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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a
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"Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed
considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense
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rshow55
- 10:24am Nov 7, 2003 EST (#
16735 of 16745) 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.
One can give much weight to considerations of
confidentiality - and still worry about issues of logical
structure and manipulation. Under the usages MIT is using -
quoted in 14769 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.GDyPbvosWre.2071535@.f28e622/16480
it makes some sense to think about logical analogs of the
Interactive Graphic: How the Partnerships
Worked available at http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/14/business/_ENRON-PRIMER.html
These usages permit a great many multidimensional shell
games. Some exception handling is necessary - when reasons for
it are sufficient. Shell games involving information can work
much the same when there are hidden elements. Not that hidden
elements are avoidable. But mistakes are often
avoidable - with decent patterns of exception handling - and
feedback.
In my case, there's enough involved for me - in terms of
my life - that I need some things in writing. For all I
know, they would only be affirmations of standard NYT company
policies from a handbook. Nonetheless, I need them in writing.
I know it is not MD - but some may be interested in a lot
of dialog that occurred after WWI about the need for "open
agreements - openly arrived at" - and the basic reason for
the openness was the need for predictability and
stability. In the late 1910s and early 1920s, when most
of this discussion occurred - the technical barriers to
"open agreements - openly arrived at" were
insurmountable - and in complicated cases it wasn't even
possible to specify workably complete agreements.
Now, with the internet - these technical
barriers have been removed.
The note I dictated to Apcar's phone line, referred to this
morning, includes this.
I'm not asking the NYT to endorse me in any way - surely in
no way beyond the respectful language you used about my board
work in your letter of Oct 29 - and in the respectful language
of our phone conversation. Nor am I asking the NYT to forgo
any of the powers it has as a newspaper - if I've done
something the NYT wishes to print a story about, or inquire
about for a journalistic purpose. Nor am I asking the TIMES to
forgo communicating anything that it feels a duty as a citizen
to communicate to anyone.
Here are issues where I DID want some discussion - so
that we could get a comfortable meeting of the
minds. The wording is from the draft I read from
But I DO ask that anything they tell others
about me - they also tell me
And whatever agreement we come to about
confidentiality or non-confidentiality can be shown to
people I interact with - with the expectation that I ask
these people to report back to me about whether their
communication conforms to it.
Examples - - - for purposes of clarification
- - might be discussed over the phone.
I've asked that that be discussed. Perhaps we can do it
openly.
I'm cooking and eating breakfast - so I'll be off the board
a little while, but while I"m off, could anyone explain to me
why either Jorian, or Cantabb, or the Times, or anybody else
has any reason to object to these links - not just in
general - though generalities matter - but in terms of the
specific circumstanes of this board - which is an
exceptional board in some ways, though not in others:
http://www.mrshowalter.net/Cantabb_Srch_to10_4_files
http://www.mrshowalter.net/Cantabb_Srch_toOct_10.htm
http://www.mrshowalter.net/jorian319_Mar20_May26_2003_WrittenOut.htm
http://www.mrshowalter.net/Jorian319_May30_toOc9_2003.htm
http://www.mrshowalter.net/JorianOnGuardian.htm
What would be the reasonable objections to a similar
posting of the collected works of bluestar23 - or
myself, or lchic ?
What would the objections be if I were to email or mail
these links to embassies - or to news organizations - or to
various organizations.
There are points that nee
rshow55
- 10:25am Nov 7, 2003 EST (#
16736 of 16745) 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.
There are points that need to be discussed - so that people
involved in necessarily complicated lives can work.
This board is complicated enough that that discussion can
and should serve needs that go both ways .
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