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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 - 12:22pm Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16355 of 16365)
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.

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.iIHBbPLzU6b.1001448@.f28e622/18066 Now THAT I don't believe. . . . . though it would be nice if it is true.

What do I want to talk about?

As a minimum - I want to discuss - face to face with someone "in the system" - how I'm to actually use the response I have - and how the NYT expects to respond to the things I'm likely to say.

My guess is that after a very short time - we could sort something out that permitted me to actually work administratively - in the world as it is - in ways that would be "win-win" for everybody - with very little trouble to the NYT - a lot less than somebody's going to in the 473 postings posted here since I got an email from a NYT line guy.

If there were problems doing that directly - there might be some intermediate conversations - through some people we might both respect at the U of Wisconsin, for instance.

But I have to be able to function in detail - and have a right to ask for enough clarification to actually permit that.

If that's not permitted - and I'm unable to function because of the place the NYT organization has put me - - I'll react - and try to do so in a way that "the average reader of the NYT" would approve of.

Of course I appreciate the support I've gotten on the thread.

That isn't the whole story.

To get a win-win resolution there needs to be more conversation than there has been - in a basis that this thread doesn't permit.

Face to face - you can see how people are uncomfortable - and in a little time - it often happens that people can come up with solutions tha they actually like - that actually make them comfortable.

I'd be more comfortable, for instance, if I was able to write a really fine thank you letter to the New York Times - but if we're at knife-point - I can't do that.

People often come to good deals - especially when no money needs to change hands. And this time, I'd prefer not to have any money change hands. ( A big reason not to get a lawyer involved, if that's possible. )

I'm looking for a good solution. Not only for me - but for me and for lchic - not only for the NYT.

Win-win solutions do happen. I'm shooting for one here.

Who knows? Might happen this time.

bluestar23 - 12:38pm Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16356 of 16365)

I can't believe it...I leave for five minutes and "Shazam!" another ten posts from Show/lchic....

Showalter...your last post said ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!! Say something SPECIFIC to MD!!!

bluestar23 - 12:45pm Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16357 of 16365)

"Win-win solutions do happen. I'm shooting for one here.

Who knows? Might happen this time."

What are you TALKING ABOUT? what solution?? For WHAT??? Tell the posters WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!!!!

rshow55 - 12:48pm Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16358 of 16365)
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.

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.iIHBbPLzU6b.1001448@.f28e622/18066 - - - made a promise - broken already - - not that I believed bluestar - but worth noticing. Seems to me I wrote a pretty straight response.

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