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(...) I have flown since then. It was the same as before, yet vastly different, both at the same time in a spooky sort of way. Same terminals, same security guards at my end, but much more serious... and much less attitude from everyone involved. (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hmm... not sure if you are referring to whence resource property rights, or is it the luck factor that you are wondering about. (...) Chris has alluded to this problem in the past. Asserting labor mixin as a mechanism to getting title to previously (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In the case of United Airlines, rather than having to face the true weight of their possible negligence in terms of security failures leading up to the disasters, they have de facto been rewarded by govt. shielding that has given them a (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That is a correct restatement of what I said, yes. There are no rights to free goods. This is a fundamental tenet of my belief system. It is not held by all americans (witness those who feel a tithe to their church is a mandatory moral (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So why do *you* talk so much, then? :-) Your deficiencies boggle the mind. I believe I've answered this question of yours in other posts. But I will restate it for you since you seem to insist on repeating questions ad nauseum until the answer (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Cuba is a terrorist state (was Re: Any truth in this one - Cuba as a terrostist state.
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(...) I'm comfortable with the designation of Cuba as a terrorist state, (1). That perception of mine is based mostly on my perception of their actions in the 1980s in Africa. Recently they seem to have calmed down whether because they wanted to or (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Doubt he'll see that. Or this. I think we *both* made his kill file. (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes, in fact it was (...) No bet. They would have, based on the environment they operate in. (...) Actually there have been, as it turns out. All the major US networks have been requested not to show these taped missives any more and all (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You haven't demonstrated that to my satisfaction. (...) Minimum standards tend to become maximum standards in a regulatory environment. (...) There are other, better, mechanisms for changing this behaviour than regulations. Regulations give a (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) There is no perfect scheme but I prefer some process (undefined? what our founding fathers did? something else?) to ratify some basic set of rights and then sticking to those rather than allowing 51% majorities to override them on whim. If (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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