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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 - 03:26pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17332 of 17358)
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.

Can't you see how much damage that kind of position does to the body politic -and how much it costs the NYT in good will?

I understand barriers are important. These are counterproductive - and they don't fit this particular case at all well.

cantabb - 03:30pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17333 of 17358)

rshow55 - 03:26pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17332 of 17332)

Can't you see how much damage that kind of position does to the body politic -and how much it costs the NYT in good will?

NONSENSE. The only damage I see is to YOU and your efforts, brought sabout by yourself and lchic abusing the NYT opportunity for so long.

I understand barriers are important. These are counterproductive - and they don't fit this particular case at all well.

You're talking about yourself, and YOUR view of the situation has never been substantiated.

cantabb - 03:31pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17334 of 17358)

rshow55 & lchic: IT'S OVER. Mostly because of your 3+year abuse. Get used to it !

rshow55 - 03:39pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17335 of 17358)
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 can shut it down in the next hour, as far as I'm concerned. I've been asking for it to be shut down for quite some time.

And if you people don't work for the NYT - as far as I'm concerned you don't have standing to say a lot of the things you say.

If you are NYT employees - that raises some other issues.

Mainly - it proves that the NYT cares a lot about this thread.

rshow55 - 03:48pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17336 of 17358)
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.

I would have been perfectly happy if the thread had closed at the end of Oct 23, 2003 - which is what I expected. If that had happened, and the thread had been archived till Friday - that would have conformed to my understanding of my conversation with Editor in Chief of NYT on the Web Apcar.

rshow55 - 03:49pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17337 of 17358)
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.

That was 1785 postings ago.

cantabb - 03:57pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17338 of 17358)

rshow55 - 03:39pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17335 of 17335)

You can shut it down in the next hour, as far as I'm concerned. I've been asking for it to be shut down for quite some time.

I asked that IMMEDIATELY after Kate_nyt's announcement. But you had demands, and wanted various guarantees from them -- none forthcoming, I see.

And if you people don't work for the NYT - as far as I'm concerned you don't have standing to say a lot of the things you say.

As posters, we do a right to say -- just as much, if NOT more than YOU (given your abuse of the thread for 3+years).

If you are NYT employees - that raises some other issues.

YOUR paranoia, stoked by yourself and lchic, is just your paranoia: NOT reality !

Mainly - it proves that the NYT cares a lot about this thread.

Cared enough to realize that its abuse has been so gross and for so long that it had be shut down.

NYT has been much kinder to you, rshow and lchic, than I'd have been. I'd have done it immediately (and 3 years+ ago). So thank your stars and be grateful for the free run you had here, thanks to NYT's inattention yto this thread.

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