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| (...) You know me, right? Therefore I am in the set of "anyone I know". And (the rest of) my post showed that I'm a bigger proponent of free speech than you are. QED. (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Free Speech, again
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| (...) Well, maybe not. (...) They don't themselves have to be citizens for their actions to be protected. Engage in this thought experiment with me. Suppose I take out an ad in the paper that says "Hop Frog sometimes posts mean things in (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) Draft Proposal
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| (...) Me either. Snipped the next bit because it's a good summation of the roles... (...) And thanks muchly for that! progress on overall org goals had stagnated. a good sharp poke was a good thing. <more snippage> (...) What I think Tim meant here (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Crowd Control (was: Train Layout Tables)
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| (...) True. If it's a oneoff, that is... I hardly ever display oneoffs, most of what I display is either commercial production work (mine from MTW, or others), or one of multiple copies, or if I really care, I capture it in LDraw. My bullet train is (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: New poster by Larry Pieniazek/MTW
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| (...) After a second trial google came up with these links with up to 38 horses: (URL) (16 horses) (URL) (33 horses) (URL) (33 horses again) (URL) (38 horses) Leg Godt! Ben (21 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New poster by Larry Pieniazek/MTW
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| (...) Hi Larry, I do not want to split hairs, but a - more or less - 10wide combine on a 6-wide car?! That would mean a 5 meters combine on a 3 meters train car. Are American combines that big?! Ok, the main body might measure only 8 wide and that (...) (21 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Tim Robbins "Countering a Wave of Hate"
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| (...) Er, no you don't... You merely know that I chose not to make that particular finding clear one way or another. :-) (any flattery I may have uttered at the time notwithstanding) (URL) to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: La belle province
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| (...) Whoops! I meant "nope" as in "nope, you're not misremembering", sorry about that. Texans talk about separatism more often than most, for sure. (...) More like 51st through 64th or whatever, one state for each province/territory I would (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: La belle province
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| (...) Nope. They're the only (?? (1) ) state that joined by treaty after being an independent republic rather than being an original founder (that ratified the constitution as the means of joining) or a state formed from unorganised territory that (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: La belle province
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| (...) Not sure what you mean by immune in this context. Some democratic nations have resisted mightily. The US Civil War was at least partly about separatism. Other democratic nations have not resisted (Czechoslovakia seems to have peacefully (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Tim Robbins "Countering a Wave of Hate"
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| Coming back to a loose end... let me preface this by saying that I happen to agree with much of what Mr. Robbins said in his speech to the national press club about the dangers that americans face. Ashcroft is prima facia scary... The Patriot Act (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | La belle province
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Terry Prosper writes: <snip> I dunno, Quebec doesn't seem all that oppressed to me, but I only have an outside view. Consider yourself lucky you're "stuck" with a country that would probably at least let you secede (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: New poster by Larry Pieniazek/MTW
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| (...) [snip] (...) [snip2] Ihis is indeed a great Poster Jeroen and Larry! As usual I am more thrilled by the farm equipment as by the trainstuff. This huge commbine harvestor is really great - although it might fit because of its from its own (...) (21 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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