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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

rshowalter - 08:48pm Jul 4, 2001 EST (#6567 of 6614)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I bet Koko knows that she can't hit everything that she can see ! ! !

lunarchick - 08:50pm Jul 4, 2001 EST (#6568 of 6614)
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http://www.cba.uri.edu/Faculty/dellabitta/mr415s98/EthicEtcLinks/Milgram.htm >

'conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience' add to this people locked into day-to-day financial requirements ... and it can be compromising for people to really STAND UP and question.

This is why it's important that elected representatives of the people have no skeletons in the closet .. and can speak up an speak out .. as in ' the king is in the altogether ..

rshowalter - 08:50pm Jul 4, 2001 EST (#6569 of 6614)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

And knows even better that she can't hit things she can't see.

rshowalter - 08:54pm Jul 4, 2001 EST (#6570 of 6614)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

lunarchick 7/4/01 8:50pm but also a problem for folks to stand up and question questioners.

I wonder if there's a single engineer, with a PE ticket to lose, who'd be willing to take me on about guidance -- especially with some other engineers, who I could round up on very short notice, checking work.

The "missile sheild" has no clothes.

rshowalter - 08:56pm Jul 4, 2001 EST (#6571 of 6614)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

As I said in postings you can find searching "shuck" -- the Bush administrations' missile defense proposals are, in H.L. Menken's phrase

" as devoid of merit as a herringfish is of fur. "

rshowalter - 08:58pm Jul 4, 2001 EST (#6572 of 6614)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

If you search gisterme's most recent postings as of now, and what she said, and then look at what I said -- I'd ask --

is there anything gisterme can offer in favor of the technical plausibility of any proposed missile defense program?

If so, we can go at it some more.

lunarchick - 08:58pm Jul 4, 2001 EST (#6573 of 6614)
lunarchick@www.com

Koko doesn't look as if she'd want to go around 'hitting out' at everything in sight .. she's more the cognitional striker as per Rodin

rshowalter - 08:59pm Jul 4, 2001 EST (#6574 of 6614)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I bet Koko knows that plenty of things are impossible, or not worth doing.

Does gisterme ?

rshowalter - 09:00pm Jul 4, 2001 EST (#6575 of 6614)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I always heard that "the Thinker" was trying to remember where he'd left his clothes.

lunarchick - 09:02pm Jul 4, 2001 EST (#6576 of 6614)
lunarchick@www.com

Koko has inbuilt fur coat .. no need to shave :)

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