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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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rshow55 - 01:42pm Jan 8, 2003 EST (# 7483 of 7501)
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.

Anybody who thinks the suggestions I've made on this board haven't been thought about carefully must be kidding.

I made a suggestion - that I should be paid - or given total discretion to deal with my own needs without interference.

I'm being careful - and right now - that means taking a walk, and thinking about logical structure - what I can actually hope to teach - and how - and balance.

If the CIA can't or won't find a way to pay me what Bill Casey promised - they should get completely out of my way - so that I can find similar compensation from another source - perhaps Russia.

Obviously, when I'm thinking things through - America has to come first. I'm not forgetting that.

I've made a number of requests and suggestions on this board - every one of them, I've believed, orderly, symmetric, and harmonious according to significant sorts.

It seems to me that the people who have had "very clear reasons" to say no should think about what it would mean to say yes.

We should be able to take the incidence of death, agony, and dislocation from war way down. We ought not to blow it.

rshow55 - 06:22pm Jan 8, 2003 EST (# 7484 of 7501)
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.

I was taking a nap, and there was a call that I might have wanted to take, had my wife put it through. She didn't. I have an engagement tonight, but will be available in the morning, and would appreciate a call back, if that seems right to the person involved. Thanks.

lunarchick - 07:21pm Jan 8, 2003 EST (# 7485 of 7501)

Showalter - tangible v virtual

The difference between the tangible and the virtual can be illustrated thus:

If someone has dollars and they share them ... they have fewer dollars.

If someone has knowledge and wisdom and shares it ... they still have the same knowledge and wisdom .... but .... those they share it with gain and are enriched.

Brings home the point that tangibles are often easier to value and price than the intangibles ... how do you put a price on wisdom? Showalter says that he's here to improve the clarity and quality of thought processes - and in doing so, knows he's saving thousands of lives worldwide - using the virtual to assist the tangible!

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Warren Buffet has ace understanding of business process ... he likes to buy into simple straight-forward companies that work and function well. Seemingly has instant analytical conceptual appreciation of the workings of the same.

In the simple company there's transparency. In the complex company much is hidden - additionally to which - much may be stolen and taken by the greedy and corrupt with shareholders deceived.

That's why Whistle Blowers - in response to a universal gut feeling of revolution with greed - were given credit this year!

lunarchick - 07:30pm Jan 8, 2003 EST (# 7486 of 7501)

Finacial Times has a piece on EU and USA

Says that the

EU see USA as a country whose policies are 'SWUNG by religion'

whereas the EU is SECULAR

I think he was aluding to the world view that the USA lives in the biblical OLD TESTAMENT - that's 2000 years out of date in it's thinking!

So how does the advanced world deal with retrograde America ... that's what they're trying to work out.

lunarchick - 08:40pm Jan 8, 2003 EST (# 7487 of 7501)

Visiting Iraq 9/11 folk

They want PEACE not WAR

They understand SUFFERING

lunarchick - 08:55pm Jan 8, 2003 EST (# 7488 of 7501)

National Incomes Comparison (1) (2)

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