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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 - 11:11am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11992 of 12022)
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.

rshow55 - 09:06am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11797 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.TbJjbqdtanY.1915200@.f28e622/13410

11737-8 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.TbJjbqdtanY.1915200@.f28e622/13347 makes some key points, in includes this:

I think, under the circumstances, that it might be particularly good if I could proceed on a basis senior people at Deutsche Bank Securities would think honorable, workable, and fair.

I've been trying to "play it straight" for a very long time.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/ScienceInTheNewsJan4_2000.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/ToE_H_E_G_P_M_xd.html

http://www.mrshowalter.net/Safire_SpookAwardsNRequestXd.html

http://www.mrshowalter.net/etterToDeutscheBankSecuritiesXd.html

rshow55 - 09:08am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11798 of

Komodo dragons may not worry about betraying investors, but I do. I was ordered to do so - and some promises were made.

Under current laws and procedures, I probably could never prove that in court.

But if the CIA wants to recruit people - and say "trust us" - they ought to think about what's happened to me.

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The Germans ought to want solutions that could be put together - that involved a mixed response - including both business and government.

They have problems now that Eisenhower and George Marshall worried about - including some about energy where EU is better placed than the US to respond in the world public interest (including the US public interest.)

WE DO, TOO:

A Sickly Economy, With No Cure in Sight By DAVID LEONHARDT http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/25/weekinreview/25LEON.html

Fear of a Quagmire? By PAUL KRUGMAN http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/opinion/24KRUG.html

Some core questions about economic function that were much on people's minds in the 1930's to 1950's remain unsolved today - but now we could handle them much better than they were handled before - if we could unlearn some now-old "lessons."

Sometimes planning can't work. But sometimes planning is the only hope - and social circumstances have to be fit to technical imperatives. There is no contradiction.

George Marshall, Eisenhower, and others of their generation had that much straight.

bbbuck - 11:40am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11993 of 12022)

lchic is saying I'm robcatchburger. That hurts loopey.

And apparently I'm everybody else. Damn I'm alot of people.

Well I've got to dig a few more tunnels today.

Mole-man-buck.

Hey remember that guy in Eiger Sanction that couldn't go out in the light? Well I checked imdb.com and if that guy was Thayer David(though I'm not sure) guess what his movie name was .......'Dragon'.

Oh well we'll have to catch that movie again and verify facts, and check dot dispersions.

Have a good one everyone. (you too lupeychic). Drive safely. And watch out for flying chairs. And Carl the Caddyshack lawn mower.

Mole-man out.

And if you see a missile don't touch it.

jorian319 - 12:11pm May 25, 2003 EST (# 11994 of 12022)

Don't sweat it, buck - all of us have to wear a lot of hats to satisfy loopy's craving for cornspiracy. I'm at least three of us. Just wonder who the heck "Poster" is?

almarst2002 - 01:02pm May 25, 2003 EST (# 11995 of 12022)

Social Security faces crash - http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/auto/epaper/editions/sunday/business_e3dc99e5958fe02f0030.html

Will $400bn military not counting Global Empire Wars on the ground and upper startosphere help?

If not, what will the next "Tax Cut" look like?

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