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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 - 01:15pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17531 of 17538)

rshow55 - 12:12pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17521 of 17524)

ARE YOU KIDDING ? DO YOU INHABIT PLANET EARTH ?

Rank Nonsense

You tell me what planet you think you have been living on -- given your comments and "work" and "claims" here ?

You think you CAN restrict someone else's freedom of speech ? Check with your attorney, BEFORE you start believing in this last ditch threat.

Find out what's libelous anbd actionable while you are at it.

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

Reality hurts ! Worse if concerns you and your cherished fantasies.

What would NYT do to its emplyees ? Ask Sulzberger, if you can talk to him.

Leave the rest of your whining there, but I doubt you can.

Also, tell us what has your "Solar Energy" proposal got to do with MD ????

rshow55 - 12:15pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17522 of 17524)

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

Don't know what Kate_nyt's timing. Ask her. It'll stay Nov 13, till midnight.

So get your "outrages" and "threats" lined up !

lchic - 12:18pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17523 of 17524)

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

Find out also (wouldn't be in your dictionary) what the heck NYT can do to an independent minded non-employee, under no obligation to them or their "stock-holders" ?

Saw "Pusillanimous" in your dictionary YET ?

lchic - 12:34pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17524 of 17524)

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

See who's counting !

How time flies ! Each person has his/her own way. Your fantasies and paranoid speculations are matched only by your leader, your Professor Higgins, RShowalter !

Nothing you two say makes sense --

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?

NOT by NYT, Commandant.

BUT how was YOUR dedicated effort funded for 3+ years ? You never did say, Commandant ? We ALL can make some last minute guesses about that too!

Any financial interest in the settlement/solution rshow55 is seeking ?

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.

I wouldn't worry that much about it.

It's about YOUR plans after Friday that the "world" seems worried about ! Thousands of lives and peace and stability of the world at stake ?

I know you'll be here, somewhere on NYT ! So, might rshow55 ! But what about the helpless world and lives --- WITHOUT your attention ?

Any ball Professor Higgins have in mind for you, b Eliza ?

cantabb - 01:16pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17532 of 17538)

"Any ball Professor Higgins have in mind for you, Eliza ?"

Last sentence from above post !

lchic - 01:19pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17533 of 17538)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

" The statesman who has no other object than to make you vote for his party at the next election, may be starting you on an incline at the foot of which lies war, or revolution, or ... " Shaw

jorian319 - 01:23pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17534 of 17538)

"I have to be told, in writing, that whatever the NYT tells other people about me they also tell me - so I can respond."

WHAAAT??

I think you need to hold the Hindustan Times to the same standard. Plus the Deseret News, The Times-Intelligencer, The Guardian, of course, and every other publication in the world that might possibly say something about you without your knowledge.

You have a lot of requests to write, Bob!

If it's any consolation, the New York Times hasen't said squat about you, Robert. And it would be hard to foresee any circumstance that would cause that to change.

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