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(...) This is only new in that it can be used to detain people who have otherwise legitimate papers. If you're found to be somehow suspect or in violation of your visa, you already *can* and often *are* detained without trial indefinitely, in (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) I'm not an immigrant in the US: "For example, it denied the administration the power to detain indefinitely and without charges immigrants suspected of involvement in terrorism. The bill does expand the limit to seven days of detention, from (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Gotta love Oracle...
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(...) Including things like this: (URL) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, I think you mean a Canadian. (Celine Dion) James P (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Horst: Absolutely right. What matters over here is GOD and MONEY, or GODMONEY. Nobody cares if thousands of homosexuals suffer and die. Bible sales are up. At the top of the music charts are patriotic songs (sung by a French woman?). Our civil (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but i didn't know where else it really fit. I was at DCI (Drums Corps International) 2001 Summer Music Games finals on August 11th. DCI has now posted a .mov file of the traditional finale - a medley (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Make that two: Brazil and South Africa. I have followed the brazilian case through Cable, so I understood some of the $$ involved. Nasty $-diplomacy... The brazilians have had some success since the introduction of State-manufactered drugs in (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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... or why foreign patents are less important than US patents To me it seems the US are trying to save some money in this case, whereas they did just about everything to protect their own profits with anti AIDS products. This even extends beyond (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Wouldn't that, at least gradually, also have to depend on whether the road or the residents were first to be there? :wq Horst (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I just came across this article, and thought that it would make good debate fodder. (It's sure to raise some hackles from some quarters.) It is by Bernard Wasserstein, Professor of History at the University of Glasgow, and President of the Jewish (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think it is about time, with this reference, that the government says maybe we have gone a little too far. I mean, I can understand the book Hayduke Lives! as something that might turn an eye, but HARRY POTTER?!?! My god. What is the threat, (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) and typically Strine too (eg brekkie=breakfast, kindie=kindergarten). I'd never heard it before: as far as I knew "commo" and "commie" exclusively referred to communist. Ross mentioned the Holden vs Ford clan rivalry -- maybe that satisfies (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Can somebody who understands this please explain the point about his driving licence? I assume it is used as ID? What does the date matter unless he intended to drive the plane to his planned destination? I mean this part: ==+== And the final reason (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Did you ever think that getting an answer from you was not the only aim? (...) It is my view that apart from the "what no answer" type posts you only answer the useless ones – i.e. the ones where you can score a cheap point. When I do make a (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't. People can (and do) get this wrong. If anyone wants to take an issue to debate, let them move it there. It’s no big deal. People should be able to reply to any message in any *appropriate* group. (...) For rules 2 & 3. I think there (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You are starting to sound desperate. Scott A (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No. (...) Good point. (...) The ones near us had their last calf a year or so ago now (they are now too old to safely have any more). The newborn calves are dream. Their feet are huge, they look like they could never lift them. As the calves (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The ones near us had their last calf a year or so ago now (they are now too old to safely have any more). The newborn calves are dream. Their feet are huge, they look like they could never lift them. As the calves get older they tend to (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No. It will end in bickering. (...) I don't agree with you on that. Scott A (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Indeed. Need to dig into the "why" of that, because just about everything you've posted as a disadvantage I see as an advantage! (...) I heard "commo" and "commie" a lot while I was there. Even the Holden guy at the torch relay ceremony Holden (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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