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| (...) Arg. I got carried away, sorry Jon. It's nothing personally directed towards you. If anyone wants to get my blood boiling, look at a particularly horrifying war atrocity diorama and say, "you know, that would look cool in another setting". (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
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| (...) These were all custom jobs; the person who put the boxes together is Zbigniew Libera, a Polish artist expressing his views on the recent trivialization of the Holocaust. The first time I saw it, I cried. You can find some descriptive text (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: What happened?
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| (...) DVD players are not made up. I've seen them in action. Now, teleportation units are made up. Mostly. (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: What happened?
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| (...) Oh, here is some logical thinking! Come now, Edward! Scott Sanburn Before replying, please refer to a anatomy book on humans, you might learn something! (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: What happened?
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| (...) I'm in the process of finding a new employer now, and I'm using recruiters (headhunters) for the first time. What am I supposed to answer when they ask what I make? I'd rather not tell them, but I also don't want them to fail to pass on my (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: What happened?
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| (...) I thought Falwell was in Southern California... Steve (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: What happened?
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| Not all American's own guns, much less being "gun nuts". It is written in our Constitution, the right to bear arms, simply to arm the citizens just in case they are tired of a overbearing, federal monstrosity that is devouring our personal liberties (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Here we go... :-) I think they should have that right but they are only allowed to have a 10 second fuse activated upon purchase. (...) But remember they have to pay for everything with user-end fees, oh dear I'm in hospital dying, got $10k? (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: stunningly geedy people
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| (...) hehe, that's typical of a Dutchman :-) :-) (added 2 smilies just in case). Burgulary was a problem until we legalized it... now it's no longer a problem.... Carbon 60 (25 years ago, 20-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: What happened?
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| On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:34:44 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities... (...) I wasn't expecting an answer! However, good luck! It must be quite exciting to be part of a small, up-and-coming firm. I imagine, being a part of (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: What happened?
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| Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <376B8E64.D5F6383E@v...er.net>... (...) I've always assumed part of it is the corporations not wanting employees to know how bad a deal they've got. Of course a more reasonable reason is the corporation not wanting (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: Perl rules!
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| (...) I didn't mean to say that it was necessary for a language to be "high level" but it certainly is a common property of high-level langauges (for example Lisp/Scheme, Logo, PostScript*, and Perl). (...) It certainly has a variety of mis-uses, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Perl rules!
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| Good post! (...) I agree with most all you say, but I am surprised that you consider this: in-memory compilation of arbitrary code constructed on-the-fly, necessary for a language to be "high level". I rather consider it a potential pitfall for the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: What happened?
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| (...) Enough to make me quite happy. For whatever reason, in the US, it's rude to ask specific details, and it would not be prudent for me to answer publicly in more detail. Why salaries and comp are closely guarded may be an interesting .debate (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Perl rules!
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| (...) Amen to that. Perl is the first general-purpose programming language I've ever used* which hasn't yet made me mad at it because it couldn't do something in a clean and straightforward way. It's amazing: I just never get mad at Perl. Instead, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: What happened?
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| Once upon a time, (on Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:52:22 GMT, to be precise!), Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities.... (...) Ah ha. Hmmmm. How much %age of the company were you offered? (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Absolutely. And let's burn all copies of Lott we can find, using the original Constitution as lighting-fluid. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Come now. Python uses whitespace to indicate nesting. Even perl knows better than that. Hell, friggin' BASIC knows better than that. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: stunningly geedy people
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| (...) And what's so bad about that, eh? Somebody's gotta do it. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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