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(...) I think the point is that they're not trying to clear the whole forest; they're just trying to remove certain trees. With environmental legislation affecting how corporations use natural resources, minimal disturbance might be an attractive (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) OMGoodness--I agree with Scott A! Yeah, instead of identifying the problematic issues that cause anti-US sentiment, let's get a good PR campaign to 'spin' it. I think that some of the anti-US sentiment is *un*justified, but there are some (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm. This reminds me of when the Conservatives lost power in '97. Rather than recognise their problems, they simply claimed that voters misunderstood their agenda and tried to make the result go away. That very attitude was part of their (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm. This reminds me of when the Conservatives lost power in '97. Rather than recognise their problems, they simply claimed that voters misunderstood their agenda and tried to make the result go away. That very attitude was part of their (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ... and Sweden is just between. I'm sorry for bringing this old thread back to life, but I'd just like to point out that following the UN nomination of Norway's place on the top of the "quality of life" index, the Independet reporter Paul (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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No thanks, I'm looking at Florida, where I can buy a current house, approx 1 acre lot, 2500-3000+ sq ft, 4 BR, and anywhere from 2-4 car garage (some detached, some not) for $175-250K. And no state income tax ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Sun ONE (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) insane. (...) $400K, and (...) Move to Saline MI For illustrative purposes, only, not for sale 1650 SqFt 4 BR 2 Bath Full LEGO storage area (basement) It's a ranch 2-1/2 Car garage and plenty of street parking (no meters) Best public schools (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrigl@math.uio.no> wrote in message news:qrdptx4e5t8.fsf....uio.no... (...) Well she nearly has as many pairs of shoes :-) Just how many do women need?!!?? She did try it once before. I was on a project in Dallas for 4 (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Unless she has the budget of Imelda Marcos, I don't think it will make much of a difference! ;-) Fredrik (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) interesting contrast in the BBC version (URL) the BBC report voices some valid reasons why their is anti-US feeling around the world, even in Europe and the UK, the CNN version seems to report that it is the rest of the world who simply (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I would have to agree. I had never seen anything posted about the mouse before, and I thought it was pretty cool. I would rather have something posted 40 times and me see it than have it posted once and me not see it at all. Now I do agree (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Oh come now. Not everyone reads every group. Don't stifle the flow of information. I, for one, am interested in all cool Lego related things, and I don't care how many times people tell me. (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's pretty sketchy. My question was essentially rhetorical. I didn't expect to get any kind of reply at all -- the fact that I got replies from some of the usual persons makes those replying apologists (the negative connotation this word (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm. I didn't intend it to be a statement of your character - I've seen enough of your posts to know you're intelligent enough to see it for exactly what it was - "a famous trick question". I was highlighting, admittedly in an oblique way, (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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The only GOOD mustards are BROWN, OK? ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Sun ONE Internet Technical Support, Sun Microsystems | iPlanet Support - (URL) Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) OMGoodness-- You wold get along famously with my girlfriend. She calls me up the other night and starts talking about cob homes and alternative housing. Wow, twice in as few weeks. Dave K. (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This is a really good book. It has funny stuff as well as lots of really good tips on building your composting toilet and how to manage the compost heap and avoid unpleasant odors. The truth is that we blow huge amounts of energy to purify (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Since 70% of the world's fresh water is locked up as ice in Antarctica, I presume the 40% is refering to liquid water. Just break me off a chunk the size of Connecticut and let's make a really big Margarita... Bruce ("Let's blow this 'berg," (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I've been inclining towards some sort of 'Gaia' system, wherein the earth is the mother of all things living. I mean, in our daily lives, microbes on mars or concepts of aliens on another planet are fun do discuss and theorize, but when I (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Norse God of Thunder = Thor dogpoop = Cheech and Chong Black Madonna = Paganism is alive and well in the Roman Catholic Church. Green Fairies = Absinthe Aristotle = High Priest of rational inquiry FWIW, and although I realize no one cares and it is (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah, I don't have ready access to any of my old cultural or physical anthropology standbys so all I can do is assert some stuff from memory. The linked theories here are those concerning "serial monogamy", "sperm wars", and "love as chemical (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My favorite Fleetwood Mac era was when Bob Welch was with them. Must have been that phase of my childhood I spent in a bit of a fog. :-) I never cared too much for Bob Welch solo or FM before or after that. But then my favorite single FM song (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) A! Elbereth Gilthoniel! silivren penna miriel o menel aglar elenath, Gilthoniel, A! Elbereth! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees The starlight on the Western Seas. (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Then you'd get along famously with my friend Andrew, who appreciates Fleetwood Mac more than any other band. He always gets bummed 'cause FM get these concert tours started but before they reach any venue close to here, they split up (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) [snip] (...) hehe! And I like how they manage to sneak in a bit of Churchill's speech too 8?) But I gotta say, I rank Fleetwood Mac (various incarnations) above Supertramp - there's just more of their songs that I like! (And I got to see MF + (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I was 9 when I bought 'Crime of the Century' -- LP!! (Still have it--I actually have 2 milk crates full of records and don't own a record player) I missed the 'Famous Last Words...' concert tour by 5 minutes--I was off timing and scorekeeping (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's only Logical what Song my favorite would have to be.... Maggie C. (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I kinda like "Fool's overture" and "Babaji" (can you guess my fave album?) ROSCO (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nope, can't be--the guy lived. Most likely, he's still got a chance at propogation. Steve (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Home again, home again, Jiggedty jig. Bruce Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a seret gate; And though I oft have passed them by, A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Start passing out the cigars. I may not know all the principles that Aristotle laid out, but if it's based on the concept that" Quoteth Hop-Frog " (...) " summed up into " (...) " I'm on the same page. Whether we disagree that I have always (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I am not sure how to take this statement. Are you accepting Aristotlean methods as the chief utility of scientific thought and all rational inquiry, or are you somehow thinking that you go from "I don't know" to asserting the existence of your (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "Take the long way home..." (my favourite song from my favourite group...) (...) Then consider it grasped, my friend. I made a statement that equated science as a god, and for that, I apologize. If I say that science is not a god, can we agree (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I'm not sure of the point of the selective recap, but I'll let the others answer for themselves. (...) "Once there was a way, to get back home...." You are the one equating science and god. Yes, I know, you are staring at your screen and saying, "I (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Oops, talk about getting distracted at work--my God exists *for me*, whether you believe it or not--was a stupid omission, not a malicious one. Dave K. (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes: <snip> (...) <snip> People 'make gods' to explain things. I think that's a pretty much historically accurate statement. Not *all* people 'make up' gods--some folks don't have any gods, and (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(This is a very interesting thread to follow, imo :) something isn't right here: (...) no, C1 will only follow if P1 said: P1: Science can explain only the physical universe. Which is not the claim that was made, I believe. I'm not sure what would (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This was kind of a sub-point that you took the wrong way. Instead of discussing the stuff that stems from that, I'd like to restate slightly. It seems when you claim that to some that science is a god _because_ those people assert that science (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes: <snip> (...) That about sums it up for me, as well. Nicely said. Dave K. (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And I mention to you, Dave! right now, that questioning 'the reasoning for the assertion' instead of the 'reasons' for it, makes my point *even* more clear-- If I were to ask: Is black, black? I have my reasons for saying that this should be (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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