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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
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rshow55
- 08:26am Oct 6, 2003 EST (#
14400 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.
In the order of things - this post is going to be buried
with others quickly - but sometimes people look at postings
ending in 00 - or 01 as this one should - and I hope if they
do they might be interested in postings from 14394 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.VL69bErnLKQ.773740@.f28e622/16104
on. I was asked a key question - and tried to answer clearly.
And perhaps also http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.VL69bErnLKQ.773740@.f28e622/15534
and
Chain breakers http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee79f4e/618
13622 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.VL69bErnLKQ.773740@.f28e622/15315
Suggestion: search "Chain Breakers" or
"Secular Redemption" or "Byrd" - for themselves - and as
examples that may illustrate how association and logic are
connected in discourse.
cantabb
- 08:31am Oct 6, 2003 EST (#
14401 of 14411)
rshow55 - 06:58am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14394 of 14398)
cantabb - occasionally writes something
worthwhile, and to the point
Coming from a person who can’t do either, what a weird
comment !
- and he did so in 14370 …. which I'm
excerpting. Cantabb quotes bluestar23………….The excerpted
points above, as excerpted, are fair summaries. Fair to both
me and the NYT, as far as they go.
Don’t you think people can READ what’s already in 2 brief
posts recently – without your ‘excerpts?
You didn’t think that my more recent post about
“Mistaken identities: Looks like a "Loop Test"” was
“worthwhile” and “to the point” ? May be not comfortable for
you !
rshow55 - 07:01am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14395 of 14398)
There are promises one makes that one
doesn't have to keep. Everybody knows it - or should - and
the culture tries to teach that point from an early age.
………A classic of that teaching - with limitations that have
concerned me and lchic - is Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr
Seuss 1940
NO relevance to MD. Whether or not you keep the promises
you said you made to others ? Your personal matters,
absolutely of NO interest or relevance here.
I'm here because I choose to be here - and
because, considering everything - I think it is my duty to
be here. Some people with power agree, at least partially -
and they are doing their duty as they see it, too - at least
partially.
Your “duty” and that of “some people with power” : Also of
NO relevance here !
rshow55 - 07:07am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14396 of 14398)
On the last day of last year, I posted
7145-6 …Lunarchick and I have been worrying some about
control theory - and related matters with close connections
to life and death, peace and war, prosperity and muddle.
…….or situationally inappropriate responses that require a
higher level of control.
Meaningless self-references. Tiresome re-hash of something
irrelevant to begin with.
rshow55 - 07:11am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14397 of 14398)
Things sort themselves out into levels - the
image in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs by William G. Huitt
Essay and Image :
More of the same irrelevance !
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.
And, you’re here to save the world. Messiah complex
? Incoherent, delusional nonsense ! “It got understood
and exposed.”
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.
Rather, a “big” pile of inane hodge-podge: A “big” waste !
cantabb
- 08:32am Oct 6, 2003 EST (#
14402 of 14411)
lchic - 07:29am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14398 of 14398)
.... who just might be Tudor-Bill
re-incarnate ....
Another cryptogram. Coordinated with rshow’s ? Riddles to
go with inanities !
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