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(...) I don't know. Recently we had the discussion of Larry Potter vs. Harry Potter, and the general (though not absolute) consensus that the peculiar overlaps were indeed coincidental, and they were much more specific than dark-skin-blue-pendant. (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) the (...) You had a 50:50 chance of getting it right - you failed. (...) Buy a dictionary : state - "to express, esp. clearly and carefully" "Critical thinkers" can justify their position. I asked you to TWICE in my last post. You failed each (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) True, and I am not debating that the most *basic* part of the story, i.e. finding Atlantis (I forgot to mention that this wasn't one of the "stealing of ideas" I was talking about), is unique to these two shows, the execution, down to specific (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) There's a website with a list of all the female national leaders this past century (I think I typed in "female world leaders" on yahoo). The trouble is that in both the cases of women or "real human beings" we are talking about individuals. (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes. Let us review the difference between "states" and "asserts". Had you said "As the text I quoted asserts", you would be acknowledging that the author believed it to be true but not saying you felt it was fact yourself. However, you said (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) While I am not acquainted with that show and I am loathe to defend Disney on this point I will say that Atlantis is an old story and it has one basic archetypical approach: a guy finds a map, uses it to find "the lost city", the city rises or (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Well, once again it seems that Disney cannot come up with ideas on their own. Their upcoming animated movie, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, bears startling similarities to Nadia: Secret of Blue Water, a TV series by the Japanese studio Gainax (the (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Did I say it was as fact? (...) What a surprise. Can you justify this? (...) Not even if it cannot? (...) If you just want to say it can, we heard you already. But perhaps you can take the time to justify your view. But before you do, take a (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The text you quoted *claims* it cannot. It is an assertion by that author, not a fact, that it is impossible to do so. That is not a view I share. The point of this subthread is to explore further, with concrete ideas and proposals, whether it (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Based on the women I know, they'd prolly outlaw air conditioning except on the hottest days as part of their energy bill. ;) Jeff "FLAT SIDE UP!" (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The market will *not* provide that... read the text I quoted. Consumers are too focussed on the low price of oil and the Big Macs. (...) As the text I quoted states, the market can not be trusted to look after the environment. Are you really (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Add Turkey to this list. Once we had a female prime minister. Was it different? Hell no!.. Same level of corruption, if not more. Maybe the subject of a much more interesting discussion is: What would the world be like if real human beings (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) quoted this passage instead. "True, economists generally believe that a system of free markets is a pretty efficient way to run an economy, as long as the prices are right--as long, in particular, as people pay the true social cost of their (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ahhhh, things would be so much better! I mean, no war! Just look at Golda Meir...oops! Ummmm, ahhhh, that peaceful country of India, with Indira Gandhi....oh, drat, more war. Okay, that bastion of civility, England, and Margaret Thatcher (or (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Better, worse? Who can say. Same! No way!!! Vive La Difference`! ++Lar (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Watch it. I don't want another dull evolution debate to start again. After I typed by above text this morning, I found this interesting item by Paul Krugman. It is a little dated now, but it is still very relavant to this debate. Two key (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) SUVs! Hopefully, we are once again going to see evolution-in-action on them with high gas prices. :-) Bruce (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The closest we have come to a free market in modern times was Hong Kong before it was handed back to China. (...) Wrong. You have the cheapest pump prices. In environmental terms, what is the cost of cheap oil? Effectively, cheap oil means we (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I understand what you are saying. But the 19th century was not all that much better... it was just less organised. Remember, back then we had free market gems such as child labour and slavery. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Greetings! After an interesting discussion with my wife the other day, I thought I'd pose this question to this group. What would the world be like if women (that is women who did not behave like men) were the major leaders (presidents, prime (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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