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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 - 12:29pm Jun 19, 2003 EST (# 12603 of 12690)
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.

The stock market casts its "dollar votes" on the basis of perceptions - and it matters whether people are proud and excited to be associated with a firm - and that would be especially true of The New York Times .

10420 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.h5o6b1yLjfR.0@.f28e622/11970

10887-10890 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.h5o6b1yLjfR.0@.f28e622/12439

The New York Times is a news organization - and its stock-in-trade is trust - by elite standards.

I've been trying to "play it straight" for a very long time.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/ScienceInTheNewsJan4_2000.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/ToE_H_E_G_P_M_xd.html

http://www.mrshowalter.net/Safire_SpookAwardsNRequestXd.html

http://www.mrshowalter.net/etterToDeutscheBankSecuritiesXd.html

People need to be proud to take THE NEW YORK TIMES - - and proud to invest in it - if the company is to prosper, and have the influence its supporters (an that includes most subscribers and prospective buyers of its stock) want it to have.

Stock analysts look at companies and ask - "how well does this company do its job?"

This thread has largely been about the obligation to check - and it shows the TIMES at its best, in some ways, and in other ways at its worst.

A reader of this thread might guess that people care about it. 1235-7 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.h5o6b1yLjfR.0@.f28e622/1581

I sometimes wonder why, after the postcard described here was sent, things weren't handled more directly.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/LtToSenateStffrWSulzbergerNoteXd.html

A media stock analyst (or a customer - or prospective stock holder) might as such questions too. For a news organization - playing it straight - sending in clear - is generally safer - better - and better business.

rshow55 - 12:43pm Jun 19, 2003 EST (# 12604 of 12690)
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.

Some may object to my work - even if they admit I work hard - because they think I'm "playing God."

Or that they think I've claimed direct contact with God. Which I never said I had - any more than the average person of my religious background may be said to have "direct contact."

Most days, I feel I may be as "inspired" as the Attorney General.

I do feel that I have duties to try to do - because I was assigned them "on good authority."

From where I was, Dwight D. Eisenhower (with associates) "looked like God to me."

Detail, and the Golden Rule http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md01000s/DetailNGR.htm

And I've been doing my best since - and trying to be constructive on this thread under conditions where I've felt it was dangerous not to deal with some problems where I've had special training - and thought a long time.

fredmoore - 12:50pm Jun 19, 2003 EST (# 12605 of 12690)

Robert ...

Where's my Ferrari?

I've been good.

Aaamennn!

Or is that Out???

Hmmm!

rshow55 - 01:24pm Jun 19, 2003 EST (# 12606 of 12690)
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.

Partly out - going to a wedding out of town - and a little sightseeing - expect to post, most days.

Fredmoore , sometimes you have been good . . . . http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.h5o6b1yLjfR.0@.f28e622/14034

and especially http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.h5o6b1yLjfR.0@.f28e622/10965

jorian319 - 06:43pm Jun 19, 2003 EST (# 12607 of 12690)

R&L why don't you just get a room?

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