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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
- 12:07pm Nov 7, 2003 EST (#
16737 of 16745)
rshow55 - 10:24am Nov 7, 2003 EST (# 16735 of 16736)
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.
Pursue the matter with NYT.
I know it is not MD - but some may be
interested in a lot of dialog that occurred after WWI
......- these technical barriers have been removed.
You seem more interested in posting on it, and who can stop
you. So, why not?
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."
Re-posting what was posted before ?
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.
Again, for you to pursue with NYT ! Of NO relevance
here.
I'm cooking and eating breakfast - so I'll
be off the board a little while, but ...
You don't want to also tell us what're you cooking, and how
?
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:
You're going to do it anyway. So, why worry about its
appropriateness, taste or "good manners," ?
What would be the reasonable objections to a
similar posting of the collected works of bluestar23 - or
myself, or lchic ?
Obviously, none that you'd worry about. I'm waiting for a
CD of my own "Collected Works," to go with my name "written on
subway walls..."
What would the objections be if I were to
email or mail these links to embassies - or to news
organizations - or to various organizations.
Uh uh ! The world of diplomacy --for world peace and
stability ?
cantabb
- 12:07pm Nov 7, 2003 EST (#
16738 of 16745)
rshow55 - 10:25am Nov 7, 2003 EST (# 16736 of 16736)
There are points that need to be discussed -
so that people involved in necessarily complicated lives can
work.
They don't "need to be discussed" ! YOU want to
discuss them for your own personal reasons.
This board is complicated enough that that
discussion can and should serve needs that go both ways .
What else do you think has been happening in exchanges here
?
rshow55
- 12:42pm Nov 7, 2003 EST (#
16739 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.
Cantabb: What else do you think has been
happening in exchanges here ?
In decision making - one needs nonoscillatory answers under
many circumstances for stability.
In the usages of this board, Cantabb acts
both as a NYT employee - and denies that he is.
Here is a basic logical point.
If I had a signed piece of paper from the NYT saying that
Cantabb either was or was not a NYT
employee - I could accomodate to either answer -
whether I happened to believe it or not.
Stably.
With oscillation of answers - many sociotechnical
systems cannot be built stably.
That's a very basic fact - and if some people know
it - many, many people (including diplomats ) do not.
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