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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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klsanford0
- 11:45pm Nov 7, 2003 EST (#
16820 of 16832)
WRCooper:
" (rshow55's)wishful thinking."
If you are foolish enough to believe that this Forum has
become an open sewer of public insanity and mental illness
through a little "wishful thinking" than you are more in need
of psychiatric help than Showalter, and that's saying
something. First you scorn all of us who attack Showalter's
presence here, and try to play the superior mind who's "above
it all"; then, Cooper shows up, takes off "ignore" for two
minutes, sees what all the rest of us have been seeing,
and...you bet, immediately starts babbling about what we've
been saying all along...what a hypocrite this Cooper
is....useless in every way to this Forum...no more welcome
than Showalter...
klsanford0
- 11:54pm Nov 7, 2003 EST (#
16821 of 16832)
WRCooper is the perfect example of a person who considers
himself to have a superior intellect, and doesn't. First, he
allows Showalter for three years to destroy any attempt at
making this Forum work, and in fact aids and abets Showalter.
When people complain about this, what does Cooper do that is
constructive..? Nothing. Just complains at them, always with
the "de haut en bas" attitude.....then when the Forum's dead
anyway, this fool Cooper wakes up to what's been happening
right under his nose for three years...and discovers it's
just...shocking! A perfect example of the regulars being just
as responsible as the mentally-ill for destroying the Forum...
And as for this cretin "fredmoore", he's such a
fantastically disastrous utterMoron that there's little else
one can say...the "regulars" should be Banned along with
Showalter...
lchic
- 12:00am Nov 8, 2003 EST (#
16822 of 16832) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Missile "One is never perceived, one is received" OUCH!
Eugene Delacroix: "One is never perceived, one is
received."
lchic
- 12:26am Nov 8, 2003 EST (#
16823 of 16832) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
From Rumsfeld:
"The message is that there are no knowns. There are things
we know that we know. There are known unknowns, that is to say
there are things we now know we don't know. But there are also
unknown unknowns -- things we do not know we don't know.
"So when we do the best we can and we pull all this
information together, and we then say 'well, that's basically
what we see as the situation', that is really only the known
knowns and the known unknowns. And each year we discover a few
more of those unknown unknowns," he said.
Acknowledging that his argument might sound like a riddle,
Rumsfeld concluded with a flourish: "There is another way to
phrase that, and that is that the absence of evidence is not
evidence of absence."
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=politicsnews&StoryID=1058803
lchic
- 12:49am Nov 8, 2003 EST (#
16824 of 16832) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
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