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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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lchic - 04:16pm Sep 26, 2002 EST (# 4562 of 4573)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

... but you do have a life's work that can and should improve the lives of others

... if only you lived in a true democracy

... with a literate CIA that could write you 'that letter' ...

... then you could Shine Shine Shine :)

lchic - 04:27pm Sep 26, 2002 EST (# 4563 of 4573)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

White paper - creativity, innovation http://www.meti.go.jp/english/report/data/gSM9909e.html

Product has a life cycle. New product becomes a source of revenue for government.

rshow55 - 04:32pm Sep 26, 2002 EST (# 4564 of 4573)
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.

lchic 9/26/02 9:56am -- the "reading wars" might be good exemplars for studying all wars - and showing the possibility of great and healing progress. Here are some references to reading instruction, and possibilities of improvement.

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Can a rudimentary orthographic processor connected at first only to the phonological processor, and working only for the most common words, be trained first ?

Is it easy to do this?

Even if it is easy, is it worthwhile?

I'm arguing that it IS easy, and that it IS worthwhile. Both testable assumptions.

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MD, physical laws, and politics: 4016 rshow55 8/29/02 9:01pm

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