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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 - 06:46pm Jun 1, 2003 EST (# 12269 of 12280)
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.

Made a posting that hasn't made it through yet - it includes a simple suggestion.

I believe that I should be able to tell everyone anything they actually need to know, and do everything I actually have valid reason to do - without any reasonable violations of security laws - using procedures that are workable, honest, and not too expensive.

11847 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.QhfWbQ0VdFD.3310816@.f28e622/13462

My own personal view is that this thread shows the NYT at its very best - and worst. With a little flexibility, the good could be preserved and enhanced - without the bad - or with much less bad.

11848 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.QhfWbQ0VdFD.3310816@.f28e622/13463

11849 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.QhfWbQ0VdFD.3310816@.f28e622/13464

11850 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.QhfWbQ0VdFD.3310816@.f28e622/13465

I think, by now, that the New York Times ought to have an obligation to get enough straight so that I have a reasonable chance to live.

11851 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.QhfWbQ0VdFD.3310816@.f28e622/13466">lchic 5/21/03 8:25pm</a>

lchic - 07:19pm Jun 1, 2003 EST (# 12270 of 12280)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

post 11851 - 21stMay03

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.QhfWbQ0VdFD.3310816@.f28e622/13466

lchic - 12:27am Jun 2, 2003 EST (# 12271 of 12280)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Film: 25th Hour - 'This is a film about the meaning of what it is to be responsible' - and why only some who aren't are punished and others worthy of it - NOT.

"" I saw this film in New York just before NYE, and it proved to be one of the highlights of my vacation there. The story of a drug dealer's last day of freedom before going to prison for seven years, this is powerful stuff. Norton, as always, is fantastic, with great support from Hoffman, Pepper, and Rosario Dawson as his girfriend. Brian Cox, who plays Norton's father, is especially good.

This is a film about the meaning of what it is to be responsible,

set against a backdrop of contemporary Manhattan, in the aftermath of September 11. Tension builds slowly but tangibly throughout the movie. The final sequence has been criticised by some as being unrealistic, but I found it to be incredibly moving, and it has stayed with me ever since. It's great to see Norton in something to equal Fight Club or American History X. See this film, it's brilliant.

Reviewed by: John Reviewed on: 30 Jan 2003

http://film.guardian.co.uk/Reader_Review/0,4163,-94713,00.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=25th+hour&uri=%2Ffilms%2Ffilm_2003%2F&go.x=10&go.y=9

lchic - 02:51am Jun 2, 2003 EST (# 12272 of 12280)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

USA - 'You Lied to Us' / WILLIAM SAFIRE

UK - Claire Short asks the question

Australia - Former Governor General (22) puts Howard (PM) straight

lchic - 05:00am Jun 2, 2003 EST (# 12273 of 12280)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Ilya Prigogine, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977 for insights into how life could arise in apparent defiance of the classical laws of physics

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/obituaries/30PRIG.html

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