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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 - 05:47pm Jul 28, 2002 EST (#3320 of 3339)

Attribution of insanity is pretty heavy medicine for someone who "wishes me the best." I also wonder why you work so hard to defend Johnson - there would be some very easy ways to establish the questions I've raised about the distinction of identities between you, Mazza, Dirac, and Johnson. Ways you're going out of your way to avoid.

Are you calling lchic crazy as well?

All any human being can ever do is construct patterns from available information - and check them. The pattern formation can be right or wrong - and there is no way to tell, in the end, except to check the checkable. That's not a point that distinguishes sanity and insanity. It is the human condition.

For example, based on what I know, I think it likely that gisterme is either Condoleezza Rice, or a member of her team. I am sure that someone posts as gisterme who claims both a lot of knowledge about military and high political affairs, and who also, from time to time, acts as if s/he has authority. Before March, for example, there were some rather technical, and emphatic, discussions of the word "treason." And there's been quite a lot of technical discussion -- who ever gisterme is, s/he works at posting.

1255 rshow55 4/11/02 7:32am, for instance, refers to postings taking hard effort, and if s/he lives in the United States - hard effort at an inconvenient time for most people.

The following citations are lists, each link corresponding to 50 postings from gisterme - the bolded ones since March 2 of this year. I have them all.

2574 rshow55 6/17/02 8:09am ... 2475 rshow55 6/17/02 8:09am
2576 rshow55 6/17/02 8:11am ... 2577 rshow55 6/17/02 8:12am
2578 rshow55 6/17/02 8:12am ... 2579 rshow55 6/17/02 8:13am
2580 rshow55 6/17/02 8:14am ... 2581 rshow55 6/17/02 8:14am
2582 rshow55 6/17/02 8:14am ... 2583 rshow55 6/17/02 8:15am
2584 rshow55 6/17/02 8:16am ... 2585 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX? 13@167.KYOsaxDFPEG^3508845@.f28e622/3223
2586 rshow55 6/17/02 8:17am ... 2587 rshow55 6/17/02 8:18am
2588 rshow55 6/17/02 8:18am ... 2589 rshow55 6/17/02 8:19am
2590 rshow55 6/17/02 8:20am ...

There have been some postings from gisterme since, some of them powerful and much appreciated.

There's nothing crazy about my judgement about gisterme - even though it may be wrong.

Whoever gisterme is, s/he works hard -- and when Putin and Bush were meeting last year - was active, minute by minute, working on what seemed to me as "spin control." If gisterme is not affiliated with the administration -- s/he's an impressive loyalist indeed.

I might also be wrong about my guess that kangdawei , who posted about 80 times in August and September last year was Ann Coulter - though she did put Coulter's web site below her name.

All anybody can do is "connect the dots" - make patterns, and then check them.

rshow55 - 05:55pm Jul 28, 2002 EST (#3321 of 3339)

As for George Johnson, who you go to such an effort to defend -- my admiration for Johnson is quite real, in spots. But it has its limits. 3206 rshowalt 7/21/02 7:32am

3278 rshowalt 7/24/02 4:55pm

3316-3317 rshowalt 7/26/02 7:09pm

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