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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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rshow55 - 05:55pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16681 of 16696)
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.

If the posters are who I think they are - the effort does enhance society.

jorian319 - 05:56pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16682 of 16696)

"If the posters are who I think they are..."

AND WHAT IF THEY'RE NOT????????

bluestar23 - 06:01pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16683 of 16696)

Showalter's insanity shows itself in the endless repetition....even when told not to repeat something, he goes ahead and repeats it again and again....the mark of a real lunatic..

cantabb - 06:02pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16684 of 16696)

rshow55 - 05:27pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16675 of 16680)

That is isn't reasonable, or even possible, that bluestar23 and cantabb work for The New York Times?

Your obsession ! But by the same token, Who does lchic work for ? Waiting for the answer ?

rshow55 - 05:44pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16677 of 16680)

I am not asking the NYT to vouch for anything they don't reasonably know - and I'm looking for ways I can meet my needs without stepping on NYT needs.

What do your needs got to do with NYT's needs ?

To get that worked through - there would have to be some talking. With people able to see each other's responses - and zero in on comfortable solutions.

Not necessarily. Your opinion (unsubstantiated as ever) is NOT a fact.

Cantabb's --- sure is solicitous of NYT interests - if cantabb's unconnected with the NYT.

In your dreams.....

rshow55 - 06:03pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16685 of 16696)
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 spent the last 24 hours busting my head to think of the minimum agreement I'd need to serve my needs - without any inconsistency at all with correspondence I'd gotten - or anything in tension with anyting I understood about the NYT's needs.

I wrote a letter - most of the text making clear the things I was not asking the NYT to do.

I read it over a phone recording device - something lawyers do every day, to save time - standard procedure. More tentative than an email - and tentativeness can be useful sometimes. It sure would have been an easy transaction with a patent lawyer - no matter how high the stakes.

I had a small request - and I wanted to get it phrased comfortably from the NYT point of view. I didn't know enough - as an outsider - to phrase it as comfortably as an insider could. With a few minutes of conversation from a cool-headed, competent lawyer - we could have come to terms. Then we would have discussed how to put the agreement in the most pleasant ( but clear ) language possible.

Instead of a response - I got some really brutal defamation from bluestar23 - which may have been coincidental, after all.

If it was coincidental - I should have been called by now.

I think " the average reader of The New York Times " would have a right to expect more wordly competence from NYT officers !

cantabb - 06:05pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16686 of 16696)

rshow55 - 05:55pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16681 of 16684)

If the posters are who I think they are - the effort does enhance society.

Your paranoia in over-drive. Determined to abuse it till the last minute of this forum you helped shut down ?

rshow55 - 06:07pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16687 of 16696)
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.

If my postings are within NYT definitions of paranoia then the brand

"All the news that's fit to print"

is thoroughly besmirched.

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