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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 - 08:14am Feb 27, 2003 EST (# 9320 of 9325)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Where to go - What to do

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=382084

Wouldn't a 'common market' of these pathetic countries be best ... and give uniform rights to minorities?

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lchic - 08:23am Feb 27, 2003 EST (# 9321 of 9325)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Report Card - UN accreditied

• Who's driving your country?
• Have they passed their test?
• Are they even handed?
• Do they treat their position and office with care and respect?
• How do people within the Nation State fare?
• What is the equilibrium of

mazza9 - 09:14am Feb 27, 2003 EST (# 9322 of 9325)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

gisterme:

Robert will not be happy until he drives you off, just as he did WRCooper. I spoke with Robert on the phone. Immediately afterwards he villified and denigrated me. His memory of what he said transcended reason. When Cooper met Robert in Chicago the same thing happened. There is no reasoning with him.

For me, I enjoy dialoguing with interested, animated, intelligent people. We don't have to share the same world view. I will not be driven off by the likes of Robert, lchic and Alarmast! Using the Ignore Post feature suffices for me. Meanwhile a real leader for world peace passed today. Fred Rogers was a marvelous human being and a credit to all mankind. I wish he were the dictator that directed our actions. His goodness could heal a great deal of mankind's ills. In fact it did!

rshow55 - 10:23am Feb 27, 2003 EST (# 9323 of 9325)
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.

Lchic is right in http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.dpb2aejq4zt.295329@.f28e622/10855 - - standards are important ! If we can get the UN stronger - and patterns of institutional order stronger - we have a much better chance of getting standards agreed to - and acted on.

Mazza, I suspect that gisterme is posting - and getting up early to do it - for good reasons. Maybe some people are even watching it happeng.

wrcooper - 12:49pm Feb 27, 2003 EST (# 9324 of 9325)

In re: [mazza] http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.dpb2aejq4zt.295329@.f28e622/10856

Lou (and gisterme):

I'm not returning to the forum, but I have been scanning to determine if Showalter would ever comply with his promise to post a simple acknowledgement that he was wrong about my identity. I don't care whether he apologizes or not for accusing me of lying. However, he did state that he would publicly retract his loony accusations that the poster wrcooper, that is, me, is one and the same person as the NY Times journalist and author, George Johnson.

Showalter wrote on the board in early February that he would post a statement similar to what I suggested to him in a private email, basically a simple acknowledgement that he'd "connected the dots" wrongly.

He hasn't done so.

I leave it to you to draw your own conclusions about the worth of his word. Clearly, his idee fixes supercede any concern he has for integrity and truth.

Nuff said.

I am, now, finally, and for good, out of here. I won't be "checking" to see if Showalter ever does live up to his promise to admit error. He did his checking when he met me in Chicago. He found out, conclusively and irrefutably, that he was wrong. He still can't admit it, which would be the honorable thing to do.

Fact is, I don't care any more.

I'm closing the door on this funhouse. There are othr sites, no doubt, where the missile defense issue is discussed sensibly and sanely.

Not here.

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