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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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bluestar23 - 03:37pm Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13883 of 13891)

"I feel I have a limited right - because I was asked to do so.."

You were not asked to do so; you are lying, because you are mentally ill and have hijacked this thread to continue raving away...

bbbuck - 03:45pm Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13884 of 13891)

Easy there partner. Showalter is the reason the 'bush forum' loonies don't come here and spam.

Put him on ignore and go about your business.

He's impervious to taunts, take my word on that.

Did anyone hear what Alanis Morrisette(sp?) said to her peruvian audience after her concert concluded?

"Thank you, Brazil".

Those crazy canadians.

jorian319 - 03:46pm Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13885 of 13891)

It's chilly in Peru.

cantabb - 03:50pm Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13886 of 13891)

rshow55 - 02:16pm Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13881 of 13882)

More of the same: totally irrelevant personal biographical stuff.

If only the things I've been trying to get across were commonplaces !

It is true that I'm trying to focus ideas worth becoming commonplaces - with great help from lchic - and the question arises - who has a right to try and do that?

I feel I have a limited right - because I was asked to do so - on the "commonplaces" where some very senior people were stumped, and knew it. I'm working on this thread because this is where I've been put - and set up where I've got few or no workable exits.

It's only what you say and do on this thread that is relevant -- not what you feel is your "limited right" or who do you think "put" you here and why ?

Repeating your own comments on things and people (or posting self-references and links) ad infinitum does NOT make them true or valid, over time.

Fuzzy generalities and cliches resolve NO problems -- problems that you think you're "put" here to resolve. How presumptuous !

Is it cheating to try and work out things important enough that they ought to be commonplaces? Is it cheating to succeed?

To try to do so, or do so, surely is a violation of some conventional status usages.

More non sequiturs !

For example, the notion of "connecting the dots" is now much more of a commonplace - if you will - more of a platitudinous usage - than it used to be - and I've hoped that this thread has had something to do with that.

The phrase has been around and in FAR far wider use LONG, LONG before this thread, and in the wider world, apart from this thread !

A really central point - that ought to be a commonplace, but isn't - is that status issues - restrictions on what may be said, and who may say it - are essential for the day to day function of societies - but they also make a great deal of folly possible - and stand in the way of solutions many, many times.

The Emperor's New Clothes is a story about that.

Seeing what's posted here and how often, it'd be impossible to believe there has been any "restrictions" imposed [even those legitimate: re on-topic]. If YOU feel "restricted" that may be your own feeling -- nothing to do with the reality. An endless stream of such baseless innuendoes is just pathetic !

rshow55 - 02:17pm Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13882 of 13882)

Another confused hodgepodge of inane generalities.

See if you CAN focus, and post something cogent, free of empty, over-used phrases and nebulous comments.

bbbuck - 03:55pm Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13887 of 13891)

Of course occasionally we pick up another loonie, but they tire. Some quickly, others take a little more time, but, eventually they go away.

Only showalter remains.

Understand it.

Believe it.

cantabb - 04:19pm Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13888 of 13891)

bbbuck - 03:55pm Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13887 of 13887)

Of course occasionally we pick up another loonie, but they tire.

BUT some keep re-surfacing, continually !

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