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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    Missile Defense

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 - 10:20am Oct 26, 2003 EST (# 15667 of 15670)
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.

Here's a basic standard:

" What would this look like, and how would it be judged, if it was written up, in detail, in THE NEW YORK TIMES ? "

Not that it would be. But there are community standards. I think everybody involved here wants to meet those standards. I know that I do.

Cantabb said this: "And, had you written THAT "short" "well-crafted" letter to him and called him, as you had been planning to do, you would have returned from NYC by now, after a visit to CIA, FBI, Rummy, GW, Rice and the whole gang-- and their stand-ins."

The NYT, CIA, FBI, DOD, NSA and the White House couldn't possibly work that way. The leaders of big institutions couldn't work that way - and shouldn't try to.

Good solutions ought to be as simple as possible (though no simpler) and fit the circumstances.

Leaders have complicated jobs and deal with complicated organizational problems and interconnections. To get something that fits into an organization takes care - and enough time so that what matters is known, and people who know enough to judge can become comfortable with what is to be done.

I hope to sort out a situation with the NYT that meets NYT needs as well as possible - in the nature of the case - the best possible circumstances for the TIMES, from where we are, would also be big wins for me. Because the circumstances are complex we need not be in a conflict situation about anything that matters much to either the NYT or to me. It isn't necessarily true that meeting my needs costs the NYT anything - at least if " the average reader or stockholder of The New York Times" might be looking. Meeting my needs might be something that "the average reader" would be proud to have the NYT do. At the same time I have to ask the following question - and in this situation, for the short time it would take to sort things out from here, the NYT does, too.

Suppose Robert Showalter is telling the truth, within the normal limits, about his situation. What would he need to be able to leave this board and function?

and a related question:

Suppose Robert Showalter is telling the truth, within the normal limits, about his situation. Under what circumstances is he crippled in the ways that matter for function?

Of course I have to ask analogous questions about the TIMES' needs - though of course the stakes for the TIMES are much smaller than they are for me - and I would be happy to accomodate NYT needs that don't conflict with my own.

Arrangements that fit NYT institutional needs and also fit my own - in ways that most people would say I deserve - are fairly easy. Some options have been discussed at length on this board - and to something that looks close to a simple closure. Others resolutions are possible. With limited but real rapport - resolutions that maximize the NYT advantage, and satisfy my needs well, too - look easy. Negative sum results only need happen if there is an operational decision to see that I remain crippled in the ways that matter to me for action. I don't see how that meets anybody's interest.

Any answer that is a sensible "win-win" solution between me and the NYT will put me in fair position for dealing with the federal government without any need for institutional involvement from the NYT - though such help might be easy for the TIMES, and of course I'd appreciate it.

Call you for WHAT and WHY ?

In case anybody on NYT staff wanted to move things faster than they're moving, they could call me. For a stable solution that does not break up in a mess or a fight - I think things are moving fine - but I'd be very, very pleas

rshow55 - 10:21am Oct 26, 2003 EST (# 15668 of 15670)
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.

In case anybody on NYT staff wanted to move things faster than they're moving, they could call me. For a stable solution that does not break up in a mess or a fight - I think things are moving fine - but I'd be very, very pleased to get a call - and if I had that call - I'd come to NYT as fast as a meeting could be arranged.

rshow55 - 10:22am Oct 26, 2003 EST (# 15669 of 15670)
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.

I'm hoping, by the end of the day, to send a short email to the "top dog" at the TIMES - with links available so that others can deal with something that he'd be too busy to attend to.

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