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(...) ... (...) ... (...) So I've been wondering for a couple months why the state doesn't lift the dumb socialist power price caps and allow the market to do its thing. Why don't you folks just let the problem fix itself? And really, what do you (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's precisely my point, except as regards the U.S. government. Believe it or not, Americans are naive enough to think themselves immune to the kind of corruption and nonsense that takes place elsewhere, frankly, ALL OVER THE WORLD! I think (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Wow!.. Blackouts in US? C'mon guys, it's not that big a problem..:-) We were very get used to it just 10-15 years ago. I mean *regular* and *planned* blackouts, 2 hours everyday..:-) Things were much better during the last ten years but our (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I suppose these things are all realtive ;-) Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Heh...:-) I think you don't know much about what could be the cost of a corrupt government to you, perhaps you never have to live with one, generations long. Selçuk (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) One of the places it's being bought from is Washington State. As a result. my power bill is almost double what it was at this time last year. :^P Meanwhile, the local power companies are asking us to conserve (so they can sell our power to CA) (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And I bet you thought you lived in a country where the presidential election couldn't be stolen by a man in bed with the oil and energy companies too! Interestingly the price of natural gas, petroleum, and electricity are all going through the (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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For the second time I have now been victim of California's rolling blackouts. The first experience was a few months ago at home, and now today 5/8/01 here at work. For those of you not experiencing this wonderful phenomenon, it really sucks! This is (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ack! Purged from the memory banks. What else have I forgotten? LFB (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And let's not forget Krull. Oh wait. On second thought, let's! Dave! (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So, you forgot about the Astronaut? You're just proving my point! ;-) Bruce (sheesh, I shoulda known it was a more esoteric answer...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nope. Wrong Michael Collins. See below, it's not obtuse at all. (...) Actually, that's a different Michael Collins. The one I'm thinking of was the one sent in 1922 by Eamon de Valera to negotiate the Good Friday Agreement that created the (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Heh, actually, that's an interesting link I hadn't thought of. I wonder if we can work Darkman in here too? LFB (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, I was thinking Lindsay was trying to start up another Liam Neeson movie controversy. Dave! (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Kind of an obtuse way of saying "forgotten" or "ignored". :-) Bruce (for the younger, Michael Collins was the Astronaut from the Apollo 11 moon mission that didn't walk on the moon) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What is that got to do with the USA? (...) What is that got to do with the USA? (...) What is that got to do with the USA? (...) Perhaps to you. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I hadn't thought about the etymology, odd! Even odder, when considering that the inhabitants of Philistia were Mycenaean Greeks displaced by the Dorian Invasions of c. 800BC. :) I do wonder, then, how much of their genetics and culture ended (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I do. (...) For people "in general" I do. (...) Well, what were his motives? (...) That is the important question. Many things are clearly "wrong" : mass murder etc. But at the other edge of the scale it is harder to tell... but perhaps the (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I can't disagree at all with that last prescription. I've been reading very closely articles that point out that even within the territory Israel claims as sovereign, Palestinians and other non-Jewish residents will outnumber Jews within 20 (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ya, Taiwan can sleep well at night, Mainland China has no desire to "take back its rogue province" and all those platforms they're building in the Spratleys are just fishing shacks. Ya, Japan can sleep well at night, North Korea is the most (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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