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(...) I agree with this comment 99%. Part of the 1% is the post I refereed to where he called Duq a "another America hater". I think these sort of comments are very weak. I don't agree with 100% of Duq's post, but he does make a lot of very valid (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You are mixing political satire with being offensive. I just don't see the point of calling someone's comments "hatful", ungrateful or as being "divorced from reality" as being all that constructive. I’d have been less concerned if you had (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) He can't tell anyone as: a) We are all scared of the unknown... especially when he talks in hushed tones........ spooky! b) It would put the future stream of information at risk - the fact that pretty soon the whole country will be overrun by (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So the population density of inhabitable China would be roughly double which is still about half that of Taiwan and remains insignificant compared to Hong Kong. (...) Assuming that is actually where most of their whealth is derived, is it not (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ummmmm, do you understand the significance of the smiley face I put behind the statement? What I said was accurate, but I knew it not to be the norm, and thus the smiley face so you'd know not to take it too seriously. But I will stress that (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In Italy *some* cars are allowed to drive up to 150 km/h. And in a country of the Iberian Peninsula which shall remain nameless one can illegally drive 1.6 liter engines to the limit, at 200km/h, without much fear of being arrested... :-) (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Bruce Schlickbernd" <corsair@schlickbernd.org> wrote in message news:H9LEJC.7q@lugnet.com... <snip> Middle East oil goes to Europe, where they drive their 5 liter V12 engines (...) I (...) No, the point is we don't have 5 liter V12 engines. Normal (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Taiwan, but the again more than half of China is uninhabitable. And Switzerland became rich charging toll rights to those who wanted to cross the Alps. Williams' arguments have less strenght under these facts, wouldn't you say? Pedro (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Here is an article that really makes one think. (URL) of posting the article refers to the January 22 article. -Mike Petrucelli (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Not to mention it would be a nightmare in terms of crypting; everyone already speaks English anyway :-D (...) Actually, I'm learning German. It's not even half as hard as I had thought! (ok, so it takes *time* to learn... ;-) (...) Nope. If (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Esperanto: that will simply annoy everyone. French: the french ears will be offended by the corruption of their language! English: it would drive everyone nuts trying to figure out whether they should say Lew-ten-ant or Left-ten-ant, Kernal or (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, I think trusting the Bush Blair duo is equally naive--"Oh we have photos of the Iraqis moving stuff the day before the inspection teams arrive!" I've been reading CNN during the slow times at work today and it's the same old stuff--it's (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What's a wintel? Windows? Airhead and Blairhead ™. Thar we go! Not that I can actually read it.... -->Bruce<-- (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Don't you think this message should be in reply to Scott, or perhaps Duq, or Larry? Or was my message just a convenient jumping off point? (...) Looking down below at completely unrelated material below...ummmm, yeah. (...) The Soviet Union (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Don't worry, Dave, it's not hijacked. It's just been temporarily diverted but is back on track now. (...) He's been caught out, we can move on. Everyone just needs to ignore all the responses you know we're going to get, trying to prove black (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Very true. (...) *Ahem* Without American manpower, yes; without American Lend-lease, Britain would have been forced to truce eventually. And that would mean more Axis soldiers to the Eastern Front, which in turn would mean perhaps the Soviets (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Both, but only the first is really important (for the second I prefer cunning diplomacy). The difficulty in the defense of Europe against any military threat has to do with the almost impossibility of establishing standards for a unified army. (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, ya... me too. But that's not the point of my post. (...) On Wintel machines, Launch MSWord and type "(tm)" and it turns into the superscript TM symbol. Then paste the symbol in to your post. That works for many (but not all) browsers. I (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So we're going on our merry way of having a pretty good debate about world issues, politics, and the threat of war--I was pretty content to sit back after I started this thread, and read all the well written replies and appreciating the (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (Frank Filz writes) (...) You don't feel Europe is capable of defending itself? In what sense? Conventional war in Europe itself? Or just their oversees interests? (...) I mean the whole of the 20th century. The United States was dragged into (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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