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(...) As an aside, I don't think I actually said that. I think they're all SUSPECT but some of them may well be correct. Especially the ones that have better data collection behind them. The statistic that started this strikes me as being VERY hard (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Put three libertarians together in a room and they won't be able to agree where to go for lunch...
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(...) True, true. Which is why some people say "democracy is the worst system of government ever invented, except for all the rest", or words to that effect. Me, I think there are even LESS good unfettered democracies than there are good dictators. (24 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, that's easy to say at this remove but second guessing is easy. I drew different conclusions from the same data. (...) Again, I drew totally different conclusions from the same data. (24 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Put three libertarians together in a room and they won't be able to agree where to go for lunch...
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(...) But there are so few good dictators ... :wq Horst (24 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I still hold that one bomb would have been enough. And maybe, since the US weren't ready to drop the bombs sooner, dropping them became unnecessary by the time it became possible. There is some indication for that, to say the least. :wq Horst (24 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pop-Up Stopper (was: Re: Photos of my MOCs)
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(...) I tried it, it seems to work well for me. Ironically, the outfit seems to be quite active in privacy issues and has some good resources for research into the topic if one is so inclined. (24 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | - The Osama Bin Ladin Song - VERY FUNNY!!!! ; )P
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**WARNING** DON'T PLAY THIS WHERE ANTI-WAR or TALIBAN SUPPORTERS CAN HEAR IT!!! You need speakers for this... ...and if you don't have them, go out and buy them! (URL) a good one!!! ; )P Darth Joules (24 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | deep frying chocolate (was Re: More LP S P A M : (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment))
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(...) How would one go about making one of these? This may be more fun than the chocolate covered tofu strips... ;) -chris (24 years ago, 20-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: On the veracity of statistics in general
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(...) Well, it seems obvious to me that if they have produced one study that is bogus, that all their work is suspect. Chris (24 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Violence created by presence of guns? (was: Gotta love Oracle...)
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(...) Yes. If a large chunk (say, 50%) of the US population used handguns and rifles to overthrow the national government for the sake of instilling a better one, I'm sure that we would defeat the military. They would not posess the will to put the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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