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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
- 09:15am Oct 6, 2003 EST (#
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rshow55 - 08:51am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14404 of 14405)
I make cryptograms because I was crypto
trained .
So ?
The forum is for a debate !
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.
Good ! Put it some good use !
I'm doing the best I can.
So is everybody else !
I may not be "the very model of a modern
major general" ....... but I was trained at the command of a
(retired) Five Star General.
You don't have to be to post here. Just on-topic stuff,
that's all.
Just tell us: What specific thing(s) you've been working so
hard on here, relevant to this Science forum on MD ? Any
substantiation of your various claims ?
Shouldn't be this traumatically difficult for any one who
has been doing this for 2+ years, with a "world asset."
rshow55
- 09:20am Oct 6, 2003 EST (#
14407 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.
Cantabb - this forum has evolved - and I've
learned to ignore you, mostly - except when I deal with you in
batch fashion - or when you say something sensible.
bbbuck's last post was pretty good, and "Thin Man"
is a good search topic.
9955 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.VL69bErnLKQ.773833@.f28e622/11501
http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md11000s/md11893.htm
a nice quote from The Thin Man - a tale that hinges
on a "character" who acted villianously, but was really dead -
and another good quote from Turfte's Envisioning
Information.
Here's Dashiell Hammet in The Thin Man , 1933. Hammet's
speaking of a sexy, interesting, treacherous character named
"Mimi". He's asked by a police detective what to make of what
she says:
" The chief thing," I advised him, "is not
to let her wear you out. When you catch her in a lie, she
admits it and gives you another lie to take its place, and
when you catch he in that one, admits it, and gives you
still another, and so on. Most people . . . get discouraged
after you've caught them in the third or fourth straight lie
and fall back on the truth or silence, but not Mimi. She
keeps trying, and you've got to be careful or you'll find
yourself believing her, not because she seems to be telling
the truth, but simply because you're tired of disbelieving
her. "
What if truth broke out?
Peace might break out, too.
" The National Security Strategy of the United
States ," http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/20/politics/20STEXT_FULL.html
is beautiful in some ways - - ugly in some others. We know
that for a fact now.
Is all the ugliness and evasion really necessary?
We need to find end games that are stable, and have good
end points. From where we are, that ought not to be so hard.
cantabb
- 09:31am Oct 6, 2003 EST (#
14408 of 14411)
rshow55 - 09:20am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14407 of 14407)
Cantabb - this forum has evolved -
This Forum has in fact deteriorated !
and I've learned to ignore you, mostly -
except when I deal with you in batch fashion -
Who cares ? Am glad your esteemed collaborator not only you
'told' you asbout and has taught you how to do it.
or when you say something sensible.
Wow.
This from a poster who seems so incapable of saying
anything "sensible" or coherent or has yet been able to
disentangle himself from his own cobwebs ?
One who can't even answer simple questions on what he
thinks he has been doing here, with the help of a "world
asset," for the past 2-plus years, and show even a fraction of
the evidence for the global claims he continues to make !
You are so lucky: You are NOT going to be "ignored."
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