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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 - 01:35pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14518 of 14529)

rshow55:

"The exercise of irresponsible power that I've been subjected to is significant - of long standing - and much that has happened is not to the credit of the Times.

Showalter now complains frequently....what is not "to the credit of the Times" is, of course, their refusal to ban Showalter...

bluestar23 - 01:38pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14519 of 14529)

rshow55:

"And perhaps this board should be shut down. In the alternative - I'll fight - it will be my duty to do so - and I'll have to..."

If this Board is shut down, it will of course be the fault of one and only one person: Showalter himself.

cantabb - 01:53pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14520 of 14529)

rshow55 - 06:39am Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14507 of 14515) rshow55 - 06:42am Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14508 of 14515)

rshow55’s “Loop Test”: Keep doing the same things over and over again, in different areas, e.g. :

Keep doing these things over and over again:

1. Re-posting his own previous posts, en masse 2. Same mistakes in the identity of different posters. 3. Casey-Eisenhower-NYT stories and innuendoes. [Uncorroborated claims need corroboration, NOT just repetition ad nauseam] 4. Misrepresentation of other posters and their statements/position 5. Appreciating NYT, and other forums he posts on, without ever showing the basic minimum of it, "appreciation" 6. Comments on/about lchic. 7. Same “self-aggrandizing” unsubstantiated claims. 8. Same scattered, instead of focused, approach, coupled with over-simplistic, highly naïve views and analysis – no matter the issue.

Rshow55 tag-line: “Can we do a better job of finding truth?”

“YES, ” we can, but can YOU ? I doubt it.

“Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.”

TOO bad you can’t even answer 2 simple questions on it !

Let’s see what’s dragged in today !

The "ploy" might not be a bit pathetic if a staff got involved. That's not impossible to imagine. This thread is voluminous - but so is pretrial discovery. From which a lot of things condense.

In fact, it’ll be more “pathetic” if some insane, irreponsible organization were to make its “staff” keep doing YOUR “Loop Test,” including in the areas mentioned as examples.

Rest is the same ole’, ole’ unreconstructed hodge-podge : meaningless rote, re-posts, over-simplistic views !

This thread has been "noticed" 12863…… The best thing for the country – and for almost everybody involved, in my opinion - would be for postings since 1445[7] …….And perhaps this board should be shut down. In the alternative - I'll fight - it will be my duty to do so - and I'll have to. I think the following posting is especially apt. ……..lchic - 08:53am Sep 29, 2003 EST (# 14115 Stench in the Trench - easy to fall into, hard to get out of the futility of war . [emphasis added]

“Postings since 14457”: “The best thing for the country.” Wow !

rshow55 - 07:07am Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14509 of 14515)

A lot has gone on since this was filed and accepted - and much of it is to the credit of the Times…….

More stuff irrelevant to MD !

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