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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 - 12:19pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17297 of 17306)
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.

Primordial motivations for war , cited in lunarchick 12/14/02 7:08am set out cynically but entertainingly by Phillip Adams -- For Men, War is Swell http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,5673211%5E12272,00.html

and primordial motivations for peace , set out beautifully, and with great erudition, too, by Natalie Angier -- Of Altruism, Heroism and Evolution's Gifts in the Face of Terror http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/18/health/psychology/18ALTR.html

Human reason serves both these motivations. But is both better and worse. Natalie Angier's piece today leads with a question:

Is War Our Biological Destiny? http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/11WAR.html

Until we learn some things - it is .

lchic - 12:29pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17298 of 17306)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

was that 'our' an across the sexes 'our' ... or more a male v male 'our'

cantabb - 12:34pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17299 of 17306)

rshow55 - 12:09pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17292 of 17294)

Cantabb , you can shut this down anytime you want ( I assume you're participating in the decision.)

Didn't I ask kate_nyt (immediately after her post) WHY wait ? Why let it accumulate more till Nov 14 -- only to be deleted.

See how much weight I carry with NYT ?

I asked the Executive Editor of NYT on the Web to shut it down within hours, days ago. My guess is he understood what I meant.

That was WAY after I had, btw.

If people say "if you threaten us, or insult us even slightly - we won't talk to us" stable relationships between the parties based on something higher than rape are classified out of existence.

WHAT ? Makes NO sense.

And fights become inevitable.

They may be 'inevitable', but how can they be "stable" ?

rshow55 - 12:11pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17293 of 17295)

Errata

If people say "if you threaten us, or insult us even slightly - we won't talk to you " stable relationships between the parties based on something higher than rape are classified out of existence. Win-win accomodations are guaranteed.

NO "win-win" solutions -- except in your mind. I still don't understand what do you think NYT owes you ? And what the heck you're negotiating with them for ?

And so is a great deal of paralysis.

Mostly on your part. Surprisingly, the NYT did act (even though I didn't expect them to -- and, so promptly).

The United States is producing many, many problems in the world with just those tactics.

So it The New York Times .

Aren't you trying solve these and other problems of the world and saves lives that their actions may have cost ?

rshow55 - 12:14pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17295 of 17295)

I'm moving too fast.

Really. Could it be that it's gonna be curtains soon -- and you still have your "threats" and "outrage" to carry on.

Errata to the second power:

If people say "if you threaten us, or insult us even slightly - we won't talk to you " stable relationships between the parties based on something higher than rape are classified out of existence. Win-win accomodations are classified out of existence.

I got that the first time. My response still applies.

A great deal of paralysis and injury is guaranteed.

Now "injury" too? And, "guaranteed" ? Wow, getting more serious by the minute.

The United States is producing many, many problems in the world with just those tactics. So is The New York Times .

I thought NYT was just creating "problems" for YOU alone !

I know you have been trying to resolve the problems created by US and have been saving thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of lives that would otherwise have been lost because of US actions.

The real Don Quixote ! Tilting at "real" windmills. Keep on brave (not "pusil") soul !

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