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(...) Lets not bring athrax etc into this :) (...) This is an interesting point. It is a generaisation, but in the UK low income families tend to have more kids than higher earners. Many couples (married or otherwsie) decide to have only one or no (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Maybe because I think what he has done is wrong? Maybe I think that by not sorting the situation that is worse? Maybe I think he should apoligaise? Maybe he will? Who knows? Who cares? Scott A (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Richard, Have you been cashing cheques in my name too? Scott A (The real one) (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, I think the "mechanism" of eveolution is more to do with small genetic changes that may not show any external effect for many generations. And though we've started looking into such things, we're nowhere near being able to "shut them (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "in part stopped evolving". I don't get the meaning of that. Humanity is either evolving or not - and I disagree that we've made any significant differences in these areas. Oh, maybe a little in the western world... (...) Nah, just more so (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) TROLL! TROLL! TROLL! 8?) Matt (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | The Truth at Last!!! (re: The Larry P. /Scott A. Show)
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Hey Y'all: I know it was wrong to do, and I feel really bad about it (HONESTLY!), but Larry P. and Scott A. are just fake personas I have occasionally been assuming to amuse myself online here in off-topic.debate. By a devilishly intricate means of (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ok, here's what I don't get. Better to what end? What happens when everyone comes to that conclusion? Do you get a prize? Does Larry get to no longer debate? Does the name calling stop? Why is it so phenomenally important that each of you (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This is what Larry does not get. I could be wrong by calling the LP a WMC (by his interpretation of the meaning of WMC). The way to solve that is show why I am wrong. To say I am a liar, Larry would 1st have to show (by his interpretation of (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Thanks for that Larry. I disagree with you. Chris disagrees with you. Perhaps you can now apologise and this will draw to a close? Scott A (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "the LP is a White Man's Club" was caricature which is now being taken out of context. I know that. Larry knows that. When I used the phrase I was questioned on the race issue. I was able to rapidly find two instances where the LP’s view on (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The more people that come to that conclusion the better as far as I am concerned. (...) I'm doing it in the rather vain hope that he will sort the mess out. I like to think that if I were in his shoes I would have sorted it either way. Scott (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm not quite sure I agree that those are the reasons we've put evolution on pause. After all, if a species is able to overcome certain challenges (disease, famine, etc), aren't they *not* selection factors? The birth defect thing and genetic (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oops. I take back what I just wrote. (...) But Larry, you know it won't. (...) I disagree. (I also disagree with Scott's assertion about the LP.) An organization coule be essentially a "white man's club" and still have a token black lady as a (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sorry for undercutting your well crafted (and ultimately correct) argument by answering, just now. ++Lar (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Maybe I should have said get a clue, but that seemed rude. He has hinted to you (by his silence) (end even directly stated it, for that matter) that he isn't going to be baited into further justifying his assertion that you're a liar. (...) (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) *sigh* Still no reading comprehension. You got all the apology you're going to get. However, if it will make you shut up, here's an example of a lie: "the LP is a White Man's Club" If you had retracted that statement after it was shown to be (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Too early to tell for sure but we as a species have in part stopped evolving because we have shut down most of the selection factors (disease, famine, the birth defect effect on reproduction) As for the survival of the race, we have to get (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) hint (INDIRECT STATEMENT) noun [C] a statement or action which expresses indirectly what a person thinks or wants and which allows another person to take no notice of it without causing offence So what is being hinted at? Is he hinting he (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Take the hint. Chris (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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