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(...) I guess it also depends on what you're learning-- I get the sense (From other people I know in the field) that things like Biochemistry and Medicine are a little more fact-oriented than method-oriented. Unlike (in my case) computer (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Maybe you just have overly expensive taste in groceries... Next time you come across such a cashier and your order is $7.78, give him $10.28 and watch his mind melt. (...) That is a fantastic observation! By the end of my fourth semester (my (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) One thing which makes me tend not to trust these education surveys is that in the US, almost every child goes through high school, and a huge percentage go to college. In other countries, starting somewhere around the high school age (or even (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Heh. You're omitting the important part! 8^) You've previously described "smaller tyrannies" as preferable to One Mega Tyranny, and as more beneficial to the flexibility of the marketplace. I have come to agree, and I think it holds for (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I can't think of many overpaid Government employees, but looking at a picture of the castle that the CEO of Enron is/was having built made me sick. Everywhere in commercial companies there's a handful of fat cats (literally, usually) who just hand (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Haha! That's classic! It would be nice comic relief if those guys showed up in the new Starship RPG... :) -H. (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah, we just need to give geography some sex appeal-- then we'll learn it! :) (...) I once knew all the state capitals. Now I remember probably about half of them. I have to admit, though, sometimes I'm suprised to see how many American (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think I know who you mean and he certainly wasn't hired by ME, not even a little bit. Nor was his dad, for that matter. (...) Ashcroft? Not sure who you mean, as there are so MANY candidates, unfortunately, that fit the description. (...) I (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Maybe if americans would concentrate more on geography and less on Britney Spears they'd get their 'precision bombing' right the next time... These surveys are not designed to make american kids look stupid. They're just made to test general (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I can think of one gov't employee I'd really like to see fired, but he was more-or-less hired by his dad. I've worked a number of jobs alongside sons or daughters of the employer, and time and again I've observed their tendency to, let us say, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) fired (compared to how for profit businesses where employee performance presumably matters) is not the same thing as suggesting that there ought to be a quota(1) on how many people get fired a year in government. The point is that US (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) These appalling results were similar in the previous generation. I worked in the mapping business from 1990-1994 and there was no shortage of these articles wringing hands over the un-oriented college students of the 80s. University of (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think these surveys are specifically geared to make American kids look dumb. They should change the survey. How about "Can you find the nearest Target(R) store on this map?" or "Which beer commercial is better?". Let's see other countries (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I thought this was pertinent: (URL) 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn't even locate the U.S. on a map. The Pacific Ocean's location was a mystery to 29 percent; Japan, to 58 percent; France, to 65 percent; and the United Kingdom, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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in my humble opinion... (URL) saw him on Letterman last week and was going to mention it here, but just never got around to it. Now there's an article about him on Larry King. He basically said all the same stuff on Letterman. I liked the bit where (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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This is in the wrong group. FUT OTD (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) own state, thankyouverymuch! I'm not surprised that Rick Santorum, evangelizing Christian creationist and legislative apologist, would back this bill, but it's truly disheartening that the entire state legislature sees fit to establish a (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Furthermore, Jefferson laid the path to "Big Government" with its foreign entaglements when he effectively launched the american navy. Having a huge mercantile fleet and no way to protect it simply lead to piracy - and the worst kind of piracy (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Are you saying people should get fired just to meet some sort of Quota? What I want to know is who elected the politicians who oversee this mess?! ;) (...) particularly what money is available for staff training/development, salaries and (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) if only he knew... scott a (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Jefferson, such as: (...) In this passage Jefferson states explicitly (and correctly) that no one is able to predict the needs of the future with any relevance, and that includes Madison as well as Jefferson himself. Dave! (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Here's part of how the change was made: (URL) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Well now here is a very nice article all the Libertarians in the audience should enjoy. (URL) of posting the link refers to the November 13th, 2002 article. -Mike Petrucelli (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Work for the US Federal Government, that's how! "Federal personnel data shows that just 434 civilian federal workers were fired for poor performance in 2001." (well under 1 in a thousand... not surprising since 98%+ get "fully satisfactory" (...) (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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The original post: (URL) Notes--hockey player dad sues league for not awarding his son MVP. The story continues, getting better: (URL) the league has suspended hockey player and dad from hockey events. Hmmm... What will happen now? I await with (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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American Incompotent Justice System (URL) K. (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Have you been watching war movies again? ;) This is what Ambrose had to say about the D-Day campaign [a/the key WW2 campaign]: ==+== That a cross-Channel attack against the Atlantic Wall could even be contemplated was a tribute to what Dwight (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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UK Perspective on US elections Both from yesterday's Guardian: The rescue parties (URL) with a choice between two ugly parties, the electorate, quite rationally, stayed at home. In the US, as in Britain, young voters have all but abandoned party (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I really do love living in the UK Israelis fear war crimes arrests (URL) Israeli government has ordered an urgent assessment of whether its politicians and soldiers could face arrest and trial for war crimes while travelling abroad. The move (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes. (...) I expect the cost would have been high, but worth paying. (...) Others have already. But if it matters to you, feel free to disprove it. (...) I think it is every bit as relevant as WW1. The USA continues to make bad decisions – (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm not "anti-American", I'm pro-justice. Understand the difference. Scott A (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Not at all. Blacks *did* have serious civil rights issues. Most of the country has been able to get beyond simple racism. Today many blacks face many social and economic problems (as does everyone else!)-- but to continually blame racism is (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why not? Why are millions well (...) You choose to dodge my question, so I'll ignore yours for the moment. Are you claiming that blacks haven't been put into a difficult position in the first place due to factors mentioned above? You may ask (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) *Are* all blacks in the "less money" hole? Why not? Why are millions well off, dispite all of the things you mentioned? I am not trying to sweep all of those things under the rug; I am calling for people who use such arguments as excuses to (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) How did blacks get into the "less money" hole? Are you honestly trying to sweep slavery, racism, Jim Crow laws, blocking of access to education, discrimination in the workplace under the rug? If you pretend that this didn't happen, then you (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) nothing (...) "neither", (...) here. Thanks for not going there again. (...) Where did I mention muslims? ROSCO (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Islam is not "Believe or die", nor it ever was. Neither was Christianity. Yet, both religions were used as pretexts by loonies - that is inevitable! (...) I have a hard time believing Allah wrote the Khoran. Somehow I tend to follow a more (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'd argue the "true but irrelavant" charge. Ignore Europe, stomp Japan with all our resources (is anyone contesting we couldn't do it?) then deal with Germany. Japan only took so long because they were on the constant back-burner. It's a silly (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I know that. I was referring to the use of the two bombs as part of a larger conflict - they were not a terrorist act themselves, IMHO. (...) It is not terrorism, but it is close. The name for it is "total war", a concept that was born in the (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What about US corporations preventing their laborors in the third world from unionizing? I'm sure they have had a hand in local politics as well. Didn't anyone see Zoolander (half joking). (...) Pittsburgh has largely cleaned itself up. Most (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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