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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 - 06:30pm Jan 10, 2003 EST (# 7583 of 7588)

Iraq (bbc archive)

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North Korea - USA

Why not hold out a big basket of goodies .... that will dimish with time .... to get fast resolution

lunarchick - 06:48pm Jan 10, 2003 EST (# 7584 of 7588)

OED Quote for 2002 / Bush

'The trouble with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur'

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:) And he's been called a tart without a sense of humour!

lunarchick - 03:30am Jan 11, 2003 EST (# 7585 of 7588)

MD - Man Defense : Chicago - 50% of folks murdered by the State were just that - innocent! The State governer just released 4 innocents, one of whom had spent two decades on 'death row'. He intimated that the system of police and courts is not reliable in his State!!!

Scandle of Kids neglected (1 dead) - mother in prison - says ... those with parents in prison should have right of physical and communication link with a parent ... note their 'Moms & Dads' aren't in prison soley for punishment ... rather to be re-habilitated and to fit back into society.

There are a lot of people in US jails who should be released back to contribute to the community!

lunarchick - 04:27am Jan 11, 2003 EST (# 7586 of 7588)

Sorting - visible dots, missing dots, invisible dots ... mid-2002 dots invaded, i commented here Games involving dots, sorting, patterns wil include dominoes and the African National game below:

Mancla
Game - pit & pebble http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~museum/Archive/Culin/Mancla1894/ (more)

Ditially, sorting utilises binary tree programing:

http://www.nd.edu/~dsurma/cse331/www/lecture.html http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~yangk/cs163.htm

lunarchick - 04:45am Jan 11, 2003 EST (# 7587 of 7588)

Showalter (who i found in the Madison Phone Book - NAME: followed by a row of dots .... ) and i were discussing 'sorting'.

It seems that business process has concerns to chase and find the dots that need to conform to patterns, to be organised, to use developed procedures, to become efficient, to be competitive, to produce products of quality.

World-wide throughout the business and commerical worlds and overflowing into government services people are looking at PROCESS IMPROVEMENT.

They look at problems, set out to solve them, implement new process, record it, replicate the successful throughout their entity and pass on the new knowledge to others freely or packaged.

A lot of personHours, personThinking, personPayments go into thrashing through problems, ironing them out, developing solutions ... etc

In some ways Nation-State Political Situations can be compared to business process. How can Chaos be resolved without resorting to war .... the Luddites were the last to smash-up the factory ... and look were that got them ... (Transported to a convict colony).

Showalter is working on SORTING ... to move from chaos to peace and growth without moving to war ... .. ... .. ... .. these are 'lead-in dots' ... .. ... .. ... .. ... .. ... moving through ORDER ... Symmetry ... and ... last stop HARMONY ... .. ... .. ... .. ... .. ...

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