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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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fredmoore - 11:00am Jul 1, 2003 EST (# 12791 of 12794)

Hey nonny nonny ...

Jealousy is a curse

Put that $ back in my purse.

FM234

Jealousy:

http://mentalhelp.net/psyhelp/chap10/chap10k.htm

rshow55 - 12:26pm Jul 1, 2003 EST (# 12792 of 12794)
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.

Issues of status, and priority, and the feelings involved, including jealousy, are important. Since I was commandeered by General Eisenhower in 1967 - I've been in some very awkward situations - with difficulties about issues of protocol and propriety - in many ways difficulties as intense as Mimi Beardsley must have faced.

A sense of what I've tried to do, and hopes worked on, is set out in a piece I wrote in the old How The Brain Works forum

http://www.mrshowalter.net/bw2203_apology.htm

rshowalter - 05:10pm Jan 21, 2001 EST (#2203

"In rshowalter 1/9/01 8:06am I said that I owed people, especially people at the NYT, and readers of these forums, explanations and apologies. I spent some days of uninterrupted time, trying to figure out how to adequately apologize and thank people on these forums, and at THE NEW YORK TIMES for the kindness and forbearance that they've shown me.

"I’m finding that my situation is humanly complicated enough so that, if I am to avoid injustice to myself and others, I have to move very carefully, and in some cases, wait for events, and hope for grace, and the chance to be graceful.

I've been working and waiting some time. But it seems to me that some progress has been made. Thanks to lchic especially - and other posters, BigRed among them.

In that posting, there's this:

"Right or wrong, I believe that some extremely good things are going to happen, and want to see that they do happen."

Haven't given up hope yet.

My 12743 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.YPvobyralIc.1483939@.f28e622/14414 included this:

"If the staffed organizations of nation states were to read these summaries of my work on this thread from its beginning, with a "willing suspension of disbelief" about my involvement with Eisenhower they might give the postings more weight - though the arguments wouldn't change all. And the extent of the work, by lchic , the NYT, and other posters would not change at all.

A posting from Jun 4 makes sense to repeat now, 12300 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.YPvobyralIc.1483939@.f28e622/13948

Fredmoore , who often posts beautifully on this board, even authoritatively - responded as if I didn't have a problem.

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.YPvobyralIc.1483939@.f28e622/14415

Maybe my problems are fading away. There's an old line:

It is easier to get forgiveness than it is to get permission.

After a while - pushing that boundary - you are very close to having permission. But there are problems of protocol. And, as usual, issues of protocol are linked to strong emotions - including jealousy.

I believe that if the things lchic and I have worked out on this board, and in compainion Guardian Talk threads were staffed and used - it would be possible for people to make the world run much better in human terms - without anybody having to become a saint.

So I keep working. Plus, sometimes, it is fun.

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