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| (...) I'm with Dave on the interpretation of the job issue. As for letting people make their own stupid decisions--in general--sure. Let people choose to smoke, I can't prevent them from doing so in their own home, or among a group of consenting (...) (21 years ago, 3-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: More Election Bad News?
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| (...) That is such a simple and elegant solution to the whole debate. I was really hoping Kerry (or somebody!) would voice this opinion--it's such a simple, easy-to-make-sense-of position, compared to his (and others') "I am against letting gay (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | More Election Bad News?
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| Looks like Proposal 2, a state amendment banning all forms of homosexual unions will be passed in Michigan: (URL) don't get it. Can't we have the word 'marriage' stricken from all our laws and legalese and replaced with the term "civil union", open (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: A question for my Canadian pals
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| (...) What follows is all plowed ground... The above presents a false dichotomy in my view. It suggests that either those that are unlucky suffer, or else government has to transfer income (fundamentally, at the point of a gun, since taxation is not (...) (21 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Theory vs. practice (was Re: Polyamory
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| All of what I say below is plowed ground, stuff I and others have said before, so those that pay attention are invited to skip this entire post. They already know this stuff. Scott, though, might want to pay attention, for once. I won't hold my (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: All 6 movies on DVD
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| (...) Now, my big question here is whether he was arguing against colorizing _any_ B&W films, or just the ones where the director wasn't doing it of his own volition? I can't remember who it was, but one director had his own B&W film colorized. If (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Is lgbt dead in the water?
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| (...) First of all, let me say thank you to Lenny for his (URL) input>. He is quite correct that it is falacious to caricature the position of one's opponent and then attack that position as if it were the real one. That's the classic (URL) Straw (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Another questionable decision from lego...
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| (...) The two main justifications that I know of for the LEGO lawyers to get on your case are: 1. Trademark infringement. Sounds simple, but many people mistakenly think they're okay, only to find out later that they're not. Possible infringements (...) (21 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Lego Company Responds to Judgement
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| (URL) Company Responds to Judgment ---...--- Story Filed: Friday, May 31, 2002 3:27 PM EST BILLUND, Denmark, May 31, 2002 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- The Federal Court of Canada has issued a judgment dated May 24, 2002 dismissing an action for (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Is space property?
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| Christopher Weeks wrote in message ... (...) believe, (...) seem (...) As an atheist, here is my take on human rights: Rights are, as far as I can tell, a human social construct, a "base-level" set of behavioural rules that originate from (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: A question for my Canadian pals
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| (...) Only insofar as THEY derived a benefit... if what they paid in taxes covered the education services they received, then no... in fact one could argue that I ought to get a credit in my accounting if what they paid was more. But this could (...) (21 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: New poll: sexuality and Lugnet
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| (...) And you would object less to this type of post-- (URL) mean, it really doesn't have to do with LEGO (except lessening the frequency of Tom's posts for a while)(1)... Considering what's going on in the world this very day, what with natural (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | LEGO Rejects a Bit Part in a Spinal Tap DVD
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| LEGO Rejects a Bit Part in a Spinal Tap DVD By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN Published: August 10, 2009 In 2007, when Coleman Hickey was 14, he made a stop-action film using LEGO pieces and figures to depict a concert performance of the song “Tonight I’m Gonna (...) (16 years ago, 11-Aug-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | Is space property?
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| Howdy and Merry Christmas all, As you probably know, I'm one of the property-rights be-all libertarians here. But I've been fixating on the role of land (or locations) as property. I have talked about the generation of property (e.g. jars of clay) (...) (25 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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