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(...) I would agree, things like Open Office are probably technically as good or better than the MS originals. A lot of the MS development time is probably spent on designing what the products do, not just how they do it The Open Office developers (...) (21 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Attention Mega Bloks fans! An appreciator of the brand has established a posting forum specifically for discussions of Mega Bloks. He's never posted here on LUGNET, but I've corresponded with him on and off for quite a few months, and I can attest (...) (21 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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(...) So many people volunteered to help with this that the load from many many simultaneous connections apparently took the New Orleans Network (where the data is being collated) DB server down, they're upgrading and said they'd be back up soonish. (...) (21 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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It must be humbling to see your unilateralist president begging for international help. If people were not dead/dying, it would be funny. Scott A (...) (21 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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There are a LOT of different missing persons databases out there, making it hard to search them all if you're a relative or one of the missing, so someone came up with the idea of consolidating the info. See: (URL) for info and key in some data if (...) (21 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(URL) the government version of what's going on in NOLA, and there's what appears to be the truth. Tangentially, this blog makes fascinating reading: (URL) (21 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No. For the last 2 weeks I have been packing and cleaing up. I just moved from Ottawa to Kingston, so I just started building tonight. I'm not sure if I'm bringing a bot. (21 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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(...) UMMmmmmm there was a CALL from calum ASKING who was coming.... ya know. that would have been a nice post to reply to... here cut and paste this: ---...---snip-------- HI Calum, i have a robot, no its not C$, my dad still is working on the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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I haven't forgotten. In fact, I'm coming on Saturday, and I may even have a working robot. I've been reading rtlToronto all along, I just haven't seen anything I want to comment on. The testage message was to test message cancellation from Mozilla (...) (21 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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(...) Yeah. Meanwhile you can make the telnet method feel just a tiny bit more like that button by launching telnet from some browsers with this URL: telnet://lugnet.com:1119/ Don (21 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) DUDE!!! welcome back. you forget where rtlToronto is? Chris (21 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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(...) I have only used Outlook express and Pine. With Outlook express you just select the message, then Message / Cancel Message from the menu (don't choose Edit / Delete - that just removes it from your local drive!). And wait for the confirmation (...) (21 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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egatset (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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| | Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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(...) I wouldn't directly correlate humans and rats, either. Rats turning on each other in bad situations is an 'instinctive defense mechanism' that they can't consiously do anything about. Humans, on the other hand, even though we have 'instinctive (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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My brother in law in Atlanta paid $5 a gallon. I just paid $2.80 in California, which usually leads the nation in artificially manipulated prices. -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hey thanks ROSCO, I couldn't get it to work with IE or Mozilla. (User Interface issues, I guess). So I was forced to use the ultra-modern telnet news client. So for web posters, here's howto cancel your own lugnet post via telnet. First visit (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Not for everyone. Those who are wealthy enough not to have to worry about a 60 or 80% increase in the price per gallon aren't going to be affected at all, except perhaps to enjoy a larger profit from their oil stocks. Raising the prices serves (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I hope that some information I can add here might be helpful. I do have a handfull of contacts in Japan that I converse with regularly via e-mail. And even though I have done a larger number of trades - I can only speculate why they didn't (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) That’s discussed at some length in “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” by Ann Druyan and the late Carl Sagan. They stress that one can’t always predict human crisis-response based on the behavior of rats, but real-world examples make one wonder (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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(...) What were those tests done with rats in a cage-- a few rats in a large cage with lots of food and water, no problem many rats in a small cage with hardly any food and water--mass pandemonium We've seriously not evolved that far from the other (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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