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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 - 08:09pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14593 of 14616)
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.

A lot of editorial decision goes on before a corpus gets this big. http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm

The NYT placed me on this board - and I've been much more focused on missile defense than Jorian319 , for instance.

Could it be that I'm doing something right - and some political leaders are feeling pressure ?

http://www.mrshowalter.net/PostsBy_Gisterme.htm is an interesting corpus - and if gisterme is anywhere close to the Bush administration - the things he says about Iraq - and the UN - bear reading.

This posting by Jorian319 is interesting: http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.97ZObps8LS2.1117315@.f28e622/16168

Questions of "what's evidence" are getting pretty interesting -

Jorian seems to care about gisterme: http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.97ZObps8LS2.1117315@.f28e622/16165

You might as well refer to the question of who gisterme was, since you scared him away with your cyber-stalking . . . Where is your evidence that anyone but loonie has even seen your ramblings, let alone "taking positions"?..

A great deal of "evidence" - according to well worked out procedures - that are not only applied to Shakespeare - but that are used in courts, these days, almost every day - - http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.97ZObps8LS2.1117315@.f28e622/16000

Leaders of nation states ought to look at this board - and wonder who gisterme is.

And what the notions of obligation at the NYT actually are .

I've suggested in MD6808 rshowalter 7/9/01 4:43pm. http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md6000s/md6808.htm

. . that gisterme , who has posted so extensively on this thread, could not have done so, without the knowledge and backing of the very highest levels of the Bush administration, including Rice , Rumsfeld , Armitage , Wolfowitz , Hadley , and their bosses. In postings in this thread gisterme has often taken the position of an officer of state - with a treatening degree of power not far from reach.

14456 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.97ZObps8LS2.1117315@.f28e622/16166

Suggestion: Renegotiated - UN - Aldouri are interesting searches.

cantabb - 08:16pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14594 of 14616)

klsanford0 - 07:53pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14590 of 14592)

[to WRCooper] Yes, it does ["to fight Showalter"]...it might keep people like Showalter from continuing to perpetrate his scandalous behaviour....Showalter is committing daily crimes of every sort against the Forum.....your position is like that of one who will not catch the burglar who is robbing your house..

See my response to WRCooper above !

Too laid-back to catch "the burglar who is robbing your house" ? :)

SO, expecting someone to call the cops when a neighbors or friends house is being burglarized -- totally out of the question ? Chilling, even as an idle thought !

jorian319 - 08:20pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14595 of 14616)
"Statements on frequently important subjects are interesting." -rshow55

Robert, if I ever said one word directly about missile defense, it would represent a higher percentage of my posts, than it would of yours if you wrote a freakin' book about it!

Prolixity is not profundity.

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