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(...) I've done so on many occasions, seriously trying to answer this very question (is the ocean blue, or is it reflecting the sky?) for myself. One tends to do this sort of thing when studying atmospheric science at the graduate level. There are (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) HUNCH. Do you know what that word means? Obviously not. (...) What about the word HUNCH do you not understand? Once again, as usual, you've latched onto one word or phrase in a post and pounded it into the ground, ignoring the entire post (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<snip> Further, it is my opinion that punishing both children whenever it is not easily determinable who is at fault engenders the notion that if you can just muddy the waters as to fault, you can get away with stuff to the extent of your victim (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "Why the *ocean* is blue" is not quite the same as the three sources you note, which all address "why *water* is blue". The phenomenom of the ocean taking on the color of the sky (in general) has been long observed and recorded by artists. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) From a simply pragmatic standpoint, I never saw the "no supper" punishment as that effective, including those few occasions when I was subject to it. It was too vague a punishment to have any lasting effect, even in terms of negative (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Am I wrong for saying this? Or is Larry wrong for tossing insults about? (...) Nope. From his message: (...) Is so, why is he so unwilling to admit that it was a pure fabrication? (...) I shall quote myself from my last message in this thread (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That is misinformation! Water DOES have an intrinsic blue colour: (URL) Learning" indeed! However, I must apologise for my earlier starement that the bluish tinge of water is due to scattering. It is due to selective absorption (there's the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I know this wasn't the point, but I have to say that such an action is a really disgusting abuse. The kids should be taught to work out their differences and play nicely. Forcing an abusive authority relationship on them won't do anything (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hi, My name is Christopher Weeks and I'm a debateoholic. Even when I know I shouldn't both responding, I find my fingers doing their inevitable dance on the keyboard. I just can't stop myself... (...) It sounds an awful lot like "infantile insults" (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's a recognized English word now. I wish I were still in college so I could use it in a paper! Dave! (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Youch, an insult. (...) Youch, an insult. (...) You are wrong on this. I am asking you to justify you quoting of a *fact*. (...) As you well know this is not my point. It is absolutely not my point. As I have said time and time again, I have (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Cobalt are a dark coppery brown. Titanium are gold. HSS are generally "natural", chrome, or black. If you drill all types of materials, it would be best to own HSS, Cobalt, Titanium, and a few carbide and diamond coated (still need to buy the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Gee, thanks =p (ok, ok, so our dollar sucks. But otherwise it's not bad here!) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ... (...) ... This is off-topic for .debate! FUT .geek ++Lar (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Art 101: large bodies of water take on the color of the sky. If the sky is gray, the water is gray, not blue. Lemme see.... (URL) down a bit - they even use the gray sky/gray water in the example. Bruce (Arrr...rrrgh! I've become (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It wasn't meant as rhetorical - it was a searching question. It most certainly wasn't a statement of the way things are. Examples tossed out for discussion - there could be other possiblities that I hadn't thought of, nor was I trying to (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Dang, am I getting your post mixed up with Duane's? Did I count the arrows incorrectly? Sorry if I did. I'm running under the Teddy Roosevelt Bullmoose banner! You heard it here first! Contributions accepted. Cash only, don't expect receipts. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well... the colour of the Sun will be subjective to how each individual perceives colour, but it's peak output definitely lies in the range that most people would call yellow. It is a whitish-yellow, because the Sun also radiates at all other (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yup. Most simply don't have a clue as to what the Libertarian Party is about. (...) Almost every Libertarian I met is fairly-well educated. (...) Essentially. One can view that as being bound by one's principles, or trapped by them, depending (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I've been re-reading your original and unsnipped post. It's taken me a while, but I may have just sorted out what you were trying to say. I still find it to be an inflammatory question, although I now think it to be mostly rhetorical. Am I (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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