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(...) Do I sense some kind of deep-seated resentment here???? ;) ROSCO (21 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I like this. Definite potential as a revenue raiser and a crowd pleaser. But I think you might be onto something much much bigger. Think of the money and time we'd all save if we skipped the admittedly only dubiously successful process of (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Full lottery, none of this "scratcher" nonsense. Now that would be putting money where your mouth is! :-) -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, I always knew you could noodle a drawing to death, but death by potassium overdose? And here I just got back from the store with bananas... -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I just envisioned a new cash source for the government! Selling a raffle to see who gets to execute someone! Or better yet, an auction! -Lenny (21 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) That may present a problem, but not because of a lack of volunteers. Didn't several hundred members of our civilized and Christian nation sign up to help execute Gary Gilmore? Dave! (21 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Do I have to kill him with a sword? Cuz I always wanted to try whipping a person to death with a wet noodle. Or or or, maybe forcing him to eat bananas until he croaks. Now that would be an execution!! -Lenny (21 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) You've summed it up very nicely, except that you state it as an absolute rather than a condition for me to even consider the question. (...) Here's a sword - are you willing to personally execute him yourself? No, it's not a facetious (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I see that you are rebutting my "equivocation" with a straw man. Nowhere do I claim that the murderer is blameless, but I don't equate his "blamefulness" (sorry about that malapropism) with some "right" to execute him. And the person (or (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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--SNIP-- (...) Preserving the sanctity of life by State-sanctioned killing. Interesting argument there. Tim (21 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I reject your equivocation. In one case, the victim is an innocent, and in the other the "victim" is a coldblooded murderer. Being rendered "harmless" does in no way make a person "blameless". (...) No system is perfect. To criticize otherwise (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Since I dragged Bruce back into this, I'll field the question for him (though he's welcome to refute or add to it, of course!) (...) Of course not! The execution of a person who has been rendered harmless is indistinguishable from coldblooded (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Cool idea - not sure I see why you can't use a plain Apache, with a semi-smart redirect-map... It should be fairly straightforward to implement, actually - two MySQL tables (one for dirs/language translation, one for file/language), and a (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) So let me get this straight-- is it conditional for me to prove that everyone ever executed actually committed their crimes and then you’ll agree to the death penalty? What about the fate of a man who kills 5 women and children during a (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) In case anybody is curious about what I mean by a "multilingual webserver" the basic idea is no only to serve pages in the preferred language of the reader, but also to redirect them to URLs in their preferred language. There is a few more (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Dang, my name is still being dragged into this nine months later - I've heard of a pregnant pause..... -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 3-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) And so was (URL) this guy,> so the point is served once more. Dave! (21 years ago, 3-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) In fact, this has only "always" been the case since Dubya created the term "enemy combatant" out of the firmament. It didn't exist prior to his declaration of permanent war on terror, at least not as a supra-legal designator for "people whom (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Enemy combatants are treated differently than US citizens. This has always been the case. (...) Well, if you had Christian leaders invecting from the pulpit to incarcerate Muslims, I might be inclined to agree (which is the analogy to Mullahs (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) But that's the whole problem. The only evidence we have that these detainees are terrorists is, basically, Dubya's assertion that they're terrorists. They're denied all due process and access to lawyers, and in many cases they've been held for (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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