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  Re: Government's role [Was: Re: What happened?]
 
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:14:52 GMT, "Simon Robinson" <simon@simonrobinson.com> wrote: <snip child deserves a mother and a father> (...) You've never heard _that_ old tired argument before? I've been beaten around the head with it so often it's getting (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Government's role [Was: Re: What happened?]
 
(...) You know, every time I see this world I get bad associations. It reminds me of dystopia (regardless of my actual opinion of the described world). Jasper (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Perl rules!
 
(...) You haven't seen Novell's Zenworks, I take it. It allows this for NT, 95, 98, yadda yadda yadda. (URL) Especially since IE (...) This is actually a network design issue, not a platform issue. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Perl rules!
 
(...) *shake* not quite true. HAve you ever learned a language foreign to you? I'v ebeen lucky enough to learn English as virtually a second mother language (early start, mostly), but I've also learnt French, German, Latin and ancient Greek (to (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Perl rules!
 
(...) From what I've heard, neither can NT, really. Especially since IE tends to store its cache in user space, which then gets transported right around campus over the network everry time someone logs on... Combine that with the 10 Mb ethernet (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Perl rules!
 
(...) Our chief weapon is Open Source. And freedom. Our two chief weapons are Open Source, freedom, and emacs. Oh. Our three chief weapons are Open Source, freedom, emacs, and vim. Oh, sod it. Jasper "Nobody expects... Richard Stallman!" Janssen (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Perl rules!
 
(...) Much as I would like to believe that sometimes IBM and MS are capable of creating something (1), this is one thing they simply grabbed and ran with. The *need* was already there; they simply told consumers that the *want* was there, only a few (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Perl rules!
 
(...) What demand? Intel and MS _created_ much of todays' demand for computing. They did this to make money. Why do you think another software company other than MS would have been any better? I know you're intelligent, so I'm not prepared to (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: naiveté (was: Re: Extropianism)
 
(...) Like I don't already? My appends are filled with shortcuts, references to past threads and codewords. Some can keep up. Some can't. Life is as it should be. There is no god but USD and Larry is his profit. (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: naiveté (was: Re: Extropianism)
 
(...) Agreed. I've pondered them. However I got more satisfactory answers than you did. (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Rights to free goods? (was Re: What happened?
 
(...) No, you have too little. I give more by proportion because I think about what it means a bit more. Change society to encourage the behaviours you want and you won't be relying on those like me who have indomitable will and faith in goodness, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Rights to free goods? (was Re: What happened?
 
(...) No. Nice try though. (...) So you're conceding the rights based argument, then? Good. (...) No. In THEORY it's impossible for any finite committee to outperform (that is, out allocate) the market, unless they have more information than the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: A young start?
 
(...) Hmm.. Around here, my personal experience about hyperactive kids tends to suiggest that 90% of the time it's an allergy, usually to coloring agents. Now, I dunno how real life in the US is, but the imported stuff we get from over there is (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: An interesting URL from my favorite newspaper
 
(...) Hey, you said it, I didn't ;) (...) Basically, we no longer live in a Dark Age frontier anymore? (...) Think about _that_ for a while. (...) Happy Good Riddance day, as a British friend of mine used to say... ;) Jasper (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
 
(...) And Muslim (sp?), and Christian... That wasn't just the English though. The majority of crusaders, IIRC, were continental. Jasper (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Rights to free goods? (was Re: What happened?
 
(...) That, I suppose, is the problem with the argument that those who deserve will get medical care through charity. You have too much faith in humanity. Jasper (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Rights to free goods? (was Re: What happened?
 
(...) No kidding? Man, you're weird. (...) And? Nothing wroing with ad hominem attacks, if you can support them properly with your arguments. If they can't, it's just more ammunition to use against them. Win/win situation, really.. Jasper (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Rights to free goods? (was Re: What happened?
 
(...) There you go again, mixing theory with practice. In _theory_, someone/some committee _with all the information_ making decisions can do better (as measured by the utilitarian principle) than the free market. Much in the same way that in (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: naiveté (was: Re: Extropianism)
 
long story:-p Been a little too busy to respond to all of these discussions the last few days, but they are very interesting and I plan to continue next week. Meanwhile, I will have Larry speaking in tongues after this weekend at the train show;-) (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: naiveté (was: Re: Extropianism)
 
(...) chooo? (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)


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