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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 - 07:11am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14397 of 14411)
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.

Things sort themselves out into levels - the image in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs by William G. Huitt Essay and Image : http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/regsys/maslow.html is a clear, important, and general example of a heirarchical system with controls and interfaces of mutual constraint.

Look at the picture.

Look at the picture. http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/regsys/maslow.html

Look at the picture. http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/regsys/maslow.html

Look at the picture. http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/regsys/maslow.html

Look at the picture. http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/regsys/maslow.html

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE FOCUSING - THE CLARITY FOR THE SORTING OUT IS ACTIVELY DENIED ? WE OUGHT TO KNOW THAT ANSWER - SINCE "SLIME, MUDDLE AND DEFEND" IS SUCH A COMMON TACTIC.

Even in journalism. Even - when it suits "the powers that be" at The New York Times .

Chances - including chances to choose life over death - can be lost.

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I'm here for good reasons - because I choose to be. I have good reasons to believe that unless some key things - as hard as shoe-tying - are learned - the world is likely to end - and is certain to be much poorer, more dangerous - and uglier than it has to be.

I'm here for a number of other reasons. One is that I think there are times when even The New York Times has compelling duties. Another is that at least some people at The New York Times seem to agree - at least some of the time. This thread hasn't happened by accident. It is a big effort - and not only mine and lchic's.

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

13301 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.VL69bErnLKQ.773707@.f28e622/14987

http://www.mrshowalter.net/SP_51_n_Swim.htm

- - Also, this thread gives me a chance to read fredmoore.

lchic - 07:29am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14398 of 14411)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

.... who just might be Tudor-Bill re-incarnate ....

rshow55 - 08:16am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14399 of 14411)
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.

My guess is that this thread has covered much more on the technical aspects of missile defense than any other publicly available - though someone may point out one with more. It has dealt with more than that - and the issues involved are of direct interest to The New York Times - the readers of the TIMES - and to all people.

This thread deals with basics - and basics where we have problems that need to be solved - for practical, emotional, and moral reasons - including reasons at the level of life and death.

Kids should know workable answers, in ways that matter, to the following question. From about the time they learn to talk - http://www.mrshowalter.net/PiagetCognitiveLimits.htm and adults should, too. Leaders, and leading institutions - have to deal with these issues, too.

. Absolutely every person, without exception knowingly utter falsehoods - and misleads.

WHAT'S CHEATING?

We can learn to be clearer than we've been.

A sense of proportion helps a lot - and I was impressed with

Now, Greed Has Become Unseemly By JOHN SCHWARTZ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/business/yourmoney/05ESSA.html

( fact is, if you search "John Schwartz" on this thread - you'll find that I'm a big John Schwartz fan . )

A sense of proportion is important when exception handling has to be considered.

Maybe my sense of proportion in "swim" http://www.mrshowalter.net/SP_51_n_Swim.htm doesn't match the priorities others have. But it seems to me that, in a debriefing - I might give some very good reasons that some things ought to be checked.

The New York Times, for instance, usually tries to avoid a "the hell with the world" stance - it it isn't too expensive to avoid it.

What would it cost to debrief me, as I've asked? 14394 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.VL69bErnLKQ.773707@.f28e622/16104

Suggestion: Search "treasonous disregard" . . "culture of lying"

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