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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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lunarchick - 09:59am Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6930 of 6944)

So what is culture ... a mish-mash of historical accident? A collection of the redundant and defunct? A response to an environment. Modernity sees a change in environment ... from herder to hairdresser so to speak.

So what can be jettisoned (on a day to day basis) from culture ... remembered in ceremony ... and what should be kept?

What practices in a culture are universals?

Which are unique - are these good or bad - when judged against comparative international standards?

Which aspects of culture are BLOCKING roads to progress?

lunarchick - 10:07am Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6931 of 6944)

What are Cultural Divides?

What needs to be done to improve cultural understanding and appreciation?

Is language the only barrier?

How do cultural exchanges ~ or cultural interchanges ~ or cultural explanations assist in people 'seeing the value' in each other?

What skills are fostered by cultures, and how can they be appreciated? Often interchange-skill-learning will assist.

Why are some peoples regarded as 'same' while the culturally individualistic may be regarded as 'other' (equating with enemy)?

What are the similarities of working-religions that don't paralyse a people, a nation?

Drawing out the 'samenesses' the similarities may assist cultural understanding.

Can English be taught into cultures unthreateningly .. so that the world can grow-up with the world business language for commercial exchanges and educational advancement?
If this is seen as threatening - ask why?

lunarchick - 10:13am Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6932 of 6944)

'The old guard' | Leadership | in or out of touch?

A general population has a right to know if the leadership is looking to their best and future interests ... what's the visionary long term plan ... where do 'people' fit?

One problem with Leaderships is that they use the resources of a Nation to look after their own self-greed-interests.

People wanting a better deal are often not accommodated! That's when revolutions happen.

Leaderships have to be good communicators, have to get their message across, have to be story tellers ... let the listener KNOW where s/he fits in the story, how can a story that is told and re-told and told-on assist 'people' to know and understand their role and appreciate their gift to a society and it's reciprocation back to them?

bbbuck - 10:16am Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6933 of 6944)
"You can't eat this, it's people, it's people"-B....."What about the cherry pie?"

So what can be jettisoned (on a day to day basis) from culture ... remembered in ceremony ... and what should be kept?

I believe we should keep the worship of big bosomed good-looking chicks.
Most of the other stuff you can jettison.
Except "Beanie and Cecil" I think we should keep that too.

I would like to mention some guy? named Gisterme(or something like that), who has posted the first post I've seen actually on "missile defense".
Congratulations sir, it took approximately 6900 posts for someone to post on topic but you did it. Good job.
Of course I skimmed most of it but it looked logical.
I also have completed connecting the dots in my connect-the-dot-book and it looks like a 'blind wombat'? I wonder what I did wrong? Perhaps I should have connected the dots in the opposite direction from high to low.
Loonarchick looks like she's had her coffee this morning.
Hi lunarchick, have a good one.

lunarchick - 10:20am Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6934 of 6944)

DOTS

Dots might be envisioned as confetti, or, today as binary dots.

Binary dots form groups.

Pattern.

The patterns and codes sit behind this very text!

Dots to be functional require patterned order.

There are billions of dots within a NOW State's infrastructure ....

The growth of dots
is the growth of economy
is improved standards <r>is improved income

Dots have their quintessential place ... nurture them and prosper!

lunarchick - 10:23am Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6935 of 6944)

So saying Lunarchick pulled up a pillow and sailed into dreamland ..... 1.23am Monday - Night!

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