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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 - 12:01am Nov 14, 2003 EST (# 17649 of 17658)

rshow55 - 10:51pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17636 of 17642)

I'm moving along. I'm impressed by such a careful piece of writing from someone so "unconnected from The New York Times". The NYT isn't without some responsibility for what's happened to me. I think they know that. This thread hasn't been typical. NYT behavior in 1999 and later wasn't typical.

You're just fighting your inner demons...

I'll be happy to see this thread ended.

Getting too hot for you ? Asking for mercy ?

But the record of what happened on this thread remains interesting. People are responsible for what they say and do. The use of monikers that are "anonymous" - but well known within an organization - involves new usages - and people have to think about the responsibilities involved. If the big boss uses an "anonymous" moniker, which everybody in the organization knows - and talks with less responsibility than he would formally - is he still speaking as the boss - responsible as the boss - when everyone knows he's the boss?

Who's this "anonymous moniker," lchic, who demands some questions of others that she wouldn't answer about herself: Who's sponsoring her time here and what is her vested interest here, if NOT as a finsncial tag-on to Rshowalter's quest for $$$.

Issues like that are becoming more important.

People are responsible for what they say and do. I know I am. Other posters -employed by The New York Times are, too.

I 've made a simple, reasonable request. I'll pursue it.

You've been shown the door. More "gracefully" than you deserved for your relentless abuse, which will continue till the curtains ....

rshow55 - 11:08pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17639 of 17642)

I don't think it is the least bit whacky, given NYT connections, and what's been said here, to suspect that Cantabb , bluestar , Jorian , manjumicha , and fredmoore are NYT people.

Feel free to create your own demons ....

rshow55 - 11:09pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17640 of 17642)

It looks to me like the NYT has betrayed some things it has promised its customers, and gotten very tied into the government. That's not healthy - for the Times, or a nation that trusts information from the TIMES.

Tell that to NYT if anyone talks to you.... Wasting your breath here !

rshow55 - 11:16pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17641 of 17642)

Lchic and I talk most days. She asked that I post these poems here today.

Good. More rehash by proxy. I was hoping she'd give you company till the end....

Lchic's been building dreams - and grounding them - and spending a lot of time being a grand mother for a baby - who is growing, and sorting things out.

Hope the baby didn't feel deprived and unattended while the grandmother was spending so much time on this and other NYT boards...

My best to BOTH the baby and the Grandmother !

bluestar23 - 12:05am Nov 14, 2003 EST (# 17650 of 17658)

"being a grand mother for a baby"

Someone entrusted a real baby with that Space Cadet...?

rshow55 - 12:05am Nov 14, 2003 EST (# 17651 of 17658)
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.

From what I can gather over than long distance telephone - that baby doesn't want for attention. A lucky baby.

Is this thing Really going to shut down tonight ?

What a relief ! I've got other things to do, believe me. . .

cantabb - 12:06am Nov 14, 2003 EST (# 17652 of 17658)

bluestar23 - 09:35pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17621 of 17642)

Showalter continues to take NO responsibility of his tens of thousands of meaningless posts, filled with NOTHING on Missile Defense. The quoting , for the hundredth time, of Cantabb's first post has NOTHING to do with what Showalter purports to talk about....

He has NOT yet admitted to the misrepresentation ! He’s feeling the intense heat. Looks like he’s stressed – no help from the world Asset !

But he'll go on till the very end... For his corpus, his life's "work."

rshow55 - 12:08am Nov 14, 2003 EST (# 17653 of 17658)
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.

When I first got on this board - I was hoping to be off in a day !

My ambition was to dump my stuff to some Light Colonel, sort out what I could do - put in my claim for back pay - talk a bit about some control problems - and get on with my life.

What really happened was . . . . err . . . different from what I expected.

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