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I really have to stop watching CNN... (the worlds most trusted news source) K, before the CNN, let's talk about "Meet the Press" Sunday on NBC... So CP's on there, basically restating the infomercial that Dubya had a few days before, and it seemed (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ACTUALLY, that question was in responce to the statement: "You haven't done your research." Implying I should have already done some research on "what's being proposed," whatever that means. (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, I was just thinking the other day. If we used he material from asteroids to build a huge lense we could maybe terraform Mars just by heating it up and melting the ice at the poles, releasing carbon dioxide etc. This would be the (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Never. At least that's the quick answer. As I see it, reproducing is in some ways akin to playing Roulette. There's always a chance that you'll end up with a psychotic or a retard as a kid who will need care forever. You owe them that. If you (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Money doesn't seem to draw more motivated personnel. By maybe better personnel, sometimes. As a grad student in education a few years ago, I polled a small sample of teachers (~40) to determine what one thing would be most likely to help them (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No. You asked me what research *you* should have done. I gave you a search string you could use if you like. It doesn't matter to me whether you use it or not. (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) When does the obligation end? I'm inclined to think the obligation ends at adulthood (whatever that is defined to be - I think the law does have to have a way to draw a line as to who is competent to be an "adult" and who is not). (...) I (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) okay.. let me get this straight. You *demand* cites from me, but then expect me to do research to support *your* claims. Maybe you think your time is much more valuable than mine or something, but this doesn't seem to be rational to me. and, (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Note that neither of these statements dismiss the conclusion. They merely deride the source. (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Sorry if I've been a little more rambly than usual, I'm home from work with a stomach flu and I've slept about 90% of the past 20 hours. I just reread my note and while I accept that lots of people write better than me, this one was a bit much. (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Okay, but would you hold a profoundly retarded person equally culpable for his actions as a fully-functioning, mentally healthy adult? To do so would be, in my view, unforgiveably cruel and unfair. By the same token, if a child is (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Frank's "[as an abuse]" is a perfect clarification. Basically, I think that to deny access to our rights as citizens based on the age of the citizen (which I assert kids are) is exactly the moral equivalent of denying rights based on skin tone (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) As one of the people suggesting that everything can be treated as a property right, I would like to point out that I don't think that compensation is the sole remedy. Certainly people who demonstrate an inability to restrain themselves need to (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Of course not, and in fact you've nicely paraphrased my objection to a pure "propertly loss/compensation" system of law that some here have previously proposed. But if the accepted laws of society recognize that you have duly repaid your debt (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) We only ever hear from the puppet-master at the end of the show. ;) Scott A (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's 'cause he thinks he's Major T. J. "King" Kong. ;) Scott A (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Rather than simply restating the claim; perhaps you should just say why you think he is a "luddite"? Scott A (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) One feeling I have is that if someone is still dangerous, they belong in detention or treatment. Simply hanging a sign around their neck (and these laws are just high tech versions of hanging a sign around a persons neck) isn't really going to (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Does guilt vanish with repayment? If I steal your car and am required to compensate you and pay an additional fine, have I then _not_ stolen your car? I think there are some pretty disturbing abuses of these laws, and I go back and forth about (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Arrrrr, there be nuthin' a-wrong wi' Timmy. He be making good chum when chopped inta small 'nuf bits. If'n ya be fishing fer yer great white, then he be good fer trollin' abaft yer transom on a really big 'ook. Thrashes 'bout most convinc'n'ly (...) (22 years ago, 9-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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What is basicly wrong with Timmy? Personally, I find Timmys to be quite cute. I don't think they are frightening at all. I find that the "story of 'Evil Timmy'" to be quite hilarious, but not quite believeable. The line it came from, now that was (...) (22 years ago, 8-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I gotta dig up an old article about defining "inverse hyperbolic co-tangent" that I wrote years ago--I think you'd appreciate it. At the very least, you'll say it's pure Dave K :) (...) Ow, shot right in my heart--I'll take that ;) That said, (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) But if you're dismissing the conclusion of Source A because it is flawed, then you must dismiss the same conclusion from Source B. If you're dismissing the conclusion from Source A because you believe that Source A is biased (which still (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't think you have clearance for that. He only speaks when he's in Undisclosed Locations.... (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) We are alike in kind, my friend, as far as digression goes. We differ only in degree. My digressions are short, while yours... what was it J2 said? "novella" I believe. Oh, and by the way, when I said I was going to let you have last word on (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Just to make sure we're clear here. Are you saying it would have been better had no one ever discovered North America? Are you saying that you'd rather that the western hemisphere forever remained the domain of its then current inhabitants? (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No. If two sources come to the same conclusion about something and one is biased and unworthy of further consideration that does not so tar the other source. (...) But I am not, in fact arguing that at all. I'm arguing for private exploitation (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Here's another take that makes it even more dubious that this guy (a judge?) has much justification for complaining. (URL) (scroll down to "Birth of an Urban Legend" and I can't say how long this cite will work)... -start- Birth of an Urban (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) If by "assertions with bias (but no cites)" you're referring to the listed citations of statements by the American Society for Cell Biology, Bob Park, and Joel Achenbach, I'm afraid the burden is on you to establish that these are biased (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh I forgot the Quayle! Oh how that brings back the SNL skits... VP Cheney doesn't seem to get in the news as much--only thing I hear about him is his poor health and his oil ties with Iraq. I don't think I've ever heard him speak. Dave K (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) And that's different for