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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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cantabb
- 10:07am Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16191 of 16228)
This so-called "corpus" is a conglomeration of everything
published that rshow-lchic wanted to accumulate, relevant to
MD or not. Nothing original, just a mindless "save, file,
retrieve and post & re-post (ad infintitum)" clerical
skills. With active support from the "World Asset." If it's
anti-American, so much the better.
cantabb
- 10:15am Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16192 of 16228)
"......Just [] mindless...."
jorian319
- 10:23am Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16193 of 16228)
Well, cantabb, that is (IMO) an accurate characterization
of the finished product, but doesn't speak to why anyone would
do such a thing.
Empathy has been a big word around here lately, so I'm
trying to identify with Showalter. Consider feeling so
repressed that THIS - a public forum graciously maintained by
NYT, seems your only avenue for expression. It must be a
horrible feeling, borne though it is of delusion. Certainly,
forces powerful enough to enforce such exile would also be
easily able to simply eliminate the annoyance, if that is what
Showalter thinks he represents to "them". That this has no
been done means that either he has failed to attain the status
of an annoyance, or that ... could it be? ... "they" don't
exist.
The existence of an external repressive force is not
necessary for someone to FEEL repressed, but it is definitely
useful to have something to point to if one ever hopes to
overcome that feeling of repression. I suspect that's
Showalter's dilemma; an inability to identify who's afflicting
him - a horrible feeling for sure, but due only to the fact
that the affliction, it's perpetrator and its victim are all
one and the same.
cantabb
- 10:38am Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16194 of 16228)
I agree with you, mostly.
It's the world according to.... rshow & lchic.
Nothing to do with MD, but a way to air rshow's personal
problems for some unimasginable reason here on the forum !
Continued abuse of Forum privileges extend to them.
cantabb
- 10:45am Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16195 of 16228)
..."extendED to them..."
bluestar23
- 02:22pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16196 of 16228)
Thanks, Cantabb & Jorian...I was after them early this
morning but they keep right on going...good "fisking" of their
nonsense...keep it up....
lchic
- 03:22pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16197 of 16228) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Put up definitions of :
pro-american
american
anti-american
with examples
bluestar23
- 03:23pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16198 of 16228)
One notes the COWARDS rshow and his idiot camp-follower
lchic now only post at early, odd hours...to escape the
Flak...her hours in OZ make it possible for her to post at
night....they're "chickening out"
bluestar23
- 03:24pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16199 of 16228)
lchic: Get Lost, you little zipperhead.....
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