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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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rshowalt - 07:15pm Jul 26, 2002 EST (#3317 of 3327)

Perhaps I'm only "projecting" when it has occurred to me that some things about the references to Cassandra in Playing Know And Tell by JOHN SCHWARTZ http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/weekinreview/09BOXA.html and the slant and title of Debuting: One Spy, Unshaken By GEORGE F. CUSTEN http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/weekinreview/23CUST.html have had something to do with me. But such "connecting of the dots" isn't crazy - even if, on examination, it turns out to be wrong.

2965 rshow55 7/10/02 7:21am . . . 3113 rshow55 7/17/02 1:29pm

As for getting my math checked -- something I care about very much -- the work on this thread has been the main impediment to that -- but that work has been justified, and makes sense, if you accept the "story" that I've been telling -- a story I've been asking to be checked.

3220 rshowalt 7/21/02 3:44pm http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/289

2116 rshow55 5/9/02 9:34am ... 2770 rshow55 6/29/02 7:59am

Given that "story" - I've been both rational and responsible. Rational and responsible by some other standards, too. MD2000 rshow55 5/4/02 10:39am So has lchic - a better and more accomplished human being that I am.

Could it be that George Johnson wrote a book about right wing crazies early in his career, and fits much that he sees to that pattern - even when it doesn't necessarily fit? Why not check some things?

Could I be wrong, or in the wrong, in some spots? Sure. Could I be doing a great injustice, incorrectly identifying George Johnson as Mazza, Dirac, and other posters, when he is not. Could be. Why not check?

The individual or group of individuals who post as Mazza - Dirac - Cooper - Johnson may have what he-they regard as a very good reason. Credentialling. Credentialling is an interesting issue to discuss, and one Casey took quite an interest in.

wrcooper - 10:10pm Jul 26, 2002 EST (#3318 of 3327)

I'm sure you're a bery bright man, Bob. But you're exhibiting paranoid ideation. Please get help. I assure you I am just a guy living south of you in Illinois. I am not George Johnson or Lou Mazza or Kalter Rauch. Please get help.

rshowalt - 10:34pm Jul 26, 2002 EST (#3319 of 3327)

MD3217 rshowalt 7/21/02 11:03am . . . MD3101 rshow55 7/16/02 9:11pm . . . Some things bear repeating. The concerns set out in Eisenhower's FAREWELL ADDRESS of January 17, 1961 http://www.geocities.com/~newgeneration/ikefw.htm are concerns that ought to be repeated, again and again. Americans don't want to hear those concerns. But they should.

Cooper, you're reduced to stigmatization ( "please get help" ) on issues that could easily be checked.

Wouldn't be so hard, with a private detective involved, to deal with any of your valid privacy concerns. When there are consequences as large as those this thread is involved with - the right to lie ought to be subject to limitations.

It seems to me that you should be ashamed. ( On the basis of what you've posted, my assumptions are reasonable, even if, perchance, they don't happen to be correct. You've had plenty of chance to correct me in a valid way - a way subject to reasonable, traceable checking. )

Could I be wrong? Sure. But it would be easy to check.

( Just like, if it mattered, it would really be easy to check if gisterme is Condoleezza Rice, or a member of her team.)

Not only millions of dollars (some of them belonging to some of my investors) but many lives are involved and at risk here.

The New York Times , which cares about its reputation, ought to care about right answers here, it seems to me.

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