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Richard Dee wrote in message ... (...) following (...) Well, the US has had the good fortune of not having many wars at home lately. It makes it difficult for the opponents to bomb our civilian targets. However, had they the good chance to do so, I (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 04:45:11 GMT, Mike Stanley uttered the following profundities... (...) We have had a similar situation in the UK recently. There were a few refugees from Montserrat during the spate of eruptions that came to the UK. They were a (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 03:52:06 GMT, Christopher L. Weeks uttered the following profundities... (...) The only positive thing was the quick and rapid end to the war. I still think that it could have been brought to just as rapid a close had the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That actually sounds nice! Kwajalein was about 80 degrees F and about 80% humidity during the day, year round. Oh, it was heaven compared to Utah -- today is around 90 F and very dry. Yuck. X-P Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Don't come to Michigan! Right now its 90 with around 95% humidity! Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I've enjoyed this conversation. I'm in Missouri, where real sutheners think of us as Yankees, and Yankees think of us as hillbilly Southerners. You know, I just don't like most people whether they live in Maine or Alabama. What I really hate (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yup. Sure hope I'm not sounding like I defend racism of any kind, but something in me would rather be able to point out the danger zones easily than to bump up against them without some kind of warning. (...) Heh, dunno. I've met a handful of (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Christopher L. Weeks <c576653@cclabs.missouri.edu> wrote: I'll have to respond to more of this later, especially the situation-specific stuff. Maybe privately since I would assume it might bore others. (...) No, dial-up service is not free, although (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But somehow, it seems more organized in the South. Take for instance: the KKK, the John Bircher Society, the state of Alabama, etc. (...) :-D How about an openly biased Yankee? I don't know if I can call myself a Yankee, though. I've lived (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) For the record none of the ~350 images I've cleaned have been uploaded yet. Anyways, what I do is take a scan of a chart and remove extranious pixels and lines from them. It is by far one of the most boring jobs in the world, but the pay is (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Oops ... forgot to mention that the new place is about 3 blocks away from my current place. AND, he didn't know my current salary. (...) -- Lee Jorgensen, Programmer/Analyst - Bankoe Systems, Inc. mailto:jorgensen@bankoe.moc <-- reverse moc (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I got a job proposal (which I'm starting on Monday), and that had a 50% jump. But I agree that a 100% jump is pretty steep. There are several reasons that I feel that I got: 1) Current programmers are focused on other things, and need somebody (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) We have roughly 30K students and 10K faculty and staff since we're the home of the state university system. We run the public computing sites 800+ workstations in 15 locations. Mostly we help with the equipment in the room, but we also do (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I think there is a K-mart somewhere in there, but most of the stores are in the commercial districts, on the West and East of downtown. Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm not surprised. My wife Rachael lived in CT for 10 years after living in TN for a few years. She's told me loads of stories about basically ignorant northerners who seem to have this vision of the South as being something out of Andy (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You have 150 employees working helpdesk? My God, how many students do you have? What kind of services do you provide to your students via the helpdesk? Might be scary to admit, but at a school of more than 25k students, we have 5 full-time (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm not convinced. I think we basically had to really drive home that we don't view the world the way they did, and that we were willing to do anything possible to destroy them. I think we managed that with as little loss of value as possible. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I would say that it's the norm for a midwestern public university in a town where the ACCRA cost of living index is .9 or so. People move from here to industry in St. Louis or Kansas City and typically pick up a %50+ raise. Moving to the west (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Pearl Harbor wasn't destroyed. Messed up, yes. But vital strategic assets were untouched--the oil tank farms most prominently. Had those been knocked out, it would have taken the USN *years* to rebuild those fuel oil stocks. The sub pens, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Those are marvelous! I'm off to London on Tuesday to do work in the British Library Map Library and the War Office...er, DoD. So I do historical charts too, in a sense...I just look at charts of colonial holdings and dissect them in a dry, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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