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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
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rshow55
- 05:31pm May 23, 2003 EST (#
11890 of 11903) 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'm stumped about "working ethics" in the 21st century -
feeling sort of like an "intelligent" Komodo Dragon - out of
my time - and not feeling so intelligent, either. I've been
trying to think of ways out of my box - and the hopes I've
had, with lchic , for making the world much better.
(Eisenhower felt that, if analysis was better - and
simulation and planning was better - world rates of GNP growth
above 6% should have been possible and sustainable till
poverty was a thing of the past - and I used to think so,
too.) But there's a problem.
Questions like "what's fair" and "what's actually
true" are decisively important - and the more complicated
things are - the more important.
I'm moving slowly - afraid to post some details about my
life that lchic has, quite rightly , asked me to do. In
the strange world we now live in - I'm having to go slowly.
I'm stumped by a long list of problems which would have
been easy to solve in the 1950's or early 1960's -
given some entre to elites - just by stating the facts, and
having people sort things out. In the national interest, the
wider world public interest, and their own. Easy for
most of the people Reston wrote of with respect in
Deadline , for instance.
The world has changes a lot since the early 1950's -
and some huge gains have been made in some areas. In some
others, the losses have been very real.
I guess I'm an ultra-conservative. I like the ideals
Eisenhower expressed in his first campaign - and tried to
implement - though he was
"up to his ass in alligators"
in some key ways - and got stumped in some key spots -
often for analytical reasons involving simulation and
planning.
One thing I feel hopeful about. There are unique
solutions. People can find them. Unfortunately, some of the
most important solutions for human problems require
involvements of nation states that used to be easily thought
of - but now seem unthinkable.
rshow55
- 06:01pm May 23, 2003 EST (#
11891 of 11903) 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 think that if someone objective, and fully informed,
could report on what has happened on this thread since
September 2000 - it would be interesting journalism - and give
a lot of people reason to be "proud to take The New York
Times" - problems and all. And a lot of people would be very
proud of lchic. I'd be due for some criticism - some of
it pretty heavy - but I think I'd be able to hold my head up.
If I could "wave a magic wand" - I'd get the TIMES praised,
big time - for their efforts on this thread - and paid
something real - though not a big part of their budget - maybe
a million bucks.
I'd see to it that lchic was praised and paid, too.
Big time.
Of course - if I could wave a wand - I'd do some other
things - like get a fair recounting of my past - even on a "no
fault" basis up to now - with a fair chance of moving on.
- -
If there was money involved - and a detective did a
complete study of what has happened - I think "the average
reader of The New York Times" would be interested and
impressed.
fredmoore
- 08:43pm May 23, 2003 EST (#
11892 of 11903)
A bit of levity for these tense missile toten' times where
everyone is on de fence:
Bbbuck was again summoned to the bedroom of Lady Looney.
She was lying on the bed, naked.
"Bbbuck", she asked, "do you think I have a beuutiful
body?".
"Yes, your Ladyship. I think you have a fantastic body."
"Good Bbbuck", she said, "are you a good buck?"
"Indeed I am, Madam!", replied Bbbuck excitedly.
"Then buck off. It's April fool's day!"
Now in many many ways that is quite beautiful but in others
... in ways that really matter, ugly.
Cheers
PS The names in this story have been changed to protect the
innocent.
mazza9
- 12:29am May 24, 2003 EST (#
11893 of 11903) "Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic
Commentaries
Hey Fred!! Was your post a Gory Al or an Al e Goreee?
fredmoore
- 03:01am May 24, 2003 EST (#
11894 of 11903)
Lou ...
Allus allum lavat!
lchic
- 04:22am May 24, 2003 EST (#
11895 of 11903) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
~~~~
fredless
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