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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 - 02:09pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17549 of 17564)

rshow55 - 01:24pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17535 of 17537)

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

You think lchic’s moniker shields her in Australia ?

Threatening me ???

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

Nonsense. You’ve made numerous irresponsible statements: accusing and then withdrawing accusations on imagined IDs of several posters (cooper, almarst, gisterme, jorian, et al.). So why not cantabb !

Part of the same paranoia, fed and stoked by World Asset, lchic. What about saving thousands of lives ? “House arrest” ? Where's the evidence ? Responsibility for making such statements ?

rshow55 - 01:27pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17538 of 17538)

I'm asking for something that ought to be easy.

You have been just whining about it, groveling !

Pathetic turn from “leaving gracefully” !!

Easy or not, first see if anyone REALLY owes you anything BEFORE you ask – or demand – it ! You presented NOTHING of the kind here.

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

Sure, it matters to you – but apparently, NOT to NYT. And, you have given NO reason yet why it should matter to others !

rshow55 - 02:09pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17550 of 17564)
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 , if you're affiliated with the New York Times - you're putting both yourself and your organization at risk. This is something I have to fight about - and there will be a whole lot of people on my side - not only in this country, but internationally.

rshow55 - 02:10pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17551 of 17564)
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.

This work has some problems with structure - though it has some advantages. It would work just fine as pretrial discovery .

rshow55 - 02:11pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17552 of 17564)
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.

There are pretrial records more extensive than the record here

http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm

Sometimes an amazing amount gets sorted out.

lchic - 02:12pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17553 of 17564)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

??? Mission NYT ---- Their world is a stage their stage of a world of entertainment! ---- even so --- the word

R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y

figures!

lchic - 02:13pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17554 of 17564)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

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bluestar23 - 02:28pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17555 of 17564)

"http://www.mrshowalter.net/BigDirectory.htm ( 1.25 meg) is a sequential list of links to the NYT Missile Defense Forum from its beginning, combined with sequential lists of two distinguished anonymous posters to the thread, Almarst and Gisterme. This is a list of links - which would take 259 pages to print, available for sampling, and to provide a sense of how big the corpus archived here is."

And "provide a sense" of how utterly meaningless Showalter's links are....they all just link to each other..

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