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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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jorian319 - 02:39pm Sep 29, 2003 EST (# 14130 of 14145)
The dogmatism is all on the side that maintains there is no global climate effect ...Anyone who has visited a city like LA on a nice smog filled day knows that's not true. -amzingdrx

Most people know lot more than what you're saying.

Another raw gem from cantabb. I am rather enjoying his dissembly of Rshow's ramblings. Do you need someone to bring you food or anything, cantabb? I know this has to be grueling!

rshow55 - 02:56pm Sep 29, 2003 EST (# 14131 of 14145)
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 - please answer me this. I asked jorian319 a specific question just above - in 14128 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.h1YTbtNkJG4.2636989@.f28e622/15834

Would you have a clear answer to the question asked ( not just another effort to generate divergence and another expression of hostility ).

When I suggested a very sensible way to solve some problems - or so it seemed to me - your response was an emphatic "you couldn't pay me (us) enough" - ( as I recall ).

Everybody knows that it is always possible to pick fights. Would you know, perchance, how to damp them down - and resolve things to a workable closure ?

Here's something were a small amount of cooperation between us might be imagined, it seems to me - though I guess I expect you to disagree. ( From 13215 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX8@@.f28e622/14898

"If you follow this board, it is easy to see that I couldn't do the things I propose in

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"I'd be blocked - quite often on status grounds. If someone with stature and connections were involved - the work could actually get done. Moreover, it could be done honestly - and, I believe, in a way "the average reader of The New York Times " would approve of.

I asked jorian319 a specific question just above - in 14128 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.h1YTbtNkJG4.2636989@.f28e622/15834 - Cantabb - would you have an answer?

If you wanted to help with that - and had the NYT connections - would you know how to do so in a way that could actually be effective?

I think you'd mess it up - even if you were trying not to.

cantabb - 03:13pm Sep 29, 2003 EST (# 14132 of 14145)

jorian319 - 02:39pm Sep 29, 2003 EST (# 14131 of 14131)

Another raw gem from cantabb. I am rather enjoying his dissembly of Rshow's ramblings. Do you need someone to bring you food or anything, cantabb? I know this has to be grueling!

"[G]rueling" ? NAH !

Hardly takes anytime. Besides, it's 'entertaining'.

MY 'gift' to the MD thread !

:)

jorian319 - 03:14pm Sep 29, 2003 EST (# 14133 of 14145)
The dogmatism is all on the side that maintains there is no global climate effect ...Anyone who has visited a city like LA on a nice smog filled day knows that's not true. -amzingdrx

<clears throat> Is THIS what you're talking about, Robert?

Was I saying something you already know?

Referred to

How often do people have to fight? How many people really want to ?

Which is a rhetorical question, which I will now answer because that seems to be what Robert craves.

"How often do people have to fight?" Not very.

"How many people really want to ?" A lot.

Or were you referring to "How many people, these days, know how to avoid fighting when they don't agree about everything they talk about?"

4,562,831,402 Ok?

Or - perhaps you were referring to another urgent and important question:

Would it be easy for us to cooperate if, by chance, you wanted to?

Well, gee Robert, that would be a subjective judgement wouldn't it? How easy is "easy"? Is co-operation really co-operation if nothing gets accomplished? How much would I have to want to in order to qualify as "wanting to"?

Do you see why it's more fun to watch cantabb's dissembly than to feign participation in this wanderfest?

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