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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 - 02:52pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17321 of 17330)

bluestar23 - 02:39pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17318 of 17320)

Showalter; do you realize this might all be YOUR fault..?

"might be" ? You're being too considerate. His "threats" and plans for "outrage" may tell something that his 3-year 'contributions' may not have. Don't exclude the 'world asset' !

jorian319 - 02:52pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17322 of 17330)

If I had an agreement that anything the NYT tells others about me - they also tell me -

Nothing.... and nothing. Sounds fair to me.

rshow55 - 02:58pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17323 of 17330)
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.

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.ajQ9bQ7aXs2.2752003@.f28e622/19034 I don't think it far-fetched to think that bluestar has some inside knowledge about the way NYT works.

I could be wrong, I suppose, about that.

But if I'm not, I have to pause a little about the sincerity of what Apcar told me over the phone.

I mentioned concerns about attribution of insanity.

He responded readily to the effect that "no one believes that" - and the meaning he intended to make me recieve was "nobody around here thinks you're crazy at all."

Apcar said, in a way that sounded reasonable to me as well that "the thread speaks for itself" - in ways that made me feel, listening to him - that he thought NYT had "gone the extra mile" - obviously they had some respect for my work. Anyway, that's what I got over the phone.

Any reasonable person, I think, in ordinary business, would have wanted something in writing to show adminstratively - and I tried hard to phrase the minimum statement I could really use.

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.ajQ9bQ7aXs2.2752003@.f28e622/18443

Taking a look at postings from bluestar and other anonymous posters here, after http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.ajQ9bQ7aXs2.2752003@.f28e622/18443 - I had reason to want some things in writing.

Still do.

People need relationships that are simple and clear . Often, that means you need things in writing.

bluestar23 - 02:59pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17324 of 17330)

"I'd bow out of this forum gracefully'

No one is "bowing out" of anything; the Forum is being shut down....

rshow55 - 03:01pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17325 of 17330)
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.

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.ajQ9bQ7aXs2.2752003@.f28e622/19037

I need something like that in writing - from someone with a name an administrator could trace - that I can show administratively . It doesn't seem so much to ask.

I've been more than willing to talk about wording - so it fits my own needs with absolutely minimum disruption of NYT procedures and usages.

bluestar23 - 03:02pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17326 of 17330)

"nobody around here thinks you're crazy at all."

But they are not psychiatrists who have conducted tests or interviews with you, fortunately for them...

bluestar23 - 03:05pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17327 of 17330)

rshow55 evidence I work for NYT:

blue23:

"Tell the truth, I don't think they'll wait too long after they get to work....doubt there'll be posting on Friday...."

No, Showalter, this is only evidence I am making an educated guess, nothing more...

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