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(...) Right to privacy. Right against unreasonable search and seizure.... Absent of being suspected of a specific crime there is no constitutional requirement to say who in particular you are if you are in a public place. Certainly private property (...) (24 years ago, 24-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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(...) Which every single piece of legislation I've ever seen (except for legislation REPEALING gun control law) does. (24 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Horst, in future please don't trim the "who wrote what" lines away... if you cite some prose at 4 or 5 or 6 nest levels deep it's important to know who said what else you run the risk of severe misquoting. So the referenced post should have (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And you would hold that even if what they take away from you is pure luxury, whereas they need it to survive? Well, a humanistic attitude IMO goes a bit more towards enabling a decent life for everybody. It also does not contain a right to (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Pardon me? Operating Systems didn't cost a cent before Microsoft entered the game ... (...) So, Windows is a better OS than others in the marketplace, Word is better than all other word processing apps, Excel is better than Lotus 1-2-3, (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This is probably the best statement I have read here on the topic ... Thanks for it, Ross, and greetings Horst (who is a bit behind in reading news ...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) If security is a good, then the right to live has very little value as well. (...) It seems to be more in Europe than in the US. (...) That was too quick a victory for you to let it go ;-) First, I already have said that I see no way to (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, I may not be able to ... (...) Not if the interest to conform to the minimum standard is complemented by additional interest to do even better. (...) I never intended to *replace* tort law by regulations. I always thought of them as (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Whatever we in Germany have set down as basic rights can only be changed with 2/3 (instead of 1/2) of the votes. Not a perfect solution, but there has to be a legal way to change things that don't work well, even with basic rights ... :wq (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So, being asked for a proof of identity violates one of your rights? Which one? I would be opposed to any other than a very brief use of my ID information, but giving it out to briefly check whether I am on a list of wanted people seems OK (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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