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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 - 02:52pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17563 of 17583)
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.

Everything will be posted on my site.

Except that anything useful from so much material is a collection of the dots - and that does mean some selectivity.

I'll be careful to make your corpus very accessible, bluestar .

But I'll have to get more web space. And do some sorting - made more difficult (though not impossible ) by the fact that the archive will be shut down.

rshow55 - 02:54pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17564 of 17583)
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 minute past midnight will be just fine.

cantabb - 03:04pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17565 of 17583)

rshow55 - 02:46pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17559 of 17561)

cantabb: Why can’t you tell all this to them, directly !

rshow55: Because I'm fencing with you - having no choice but to do so - and building a record. If I was dealing with good faith from you - I'd have time.

You've made NO Progress fencing with me. I am the least of your problews. The record you're building is getting stacked against you, post by your desperate post.

Just now, I'm hoping that the board goes down at midnight tonight. If it does - I'll have free time and attention to talk to the NYT Office of the General Council - I've been given a good contact number for that Office, and am grateful for it. I've notified Apcar of that -

I had hoped it'd be yanked out the day kate_nyt announced. The sooner the better for your and lchic's long frazzled nerves. In any case, you'll have plenty of time very soon, sooner than you can say "connecting the dots.."

.... and judging from your response bluestar and cantabb - I have an operational answer. If there has to be a fight to teach the NYT this crucial material - I owe it to myself - and to the promises I've made - to fight that fight.

The MAN has to do what the man has to do ! Sure, "If there has to be a fight to teach," there has to be fight, and you're always ready for as fight. "To fight that [impossible] fight" [La Mancha].

The issue here is important.

To you, it is, as you say !

Much better to work it out than fight - but that doesn't look possible, now does it.

Agree. YOU have "worked" a lot and hard on this thread for 3+years -- on something we still don't know (but we don't really understand the generalities you speak or lchic's telegrphic Zen).

I have to assume that cantabb and bluestar work for the New York Times.

I thought you had already been doing THAT. Sure, why NOT ?

BUT, IF (not when) you can do "a better job of finding truth," let us know. OK ?

rshow55 - 02:47pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17560 of 17561)

If the lawyers are sensible - then they have a teaching job to do inside the NYT organization. If they did it - this would be a very happy ending.

Dream on.....

cantabb - 03:08pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17566 of 17583)

rshow55 - 02:52pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17563 of 17565)

Everything will be posted on my site.

Except that anything useful from so much material is a collection of the dots - and that does mean some selectivity.

These two statements self contradictory !

I doubt you'd put EVERYTHING that will be on thread till Nov 14. You've already started hedging.

rshow55 - 02:54pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (# 17564 of 17565)

A minute past midnight will be just fine.

Your wish, their command !

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