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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    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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mazza9 - 09:50pm Aug 23, 2002 EST (# 3949 of 3960)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

"I'm just about finished collecting a pretty extensive reference list. I'll post it soon, and then will proceed with that discussion." "

Robert: Please Don't.

But for the record,will you please post or link to the NY Times license which grants you the exclusive rights/use of this forum. I would like to read in detail the rationale which afford you this opportunity to wander off topic and foist you philosophical meanderings on us.

I fully expect you to ignore this, as is your custom. Then there will be a vitriolic as hominem from your henchman lchic all in the name of "truth, justice and the Showlater way!"

LouMazza

bbbuck - 10:08pm Aug 23, 2002 EST (# 3950 of 3960)
'In a perfect world, we'd all live in Milwaukee...Though we still probably wouldn't go to their games'....

louMazza I've almost got a gps positioning on him.
A few more posts and I'll be able to give the crazy pick up van an exact address.
lchic-have a good one, and remember don't drop those anchors on the reef.

mazza9 - 12:29am Aug 24, 2002 EST (# 3951 of 3960)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

bbbuck:

Here's his URL. WWW.smokeandmirrors.com. Actually it is http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/ and I can assure you it's just as obtuse and convoluted as his NYTimes blather.

With no one to moderate him he is by definition "immoderate".

LouMazza

kalter.rauch - 02:40am Aug 24, 2002 EST (# 3952 of 3960)
Earth vs <^> <^> <^>

rshow55 8/23/02 6:15pm

When I say that I think lchic and I are doing important work on "connecting the dots" - I mean "important, in my opinion, judging from what I know based on these references, some others like them, some thought and some experience."

Boy, you're simply wallowing in narcissicsm the way you keep citing your former posts and "the work" you two have "accomplished". Your ideas wouldn't be so TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC if they were within the framework of a "Philosophy of Science" forum or similar.

Stretching to the limit the benefit of the doubt...what are you and lchic getting at, anyway??? Are you implying that the USA isn't worthy of Missile Defense...that the nation should leave itself wide open to karmic retribution, or what???

lchic - 02:58am Aug 24, 2002 EST (# 3953 of 3960)

Four incarnations!

Johnson - 'Are you a Bhuddist?'

Nightclubs in Tx stay open 'til daybreak?

lchic - 03:05am Aug 24, 2002 EST (# 3954 of 3960)

Showalter is still waiting for 'that letter' from the CIA that says - in writing - they have no interest in his work.

How is it that the USA tax payer
... is that who pays the Bush-protection-hacks - or is payment via some sleashy old hush-slush origin not spoken of ...
... can't get it's CIA admin sufficiently together for it to actually send a note - hardcopy.

If the agency can't write a letter - then it can't right a wrong - and the move by voters out there is for things that aren't right to be fixed!

lchic - 03:44am Aug 24, 2002 EST (# 3955 of 3960)

On language development ...

"" When s/he acquires a word*, which isolates a particular thing and serves as a signal to a particular action, the child, as he carries out an adult's verbal instruction, is subordinated to this word.... By subordinating herself/himself to the adult's verbal orders the child acquires a system of these verbal instructions and gradually begins to utilize them for the regulation of her/his own behaviour (Luria and Yudovich, 1971: 13-14).

    * bomb - cluster - unexploded
"" .... until the child can take over the mental abilities of her/his father/mother into her/his own conduct, her/his father/mother will continue to act for her/him "

nb It takes a whole global village to raise a child - especially when the great outdoor 'playground' is a minefield!

Vergotsky lecture


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