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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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rshow55 - 01:11pm Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15354 of 15369)
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.

Yesterday afternoon, I said this: 15292 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.DBZbbat2QI6.3947583@.f28e622/17005

"If people are to use this board - and if I'm to be able to function - what happened on this board has to be explained concisely in the ways that matter for i action.

"That doesn't necessarily conflict with any valid interest of the newspaper.

"We don't have to be in a "zero sum" or "negative sum" game here. We could arrange a positive sum game.

Cantabb , you're making it harder - and because your effort is so extensive http://www.mrshowalter.net/Cantabb_Srch_toOct_10.htm I have to assume you're doing the bidding of NYT management - or people making an organized effort to impersonate NYT management on a NYT board http://www.mrshowalter.net/jorian319_Mar20_May26_2003_WrittenOut.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/Jorian319_May30_toOc9_2003.htm

I think your efforts are being counterproductive - from the NYT point of view - and from the point of view of the public interest.

Repeat: "We don't have to be in a "zero sum" or "negative sum" game here. We could arrange a positive sum game." - But if employees of the NYT insist on fighting at every step - a negative sum game is all that is likely to happen.

Cantabb - if part of your objective is to slow down my presentation to Sulzberger - you're succeeding. I have to attend to you. I don't think you're serving the NYT or the public well.

jorian319 - 01:31pm Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15355 of 15369)
The earth spin rate is slowing 2 msc/day as evidenced by the additon of a leap second every 500 days - James "I failed math" Nienhuis

I have to assume you're doing the bidding of NYT management - or people making an organized effort

Suggestion - Robert, every time you catch yourself thinking such things, re-boot your brain. There is no purpose that would be served by writing lines like the above, even if they did have some basis in fact (which IMO they do not and never have had in all the similar speculations you've posted).

The net effect is to reduce whatever vestiges of reasonable appearance you might retain - and you can't afford to lose much more of that.

My $.02 re cantabb - Did it ever occur to you that maybe he's just an ordinary guy who has become irritated by repetition and lack of relevant content in this thread? Heck, if I had more time on my hands, I might undertake to hold your feet to the fire in a similar manner ('cept better of course!).

Try posting some responsive, on-topic material sans self referential links and platitudinous sweepers, and see what happens. After all, that would be the true test of your allegations of covert purpose, would it not?

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