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| (...) I mean dominating other nations through unethical trading practicing or harsh sanctions or expoitating human labor and natural resources of other nations. There's no morality in using force to "defend" our greedy business ventures and economic (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: New Brickbay promotion
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| (...) What if you're overcharged for a low-quality load of gypsum? 8^) (...) And here I was afraid you were trying to sneak in some Nazi propaganda! 8^) Anyway, I wasn't able to type the umlaut so it came through the same! You crystallized it for (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Libertarian SPAM (Propaganda)
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| (...) I *don't care* what the makeup of LUGNET or the hobby is. I never said I did. I just said it wasn't the same as the overall population. When you challenged me I went off and counted noses at that point in order to see if my hunch was right. It (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
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| (...) The first two messages I must say to you, Selcuk, is that how did you ever imagine that I said that Newtonian physics was wrong in life? I never said such a statement to you, Selcuk! The statement that I said was that the theory of relativity (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: National vote on handguns?
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| (...) I asked about this before: (URL) I wanted to clarify your answer. Specifically, would you support "starting over" with new laws even if those laws ultimately conflicted (perhaps diametrically) with your own views? And, in addressing the 75% (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Views on asylum seekers?
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| (...) As I understand the situation, Australian search and rescue informed nearby ships (including the Tampa, a Norwegian cargo freighter) that an Indonesian vessel was in distress. The Tampa picked up the refugees from their sinking boat in the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Military Lego Sets
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| (...) ? Who's sorrowful? Good or bad, it happened; it is the past, and one which I'm proud of. BOTH sides of it. And something I'd like to point out: the Arabs were not "tossed out", as they did not "toss out" the Christians who lived here before (...) (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | My Apologies
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| To all, I am just a small and usually quiet member of this great Lugnet community. However there has been a terrible attack on my beloved country. This was a violent attack on our freedom. Yet there has been another attack, not on American freedom, (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Thinking Out Loud...
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| (...) The Somalia analogy holds for a decade ago, I think, when several factions had a more or less equal hold on different parts of the country. Now I'd say Afghanistan has "stabilised" as a decentralised theocracy. (...) First make it clear that (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: 6776... Is this True?
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| (...) Yes, but Union vs. Indians has a clear adverserial implication. It might not offend you or I, but how would a Native American kid feel about it? (...) But that is very simplified history. Our country should absolutely be appalled at the crimes (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Hold your fire?
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| (...) Read around Larry, they are little better. They are know to rape women in the towns they capture. More here: (URL) many Afghans are anxious to see an end to Taliban rule, they remain feaful about the prospect of a return of the Northern (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: 6 degrees of separation..
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| (...) Not sure what you're asking, exactly. But THAT won't stop me from pontificating nevertheless. I'm not sure an unambiguous statement can be made based solely on this one personal account (and I personally vouch for Paul's veracity... I have (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Thoughts on the (pre EpII) 2002 range
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| (...) Actually, Harry Potter does have (some) ethnic diversity. Just not in the major characters. If everyone in the movie is white, there's a problem. But I doubt we'll see any minifigs of the non-white characters, unless they release a "Gryffindor (...) (23 years ago, 12-Nov-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: More on Moral Relativism
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| (...) From the article: "Yes, we knew all that, and so are now told that our intelligence agencies are inept, naïve, and worse, for not spotting the hijackers in advance. But we also surely suspect that, had any government watchdog agency swept down (...) (23 years ago, 9-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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