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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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lchic - 07:49pm Aug 24, 2002 EST (# 3974 of 3975)

Listen in the sense that top-down dogma may not necessarily be right.

backtracking here:

Interesting use of the term 'processor' and that there are cognitive processors

For spoken language, there is a phonological processor , a meaning processor , and a context processor .

The phonological processor handles the recieving and sending of spoken language sounds - hearing and speaking.

The meaning processor and context processor deals with the meanings of words at different levels of abstraction and in context.

There is feedback between the phonological processor and the meaning processor, in both directions. There is feedback between the meaning processor and the context processor, in both directions. For reading there is an additional orthographic processor which responds to written words as the phonological processor responds to spoken words.

The orthographic processor is linked, in both directions, the phonological processor AND to the meaning processor.

Showalter asks

Can a rudimentary orthographic processor connected at first only to the phonological processor, and working only for the most common words, be trained first ?

The statistic that 90% of prisoners have literacy problems is real.

The money and human resources put to looking after prisoners represents a huge budget allocation.

That the cultural background breakdown of prisoners is not evenly reflective of the entire population is telling.

Were people better able to grasp rudimentary elements of reading, without 'pain', would they go on to become productive citizens?

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ARE Educators working on the 'reading production line' prescribed top-down methodologies that they 'have' to use?

If these methodologies are widely prescribed and enforced - and are wrong - what's the outcome for the client?

What if teachers were freer to select and use the metholodgical tool most appropriate to need?

rshow55 - 08:15pm Aug 24, 2002 EST (# 3975 of 3975)
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.

If a security problem of mine, much discussed on this thread, could be resolved - I'm sure that the reading community could, and would, do the things that need to be done.

3744-3779 rshow55 8/17/02 5:58pm cite references.

2471_2475 rshow55 6/6/02 9:23pm are especially important. I've been trying to play it very straight.

I think Bill Casey would be proud of me, but amazed, dismayed, and astonished that the United States government, and CIA, have become so timid, so dishonorable, and so corrupt.

The code of the brain is in breakable condition -- maybe not completely - - but in ways that make a difference to many people's lives. At the level of education and communication. And at the level of medicine, too.

The fact that I'm shackled as I am should make Americans ashamed , and make citizens of other nations concerned.

The presumption of honorable and rational conduct by representatives of the United States is being degraded and besmirched by the Bush administration.

Casey, who many thought of as "the devil" -- would have been shocked.

Am I bluffing?

Some details about my background were written on this MD thread in June 2001. These details have been reposted on the Guardian.

The story I like best about me, in this regard, is that I'm just a guy who got interested in logic, and military issues. A guy who got concerned about nuclear danger, and related military balances, and tried to do something about it. Based on what he knew - with no access to special information of any kind, he made an effort to keep the world from blowing up, using the best literary devices he could fashion, consistent with what he knew or could guess.

What are the odds of that? http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/magazine/11COINCIDENCE.html

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When things are complicated, truth is our only hope: http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/296d

United States citizens deserve more truthful answers than they are getting on the subject matters treated on this thread. Even in an election year. Especially in an election year.

Sometimes, I suspect, the world is watching.

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