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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
- 12:54pm Aug 11, 2002 EST (#
3639 of 17697)
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.
Recently, Michael Moore had the #1 bestseller, and now it
is Ann Coulter. She's covered today in AN EVENING OUT
Ann Coulter By KATE ZERNIKE http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/fashion/11NITE.html
I suspect that Ann Coulter found this thread interesting,
for reasons that are partly logical, but partly statistical.
They offer an interesting example about checking, I think.
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rshowalter - 12:13pm Oct 9, 2001 EST (#10204
included this:
"I usually don't go back and look about how
postings can change - instead, I usually read them in
downloaded form. But old postings can change - for instance,
a poster can change contact information.
"I notice that kangdawei now has a
"contact heading" of http://www.uclick.com/client/cap/ac/2001/09/26/index.html
which connects to Ann Coulter. Now that isn't certain
evidence that kangdawei is Coulter - but it is a connection
-- and I expect, after a little thought, to contact Ann
Coulter and see if we have something to talk about.
I'd like to do that for a lot of reasons --
including some mixed motives - - she's a good looking lady
-- maybe even better looking than Ms Rice !
Coulter's writings are entertaining, too.
And well written in ways that I wouldn't know how to match,
though it would be fun to learn, except that it might get
too complicated, everything considered . . . .
rshowalter - 01:10pm Oct 9, 2001 EST (#10205
But maybe we could have a date. I could take
her to the Patent Office, for a day of real searching - - on
something specific - - maybe two days. So she could learn
what "impossible" means . .
and what hope means, too, in
technical fields.
Just a thought. I need to read some of her
stuff, and collect my courage, before I call her - - then,
just my luck, she'll be unavailable.
I made an effort to contact Coulter through a number of
channels, including web contacts and phone calls. I believe
that she listened to me over her answer phone, without
commenting. I think I can fairly say that Ann Coulter,
according to journalistic usages of the phrase, "made herself
unavailable."
She had every right to do so.
But I was sorry that we couldn't make better contact ---
even to deny that she was "kandawei" . It seemed a
reasonable inference, both from the contact line http://www.uclick.com/client/cap/ac/2001/09/26/index.html
and from the writing style of the postings - that "kangdawei"
was Ann Coulter. There were 45 "kangdawei" postings - that I
show below (they are available on the archive CD) along with
boded posting responding to "kangdawei" by two posters I
respect a great deal -- applez and almarst.
Within a day after my efforts to contact Ann Coulter, http://www.uclick.com/client/cap/ac/2001/09/26/index.html
ceased to work.
rshow55
- 12:56pm Aug 11, 2002 EST (#
3640 of 17697)
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.
kangdawei's postings, which I have on CD, make
interesting reading. She worked hard:
Missile Defense #9858 - kangdawei Sep 26, 2001 10:17 pm
Missile Defense #9862 - kangdawei Sep 27, 2001 06:25 pm
Missile Defense #9863 - applez101 Sep 27, 2001 07:35 pm
Missile Defense #9866 - kangdawei Sep 27, 2001 09:32
pm
Missile Defense #9867 - kangdawei Sep 27, 2001 09:51 pm
Missile Defense #9868 - kangdawei Sep 27, 2001 09:56 pm
Missile Defense #9871 - kangdawei Sep 27, 2001 11:34 pm
Missile Defense #9887 - kangdawei Sep 28, 2001 09:05 pm
Missile Defense #9891 - kangdawei Sep 28, 2001 10:46 pm
Missile Defense #9892 - kangdawei Sep 28, 2001 10:58 pm
Missile Defense #9893 - kangdawei Sep 29, 2001 04:27 am
Missile Defense #9894 - kangdawei Sep 29, 2001 04:36 am
Missile Defense #9895 - kangdawei Sep 29, 2001 04:56 am
Missile Defense #9897 - kangdawei Sep 29, 2001 07:18 am
Missile Defense #9901 - kangdawei Sep 29, 2001 10:05 am
Missile Defense #9903 - rshowalter Sep 29, 2001 10:11 am
Missile Defense #9904 - applez101 Sep 29, 2001 10:40 am
Missile Defense #9905 - kangdawei Sep 29, 2001 11:48
am
Missile Defense #9911 - applez101 Sep 29, 2001 04:11 pm
Missile Defense #9941 - kangdawei Sep 29, 2001 07:23 pm
Missile Defense #9942 - kangdawei Sep 29, 2001 07:26 pm
Missile Defense #9944 - kangdawei Sep 29, 2001 07:28 pm
Missile Defense #9946 - kangdawei Sep 29, 2001 07:29 pm
Missile Defense #9947 - kangdawei Sep 29, 2001 07:29 pm
Missile Defense #9948 - kangdawei Sep 29, 2001 07:30 pm
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