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(...) ...and were readers supposed to know that? Were readers supposed to check Michael's every post? Why not mention it in your post? (...) Well, that's nothing to brag about. (...) This is not about your track. (...) Interesting. I can see a salty (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Rooting out nests of snakes and destroying them
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(...) Is this what you think justice means? Scott A (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: - The Osama Bin Ladin Song - VERY FUNNY!!!! ; )P
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One does not have to be "anti-war" or a "Taliban supporter" to find it offensive. Indeed, if I were anti-war I'm sure the way events are depicted on the page would confirm my views. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | What, no answer? (Re: On the veracity of statistics in general)
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(...) What, no answer? Scott A (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Ok, show me where I have lied? Or apologise.
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(...) No. Had Scott said "the LP is disproportionately skewed demographically to males and caucasians" that would be one thing. It's even something I've said myself in the past, along with other observations about makeup. But to say it is a "White (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Larry's behaviour
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(...) Ban one of us. Do the poll I suggested. I have my preference as to which, but would support a democratic outcome either way. I have my honor, too, so would abide without a need for administrative intervention to enforce it. And then, once that (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Larry's behaviour
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(...) That's not what I asked. I *KNOW* you think he should apoligaise. I *KNOW* why *YOU'RE* doing it. You're way too proud to bother giving it up. You're addicted to the idea that you'll win. But that's not what I asked. I asked why is it better (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Larry?
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(...) our civil law enforcement system, even if we are certain that they have violated the rights of thousands of innocent civilians, until they have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be guilty. These are merely suspects. If the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Larry?
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I figure Larry will have something to say about this, but it's interesting reguardless: (URL) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: train track prservation
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(...) That's an issue with your reading comprehension, not the message. (...) When someone catches you in a lie, pointing it out is "bickering", apparently. That's another lie. This "bickering" characterisation is the same lie you used to try to (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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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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| | Re: Larry's behaviour
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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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| | Re: The Truth at Last!!! (re: The Larry P. /Scott A. Show)
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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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| | Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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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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| | Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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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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| | Re: The Truth at Last!!! (re: The Larry P. /Scott A. Show)
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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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| | Re: Larry's behaviour
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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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| | One day my name will be in lights!
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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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| | Re: I can't stand not to see my name in lights (was: Ok, show me where I have lied? Or apologise.)
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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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| | Re: Ok, show me where I have lied? Or apologise.
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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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| | Larry's behaviour
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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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| | Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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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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| | Re: Ok, show me where I have lied? Or apologise.
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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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| | Re: I can't stand not to see my name in lights (was: Ok, show me where I have lied? Or apologise.)
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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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| | Re: I can't stand not to see my name in lights (was: Ok, show me where I have lied? Or apologise.)
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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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| | Re: Ok, show me where I have lied? Or apologise.
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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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| | Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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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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| | Re: I can't stand not to see my name in lights (was: Ok, show me where I have lied? Or apologise.)
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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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| | I can't stand not to see my name in lights (was: Ok, show me where I have lied? Or apologise.)
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(...) Take the hint. Chris (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Oddball thoughts (was: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?)
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(...) horror (...) Humanity will blossom into many other things that will spread across the universe. It doesn't particularly matter if humanity as we see it now continues. I don't think that bombing Japan enabled the continuation of humanity (at (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Ok, show me where I have lied? Or apologise.
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(...) *Sigh* Still no answer. Scott A (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Tangents (was: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?)
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(...) morality (...) Lets take it back to another example (and no, it's not an analogy). If an escaped murderer breaks into my house, ties up my family and threatens to kill them, but I manage to evade him & get to where my gun is. What should I do? (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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(...) Me either! Wow, cool--LUGNET is the apex of evolution! :D (...) *HAHAHA* "Chimpity?" I love it! Oh, yeah, forgot the little ™ (Alt+0665 to make the spiffy extended-char trademark symbol) But, as a matter of point, evolution didn't turn chimps (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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(...) technique (...) When? No-one told me... (...) I don't totally agree. Evolution turned chimps into humans. We definitely don't consider them "humanity" though they may well consider us "chimpity"(tm). At some point, humans will likely evolve (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: - The Osama Bin Ladin Song - VERY FUNNY!!!! ; )P
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(...) We don't want to fight, But by Jingo if we do, We've got the ships, We've got the men, And got the money too. We've fought the Bear before, And while we're Britons true, The Russians [pr.:"Rooshins"] shall not have Constantinople. -G. W. Hall (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?
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(...) Er, yes, there is. Read Dave's statement, to which you replied "Yes," again. You say, thus, that they *are* morally equivalent. The term isn't the problem (it hasn't been for most of the .debaters), it's the semantic baggage that goes with a (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Oddball thoughts (was: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?)
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(...) How do you figure? In part it depends on your definition of "we". Humanity has "stopped evolution" recently, and is poised to "take control of evolution" with genetic engineering of ourselves. I say "we" are what we make ourselves into, but (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Oddball thoughts (was: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?)
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(...) Nah, just an oddball thought. People seemed to be considering "what if"s, and that was my oddball "what if" taken to extremes 8?) (...) We'd have to come up with some sort of practical interstellar travel technique first - the solar system's (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Oddball thoughts (was: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?)
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(...) Was that a serious question? What are the alternative values to weigh against? I see humanity as good for millions of years, actually. We may actually last all the way to the heat death of the universe, we're pretty clever. (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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