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(...) Uh-oh... I think it is obvious that I taken it in a very different, actually in exact reverse context..:-) Selçuk (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's the US; we don't do anything half-way! If we're going to have a work week, we're going to have the *longest* work week. Ditto stress level and divorce rates! Go team! (...) In my work toward an English degree I was required to buy three (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In Scotland, I pay around US$5.50 for a UK gallon (8 pints). It is not the end of the world to be honest, I would not mind paying a little more if the tax was well spent or if it helped (directly or indirectly) reduce pollution. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) But we be forgiven by our families for working >50 hours per week? I read the USA has the longest working week, highest levels of work related stress and the worst divorce rates in the west. (...) 100% correct. In the field I work in everyone (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't know that "busy" needs to be in quotes, or if it's even a matter of laziness. If I (and countless others) spend 50+ each week working and/or commuting to work, in addition to other immediate responsibilities, I think we can be forgiven (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And Sagan never said "Billions and billions." 8^) Dave! (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I believe that was Stalin, himself no stranger to the deaths of thousands (or millions, as I think the original quote indicated. Dave! (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Recently seen on a bumper sticker... " All in favor of lower gas prices, raise your right foot! " :) Greg Betzel (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I strongly agree. I remember a good sentence from some important personality in history, but can't remember who is him right now. "Death of a person is tragedy. Death of a thousand people is statistics." When you start to think about it as a (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I find it very ironic that a whole nation apparently solemnly commemorates the WW2 persecution when they themselves are current persecutors. Very ironic. I note that there is currently an economic blockade of Gaza and the West Bank: (URL) A (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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