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Missile Defense

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 - 01:24pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17535 of 17547)
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.WCzkbUuCXDS.68311@.f28e622/19246 cantabb - if you are an employee of the New York Times - you and the New York Times are responsible for what you say and its consequences - even if you are ( semi)hiding behind a moniker. Speaking "unconnected to the NYT" yet in the NYT's name and with its implied authority.

If you, or Sulzberger, or the NYT legal department believe you have a right to say anything - regardless of consequences - we have something well worth fighting about here.

And if you think a moniker shields you - well - that's a question worth dealing with.

I take responsibility for everything I say and do. Other people have to, as well.

cantabb - 01:24pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17536 of 17547)

"Does Professor Higgins HAVE any ball in mind for you, Eliza ?"

You can't be sloppy talkin' 'bout Professor 'enry 'iggins, can you ?

rshow55 - 01:25pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17537 of 17547)
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 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."

Then put in on a piece of paper that I can use administratively.

rshow55 - 01:27pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17538 of 17547)
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'm asking for something that ought to be easy.

And something that matters to me a great deal for entirely practical reasons. It also matters to essentially everybody else who lives in society.

rshow55 - 01:30pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17539 of 17547)
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 be able to satisfy people who know as much about security laws and usages - and how the world really works - as Bill Casey did.

I'm asking for that piece of paper for very good reasons - and if the NYT doesn't understand the reasons - it is missing a great deal that it should know. As a citizen. And for its own business reasons.

lchic - 01:31pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17540 of 17547)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Shaw was for morally forcing truth - via the paradigm shift of gut swell of public opinion

" ... to so that their relation to one another becomes significant, thus changing us from bewildered spectators of a monstrous confusion to men intelligently conscious of the world and its destinies. This is the highest function that man can perform ....."

On critics - who are shown human nature in a new light - " But the hatred provoked by deliberately inflicted pain, the frantic denials as of a prisoner at the bar accused of a disgraceful crime, the clamor for vengeance thinly disguised as artistic justice, the suspicion that the dramatist is using private information and making a personal attack: all these are to be found only when the playwright is no mere marchand de plaisir, but, like Brieux, a ruthless revealer of hidden truth and a mighty destroyer of idols."

Shaw

who was for morally forcing truth - via the paradigm shift of gut swell of public opinion

rshow55 - 01:31pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17541 of 17547)
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.

What I'm asking for shouldn't restrict the New York Times from anything valid it does - either "on the record" or "off the record."

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