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Thanks, Larry. Scott (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: naiveté (was: Re: Extropianism)
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(...) Ah, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The problem with that, as I see it, is that some of the most unhappy people I've met also happened to be devout Christians. I can see that trying to live your life for others (and by extension - as Christians would see it - for God) can give (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Government's role [Was: Re: What happened?]
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Terry Keller writes: Got you now. Yes I have seen Airplane twice and I recall the joke now. Quite a good film. Simon (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) matter (...) man (...) just (...) Hmmm - I have to admit to being impressed there. That's about the first time I can ever remember seeing someone write down a reason for gay couples not adopting which sounds vaguely plausible, thought out, and (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) either of the pictures, and no particle accelerators either. (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes and Yes. They sucked. Hackwork and I don't mean that in a nice way. (...) I was ranting on Crichton, not those other hacks, but feel free. (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) A little exercise every day should take care of that, Lar. :-P Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Truly a sign of the times. I'm much, much more concerned about throwing away junk snail mail -- and the paper that goes into that waste -- than I am about someone stealing Internet bandwidth and wasting my time. Plus, I'm not too keen about (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) CP/M, I think. My TRS 80 model 1 which used an OS (called DOS)(1) which was CP/M derived, had it. 1 - once you started running the floppy. Before that you were just in the ROM BASIC interpreter all the time. I had 2 floppies. 11 hundred bucks (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Touché, Paul. (Nice truck, BTW!) But it is still a whole lot better than my old S-10 or a a Geo! Thanks for the correction! Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: naiveté (was: Re: Extropianism)
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(...) I started out good. I can't explain it. I actually became bad as an adolescent and I'm back to being a good person - but not really as good as I was when I was a kid. Short of having a temper problem, I was ethically perfect. I never stole, I (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: The Ozarks (was: Re: What happened?)
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(...) Gotcha. Sorry for my density. They were once mountains...biguns too...at least that's what they tell us. (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<37936594.15C0AA85@c...souri.edu> <379414EC.A40DFA0F@uswest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Well, I know there are a bunch of kids being raised as wards of the state instead of with loving (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Aquitted, not based on whether he did it or not, but as a message to even the score on racism. (...) Screwed up system doled out a little justice after all. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then;-) (...) Screwed up! Are you (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Would that be like if your ex-wife and her boyfriend were murdered, and it looked you did it, so you were tried for murdered, but you were acquitted, and so you got sued for "wrongful death"? Oh, wait; that's OK, because the suit is a *civil* (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The 1000-line limit in LEdit was a programming limitation. Nothing to do with anything evil in the OS, unless you consider lack of virtual memory evil (rather than just bad). Was the 8.3 file format originated with MS or DOS? I thought it was (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Funny, I think people who don't ponder these questions have a small view of this existence. I feel as if you are responding to the totality of religion through the ages, not what *I'm* saying. Please try to shed your prejudice against (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: naiveté (was: Re: Extropianism)
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You say this life is meaningless and that you need religion to give your life meaning. You say that you don't know what's after this life. Fine. You are welcome to your small view of this existance and your problems. But I ain't buying what you're (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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