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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 - 09:02pm Sep 27, 2003 EST (# 14067 of 14080)
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.

Cantabb quotes me just above:

Here's a fact - a fact that isn't so important to know if explosive fighting without end is the objective - but a fact that is important to know if stable resolutions that pass reasonable tests of fairness are to be achieved.

cantabb says: "NOT a fact. Just a naïve platitude"

How would you check something like that? How does one get closure on something like that?

Cantabb, if you think that doesn't matter - I think you're being criminally irresponsible.

If the NYT doesn't care about statements like that - many of their editorials don't make much sense. I think many at the NYT do care -or this thread wouldn't go on.

Some decisions about this thread seem to have been made - if one wants to judge on statistical grounds. http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm

There are some good searches of this thread - and I think a search with keywords "nash and game" fits here.

If the basic rule is

. I am a NYT writer I'm judge, jury and executioner

- that's shameful - for you, and for the New York Times - if, as I suspect, they pay your salary. I don't think the New York Times, as an institution, deserves that. My guess is that "the average reader of the New York Times" would disapprove, and be ashamed, of that stance.

bbbuck - 09:05pm Sep 27, 2003 EST (# 14068 of 14080)

The 'nytimes' is paying 'the moniker that can't be named's salary.

Hmmm. That explains alot.

How much are they paying him?

lchic - 09:10pm Sep 27, 2003 EST (# 14069 of 14080)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Cantabb of(f) course

reduces alphabet

to

dot-dash-dot

morse

lchic - 09:11pm Sep 27, 2003 EST (# 14070 of 14080)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Paying him?

or

Playing him!?

lchic - 09:20pm Sep 27, 2003 EST (# 14071 of 14080)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

It's interesting that morse signals were devised to improve communication - that's 'slow' communication, which was 'fast' at that time, and expensive - between human animals.

Were the major international MD communications of the current year re-produced as a series of telegrams .... how would the top-10 read?

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