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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 - 02:48pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12212 of 12253)
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 a loyal American, too.

When I started work on this board - I had every reason to consider it a serious place to communicate - more or less directly - with people of influence. As time has passed, those reasons have gotten stronger.

The New York Times has some serious thinking to do when serious journalists can say that it "has no policy on authenticity." Eisenhower might not have been amazed at such a statement - but I suspect he would have been. I feel sure he would have been appalled. Casey, too.

My own guess is that, at bottom, the NYT policy is to trust people it regards as "elite."

And kill them if they fall from grace.

Either Eisenhower would have thought that total nonsense - and dangerous, irresponsible nonsense.

They both dealt with themselves and everyone around them along a continuum of trust and distrust - and did so gracefully.

They had plenty of ways to correct people and organizations besides summary execution. They also knew that, when consequences matter, there is an obligation to check questions of fact on which important consequences depend.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/LtToSenateStffrWSulzbergerNoteXd.html deals with issues of "exception hanling" that I believe the Sulzberger family, the NYT, and responsible people reading this thread should consider carefully.

I wish there were workable ways for me to pay for the help I've personally asked for. With some decision making that would have been taken for granted thirty years ago - and that would make sense today - there might well be.

lchic - 05:29pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12213 of 12253)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

GNP - MrEinstein

(35 posts above i asked 'The Poster')

ALBERT EINSTEIN NAMED TIME MAGAZINE'S MAN OF THE CENTURY

Mr Poster - What in terms of advancement of national and international grossNationalProduct GNP was his contribution ....

Is his position in history under or over stated ?

(from Mr Poster - no response)

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Showalter - the crisis looming is the failure of economies to grow and thereby meet the needs of their dependent home-populations ..... folks seem to spend evermore of their lives as dependents: