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(...) I have a shooting cannon in my to-render-bucket, but unfortunately, it has low priority. Also, at the Tracked Parts List at (URL) it says: 3 Cannon Zach Coakley Planning to Work On 1/7/98 I'll never learn if that means January 7th or July (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Actually, I always peferred the date format [D]D-MMM-[CC]YY as in 6-NOV-98 or 06-NOV-1998. At work we have to use [CC]YYMMDD so that things sort properly. Gary GaryLouie@EarthLink.Net (26 years ago, 7-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks for that link. I'll keep checking it. I'm amazed at how many parts there are already. Still, found another one not in the recent parts zip: A large round-top door, like the one you find in Ford Legoredo. ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I like that system. Never knew that it was a official system in certain countries. It's what I use on PC's though. I'm dutch and we use dd/mm/yy, which works a little bit. At least it is a sequence. Now that I live in the States, I'm starting (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yes well how about: 1558 Mass Ave #41 Meaning: Street: Mass Ave Address: 1558 Apartment: 41 Fits in well with the mm/dd/yy thing, don't you think? (26 years ago, 9-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I believe that one is on the list: 2400 Door 1x5x10 1/4 Circle Curved Top Adam B. Howard In Progress 9/10/98 Steve (who just today cleaned up his entries in the L-Draw Parts Tracker) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote (...) It's the numbers that get me. I'm prepared to believe that somewhere in Nuke Freeland there's a street where the numbers get to 1000, but I haven't seen it. And 41 apartments? Are you nuts - that would (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey, In my country apartment buildings where people live can have more than 100 apartments, in big cities. Just think about a 20 storey building with 6 or more apartments on each storey. Selçuk (...) hey, dd/mm/yyyy is also same as our (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) *shudder* I couldn't imagine living 20 stories off the ground. In fact, when I went to Comdex last spring I almost slept in the van because our hotel room was on the 20-something-th floor. :/ (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) The whole world uses this format, with the exception of Japan and the USA. (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well.. the specific building I am in (Building F) only has 4 apartments, but my number is F12 Downstairs on one side is F11 and upstairs is F21 Downstairs on the other side is F12 and upstairs is F22 And I know other buildings do similar (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yup. We're in H380 but there certainly aren't 300+ apartments in our building. (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Great! I used it in my poor-mans ninja house. ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Could have been worse: 1558 51st St. #41 ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Uhm, I frequently watch your way of "home"s (those one storey large houses with garages, sitting in the middle of a large grass garden) from Hollywwod pieces of junk, and yes, it is just very nice. But living in a city like Istanbul (with a (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Wow, that really sucks. We don't own a home yet but plan on buying within the next few years. We'll never willingly choose to live in a huge city, although I would like to live close enough to one to make use of the amenities. (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) One thing that drives me crazy at USA is the street with a 0 in the midle, things like 1558 N 51st St. #41 And of course there is: 1558 S 51st St. #41 (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, we cheat a bit -- the building numbers often (almost always, in fact) skip. For example, from 1558 to 1562. Just in case someone wants to come squeeze a two-dimensional 1560 in between the buildings. As for the apartments, it's a code -- (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yes, those doors were done. They had some significant dimension problems which caused the author to pull them from voting. I expect them to be resubmitted soon. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Some towns really have fun with this. In one place I lived, all roads are numbered (not named). Roads which run East-West are called streets. Roads which run North-South are called avenues. The numbering system starts with 1 at a central (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) What about: 1558 NE 51st St. 1558 NE 51st Pl. 1558 NE 51st Av. 1558 NE 51st Ct. Or a street that starts as NE 31st St. but after a slight curve becomes 239 NE Ct. or Main Street starting in Seattle, then on the other side of Lake Washington (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <snip> (...) In a town in Holland (Zoetermeer), they made a new part where all the roads are color-coded. You have a blue quadrant, a red quadrant, etc. So the road between the blue and red is called the 'blue-red street'. And within the green (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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It figures. Not only are we backwards by using feet and inches, we're backwards with the date too. Duane (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Will people get to pick the color of their 'Home'? 'Cause, if so, I want Dibs on where ever Pine Green is (if that's okay). :) Jeff (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) And paper sizes -- we use 8 1/2" x 11" (which has the ratio 1.294117647059), whereas every other sane country uses A4 (approximately 210mm x 297mm) with an exact ratio of sqrt(2). The DIN paper sizes fully rock because DIN An is exactly half a (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Seriously?! That's so great to hear!!! One thing we're looking at for the LUGNET community map(s) is color-coding the boundary markers for a sense of overall location. Numbers alone just don't cut it. At first it was going to be four main (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yes, the houses have red, yellow, or blue roofing. Hmm, Pine Green, eh? I think that's at about W4,S3 (West 4, South 3). That might wind up being inside the reserved area at the center. Then again it might not... Maybe the coloring should (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) They just vary the names. All signs are blue with white lettering. I don't know if there is a sysyem in the color names. My knowledge of those names is almost non-existant so I don't know if a green-street near the blue quadrant has a blue-hue (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Living there would drive me crazy for sure! I remember that in Atlanta ,where all the streets are called peachtree. There are one of the peachtrees lane, street, road, whatever that E and W where parallel streets a block away from each other. (...) (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) We have them here in Grand Prairie, Texas. Main and Center bisect the town and then SW 1st NW 1st SE 1st NE 1st SW 2nd NW 2nd SE 2nd NE 2nd out to SW 19th NW 19th SE 19th NE 19th etc. etc. chris barnes (...) (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Paulo Caparica Junior <paulocjunior@hotmail.com> wrote (...) In NZ we have a rule that the main street in every town is called Queen St. From memory something like 1 in 10 towns do this. And nearly as many use High St instead. Moz (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Of course, you could have the English street/road naming convention..... As these roads have been in use since Roman times, many streets have as many as 5 names.... For instance, many roads going into London are often referred to as London (...) (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I assume you are waiting for Target to branch out into real estate, so that you can get it for 30% off in a post-Christmas sale?????? :o) (You are a self-confessed cheap bastard, your words, not mine!) (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Pshaw. 30%? I'll pass and wait for 70% off. (26 years ago, 15-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Richard Dee wrote in message ... (...) many (...) I was in England once. I thought that once you get out of London none of the roads has a name, under the assumption that if you don't know where you are then you don't belong there anyway. Jesse (...) (26 years ago, 15-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Arkansas is like that. Once you are off the main highways & out of the city, you better have some solid directions. Steve (26 years ago, 16-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(Yes, I know this is an old message, but I just saw it.) (...) Um, *what* community map(s)? This sounds... well, interesting. (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's OK -- that's one of the reasons the messages stay here so long. (Instead of expiring after 2 weeks.) (...) (URL) out the links near the bottom of the page and the text in the first few areas at the top... --Todd (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Wow. I may not have been here in time to watch the foundation being poured, but it looks like I have plenty of time to help stack a few bricks. (:3 (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) (HEAVILY snipped, but hopefully without changing meaning or intent) (...) What if you gave so much money that you couldn't buy a Lego (...) Okay, now you've lost me. I would have said that this giving of blood, even knowing that it might cause (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ObSomething: You get 100 m2 at a reasonable price? wow. We only get at most 20 m2 affordable.... and then you have a spacy apartment/room :) And our entire country only seats 16 mil, over an area, which I _think_ is slightly larger than (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) In my own city, we have one street that goes to over a thousand - but it's not actually all in the city :) It runs from the centre of the city to a long way off somewhere :) Viz Apartments: Student flat. small rooms with very small (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yeah. Weg naar de Wetenschap. Main arterial road between the university complex and the freeways and the city. Always liked that one, myself. Jasper (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) high but (...) price. I (...) Affordable at least considering the larger ones having three regular rooms + a larger living room (90-100 m2 ones having only 2 rooms + a living room). By the way, me and my wife are both engineers, earning above (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) errr Well, I think I started once, anyway. It was a bit boring tho, especially on a simple TV. And color me stupid, but I don't think I get the reference :P Jasper (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36666ec3.58183035@l...et.com>... (...) What colour is that? I imagine it a sort of pasty green colour, like translucent slime without the highlights. But I could be wrong. Moz (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I visited an ex-pat family on the east side of Istanbul a few years ago. The husband worked for an oil firm. The flat was <I><very bloody big> palatial </very bloody big></I>. I don't know the exact square metreage, but it was comparable to lobby (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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The best earners in Turkey, who are working for sombady else (I mean payed to work for, not having own private job), are foreign workers of foreign companies. They are generally payed with foreign currency. We have very high (80-100% annual) (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Do the US even have a minimum wage? I thought they de-regulated... As far as our minimum wage is concerned, it's somewhere on the order of $1000-1500 or so. And not too shabby at that, compared to some of our neighbours. (...) Well - for the (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Nah, Larry and his friends haven't gotten all of their insidious wishes yet. :) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Something like that. Jasper (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) cause. (...) your Things may have changed, but when I was there, oh 5 years ago or so, I was quite impressed. There were many things which put Istanbul in a higher league than many cities I have visited. (Visited being the operative word, as (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, I guess it makes me feel better to know I'm a millionaire in at least one country. :) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yeah, just think. If we abolish the minimum wage then we'll get to look forward to all these service-oriented jobs paying slave wages. Then we can enjoy pimply-faced McDonald's style service anywhere! :) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well that's certainly one possible outcome if nothing else was changed, but I rather doubt it. Most Mickey Dee's I see seem to be offering well above minimum to start. One near my apt in CO was offering 9 an hour to start, 10 if you could work (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <366A0E48.901D7C85@c...AM.com>... (...) You could at least explain that if you're going to toss it out. Lots of people don't believe it. Apparently people think employers will just fork out more moeny and not cut any (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) One of the arguments against the introduction of a minimum wage in the UK. The practise of some firms to pay near slave-labour wages in this country provide numerous examples of how *not* working can pay more, through unemployment and other (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<366A0E48.901D7C85@c...OSPAM.com> <F3J7pC.EGt@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) OK, briefly. This is purely an economic analysis. Anyone who wishes to prattle about how people have rights (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I happen to know someone who seems to hold these beliefs. I once had to hear him whine and complain about how our employer had to pay him more because he was behind in his bills and would never catch up and be able to buy a house if they (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This was the exactly the same feeling for Robin and Diane Sathner (two fellow RTL'ers from Canada), when I met them in Istanbul. They were instant millionaires just after exchanging a 100 USD at airport's change office...:-D Selçuk (26 years ago, 6-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote (...) One minor point Larry: this presumes that the employer will pay what the job is worth, rather that the minimum required to attract staff. I would object to that practice were I a shareholder. The minimum wage is similar (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Moz (Chris Moseley) wrote in message ... (...) That's basically the best argument for MW, because it's fairly accurate. There are times in the economic cycle (such as in the Depression) when there are way too few jobs, and market forces would push (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Jesse Long wrote in message ... (...) I dunno - it produced the French Revolution, which was not all bad. (...) Also a strong point of that extreme radical, Henry Ford. This was mentioned in the Time magazine issue on business leaders, if you're (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Message-Id: <slrn76mqie.11f.cjc@...S.UTK.EDU> X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.3 UNIX) D <F3KMny.FDD@lugnet.com> Reply-To: cjc@newsguy.com Followup-To: (...) As for 2) I don't think "government" has anything to do with protecting the common good. The (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<366A0E48.901D7C85@c...OSPAM.com> <F3J7pC.EGt@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've read through most of the responses to this, and I have to add that the Unemployment level directly affects the (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <366C20C0.1D3A29CA@c...AM.com>... (...) Please tell me you don't believe this. You'd lose the shread of respect I have for your intellect if you do. Read the news. Every day is full of murder, theft, abuse, and hate. (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Doesn't it make you just laugh, when you see examples of such people used on news programs concerning poverty, advocacy for minimum wage, etc. Fine, they maybe on low/lower-income, have families to support, whatever. Then you see what they (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <366C4892.B09B99C3@c...AM.com>... (...) I do think that people have a sense of right and wrong, and that when they do wrong they usually know it. But if people are good, then they should choose to do good. We have (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Finally, someone else that agrees with me that kids suck. Just say no to procreation. Raise cats, they're less expensive. If you want to cuddle miniature people, befriend a midget or visit your nieces and nephews, I say. This said, of course, (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I volunteer to be my brother's LEGO keeper. That's using 'brother' in the spiritual sense, of course. Sisters, too. Steve (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hrmmm, you've used the phrase "your morals are fundamentally flawed" before to describe your opinion of the morals of people who think it is ok to pull the price tags off merchandise to try to get a lower price. I think you also mentioned (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Regulations that shield companies....... Sounds familiar, and one of the biggest impediments to customers getting a fair deal in the shops here in the UK and Europe. Consumer goods cost more in the UK than in our competitor's shops. For (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) A politician has 2 responsibilities in the Western World..... 1) Get into office 2) Stay in office This is of course, the observed attitude of most politicians. They will promise the earth to be elected, and when elected, do just enough to (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <major snippage of horrific rip-off stories) (...) Wow, with all those and the one I left in just above, I don't see why you don't move to the US. (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, maybe I didn't make myself clear. I don't care for people telling me that I need to sacrifice for others, but what I was talking about, I think anyway, was someone choosing to do it of his own accord. Like me and Rachael giving money to (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<366DDFEB.DF57435D@c...OSPAM.com> <slrn76s42j.1so.cjc@...S.UTK.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) If you donate money of your own free will, to a cause that you believe is worthy, because it helps (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I started giving blood as soon as they would let me in my senior year. Did it almost without fail every 8 weeks until i got out of the Army and through some freakish paperwork screwup was told that I was one of thousands of people who tested (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Larry produced a deliberately inflammatory reply to my original inflammatory post: (...) Hate to say this Larry, but over here we have a lot less government than you have, and it hasn't helped. What it does mean is that we're much more vulnerable (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in reply to "Moz (Chris Moseley)" (...) Larry, old stick, it would be nice if you didn't simply ignore inconvenient questions. I know you don't have pat answers, but they make your provocation seem somewhat empty. Moz, who (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I lived there for 17 years(1), and despite the previously mentioned rip- offs, have no desire to return...... (1)2 years in Greencastle, Indiana; 3 years in Alaska (Just outside of Anchorage); and 12 years in New Jersey (2). (2) And if you (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, you have to admit, though, that 12 years in Jersey would probably turn anyone against the states. There are lots of better places to live, though, with lots nicer people. (...) Good luck! :) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The life you save may be your own. Think of it as extremely personal slightly painful insurance. (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote (...) But Larry, the good (selfish) view is that changing tags is fine because you benefit at the expense of people you don't know. Property rights work best when you can persuade others to adhere to them while you don't. (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote (...) You're using a specific and unconventional definition of "selfish", most often used IME by evolutionary biologists and geneticists (both meat and virtual). To most of us "selfish" is similar to arrogant or unempathetic - (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<366E0FD1.67876FA4@c...OSPAM.com> <3664BF87.5043@writeme.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) This is a subtle point but an important one. Life is a series of choices and trade offs. Every waking (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I know, and the opportunities exist for me to return without hassle. It has been considered on a few occassions, too. (...) Thanks! (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Well, being from the USA, I always look at where the date is coming from ... if it's coming from the US you can be sure it's month/day/year... if it's from outside the US that's when you have to worry.. do most people outside the US use (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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