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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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jorian319 - 11:36am Aug 26, 2003 EST (# 13412 of 13419)

jorian319 . I suspect you're a hypocrite. God matters a lot to me...

Suspect all you like, Robert. Inferring hypocrisy on my part is no different IMO than inferring Great and Powerful Position on Gisterme's part, or any of the other things you think you have divined about other posters. All have zero value.

Posting such irrelevence significantly reduces the already small chance that someone might be reading and learning something from your prolix posts. If you could refrain from burning electrons on endless pages of links, and on inferring things on the part of other posters, I, for one, would be more willing to try to glean meaning from your original writings. Brevity is not only the soul of wit, it could serve to make your meaning palatable to readers.

wrcooper - 11:49am Aug 26, 2003 EST (# 13413 of 13419)

jorian

Consider the source, hip crit.

A "hyprocrite," in Showalter's lexicon, is anybody who has the temerity to suggest he's off the wall, obsessive, paranoid, delusional, misguided, prolix, grandiose, or, my current favorite, mean-spirited, for calling other people liars and then resfusing to apologize for it when he finds out he was wrong.

Consider the source.

This guy is a Wacky Wall Crawler who's completely off the wall, which makes him just wacky.

The Missile Defense forum should be renamed the Showalter Defense Forum, whose purpose will be to serve as a decoy to divert his incoming posts from other real forums and cause them to explode harmlessly unread and ignored.

almarst2002 - 11:49am Aug 26, 2003 EST (# 13414 of 13419)

jorian319 - 10:11am Aug 26, 2003 EST (# 13407 of 13412)

Apparently you paid enough attention to notice the difference.

While prefering the UNDERSTANDING, I still take it as a good sign:)

almarst2002 - 11:52am Aug 26, 2003 EST (# 13415 of 13419)

wrcooper - 11:49am Aug 26, 2003 EST (# 13413 of 13414)

One could wonder what such a smart guy like you are doing in this pitifull forum?

wrcooper - 12:08pm Aug 26, 2003 EST (# 13416 of 13419)

almarst2002

That's an excellent question. My answer is that none of us is perfect. I got a bug up my ass about Showalter--it's a long story--and I occasionally check in here to see what the old boy's up to. I long ago gave up the idea that this forum actually concerned missile defense. What can I say? I'm weak! I love a crappy little dog fight as much as the next yo-yo.

wrcooper - 12:10pm Aug 26, 2003 EST (# 13417 of 13419)

jorian

Come to think of it, Showalter's blathering on about honesty and integrity and full disclosure and checking and all that and his refusal to apologize to me for calling me a liar when he discovered that I was telling the truth about who I am is, well, there's no two ways about it--it's sheer unadulterated HYPOCRISY.

Yep.

Showalter's the hypocrite. We got him dead to rights on that score.

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