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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 - 12:09pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17520 of 17528)

BlueS:

He has NOT made any sense for the past 3+years here, ain't it unreasonable of you to expect in the final day-and-half, under so much stress ?

rshow55 - 12:12pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17521 of 17528)
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.

"Why are you so concerned what anyone would say about you (without your knowledge) ? "

ARE YOU KIDDING ? DO YOU INHABIT PLANET EARTH ?

That's the most insensitive thing I think I've ever heard. If a NYT employee said that - he should be cashieired .

rshow55 - 12:15pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17522 of 17528)
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.

cantabb: " final day-and-half "

Say it ain't so. I was so looking forward to having the thread go down at midnight tonight .

lchic - 12:18pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17523 of 17528)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

cashiered

from : Dutch casseren, from Old French casser, to dismiss, annul. / quash

lchic - 12:34pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17524 of 17528)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Cantabbulation - 58 days of it - TWO months - weeks + weekends

think of sickdays and vacations ---

that's almost 1/4 of the workingYear

and come to think of it the ECHOING CANTABBULATOR was sick - most days

and then there was Blue and Fred and 'The Poster'

and Jorian

So how was this effort funded .... internal to NYT does NYT have an alliance with some sort of Agency --- if that's taxpayerfunded -- who makes the dollar decisions?

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Cantabbulator book yourself in for a 'refit' at the workshop Friday ... with luck you'll emerge 'your old self' again .... if only those guys at the 'shop' can persever with the loop testing.

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rshow55 - 12:42pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17525 of 17528)
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.

If a New York Times reporter or editor can actually ask

" Why are you so concerned what anyone would say about you (without your knowledge) ? "

and not know the answer - that explains a lot about the relationship between the NYT and the rest of the world that ought to be fixed.

If the point can be made by a responsible person at the Times who doesn't know how crucial and sensitive the issue is - that explains a lot, too.

For example, it explains a lot about how the Jayson Blair business could have happened. People are generally so afraid of the NYT that people in it have become totally lacking in knowledge and feeling in crucial areas.

bluestar23 - 12:51pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17526 of 17528)

The only decision the NYT has made is to shut down this Forum within 24 hours....Showalter's imagined "relationship" or, the "relationship" that he desires to have, belongs to that world of patanoid fixations and personal confusion tht characterize everything he does...

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