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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 - 06:42pm Oct 23, 2003 EST (# 15511 of 15539)
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.

And, as a practical matter - stability has to involve reciprocal penalties, as well as benefits.

Maybe people don't have to talk about them - but for stability they have to be there.

In complex cases - it is also necessary to know the essentials of what happened.

The fact is that every reasonably complicated human interaction involving cooperation is dynamically unstable unless people work in balanced ways to stabilize it.

I know more about that than anybody else in the world - inadequate as I may be - and I'd like to get out of jail. Not leave so mangled and spun dry that I cannot function.

jorian319 - 07:04pm Oct 23, 2003 EST (# 15512 of 15539)
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

A letter acknowledging which posters were NYT reporters - and which were not - with an agreement from me not to pursue the matter...

WHAT "matter"? There is no "matter" here, Robert. It's your fantasy.

- and not to sue -

Surely you jest! Sue whom - for WHAT?

- would be win-win for both of us -

Oh God - now there's two of you?

rshow55 - 07:09pm Oct 23, 2003 EST (# 15513 of 15539)
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.

Cast of Characters: http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.R0XZbQmbQbG.4338213@.f28e622/14978

138-9 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.597a9376/138

rshow55 - 07:13pm Oct 23, 2003 EST (# 15514 of 15539)
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.

Some things would work better face to face. If the NYT thinks it has no responsibility to me - after all that's happened - well - some might agree - but my guess is that many people that the New York Times has to care about might think about the matter.

And maybe disagree.

Does the NYT have to take responsibility for what it does under any circumstances?

rshow55 - 07:20pm Oct 23, 2003 EST (# 15515 of 15539)
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.

Note what's under discussion.

If I had a letter acknowledging something that the NYT either knows - or could easily find out - I could function pretty well.

The existence of what I've written on this thread is not fantasy - and posts by people set out in Cast of Characters: http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.R0XZbQmbQbG.4338213@.f28e622/14978 are no fantasy either.

Some of the things that have happened to me that seem to have involved NYT employees - including people who have said they were NYT employees - or said things that implied that very strongly - have been pretty rough - and officers of the NYT would know that.

Do I have no right to find out who these people are - because they're associated with the sainted New York Times?

I'm not sure everybody who puts faith in The New York Times - or its officers - would agree to that.

We're dealing here with issues a lot more important than anything involved with the Jayson Blair case, it seems to me.

I bet I could find some people and institutions to agree to that - in a pinch.

Why not a "win-win" situation, instead of a fight? Even if you happen not to like me?

Why not be honest ?

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