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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 - 05:04pm Oct 19, 2002 EST (# 5051 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.

mazza9 10/19/02 5:35pm - - is standard diversion. Some may find this interesting.

"On October 3, there was a sequence of postings on the NYT Missile Defense forum - and all the NYT forums were closed down thereafter for four days. I was cut off sometime less than an hour after I posted this . . . http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/364

"Sometime on October 15th, a posting I made on July 25, 2001 on Psychwar, Casablanca . . and terror and Paradigm Shift. . whose getting there? was deleted by someone else. It was deleted, I believe, to alter the record of the work lchic and I have been doing on the NYT Missile Defense board . . for more than two years. The deleted link described, with many citations, a detailed briefing that I'd given almarst - - the MD board's "Putin stand-in" in March of 2001. ... http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@116.j47Aa1Pz1m8.4@.ee7b085/383

MD4925-27 rshow55 10/15/02 10:35pm

If staffed organizations started asking some questions - we might live in a considerably safer world.

Perhaps, to some degree, it is happening. It needs to.

lchic - 05:07pm Oct 19, 2002 EST (# 5052 of 17697)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

If staffed organizations started asking some questions - we might live in a considerably safer world.

as in

Cut to truth!

lchic - 05:52pm Oct 19, 2002 EST (# 5053 of 17697)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

WAR

Word History: The chaos of war is reflected in the semantic history of the word war.

War can be traced back to the Indo-European root *wers-, “to confuse, mix up.”

In the Germanic family of the Indo-European languages, this root gave rise to several words having to do with confusion or mixture of various kinds.

One was the noun *werza-, “confusion,” which in a later form *werra- was borrowed into Old French, probably from Frankish, a largely unrecorded Germanic language that contributed about 200 words to the vocabulary of Old French.

From the Germanic stem came both the form werre in Old North French, the form borrowed into English in the 12th century, and guerre (the source of guerrilla) in the rest of the Old French-speaking area. Both forms meant “war.”

Meanwhile another form derived from the same Indo-European root had developed into a word denoting a more benign kind of mixture, Old High German wurst, meaning “sausage.”

Modern German Wurst was borrowed into English in the 19th century, first by itself (recorded in 1855) and then as part of the word liverwurst (1869), the liver being a translation of German Leber in Leberwurst.

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=war

[ lchic | ah AH! So war is a 'Sausage Sizzle' ]

mazza9 - 06:03pm Oct 19, 2002 EST (# 5054 of 17697)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

You may call it a diversion but I am exercising my rights to comment in this forum. You won't show me your warrant. You won't divulge the name of the person who assigned you the job of moderator. You are a blowhard and a mountebank.

lchic posts some of the worst, (wurst) drivel this side of MAD magazine without any of the humor or intelligence of that august tome.

Robert you are a blowhard and I have'nt even mined the depth of my adjectives to describe you.

Once again I ask. Who made you the forum sheriff. Showalter your badge!! Put up or shut up!

lchic - 06:15pm Oct 19, 2002 EST (# 5055 of 17697)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

War | chaos

War | removal of civil standards

War | a free for all - death mayham

War | a 'test' without rules for 'WAR-riors'

War | a failure in diplomacy

War | a greed-grab of an-others wealth

War | a whole techno-military industry with Commi$$ions

War | a deflection for the economic - civil

War | a 'game' without penal consequence

War | a death of people, ideas, old values

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