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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 - 02:34pm Jan 17, 2003 EST (# 7745 of 7755)
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'd point out that Turow clearly believes in guilt - and also mercy and extenuation - and his personal calibration is plainly different from that of lunarchick on issues like the death penalty. Turow feels that sometimes you need harsh punishment - or so I'd judge from what he writes. I do, too.

Mercy - and even the toleration of much injustice from some clear points of view - may be necessary, too - sometimes.

I believe that, and think that Turow feels that way, as well.

Pardon me for moving slowly. I'm scared, and tailoring the things I say with that in mind - as anybody would.

You can judge what Turow really cares about, in large measure - by judging how he spends his time - and how he charges for it. That applies to a lot of people - and though it is only one test -- it is a good one. It applies to me. I care about negotiation stability patterns. Know something about them. That doesn't necessarily make me a strange guy. Though I might have some unusual things in my background. Doesn't everybody?

I care a lot about money - and talk about it on the board from time to time - but it is subordinated in the sequences I've pursued so far. When you check - my main concern is setting out stability conditions that work. Though one can argue that I have no credentials that give me a right to say anything about them.

We're close, I believe, to much better solutions than we've had - especially if we ask, again and again "what happens to the children" -- and answer in ways that make sense to clergymen who actually have well balanced, comfortable flocks - and women who actually make shift to raise reasonably comfortable, reasonably successful children at least some of the time.

Pardon me for moving slowly, and picking my angles. I appreciate the chance I've been given, by people who do not trust me, to post on this board.

lchic - 02:49pm Jan 17, 2003 EST (# 7746 of 7755)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Angles have degrees

Angels make decrees

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Big Brother is watching you - Orwell 1984

Big Sister ... my way - a meat pie ... Your way an audio-off button

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Clarity - Iraq - shimmers in the mirage

Comedy - Iraq http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/s765381.htm

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almarst2002 - 03:07pm Jan 17, 2003 EST (# 7747 of 7755)

Thomas Friedman and ... plenty of olives - http://www.fair.org/extra/0301/ftaa.html

"Writing about the 2001 FTAA protests in Quebec, New York Times columnist and globalization guru Thomas Friedman dubbed globalization protesters "The Coalition to Keep Poor People Poor," and claimed that these "protectionist unions and anarchists" were hopelessly out of touch with the public of developing countries (New York Times, 4/24/01).

Had the U.S. media paid attention to the demonstrations at the October FTAA summit, they would have seen this assumption turned on its head."

lchic - 03:19pm Jan 17, 2003 EST (# 7748 of 7755)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Scott TUROW (bio)

A Chicago native ... honorary doctors of humane letters from Loyola. Turow, an attorney, former U.S. District Attorney in Chicago and author of several best-selling novels, is receiving an honorary doctor of humane letters in recognition of his contribution as a fiction writer and novelist. His works include Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, The Laws of Our Fathers and Personal Injuries.

Born in Chicago, he graduated with honors from Amherst College in 1970, and received an Edith Mirrielees Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center. He taught creative writing there from 1972 until 1975, and then entered Harvard Law School where he graduated with honors in 1978.

As assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago from 1978 until 1986, Turow was the lead prosecutor in several high profile federal trials investigating corruption in the Illinois judiciary. He is well-known for his pro bono legal efforts in which he won a reversal in the murder conviction of a man who had spent 11 years in prison for a crime to which another man had confessed. Today, Turow is a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal. He sits on Gov. George Ryan’s Commission on Capital Punishment, is a member of the Illinois State Police Merit Board, and has served on the U.S. Senate Nominations Commission for the Northern District of Illinois.

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