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(...) But there's nothing like a Pearl Harbor or 9-11 to jolt one's senses. The sad truth is that a bloody nose is *exactly* what it takes. (...) And what if she does? What the hell does that have to do with anything? (...) Please. Diplomacy has (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: MS IE SUCKS!
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(...) but it's not a port! winex just lets you run the original windows version while booted to linux. All it does is implement (in addition to all the API calls that wine does) the directx APIs that a lot of games use. So it really is the same (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Groan of the week #34
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It's a badly known fact that Quasimodo (you know - the Hunchback of Notredame) has an Identical twin bother. The twin had left the city many years ago, to live in the countryside, where he made a good livinÿg as a bell-ringer for a small rural (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) That might be more common. Could ask the Statistics of Deadly Quarrels research folks about the majority. So maybe not so many whole civilizations, but certainly city-states and isolated population centers. Philip II at Thebes. Alexander at (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Not the same platform == not the same game. Even if it's a port. Good try though. (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I seem to have found a solution. Half way up I put one solid layer of Lego bricks. That seems to counteract the curl. Alan (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) One could compare it to a much more present situation :-) (funny how History repeats itself over and over again) (...) Are you sure that so many wars ended that way? From my own experience, I think it's a lot more common that the "losers" of (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Read of the end of Carthage: (URL) skip the last paragraph where Scipio compares Carthage to Troy. Innumerable wars have ended with complete annihilation of the enemy. The world is littered with dead cities, dead languages, untraceable peoples. The (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And why not a party of characters? IIRC, one of the rules in the game states that you must control or deploy a "leader" character, in which this game revolves, although you can control party proponents as well, there are several rule (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Briefing
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Nice conversation of Bush Jr (hmm!) with Condi Rice after Hu Jintao was named chief of the Communist Party in China. George: Condi! Nice to see you. What's happening? Condi: Sir, I have the report here about the new leader of China. George: Great. (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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