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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 - 06:06am Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15264 of 15270)

rshow55 - 04:35pm Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15182 of 15259)

Cantabb , a appreciate the thoughtfulness of your suggestions, and I'm thinking about them.

I had made some other suggestions (re: focus, relevance, coherence, substantiation, etc) which I felt were also fairly ‘thoughtful’, but you didn't seem to like them.

I'm in the Madison phone book.

Those who wish to contact you may have done so (eg: Mazza, WRCooper).

rshow55 - 02:41pm Oct 19, 2003 EST (# 15236 of 15260)

Lchic has asked me to set out a blow by blow of my experiences - and it seems a good idea - but a bad one at the same time. Part of the problem has to do with figuring out what happened........

Your biographical details: Absolutely nothing to do with MD Forum, regardless of what lchic suggested to you -- and many of her suggestions have had no relevance to this Forum.

You can't account for everything - even when you "must." I'm writing this, in part, intending to use it as part of a workable closure between me and the New York Times.

I was commandeered by Eisenhower 13575 …………It includes a statement that is right - but incomplete in details that make sense to add now.

My nervous breakdown. : I had been trained to identify and …………..I broke down twice explicitly working on the "hidden problem" - in 1984 and 1986 - my last conversation with Casey was in 1986 - and at that time Casey told me to try to come in with solutions, if I could get them, through academic channels, and, failing that, through the good offices of the New York Times - which would know enough, he felt, in a case like mine - to sort things out in the public interest.

Casey believed, or told me he believed, ……... I broke down once later, in 1988, when I was in a coma for close to a week, and emerged with problems at the level of reading letters and using English - and significant losses in my mathematical competence……….I put myself together as best I could thereafter - doing the math in http://www.mrshowalter.net/pap2/ - in 1988-89 - passed the Professional Engineering exam in Mechanical Engineering in 1989 - enrolled in the UW School of Education as soon as I could function at all by classroom standards - and resumed work with S.J. Kline by 1989

Of absolutely NO relevance to MD forum.

rshow55 - 02:44pm Oct 19, 2003 EST (# 15237 of 15260)

I resumed work with S.J. Kline by 1989 ………I've worked hard since - often with help from ( but incapacitation by) people who have been closely associated with the New York Times.

So ?

rshow55 - 02:51pm Oct 19, 2003 EST (# 15239 of 15260)

Nash did not solve key questions about getting stable - rather than unstable - limited cooperations between groups that had both competitive and cooperative interests - especially in the presence of strong emotions and fear. …….I believe that I have. With a small staff behind me - that could be shown - or shown to be wrong.

This thread has been part of that work on negotiation problems……

The Nash-complex NOT relevant here. Find a source that can fund your ‘project’ [whatever anmd wherever it is] . Spare this forum; it can not help obtain what you need.

The long and the short of it is - you need both long and short. The long and the short have to fit together. And the long and the short, together, must meet the tests that actually apply.

This might serve as ANOTHER tag-line for Jorian !

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