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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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wrcooper - 08:06pm Jan 28, 2003 EST (#8276 of 8289)

In re: http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@93.TShla8A611D.71216@.f28e622/9800 [rshow55]

Robert wrote:

Were the patterns there to see?

Were they? Paranoics see all sorts of patterns in the world that others don't. The human mind is adept at seeing patterns, even when they don't reflect reality.

Cooper, I want to respond to you politely, and constructively - but I'll be taking a reasonable amount of time doing it.

I bet you will. Enough time for this intrusion into your well-protected fantasy to blow over. If you were at all serious about checking my true identity, you'd haul your butt down to Chicago and meet me. I'd show you my passport and driver's license to verify my identity, and you could compare those with a dustjacket picture of George Johnson. But apparently you're not serious, except about preserving your delusional fixation.

A reasonable amount of time? How much time does it take to decide to do something as simple as email somebody to set up a date to drive to Chicago and meet him in a café. I've reassured you that I don't care whom you bring with you, if that makes you feel more comfortable. I'm just an ordinary guy who'se actually trying to do you a favor by helping you distinguish reality from fantasy better.

You have to get a grip on the facts, Bob. You've allowed your bitterness to overturn your sound reason. I hope that your shrink is in full knowledge of all the zanie assertions and claims that you've been making here.

lchic - 10:56pm Jan 28, 2003 EST (#8277 of 8289)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

May be the 'shrink' students of the USA are using you Johnson as a 'CASE' study

The man who - via viruatity - replicated himself again and again under varied monikers in the name of ..... 'what' exactly!

Cooper stick-up the following:

Maths degree - name - grade - unique number - Institute

We can then go to the alumini year and eMail your former uniMates ... and get some interesting feed back on your non-existence!

You have your secrets lies and fictions and make us laugh at your contradictions !

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Johnson filling the thread with hot air must mean that the State of the Union Address - flopped ...

What does Gisterme think?

wrcooper - 11:12pm Jan 28, 2003 EST (#8278 of 8289)

Sure, Ichic, check me out.

I have a B.S. degree in mathematics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, located about ten miles north of where I live. This was a second undergraduate degree that I earned through the university's School of Continuing Studies. It took me, I think, about 5 years, since I wasn't attending full time. Credits from m y original degree in English literature from Kenyon College in Gambier, OH, class of 1976, applied toward this one. I graduated from Northwestern last year, class of 2002, in June. Full name: William R Cooper. Give the university a call and check it out. I'm kind of proud of my accomplishment, because I'm not naturally a math guy. It was a lot of hard work.

wrcooper - 11:17pm Jan 28, 2003 EST (#8279 of 8289)

Will you apologize, too, Ichic , for charging me with lying about my identity once the truth has been ascertained that you've been grossly in error? That'd be nice. And appropriate, too, don't you think? Or is apologizing to someone you've insulted rudely and crudely beneath the dignity of such a great mind?

lchic - 11:27pm Jan 28, 2003 EST (#8280 of 8289)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Interesting - Cooper moniker must be 'flagged' as the posts go up on the board ....

It's a function available on some news sites ... so Cooper ... let's get this right ... you sit 'in the cloud' watching the packets go by ... and somehow you know there's a 'packet' for the MD board with your name on it!

MY!

wrcooper - 12:20am Jan 29, 2003 EST (#8281 of 8289)

Hmm.

No, Ichic . I click on the "Check Subscription" button, and then, if there is a new post on the Missile Defense forum, it opens up on my browser. You've been around the forums for quite awhile, right? You didn't know about the "Check Subscription" button?

lchic - 12:35am Jan 29, 2003 EST (#8282 of 8289)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

This guy knows --- Bush braces US for war

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2003/01/item20030129094116_1.htm

lchic - 01:41am Jan 29, 2003 EST (#8283 of 8289)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Cold Turkey

US officials warn/threat Turkey to take part near US in a possible Iraq war since otherwise the losses will be about 38%. If Turkey is with US, this ratio is about 11% (even this figure means over 10.000 dead US soldier) according to the news:

http://www.haberturk.com/habermetni.haberturk?@=79919&$=3

GU talk

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.3ba7b620/0

lchic - 01:54am Jan 29, 2003 EST (#8284 of 8289)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

So Cooper did EngLit then Maths ... over a long period ... missing out on having a 'year' of friends and buddies ... so no-one would have noticed you were there --- or remembered you since ... When did you change your name to Johnson :)

lchic - 03:35am Jan 29, 2003 EST (#8285 of 8289)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Bush: new al-Qaida link to Iraq

US to rally support by releasing files.

Report puts Iraq on the defensive Bush heeds lesson from his father

Analysis: Counting the dead

Iran to use Blair talks to show support

In pictures: the build-up to war Special report: Iraq

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

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