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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 - 03:36pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15285 of 15297)

rshow55 - 02:25pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15284 of 15284)

I'm working as hard and as carefully as I can, trying to produce a satisfactory response to some of Cantabb's earlier suggestions - in a proposal to the "top dog" at the NYT that he suggested I make. It seemed like a good suggestion when he made it, and seems, if anything, better now. When I think of the logical problems I'm having - just on my simple, low status, low priority problem of dealing with the NYT - I can see how the Bush administration can have its difficulties on the harder problems it faces.

My suggestion was to take your problems to people/agencies involved, as approriate. And, spare THIS forum -- not a proper or effective channel for problems you like to resolve.

All the same, I'm trying to do a proposal that would work as a model that the Bush administration - and other institutions and nations involved with the Korean problems - could actually learn from in ways that could be helpful. Whether I'll finish it in the next five hours, I don't know. Probably not. But it seems to me that the proposal is converging nicely, everything considered.

Again, take it up with the administration. If they "could actually learn" anything from your proposal -- and, they could use some 'learning' -- my best wishes !

I'm trying to check enough, enough ways - so that I'm positive of what I want to do - and able to explain it. Explain it, for example, to anybody involved with the UN who happened to be interested. I'm hoping to be right enough , too. To have a good chance of that takes a lot of work - at least for me.

Hope you "check" WELL too -- whatever/wherever/however you do it !

Lchic speaks well - and speaks well for me. We talk a lot - and she's a great summarizer - more incisive than I am. I appreciate her posts.

NOTHING new here: The irony I notice is: You, an admitted cryptographer (?), being so logorrheic and repetitious. And, your 'explainer'-- a "great summarizer" and a "world asset" -- too crpytic and too faux-Zen to make much sense of her loyal explanations.

I'm grateful for the chance I was given to post 15233-15240 and 5242-15245 yesterday.

For ONLY those posts ?

Here's a point that may mean more to me than to others. Perhaps it is obvious to others. On tough jobs, it often helps to first solve them with emotional and social issues stripped away as much as possible. Just to get something that makes sense. But then every one of the human issues that actually matters has to be fit to the solution too.

Just start following your own advice for a change, and NOT bother much about things totally out of your hand/control.

Most issues require an objective, factually-based analysis -- away from distracting personal, emotional and similar other perspectives you are so prone to include, everytime, every issue.

Pardon me if I'm slow, and not always a welcome poster here.

For "not always a welcome poster here," you seem to be doing fine, with support from the 'Truth-holder', and a "world asset."

bluestar23 - 03:40pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15286 of 15297)

Heh, lchic's not happy...

bluestar23 - 03:41pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15287 of 15297)

What an incredible mass of stuff these two put out...

rshow55 - 03:50pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15288 of 15297)
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.

You can always pick a fight.

I think, just now, that I am doing fine. And I sure appreciate Lchic - who I think is a world class mind.

Most fights are not zero sum "games" - they are destructive - because the gains from cooperation are very great - and the costs of disruption can be very great, too. http://www.mrshowalter.net/Kline_ExtFactors.htm

If I can handle little problems here - it will be easier to "take it up with the administration. "

cantabb - 04:06pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15289 of 15297)

rshow55 - 03:50pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15288 of 15288)

You can always pick a fight.

Seems to be a lot on the mind of a teen-fighter himself !

And I sure appreciate Lchic - who I think is a world class mind.

Mutual admiration ! Perhaps lost on most of us ALL this time.

If I can handle little problems here - it will be easier to "take it up with the administration. "

The "little problems here" -- your own creations -- don't really have (wouldn't really have) anything to do with your dealings with GW administration or UN.

See if you can follow any of the helpful suggestions posted here. And see if you can be like starry-eyed lchic -- the world class mind, a world asset: post something pithy, without being telegraphic/cryptic and faux-Zen like her...

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