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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
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rshow55
- 06:54pm Sep 26, 2002 EST (#
4574 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.
Here's one of my favorite limericks, and perhaps the
cleanest. (Maybe the most philosophical, too.)
A (censored) one night in Rangoon Took a
lesbian up to his room. They turned out the light,
But argued all night, Who'd do what,
and with which, and to whom.
As stated, a nice schema-exemplar for unconsummated
negotiation among free actors -- and if one is not offended by
the language or innuendo -- easy to imagine, and neither
logically nor morally complicated.
Here are the last two lines, with with a tense change, so
that "do" becomes "done" . Now, the result,
though still easy to imagine as an exemplar of human function,
is both logically and morally complicated.
(They) argued all night, Who'd
done what .. and with which .... and to whom.
The not-yet-done is undetermined, or at the discretion of
actors.
The present is. For those beyond quantum
limits, reality is ... that is, in a sense that is
operationally important, reality is fixed, and independent of
opinions.
The past, which is the sequence of present moments that are
now past, must logically be fixed in the same way.
And yet, for real people, what we can know of the past is a
construction.
Often enough, our future depends on getting facts
straight - and ideas and relationships, too.
Clarification is worth doing when it is worth doing. Stakes
are high enough to justify a good deal of trouble now.
Enron looked great - and was widely respected -
until people started doing some careful matching - checking
for consistency - and saw some patterns. Seeing those
patterns has made a difference.
If we checked MD, and other military contracting -
there'd be patterns, too.
Including a lot of enronation.
mazza9
- 10:16pm Sep 26, 2002 EST (#
4575 of 17697) "Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic
Commentaries
"A (censored) one night in Rangoon"
(censored) = lchic!
lchic
- 02:56am Sep 27, 2002 EST (#
4576 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Johnson you've lost me, and, limerick's
are not my style - weren't you once 'the list man' ideation
- that moniker - Gunk did you Junk?
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities;
in the experts mind, there are few. / S Suzuki
lchic
- 03:59am Sep 27, 2002 EST (#
4577 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
A sense of propriety
"" Australia's top intelligence agency is being
undermind by sex scandals, nepotism and corruption according
to a dossier of complaints leaked by a group of disgruntled
spies.
almarst2002
- 08:17am Sep 27, 2002 EST (#
4578 of 17697)
An eight-year-old Senate report confirms that disease-
producing and poisonous materials were exported, under U.S.
government license, to Iraq from 1985 to 1988 during the
Iran-Iraq war. Furthermore, the report adds, the American-
exported materials were identical to microorganisms destroyed
by United Nations inspectors after the Gulf War. The shipments
were approved despite allegations that Saddam used biological
weapons against Kurdish rebels and (according to the current
official U.S. position) initiated war with Iran. - http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak26.html
almarst2002
- 08:22am Sep 27, 2002 EST (#
4579 of 17697)
Rice: US Should Dominate Because It's 'Very Special' -
http://jang.com.pk/thenews/sep2002-daily/27-09-2002/world/w2.htm
It used to be called "Uber Alles"
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