound.eu.int/emire/FRANCE/Index-J-EN-FR.html

rshow55 - 09:51am May 20, 2003 EST (# 11816 of 11821)
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.

On the "big basics" ( energy - food - water - clothing - shelter ) Lchic 11763 there is no substitute - or no reasonable, workable substitute - for some large scale approaches that inherently involve planning, and the interaction of business and national and international government.

And - here is a center of some of my work - sometimes the right solutions are unique - and that is clear once the jobs are clearly defined.

lchic - 09:54am May 20, 2003 EST (# 11817 of 11821)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Unique -- but out of the reach of 'small' business?

rshow55 - 09:57am May 20, 2003 EST (# 11818 of 11821)
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.

There was a slogan popular in the 1950's - attributed to Davy Crockett in a popular Walt Disney TV series.

" Be sure you're right. Then go ahead."

The idea that it is possible to be right on matters of technical detail - especially if politics is involved - has now been effectively abandoned - penalized - much too often.

One thing is clear. The job of finding out "what is right" is different from the job of "going ahead."

And now, saying absolutely obvious things - that every reasonably successful administrator in any of the combattant countries of WWII would have taken for granted - is dangerous.

I have a security problems that ought to outrage most people who care about the honor of the United States. It makes it hard for me to feel "right" about "going ahead" - even about simple things.

rshow55 - 09:59am May 20, 2003 EST (# 11819 of 11821)
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.

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.x1qEaY22a5q.655839@.f28e622/13430

. . unique - but absolutely out of reach of small business - and as a practical matter - for operational reasons - even out of the reach of big businesses like Boeing or Exxon-Mobil - without significant government assistance and regulation.

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