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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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jorian319 - 03:06pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15808 of 15814)
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 made a concession to cantabb , and somehow it seems worth repeating - because a very big WHAT is how to craft win-win solutions that are in everybody's interest, but "unstable" - that is - how to stabilize them workably?

Gee whiz, that sounds like a huge concession.

Just one little thing, though...

a very big WHAT is how to craft win-win solutions

The question was SOLUTIONS to WHAT?

You get the difference? I wasn't asking for a how-to, I was asking for the PROBLEM that requires the "win-win solution". Of course crafting a solution to ANY problem is itself problematic, and as cantabb has pointed out, it becomes even more so in the absence of any defined problem.

Then I asked that if the answer was NOT your personal problems, to provide ONE SPECIFIC EXAMPLE.

So far, we still don't have any idea WTF you're talking about, and I suspect that neither do you.

cantabb - 03:08pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15809 of 15814)

bluestar23 - 02:46pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15802 of 15805)

Agree with most of what you say.

But promise me that those who now already accuse US of being the world's policeman would not do so if we took on a greater role, as you suggest !

:)

rshow55 - 03:09pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15810 of 15814)
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.

Bluestar23 - let's suppose that someone responsible at the TIMES wanted an answer to that question. That could actually work in human terms. They'd need someone with a name and a face to talk to me - the situation is complicated enough for that. If I'd asked to talk to somebody too high in the organization - and they wanted me to talk to somebody lower first - for background - that would be fine. Answering that question on this thread - in response to a request from you - isn't fine.

jorian319 - 03:21pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15811 of 15814)
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

higher, lower, up and down

problem seems as problem bound

solutions solve whate'er they will

and nyt should get the bill

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"let me up!" I hear you cry

but no-one's there to make reply

and so assume we all defy

ensuring thus that there you lie

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and evermore shall be the case

that problems won't define this place

as long as you can stand your ground,

making sure we hold you down

rshow55 - 03:24pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15812 of 15814)
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.

Maybe a part of a lot of problems is the way the New York Times operates?

Interesting poem. I was writing to answer a prior question and missed it till now.

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