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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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cantabb - 08:49am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14403 of 14411)

rshow55 - 08:16am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14399 of 14402)

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.

NOT really.

Didn’t you admit recently that, according to your estimate (over-generous), about 20% posts may have conformed to the Forum purpose on technical aspects. That is, MOST of it filled with irrelevancies – thanks mostly to your taking this Forum on innumerable detours far, far away from THE topic

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.

Deals with MD and associated issues – NOT a dumping ground for anything and everything you and your esteemed collaborator, lchic, drag in.

Kids should know workable answers, in ways that matter, to the following question. From about the time they learn to talk -……Suggestion: Search "treasonous disregard" . . "culture of lying"

More senseless wanderings, nothing to do with the TOPIC.

rshow55 - 08:26am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14400 of 14402)

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 - …..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.

NOTHING of any substance, and NOTHING on-topic.

Just some more of yuour daily contributions to what you have turned this NYT forum into – a big DUMPSTER !

rshow55 - 08:51am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14404 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.

I make cryptograms because I was crypto trained .

My guess is that I got the most complete crypto training the US government could possibly offer during the 1967-69 period where I had "hot and cold running tutors" - who were pushing me very hard.

I'm doing the best I can. I may not be "the very model of a modern major general" http://www.zeitcom.com/majgen/021msong.html . . http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/weekinreview/05OVER.html . . but I was trained at the command of a (retired) Five Star General.

bbbuck - 09:00am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14405 of 14411)

The following is a reenactment. It signifies nothing and means a little less.

Post 1. rshow: "hey"

Post 2. 'moniker who cannot be named'[hereafter referred to as MWCBN] "rshow" says

hey

MWCBN: What does this mean? Does it have anything to do with MD? I will now quote the thread header [pretend I quoted it here, check above if unsure what are thread topic is].

Post 3. rshow [quotes entirety of post1,post2] Reasons to say 'hey'. There are many valid and check-validated reasons for saying 'hey'. Here are some good references you can peruse http://why-i-say-hey.net/ or http://somtimes-i-say-what-the-hey/

Yes I know what the forum thread header states. This is why ann Coulter and Condoleeza Rice and myself are working hard and studiously. Here's another good site http://at-the-guardian-everyone-ignores-me.com/ or http://here-the-slop-gets-really-deep-but-it's-crossreferenced-so-that's-a-plus/

post 4. MWCBN: [quotes all of the above] Saying 'hey' has nothing to do with MD...etc...etc..etc.

Post 5. Bluenova23: What the hey?

Post 6. lchickie: Hay fed to a hey-man will be hazy. Down under we say yeh.

Post 7: Buck: Don't hit the tar-baby bre'r rabbit, the more you hit the more stuck you become.

Joke of the day: [from 'The Thin Man'] "Will you please serve the nuts. I mean, will you please serve the guests, the nuts"

Have a good md day.

And report suspicious behavior, by posting your info on this thread. Rshow will check your reports and if need be will connect your unfinished dots, and contact higher authorities if that action is deemed appropriate.

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