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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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lchic
- 08:08am Oct 24, 2003 EST (#
15560 of 15580) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Uniqueness gives way to obliqueness .... Googled out v
Mootations
Engines for chasing down Missiles ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/economicdispatch/story/0,12498,1070165,00.html
Google will almost certainly be sold at a ludicrous
multiple of its earnings because of all the surrounding hype
despite the experience of the dotcom era. This will pile yet
more pressure on it to meet expectations. There is another
more practical reason why it is good to get out now.
Although Google is the pre-eminent brand, other search
engines are getting better and better and snapping at its
heels. In a few years time Google may not command the same
stock market premium.
In an ideal world, the founders of Google would have
sold out in a way that gave them the riches they deserved
while keeping Google as a mutual company dedicated to
preserving the universal access to knowledge that the
founding fathers of the internet and web envisaged
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If purveyors of news that purport truth are recalcitrant -
then check for the fox hiding under the wings of pegasus.
cantabb
- 10:25am Oct 24, 2003 EST (#
15561 of 15580)
rshow55 - 07:51am Oct 24, 2003 EST (# 15557 of
15560)
Beautiful, beautiful posts by Lchic above!
She is a world asset - the most valuable
mind I've "never been near". But gotten to know.
I agree and have also started also referring to her as
“world asset.” You two seem made for each other.
rshow55 - 07:54am Oct 24, 2003 EST (# 15559 of
15560)
We're [you and lchic] involved in sorting
some things out - remembering precedents - and shifting
paradigms in workable ways.
BTW, Could it be the thing you have been “working” on here
for the past 3 years ?
When you finally figure out what are “sorting…out” in
whatever you think you have been working on, hope you can
address the questions you have been dodging for the past 5
weeks.
And a lot of time working to do better than
that.
I know, I know. Quite difficult even when the ‘project’ is
known in specific details toward well defined goals. I can
imagine how difficult it'd be when you don’t really know what
you’re doing and toward what goal – other than just busy
“working on something.”
The NYT editorial page often asks diplomats
to arrange things that they do not how to do technically -
and I think we're getting close to a situation where these
hoped for things can be done routinely and practically.
Really ? Used to know people in German, Swedish and
Argentinan embassies. Too bad I lost touch with them. May be
they’d also appreciated your efforts in name of world peace,
saving lives for national security reasons, and yes, in memory
of Casey-Eishenhower and the 'promises' you made to them.
I'll be calling the NYT this morning.
Tell ‘em Cantabb (who you think is an NYT employee) sent
you !
I guess we’ll hear ALL about THAT too here & elsewhere,
including from the "subway walls"!
jorian319
- 11:13am Oct 24, 2003 EST (#
15562 of 15580) 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 can imagine how difficult it'd be when you
don’t really know what you’re doing and toward what goal ...
LOL! But... the sun did come up this morning, and
nobody else has taken credit for it, so I guess all R&L's
hard work is paying off.
bluestar23
- 11:22am Oct 24, 2003 EST (#
15563 of 15580)
No Showalter posts since yesterday..? A minor (no, Major)
Miracle...so, on to MD....
Cooper: I'm not so well-versed in countermeasures
technology, as at least one of the other posters, but I do
understand its basics. And I've seen the posts discussing the
issue. I think you're pretty much hanging your whole anti-MD
hat on this one issue of counter-measures. And I think this is
not a good strategy in the long run, because it is just one
part of the complete MD discussion. You can't defeat the
totality of the MD argument by just saying, that, well,
someone, some day, might develop some hypothetical
counter-measure. It's just not a good enough answer to stop
dead all the current work. You should expand your anti-MD
argument to be more than a one-trick pony. It's too easy for
those who know about counter-measures to poke some reasonable
holes in your arguments. It's not a thing which can be relied
totally to defeat the MD, it seems..
bluestar23
- 11:27am Oct 24, 2003 EST (#
15564 of 15580)
I didn't see the recent Showalter posts...
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