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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
- 12:32pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (#
8316 of 8326) 
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.
Here's a posting I'm proud of, that I think the NYT, and
the Bush administration, and lunarchick ought to be
proud of, too. Hope it works.
MD1999 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@167.abnJaYcKQY8^4029844@.f28e622/2484
bbbuck
- 12:40pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (#
8317 of 8326)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/education/26THRE.html
The internet is real. At least it is for this sad 17 year
old honor kid and his parents.
Unbelievable. Don't they know about the library?
lchic
- 04:07pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (#
8318 of 8326)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Johnson - now you're 17 !!
lchic
- 04:13pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (#
8319 of 8326)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Showalter i liked this from the link you commended above :
new understanding is within reach, and major problems
can be solved that could produce permanent improvements in
the human condition.
Solutions that would make our survival more likely.
We need to do better about complex problem solving than
we have done. We can.
lchic
- 04:55pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (#
8320 of 8326)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Chicago
http://www.chicago.worldweb.com/Maps/mapviewer.html
Ugh! Ugh! ugh ... busy NYT line!
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Which cleptomaniac ran off with 'search'?
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11:20am Jan 29, 2003 - by whoever under the Cooper label
said this (a), my comment (b):
""
1a) wager my entire personal fortune
1b) raises the point - it the guy 'had' a fortune he
wouldn't wager it - so he doesn't
- 2a) Do you really think that the President's national
security adviser or the president himself would actually be
taking time away from the important work they do to trade
posts with a lowly ex-grad student from Madison, WI?
- 2b) Checking the width breadth and depth of the
Showalter Postings ... here again i'd say 'Cooper nee
_______ ' is quite jealous.
- 3a) give me assurance that you won't make public my
private phone number
- 3b) 'Cooper' everyone's 'got your number!'
- 4a) you're not saving the lives of a thousand people a
day. Not even Superman kept that busy
- 4b) Superman was a case worker for individuals - and now
individually himself ... but ... now wanting advancements
and the concept of increased research with the results
becoming more widely available via 'common provision'.
- 'Cooper' completely misses this point - that a change in
'thinking' across the globe wrt how to problem solve
carefully and thoughtfully in times of Chaos -- results in
improved outcomes for 'millions' - rather than they be
ravaged by the excesses of 'war'.
- 5a) But, sorry, pal, you're basically a nobody, just
like the rest of us. The high and might aren't listening
- 5b) Cooper says of himself - he's a nobody.
- Saying that the politicians of the republican right are
so removed from the 'people' that they are incapable of
listening to their 'needs'
- Says the US isn't an egalitarian society - rather rank
and status based to the exclusion of the 'voice' of the
people
- Says that even when novel ideas are put forward that
might lead to new approaches related to glaring unsolved
problems --- the Admin-Politicians are so far behind the
eightball that they don't have their desks cleared to attend
to 'exception handling' .....
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- I checked out the 'subscription' thing ... I'm just an
occasional poster checking the thread in 'my time' ..... I
recall Johnson under some moniker or other on another board -
playing his 'power game' - advising all NYT posters to put me
on their 'off' list --- which pleased me, as i assume they did
...
lchic
- 06:43pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (#
8321 of 8326)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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NOT for war
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993324
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