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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 - 08:37pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8568 of 8586)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

For practical and ceremonial reasons, this makes sense to me:

MD266 rshowalt 9/25/00 7:32am ... MD267 rshowalt 9/25/00 7:33am
MD268 rshowalt 9/25/00 7:35am ... MD269 rshowalt 9/25/00 7:36am

If we did it this way, people would remember. And whatever else happened, the world would not end by nuclear explosion.

Now, it could.

lunarchick - 08:52pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8569 of 8586)
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Re the paper above:

Check the list Showalter for Foundation Paradigm Shift with the vision to offer exposition time - professional presentations - to yourself (and others, detoured, treading water) stranded by the present.

lunarchick - 08:58pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8570 of 8586)
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I've often pondered on Japan with it's almost zero interest rates. I worked out that once rates hit zero and below ... then, the lender of money to the bank would actually be paying into the bank - so to speak. And how would this work.

Japan noted for standing still, is now officially declared to be GOING BACKWARDS and people are paying extra into the bank to maintain the value of their deposit.

HOW?

The overall devaluation of all assets Japanese.

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The Japanese PM has started on a reform projectory .. but he has to do more than start .. has to follow it.

As posted above, this PM - as per culture, dumped his then pregnant wife ... gave her children to his sister ... and has a son he has never sighted who would dearly like to utter the words "Hello Dad"

lunarchick - 09:00pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8571 of 8586)
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The big japanese engine has stopped, the USA engine is almost still ....

... so which Nations are the actual SUPERSTATES currently ... which nations are on the rise?

rshowalter - 09:00pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8572 of 8586)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

It is surely time for clear expositions.

I've felt a little insecure, afraid to push for clear exposition.

That feeling of insecurity is wearing off.

lunarchick - 09:01pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8573 of 8586)
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ISMS

rshowalter - 09:02pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8574 of 8586)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

If the Japanese and the Americans were honest on some key things, the paralysis would simply disappear.

The Russians are digging themselve out of a wrenching, awful mess. But at least they're digging out.

Not getting themselve mired deeper.

rshowalter - 09:06pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8575 of 8586)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Somehow, I didn't get much sleep last night.

Searched a lot of things that didn't feel right to post.

How to get across the main message?

We're very special animals. Maybe in the "eyes of God." Maybe "just by chance," but animals still.

We aren't Gods. We have to check.

. . .

I'm going to bed real early, and getting some sleep.

lunarchick - 09:14pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8576 of 8586)
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Papers in black and white have a limited readership. Were the paper fully illustrated --

was it Walt Disney who made Donald Duck our guide through the wonders of Pythagoras land ("Wow" length of string - sound of note ) ---
[ not me of course, i'm a chick not a duck ]

and futher and future potentials and value to humanity of such works put forward then in marketing terms there'd me more pull than push a continental drift of paradigms.
Why wait for the future when it's benefits could happen now?

lunarchick - 09:27pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8577 of 8586)
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''We aren't Gods. We have to check ''
The nights are drawing in on Mt Olympus?

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