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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 - 08:49am Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17486 of 17496)

rshow55 - 03:56am Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17481 of 17481)

My 26 October letter to Sulzberger includes this. …..

At the end of my phone call to Apcar, I felt all that was very close. It has slipped away. Since that time, there have been missteps, stasis, unnecessary losses, ….

I'd hoped to resolve the problems involved in a few hours of face to face contact. That would have been, and I think should have been possible.

I'd also hoped to be able to help the NYT make a great deal of money in ways "the average reader of The New York Times" would root for. And make some for myself, too.

There's an interesting scene, early in My Fair Lady - where Eliza tries to hit Higgins up for the price of some flowers - where the right is not necessarily on her side. Higgins refuses to treat her as a human being - but does, as if by accident, drop more money than was being discussed on the wet street at her feet - as he shuns her. Much of the behavior of The New York Times to me, to the rest of the journalism profession, and to the rest of the world, is too much like that. I believe that detracts quite significantly from both the status and the bottom line of the newspaper that puts:

Don’t sound all that “happy” here !

Anyway, my sleep cycle has been disrupted - and there's only so much I can hope to do before the this thread closes. I'm going to sleep for a little while - and then finish a letter that may not interest NYT people - but may interest some others.

Too much work, too little time. And so much pressure – quite stressful ! Hope lchic is doing better. You’ll catch up with your sleep after Friday. Just one more day, OK ? Then it’ll be all over – and you’ll be “Happy Again.....” [may be “happier” – you’ve already been “happy”].

As I mentioned before, if and when you can do “a better job of finding truth,” you can come back and discuss things –--

rshow55 - 09:15am Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17487 of 17496)
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 find it worthwhile to build a record. And I am looking forward to having this thread finished.

And I appreciate your last line "As I mentioned before, if and when you can do “a better job of finding truth,” you can come back and discuss things –--

I have a technical problem with that. Suppose to find the truths connected to my work (on a solar energy project, for example) - administrators and committees have to be involved. Security lawyers. People doing due diligence. And it becomes necessary to check things - including things on this thread.

For example, by hiring a private detective to run things down.

I need to have an administratively clear handoff.

And I can't give gifts, either.

For example, if we negotiated an equity interest in the solar energy work ( if it ever pans out ) then I'd have a reason I could defend to include the NYT in the deal.

Without a negotiation - and a paper trail, that's impossible in a case like this.

Especially when so many posts that look so connected with the NYT organization are coming out from people who actively deny any NYT association whatsoever. You can't have a "meeting of the minds" under such circumstances. And a "meeting of the minds" has to happen or there can be no deals.

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I may have a fiduciary obligation to get into a fight - just to get the matter clarified. By American or Western European legal standards - I've got some good grounds for fighting, if I choose to.

Why not talk - at least over the phone? I'd talk to any responsible NYT employee to start with.

The answers that I can figure out aren't much credit to the New York Times, whatever you think of me.

rshow55 - 09:18am Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17488 of 17496)
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 have to ask that whatever the NYT tells other people about me they also tell me - so I can respond.

For everybody's protection. To keep things straight.

That has to be in writing in a case like this - with the background that applies here.

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