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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 - 09:39am Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13877 of 13888)
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 very glad to see lchic's postings - she's brilliant - poetic - and as intellectually grounded as anyone I've ever known.

Here's a posting she made three years ago

lunarchick - 09:38pm Sep 27, 2000 EDT (#317

That's an ORDER! Milgram (1963) - the classic study in this area:

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/MD310.HTM

That same link includes a quote from beckq that was one of a number of things that led me to think that beckq was, or was representing or simulating, a powerful personage. (#315)

I think Lchic's posts are wonderful - and erudite, too. Here's are two great dones.

lchic - 11:51am Mar 18, 2002 EST (#669 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.T821b78sHzo.1358591@.f28e622/828

Decision making/tree, expert systems ... often a decision is common sense .. when a framework is required then :

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.T821b78sHzo.1358591@.f28e622/830 posts some beautiful things from museums and artistic sites, mostly Russian, collected by lunarchic in late 2001.

We need to remember both the ugliness, the danger, and the good -- and do as well as we can, without lies that mislead, brutalize, and endanger us.

Images of Culture :

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7544.htm

There's a lot of good worth remembering - and working for http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.T821b78sHzo.1358591@.f28e622/15049

( somebody actually appreciated the post of mine above )

I've known some very able (and admirable) people - and it seems to me that lchic is the most valuable mind I've ever had the honor to work with. Kline (and a lot of others) have said that "the mind is a superb associative engine - but a weak logical engine." - I was assigned , among other things - to try to find out why. Lchic is an astonishingly able, graceful, associator of ideas - and wonderful at logic, too.

We talk a good deal. Often I'm "leading" - and the more powerful - in the sense the horse drawing a carriage is leading, and the source of power.

With a gentle pull or a flip of her reins - she takes me where I could never hope to go by myself - and gracefully. Quickly, too. She's a wonder.

cantabb - 12:53pm Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13878 of 13888)

rshow55 - 09:33am Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13876 of 13877)

Cantabb's comment ["Too bad the dots are NOT numbered. That would have helped some to get 'some' picture for the effort."] is interesting. Some dots are much better numbered than others - and for such reasons - we share about 100,000 definitions of words that we figured out for ourselves from a well marked context.

You missed the point.

For work that is new - things are more precarious. And it takes more care.

Fuzzy, as usual.

jorian319 - 01:14pm Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13879 of 13888)

Yep. Sounds for all the world like a platitude generator.

bbbuck - 02:14pm Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13880 of 13888)

http://www.newsday.com/

Students sodomized by bullies. The witnesses intimidated and told to keep your mouths shut.

w.c. mepham high school, long island, ny.

The bullies views on md are unknown at this time.

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