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(...) Here's another oddball thought: It's likely humanity will eventually cease to exist at some time in the future, anyway, so was it worth imparting such horror on the Japanese population, just to keep humanity going a bit longer? ROSCO (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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. (23 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. (23 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 (23 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 (23 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. (23 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 (23 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 (23 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 (23 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 (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: On the veracity of statistics in general
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(...) Both may be wrong: (URL) wait a second. The UN says there are only 70 million landmines: (URL) you check the ICBL site you will see that the measure the size of the mined areas - not the amount of mines in them. Perhaps you can do better (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm. The word “impartial” does *not* come to mind. Is this the best you can do? Even if you are correct. You have produced a report which suggests that one statistic may be wrong. Your argument alleges that the UN systematically produces duff (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was *not* Spam & Chips)
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(...) I can remeber the pictures. It was bad. (...) From: (URL) is substantial recent evidence that the natural hormone 17ß-oestradiol has to be considered as a complete carcinogen, concluded the independent scientists. It exerts both tumour (...) (23 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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(...) It was, but sight of that point was lost and unconstitutional restrictions imposed on what sorts of arms can be owned have now made it less realistic. That's the whole POINT of this debate, after all. (23 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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(...) Not a single word of arms there. What do you read between the lines? (...) Maybe, but even with the arms you US civilians do have, do you think that is realistic? :wq Horst (23 years ago, 16-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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(...) Can you bring up any examples that have straight relationship to the topic? The problem with your apples is they lie so close together that if one of them is rotten it can too easily infect the others. However, that does not say that the (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You are naughty Chris. (...) I think you are almost in the black now. Did GB not hand over $400,000,000 tax dollars a couple of weeks ago? (I could be wrong) (...) I hear what you are saying. I think that if it was used fully, it would work (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have not read it yet. You said you found it yesterday. What was your basis before then? When you said (04.10.01): "I have no faith in statistics that are originated by the UN unless independently corroborated, and that's a blanket (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was *not* Spam & Chips)
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(...) That sounds pretty extreme, and like the incautious use of Thalidimide, something to be avoided. On the other hand it doesn't suggest anything about current levels of hormone injection. To tie two threads together, Flouride is a deadly poison. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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