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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
- 09:04am Nov 4, 2003 EST (#
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lchic - 09:01am Nov 4, 2003 EST (# 16477 of 16477)
Cantabb .... logic ... of course there was
logic, but you missed the punch line
Must have been the 'generic' kind -- your personal brand.
Punchline: If you say so !
"ultimately TRUTH outs" : Sometimes, garbage in,
garbage out !
cantabb
- 09:07am Nov 4, 2003 EST (#
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lchic - 09:03am Nov 4, 2003 EST (# 16478 of 16479)
Don't 'look' for the punch line -- you won't
see it but If you keep going round and round the loop IT
WILL creep up on you
:)
Sorry, was never good at faux-Zen cryptography !
"ultimately TRUTH outs" Ultimately, yes ! If you can
sit, wait and pray hard and long enough !
lchic
- 09:08am Nov 4, 2003 EST (#
16481 of 16492) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
so what were you good at ....
rshow55
- 09:12am Nov 4, 2003 EST (#
16482 of 16492) 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.
"Rote machine"
Rote learning - memorization - is a kind of learning that
has its place - and in some places - it is indispensible. No
apology about that. I'm convinced that in a lot of areas - the
most common things - those things that are
statistically most important - should be identified for
learners - and when those things are frequent enough ( like
the most frequent 100 words in english - which make up almost
45% of the words used in text ) they should be
memorized.
We need to learn what fits.
I think the basics of disciplined beauty should be
memorized.
http://www.mrshowalter.net/DBeauty.html
Along with some rhymes by lchic
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Adults have secrets, lies and fictions
Live in their world, of contradictions
But if things go bad
and knock about
Folks get together
And work it out
Human beings ( especially children, but not only children )
need ideas condensed and packaged in memorable
form.
Lcic is "the best mind I've never been near" - and
she's especially good at that condensation.
lchic
- 09:13am Nov 4, 2003 EST (#
16483 of 16492) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Rupert Murdock's guys in The Australian seem to be backing
Bush for re-election
rshow55
- 09:15am Nov 4, 2003 EST (#
16484 of 16492) 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.
To preserve necessary fictions - tactful face to
face discourse can be indispensible - so that things can
be worked out with minimum disruption (especially
minimum involuntary disruption) of the fictions that are
important to the people involved.
Anonymity has uses.
Specificity does, too.
There is no contradiction involved - but tact can be
useful, and practical.
"Obvious? " Sure. Important, too. Diplomats need better
technical knowledge about exception handling when
dealing with these things.
This thread would be a good source of text and examples to
show things involved with that.
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