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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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cantabb - 12:57pm Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15171 of 15175)

lchic - 09:16am Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15132 of 15133)

"Once reasonable reason to suspect a mistake exists, it should be morally forcing to check whether the mistake has been made or not." Robert Showalter (Guardian - Paradigm Shift Thread)

OK, grasshopper !

rshow55 - 09:24am Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15134 of 15139)

I've been asked to do a mission statement .

By whom ? lchic ?

For something that takes up a lot of life - there are many purposes - many missions - that have to be handled in turn. And balanced. Just as the defense needs, and domestic needs, of the US and the world have to be understood, worked out, and balanced.

Sounds like ‘someone’ asked you to ‘do’ a mission statement on the Meaning of the Life !

Some people like to take complicated things and make them simple to understand, to solve ! And, to you, EVERYTHING simple is much too complicated !

rshow55 - 09:26am Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15135 of 15139)

We've also been trying, since September 2000 - to find ways to get me out of "house arrest" and in a situation where I could work .

What “house arrest” ? Looks like the only person/s preventing you from “work” (whatever that is, in this case) is YOU and YOU alone. Rest seems your paranoia aired here for long. NOTHING to do with MD or this forum debate.

lchic - 09:41am Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15138 of 15139)

Mission : To raise and improve the quality and standards of 'checking' of facts, their linkages and relationshps, to enable clearer-truer information - that can be weighted and aasigned for use in problem solving.

You mean the way rshow55 “checks” his ”facts” ?

(First Mission-statement might be re-written)

Nothing could be more nebulous ! Wonder some one in the right mind has asked rshow55, of all people, to ‘do” a mission statement on SOMETHING yet to be defined ?

lchic - 09:43am Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15140 of 15159)

But 'who are you' ... what's your status ... why should anyone listen to your opinion and what you have to say?

A poster. One who asked a couple of basic questions a while back.

You can go back on “Ignore” – IF you learned how manage it: THIS time, that is !

lchic - 09:50am Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15141 of 15159) TRUTH outs ultimately : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Cantabb --- what mission are you on, who's sent you, what do expect not to accomplish and why?

I ASKED FIRST ! What is Your (& rshow55’s) “mission.” Who sent you both here to asccomploish what ? (Casey, Eisenhower or ??) World peace [miraculously achieved by a guy who thinks he is “under house arrest” and a “world asset”] ???

Does this mean, you took me off "Ignore" Or you been peeping through all the time ? ASnother subliminal from WRC.

rshow55 - 09:53am Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15142 of 15159)

Cantabb , one of the things we've done is build a corpus - with a lot of interesting stuff in it. http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm

“Corpus” ? You call this “corpus.” Please don’t make me laugh, more !

You two may have lot of “objectives,” but ANYTHING that has anything remote to do with MD thread ?

The "muddle" of this thread might look much clearer and more coherent if it was sorted in many different ways - for instance, by mission statement.

This thread a “muddle” ? The credit goes to YOU and your “world asset.”

Anyone asked you to re-define this thread’s mission ? Sulzberger (NYT) ?

Another objective of this thread has been to present a lot of interconnected information on missile defense - with ways of getting more.

On which you did next to nothing that I can recall.

rshow55 - 12:58pm Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15172 of 15175)
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.

Cantabb: Your situation, current and past, and your obligations are ALL YOURS, and yours alone – absolutely nothing to do with this Forum

These comments occur to me:

14800-1 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.BHjhb9cnOTm.2827916@.f28e622/16511 re Gaily, Gaily (1969 ) http://www.hollywood.com/movies/detail/movie/163364

How easy it is to be shocked - as in the famous case in Casablanca 14314 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.BHjhb9cnOTm.2827916@.f28e622/16024

script of Casablanca http://6nescripts.free.fr/Casablanca.pdf p. 92

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The idea that the NYT and I don't exist within a system of reciprocal obligations is strange by now.

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jorian319 - 01:12pm Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15173 of 15175)
"Statements on frequently important subjects are interesting." -rshow55

Hey Jimbob!

DID YOU KNOW?