you... ;) Dave K (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) But Carter, if memory serves, said "nukuler". Even more amazing considering his job in the navy as a nuclear power plant technician/engineer (I forget the exact title). W. fumbles and bumbles pretty much the same as his Dad, who was not the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It certainly does. I think less of that particular source each time I see it cited. He has no idea what he's talking about in this case, and his collection of assertions is just that, a collection of assertions with bias (but no cites) behind (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Try this search string at Google: "moonbase cost estimates" The Artemis project may be all wet, but given the several orders of magnitude difference in their estimates (using commercial grade assumptions) from NASA's, maybe these numbers of (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I didn't even see that... How appropos! Dave K (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) **snip of further good analysis** I knew you'd be the guy with the answer! Good points, all. I wasn't aware that Megan's law doesn't permit the records to be sealed or even, apparently, to have the entire case re-examined. I think people (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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It's not "W" it's "dubya"; as in "dubya-dubya-3". Scott A (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why do we climb a mountain? Why do we explore the depths of the sea? Never underestimate the merit of 'The Cool Factor'! ;) Why should be go into space? Because it's the next step We came out of the caves and wondered at the possibilities... (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have to stop watching CNN.... Yeah, that 45 minute 'Infomercial' last night... Ah, he wasn't the first peresident who wasn't an eloquent spokesperson, and it's probably a given that he won't be the last... We've been coddled since Carter--he (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (URL) Dave! (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I don't care how much of the Bill of Rights he's trashed, I don't care if he engaged in insider trading at Harken, I don't care that he's wholly in the pocket of corporate interests, I don't care if he sorted coke, or drove while under the influence (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have very serious reservations about this issue. One problem is that there is no way to pettition to be removed from the posting. You can petition to have criminal records sealed. Another problem is that there is a difference between (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) are people's thoughts on this? I've heard arguments in the past that mandatory registration for sex offenders is some kind of double punishment after they've already served their prison terms. I've also heard arguments that criminal records (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Better yet, we could move the Sun closer to Mars. Honestly, I should work for NASA. Dave! (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And change the entire gravitational map of the solar system? No thanks. I don't think we could calculate the possible repercuissions of such a move... Jason (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah, there's slightly more to the story... a history really... (quickie summary) Sounds like back in December there were a bunch of quasi-protesters who decided they'd walk around the mall at Christmas time wearing peace/anti-war garb, just (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In a similar vein... (URL) which a man was arrested for wearing a 'peace' t-shirt... I'm thinking there has to be more to the story than just what's there--Mall security wouldn't walk up to anyone in a t shirt and try to kick them out of the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My understanding, which I'm happy to modify if presented with contrary evidence, is that much of the spending allotted for public schools has not gone toward "education" per se, but has instead been used to support lunch programs for low (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) www.jpl.nasa.gov Then you won't be saying things like there is nothing in space now... :-) -->Bruce<-- (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (URL) money, education is substantially more difficult to achieve. with proper funding, drawing more motivate personel and updated equipement.. not to mention properly feeding the children/teens.. education becomes something more akin just (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Can you provide a cite for that 9 to 1 ratio? Education is good, if that's what you get for the money. But public education money doesn't seem to actually deliver education. (...) Who said anything about transporting the infrastructure from (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Right now I'm reading Jon Ronson's "Them". In the text, he interviews Jeff Berry [Imperial Wizard of American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan]. Later, he switches on the TV and finds Jeff Berry on CBS ["48 Hours"?]. This is how Ronson describes (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) FWIW, I think these Reps were wrong, especially after having heard the content of the entire prayer itself. This Imam is scheduled to pray again in the senate soon-- let's wait and see if the Reps in question change their mind and not walk out (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The real shame is the walkout idiots missed the whole point of the thing in the first place. Sometimes I think we need to invent stupidity seeking missles. Of course then we would have the nasty problem of them turning around and smacking us (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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[Snip] (...) I want to know where all these pro-gun whacko sites are getting their numbers from. (URL) find it interesting that I can not find any numbers from the anti-gun whacko sites. (...) I had said that from the get go. (URL) (...) not. (...) (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes, it's not as if Christian zealots in the past haven't tried to do bad things to their fellow Americans... Any religion has the problem of radical extremists To boycott 'good' religion, whether it's leaving during a prayer "in protest", is (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) now dissenting opinion is unpatriotic, and Islam is the font of hatred. Very nice! Dave! (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Umm.. Excuse me? You mean Columbus who kidnapped a native child to bring back as a trophy to his queen? You mean the discovery that launch the largest genocide in the history of humanity? The destruction of so many cultures and people that we (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Eep! Pot smoking isn't a national seurity issue, it's a health care issue, much like alcohol. If 'consenting adult type' folks are using either in moderation, leave 'em alone! Go after the criminals that adversely affect the safety and (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Well I dunno about you but *I* feel a lot safer. (not) (URL) the only drugs Ashcroft likes are Pentothal, Pavulon and Potassium Chloride... (URL) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Agreed! Chirac was out of line with that statement. I know a few Canadian political snafus in the recent months have also landed folks in hot water. We can't tell *anyone* that they don't have a voice. That's the thing about 'freedom of (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You mean like what Jacques Chirac told the new Europeans the other day? (URL) is not well brought up behavior," Mr. Chirac said. "They missed a good opportunity to keep quiet." (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Liberalism: "Trojan-horse fascism without the jackboots"? [was What has to be the worst...]
