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Now right off the bat, my family loves animals--I'm anti-fur and a whole bunch of other things, and we always had a dog in the house when I was growing up--loved having a dog around, and we always treated our animals humanely. That said... (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Dyslexia...and Men vs. Women
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(...) There is a smallish school of thought that has uncovered some indications that dyslexia is caused by teaching kids to read before their brains are ready for the kind of symbolic decoding that is needed. In educational systems in which the kids (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Dyslexia...and Men vs. Women
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(...) There is a smallish school of thought that has uncovered some indications that dyslexia is caused by teaching kids to read before their brains are ready for the kind of symbolic decoding that is needed. In educational systems in which the kids (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Capitalism (was: People are idiots...)
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Capitalism merely refers to an economic system in which the capital is controlled by private rather than public interests. All this "capitalists with a conscience" stuff is silly. (...) How do you figure? What you're discussing is either a matter of (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pure Capitalism and Property Rights (was Re: People are idiots...)
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(...) Dunno. I haven't found one yet that wasn't. (Meaning either a putative right is a property right, or it isn't a right) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pure Capitalism and Property Rights (was Re: People are idiots...)
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(...) Lots of interesting stuff there. Plenty of examples demonstrating that specific rights can be construed as property rights, but apparently nothing demonstrating it to be the case for all rights (but I could have missed it - there are, after (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Speaking of oxymorons ( Re: People are idiots...
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good <-> Modern American History book Of course that's an oxymoron. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: People are idiots...
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(...) Well, my good friend Larry, you are totally wrong here. Capitalism is nothing more than putting a price on everything, including the rights. Your definition of capitalism is idealized. On the other hand, socialism does NOT operate without (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Speaking of oxymorons ( Re: People are idiots...
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(...) Hmm... I know what is an oxymoron, but I don't really see how you can see it in my sentence. (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Ture Capitalism and Property Rights (was Re: People are idiots...)
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(...) Sure... (URL) 118 (1998) is the first place I think I use that phrase in this forum. (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Ture Capitalism and Property Rights (was Re: People are idiots...)
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(...) Could you explain what you mean by 'all rights are property rights'? (...) Why? (Is it purely so capitalism will work?) (...) No respect for rights = socialism Respect for rights = capitalism ? No. If all rights are property rights then: (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Speaking of oxymorons ( Re: People are idiots...
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Speaking of oxymorons... (...) there's one for you. (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Its about time someone put this concept in print.
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(...) Just for the record, it's more like 22 million. And the central government has a fair amount of cash from oil income. (...) We aided him once he was already there, and it was more a case of we were trying to annoy Iran rather than aid Saddam (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Its about time someone put this concept in print.
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(...) Well you are right on that point, Iraq will continue to struggle after this war. But come on, we can't compare Iraq and Germany. In the 1930', Germany was (and still is) already a powerfull industrial nation, one of the biggest in Europe. Iraq (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: People are idiots...
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Terry Prosper writes: <snip> (...) In the West Wing this week, someone remarked that Republicans want a huge military and send them nowhere, whereas the Democrats want a small military and send them everywhere. I'd (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Journalists, medias, militaries and politicians (republicans at least) are idiots. Indeed, they all made loads of cash because of the 9-11 tragedy. As for the media, all they do is cash in on targedies, especially CNN. Misinformation is the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: People are idiots...
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(...) Amen to that! Terry (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Men vs. Women
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I hate to go all "Frank Filz" on you, but isn't this actually on topic? Anyway, I have known women to roll their eyes at my interest in bricks, and women that have instead become intrigued by the idea of playing with them also. I think it just (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Its about time someone put this concept in print.
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(...) probably (...) Actually it was the poor economic conditions that allowed Hittler to be 'elected' and then declare himself 'the leader.' Once he was in power it did not matter what the people wanted as they were slaves to the dictator. The (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Very well written article laying out the issues of military involvement. But what it failed to cover was that Germany, b/w WW1 and WW2 was shunned by the world--there was a depression, and the expression 'taking a wheelbarrow load of money to (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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