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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 - 10:51am Jun 11, 2003 EST (# 12474 of 12479)
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.

re http://www.comedy.series.com/kookyfamily/ whydowebother.html /badtaste=truth.asp?i=69\

Why bother? Because this board is working on elite problems, and the NYT, internal problems at all - represents elites, and is proud to do so.

The fundamental role of the NYT - the reason very many people buy it - is that it presents and connects them to "a common culture" - and sets out a sense of what is important and valued by elites all over America. A sense of "what matters" that's valued, and considered, all over the world.

People buy the paper because they are

" Proud to take THE NEW YORK TIMES.

If you guys handed exception handling better - from my persepctive, if you handled exception handling decently - there'd be better answers to your " why do we bother" question - in exactly the terms that "the average reader of The New York Times" would expect you to attend to.

Both in terms of status and money for The New York Times .

Answers in very good taste. On very short notice, given communication from a NYT person with a name I recognized - I could be in Chicago - and, via videoconfencing - answer any questions about "good taste" or facts you or anybody in the government reasonably has - with due regard to reasonable national security concerns.

jorian319 - 11:10am Jun 11, 2003 EST (# 12475 of 12479)

This board is like a rerun of the Addam's family

Eggs Ackley.

fredmoore - 11:30am Jun 11, 2003 EST (# 12476 of 12479)

Don't worry Robert in the finest of egalitarian traditions I would pick myself to be a candidate for 'Cousin It'. This because no one around here seems to understand WTF I am talking about ... despite the fact that I have connected all the dots, by courtroom standards, with the concept of a Kyoto Alternative Energy Protocol.

Kyoto Alternative Energy Protocol:

http://www.order.com/intelligence/lowentropy/emergy.html/allnations/?allpeopleworkingtogether/tenyeargoalatminimalcost/i=infinity***

fredmoore - 11:31am Jun 11, 2003 EST (# 12477 of 12479)

Don't worry Robert in the finest of egalitarian traditions I would pick myself to be a candidate for 'Cousin It'. This because no one around here seems to understand WTF I am talking about ... despite the fact that I have connected all the dots, by any courtroom standards, with the concept of a Kyoto Alternative Energy Protocol.

Kyoto Alternative Energy Protocol:

http://www.order.com/intelligence/lowentropy/emergy.html/allnations/?allpeopleworkingtogether/tenyeargoalatminimalcost/i=infinity***

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