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They're all wrong. The one true term is STF - scientifiction. Ask Hugo. You cannot be a trufan without STF. (Personally, I think Thomas Disch got the last word on this debate.) You can be skiffie fans if you like that. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) And the world has changed. I understand some people now consider SF an abbreviation for Speculative Fiction, not Science Fiction. Frank (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) What is amusing is that I had just sent David a private message telling him the pattern of Scott's debating "style" and the exchange just preceeding your message was the proof of it. It's like pulling teeth. You have to go round and round in (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Don't think I'd call it a troll, per se; though there were elements that were troll-ish. (...) But you could be bothered to say that you couldn't be bothered to say how ironic you find it? I can't be bothered saying how silly I think that is. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm an incredibly tolerant person. It takes quite a bit to get me to speak ill of someone. Scott Arthur has pushed me to that point. I register as one point of evidence the current debate between Dave K and Scott A. Dave was trying to be nice (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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There was once a "Home Improvement" episode, with special guest star Tom Wopat (from "Dukes of Hazzard" fame...). In this episode, right at the very end, Tom comes up to the door and talks to Tim. The scene went something like this: <Ding dong> goes (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Larry, I'm really flattered by the effort you put into this troll. However, I just can't be bothered showing how ironic I find what you are saying. Scott A BTW: Do you remember when you spoofed my identity? (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Good. (...) Letting go is good. I don't see the need to compromise on every issue. (...) I think I have been. (...) [snip] (...) You'll have to show how you reached that conclusion. [snip] (...) OK. (...) I do not ignore Larry. I very much (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I'm starting a new thread to address this topic partly because Dave's original post was hung on a thread and partly because that thread is so big. I think there are two different questions here Should discussion on a topic cease (for a while, (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Didn't say *you* did any of these things. *We* here in ot-d have a problem. We have to come up with a working solution to said problem. In my opinion, this solution should not entail 'Playground Politics'--'Lets just ignore him and he'll go (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Point taken. It's hard to know when he wrote the text. The story [of the fuss] even made it to the BBC TV news last night [for 10 seconds max!]. I think the story actually says more about the Democrats than it does the media or the (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My view is not extreme. I hold no animosity for anyone. I'm not ignoring anyone. (...) I expect you must have. Many arguments have a weakness. Readers may respond where "think they sense weakness". This may not be where the weakness actually (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes: <snip> (...) I've read (most of) the thread. And again, without actually debating what's going on in I/P, the point of this little tangent on the debate is to get to a point where we're not banning (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Doh! I saw that function, but I thought if was Excel's abbreviated way of calling me ASINine. Thanks--I'll give it a try. Dave! (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Many people have polarised views on this issue. They see it in rather simplistic “Bushian” terms; good versus evil or even jews versus muslims. The most commonly asserted views here are that Israel or [very much less commonly] the Palestinians (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Everybody loves testing (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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(...) Actually the three examples of the plural form given in my OED are all "cabooses". However, recalling the other times this subject has come up here, and considering the identities of those who use the less common form, I have concluded that (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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nt (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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(...) Try asin() (short for arcsine the name commonly used for inverse sine function) HTH ROSCO (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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As I've previously (and repeatedly) confessed, my knowledge of math is sketchy and, shall we say, somewhat organic. I have almost no recollection of many of the processes I briefly used fifteen years ago and not at all since. Well, until now. Using (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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