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(...) Either everyone has figured out that Dubya is an idiot by now, or they refuse to admit it out of party....loyalty. :-) -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Funny. Actually, you apply chirality every day when you put your shoes on--you put the right shoe on the right foot and the left shoe on the left foot rather than vice versa. You just aren't thinking about the terminology when you do so. :) (...) (21 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: John Stossel, friend of the wealthy
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What a blithering idiot. If the gougers didn't buy all of X up, then it would still be available at normal market price... (...) (21 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: New Faction: The Bonktrons are coming.
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(...) Space is going stronger than ever (URL) elsewhere>... ~Kevoh (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: New Faction: The Bonktrons are coming.
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(...) Funny how the "LUGNET is dead" pronouncements always seem to come from people associated with other (moderated) forums. It's really too bad that you can't be an admin here and (URL) censor posts>, buy why don't you get over it already? Marc (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | John Stossel, friend of the wealthy
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I've called (URL) John Stossel> a jerk in this forum previously, but this time I mean it. Jerk. (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: New Faction: The Bonktrons are coming.
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At the risk of being told I am quoting out of context, I will leave all of your text here. (...) "..held your nose..." you sir, (up until recently) were an active member of JLUG. you, YOURSELF have said things on JLUG that have explained what you (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Okay, maybe not a real MOC, but close enough
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(...) Ah, but if he were English, he would have to ask his mum for permission to marry... us Scots are a little more liberal in that respect. If he were English, he'd also not want me to say this: (URL) NI 1 :Eng(er)land 0>... so I won't! Scott A (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Hmm. It sounds like he needs to setup and chair a committee to investigate his own ineptitude. I note that he is now accepting aid from those nitwits at the UN... Scott A (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Question about job security
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Why hasn't Dubya fired Michael Brown? Why hasn't Dubya fired Michael Chertoff? While he's been President, has Dubya ever fired anyone? While he's been President, has Dubya ever fired anyone for anything other than a perceived lack of loyalty? (21 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Okay, maybe not a real MOC, but close enough
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(...) Actually, as he has said, he is 17. In the UK certainly, that would make him not a minor (for a lot of things anyway*, confusing world that it is :) ) Tim *Allowed to get married and serve in the army, but not to buy alcohol or vote (21 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Okay, maybe not a real MOC, but close enough
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(...) I had a great-uncle who was a 15 year-old miner before The Great Depression, if that helps. At least, I hear that he was great. Dave! (21 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Okay, maybe not a real MOC, but close enough
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(...) If he lived a country where the age of majority was 15, would you still consider him a minor? (I don't think it is 15 in India BTW) Tim (21 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2
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(...) Just ignore him, he's a Space Nazi(TM). (...) Is that Tormod 'the modder of bricks' or Tormud 'the Tor of earth' (as Lenny stated) ? pete'Torte'.w (the Tor of desserts) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) !
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| | Re: Have a little time, want to perhaps help Katrina victims out?
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(...) Server is back up, and something like 15-20,000 free form records (the more automated ones are being scraped rather than hand transcribed) have been transcribed already by volunteers, but there's lots more to do yet. If you want to help, (...) (21 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Am I the only person who finds Lego CAD systems infuriating?
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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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| | New MegaBloks forum!
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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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| | Re: The big disconnect regarding NOLA
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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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| | Have a little time, want to perhaps help Katrina victims out?
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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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