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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 - 12:46pm Nov 7, 2003 EST (# 16740 of 16750)
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.

Often, for administrative purposes, you need clear answers - and sometimes fictions will do.

But for stability under complicated circumstances, with many unforseeable problems to be expected - right answers are very, very important.

The struggles that the NYT is having making a simple agreement with me illustrates just how messed up our dealmaking procedures - including diplomatic procedures - have come to be - and how messed up in them the NYT now is.

We have a mess - and this thread is exemplary.

We need to clean some things up.

In my particular case - I'm insisting that it happen - one way or another - to the extent that I have power to see that it is clarified. I'll be responsible for what I do - but I'm intending to hold other people responsible, too. Even if they work for the sainted New York Times.

rshow55 - 12:48pm Nov 7, 2003 EST (# 16741 of 16750)
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 things are to be effectively hidden - without untoward troubles, or dishonesty - the people involved need to agree on enough details for it to happen.

I do not owe the New York Times, or any of its people, any agreement of confidentiality, either express or implied - unless we talk about it and get the matter clear.

rshow55 - 12:51pm Nov 7, 2003 EST (# 16742 of 16750)
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.

For example - I have to deal with the things that happened between me and " Roland Cook " .

I don't have any choice but to deal with what happened in 1999 between me and Cook. I have no obligation to respect Cook's interests, or privacy, in any matter whatsoever unless there are community reasons to do so that I can understand - or unless there is an agreement that does not exist yet.

And I see know reason to be evasive about what I think happened - and who I think was involved - without some talking that hasn't happened yet.

bluestar23 - 12:53pm Nov 7, 2003 EST (# 16743 of 16750)

Showalter:

Your posts have nothing in them but complete insanity. You are are a babbling maniac, who should be immediately transferred to a mental health facility for immediate psychiatric examination.

bluestar23 - 12:57pm Nov 7, 2003 EST (# 16744 of 16750)

Showalter,posting about absolutely nothing, over and over, has now show himself to be suffering from advanced paranoid schizophrenia.....

rshow55 - 01:00pm Nov 7, 2003 EST (# 16745 of 16750)
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.

You mean I'm getting near things that are uncomfortable for you - and you don't feel any need to be concerned with my needs - but only your own?

This thread has gone on a rather long time for that to be a supportable position for a NYT employee to take. Now of course you can deny that you are one - but your actions aren't entirely consistent with that.

I notice no one is denying the correspondence posted from 16724-16730 .

bluestar23 - 01:02pm Nov 7, 2003 EST (# 16746 of 16750)

rshow:

"The struggles that the NYT is having making a simple agreement with me illustrates just how messed up our dealmaking procedures -"

You have NO CONNECTION to the NYT..None!!! They have NO "agreements" to make with you..NONE! You are nothing more than a poster who makes comments, and insane ones to boot. All the NYT and ALL the other posters want is to GET RID of you as soon as possible...you have no "deals" to make with ANYONE!!!

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