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Larry you pre-suppose the question I asked required yes/no answer. I do not concede it did. I don't like yes/no questions as the respondent does not have to justify their answer. I suspect you like them for that very reason. (...) That is perhaps (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) they (...) (4721, (...) ones). (...) Hot (...) innate. (...) The time has come, huh? House of the Dead 2? Death Crimson OX? Gee Richard, how do I know this isn't part of your plot to recruit more beings to the Dark Side? Maggie (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If there is a causal relationship that is strong enough to be worried about, then surely it is something that an attempt at correlation would find. Since such correlation hasn't been shown, I think that we can temporarily behave like there is (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Scott, you haven't shown any such thing. You have shown that _you_ _think_ they can't be trusted. Based on the fact that some people in the past have made mistakes. Since I can demonstrate government agencies that make hideous, disasterous, (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I answered it. Not my fault if you weren't paying attention. Let's try an example. Suppose Dave! asks you, Scott Arthur, the following question: "Have you always been the complete and utterly clueless twit you are today?" and demands a "Yes" (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well can you justify your comments after reading the text I quote? Scott A (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This is cazy logic. You talk like sanctions are good & proven weapon which always work. They are not. (...) I agree. (...) You mean they did not agree with your "grasp right and wrong". (...) Can you prove she was "booby trapped and falsely (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GKKrsr.651@lugnet.com... (...) Except no one is talking about x-box'es and no one expects the state to provide x-boxes on welfare. But had Fred Bloggs Jr been hungry because of the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snip first two parts of rebuttal> (...) No, it is in fact quite important, else you leave things hanging and you leave things open to the chattering classes claiming that 911 was our fault, for example. Let's try an analogy. Suppose Fred (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Maggie -- these kids need light guns. The time has come. I recommend a Sega Dreamcast system, and these three titles: House of the Dead 2, Confidential Mission, and Death Crimson OX. For what it's worth, all three games feature female and male (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have to say that this statement continues to puzzle me. You are saying that the state of Israel has never attacked or otherwise harmed any civilians, right? Just to take recent events, you are probably aware that since the start of the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You don't agree with this then: from: (URL) OF SANCTIONS DIRECT EFFECTS (immediate) 1. Decreased Imports Medicines Food Imports Agricultural Inputs - fertilizer, pesticides, spare parts Industrial/Commercial inputs/parts Other spare parts Fuel (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Shame on her. Shame on you for not answering the question. (...) I have never stated that I thought it was true. The fact that your govermnet agrees with though does give it some credance. (...) Really? From: (URL) both Iraq and Haiti, (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Agree with all that. (...) Don't really agree with this, however I think it's pointless debating who's at fault in such a case. Probably more important is the fact that the US let Saddam's propaganda machine continue, so there's probably a few (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This is a "have you stopped beating your dog" question. Shame on you. Madeline Albright is not my nominee for best Secretary of State for the 20th century, and her answer to this question is part of the reason why. I reject that 500K children (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And I for one have got a lot out of these (and other) threads. Debate isn't about stating your opinion & defending it to the death. It's about working out what your opinion is, based on as much information as you can get from *anywhere*. (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This IS a great question, and I have trouble putting my finger on the difference too. Actually I'm not terribly familiar with many video games at all, so most of what I have heard is secondhand (and I prefer to keep it that way). My impression (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nothing (short of raising a number of kids in Skinner boxes) can *experimentally* answer this, would be my suspicion. Otherwise too many factors muddy whether it's a cause or not... (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Don't worry--if you were a postmodernist I'd've called for your censure long ago! (...) Exactly! Dave! FUT OT.F (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This is especially interesting to me because they're part of the same intellectual "line." Plato was a student of Socrates, and Aristotle a student of Plato. They differed on that and many other points, but the idea behind both of their (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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