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(...) Oops, thought I hid that one better... Inconceivable! Dave K (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Liberalism: "Trojan-horse fascism without the jackboots"? [was What has to be the worst...]
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HeyHEyHEY! (...) Quotes from The Princess Bride DO NOT belong in political debate. Don't you go ruining one of my favorite movies ;-) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh my goodness!! I forgot all about that one! Thanks Dave! That's awesome! Dave K (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (URL) Dave! (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Liberalism: "Trojan-horse fascism without the jackboots"? [was What has to be the worst...]
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After doing some 'brief' research... I just get more and more set that people are idiots (part 3). I'd include myself in this category 'cause I have done and said some very stupid things... but in here, in o-t.d we throw around ideas, we discuss, we (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm afraid that I'm not a man of faith, so I can't accept your word without evidence, especially since your entire argument depends on it. If you intend to convince me (or anyone else who doesn't already agree with you), you'll need to find (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Liberalism: "Trojan-horse fascism without the jackboots"? [was What has to be the worst...]
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes: <snip> (...) Was on CNN.com yesterday, basically saying the same thing in the article above (URL) this one has a quotation from the NBC spokesperson: " But NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks told The (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Liberalism: "Trojan-horse fascism without the jackboots"? [was What has to be the worst...]
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(...) This story made it to the Guardian front page today: Thousands of Americans want to oust their president. The anti-war one, that is (URL) is under pressure to sack him from its hit show or face a boycott or withdrawal of advertising. Sheen (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yup. Well anyway it's an interesting site. Some of that propaganda is funky. (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In the Arabix world, people generally read from the right to the left. That may be a clue. Fredrik (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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What is this one trying to say? (URL) is it that you have to read it right to left instead of L to R?.. in that case it makes sense) taken from (URL) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Um, which hair? Head? Back? Shoulders? <shudder> -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare
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[snipped the numbers] Ok you are only siting the murder rate and calling it the crime rate. Armed robbery is where increase is. The murder rate is essentially unchanged between countries with or without strict gun control. I cannot seem to find any (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Perhaps it's a case of the program showing what the viewers wanted to see, so that the program was in turn influenced by the viewership? This is obviously similar to The West Wing. I haven't seen even one second of that show, but does it (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | MASH Goofs--Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes: <snip> (...) Here's a site that I came across when this topic came up (URL) has a good list of goofs--I think the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) probably has another such list. Regardless of (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It would also be a mistake to think that they weren't at least unconsciously influenced by it... (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ugly John also played Captain Muldoon, in a later-series one-shot in which the doctors had to run Rosie's Bar while she recovered from cracked ribs. They played Revolving Asians, too. Mako portrayed three different roles that I can think of, (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well then they must have said something about Hawkeye making some remark about credit cards-- which I don't believe were around during the Korean war. Maggie C. (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes: <snip> (...) Or when Harry Morgan was cast as a 'crazy general guy' and, like 4 episodes later-ish, he was the commanding officer of the 4077th. Think anyone would notice that? There was a website I (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You're stripping away the numbers for the sake of a punchline. According to the first article, the number of firearms-related murders in 1996 England/Wales was 49. Forty-nine! Pittsburgh alone had 47 murders in 1996, and we don't have a gun (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"David Koudys" <dkoudys@redeemer.on.ca> wrote in message news:HB6GLK.1tL@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) (...) Snipp LOL! Bad hair Day? /Jocke (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: **snip of some stuff, including a good reminder about North Korea*** (...) It should be remembered that one can (or can prefer to) watch a program without swallowing its "message" hook, line, and (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I know that when the police come "a knockin'" that most folks don't have enuf time to "pretty themselves up"... But this guy... (URL) that has to be the worst pic ever... And what's with that shirt? ;) Few things... Not to be completely facetious (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I agree we should go into space. I also think we should vet all world leaders pychologically before we let them take up power. I think space colonization wouldn't have to be that expensive. We coud use robots to build our bases on Mars and (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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6) It would help to trivialize the petty squabbles (Bushes v. (...) Is it possible we could build a space colony of two? ;) Scott A (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't care if it does -- I want my piece of the pork to go to space! What can a space colony do that would make such an expenditure worthwhile? In order of importance: 1) It would be the coolest thing humanity has ever done! 2) It would get (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, you know the space program hasn't gained us anything useful at all... :-) :-) :-) (1) Of course all sorts of good stuff has come from the space program. While we can pick bones with how it was financed, there is no doubt whatsoever that (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) True, but both articles site that illegally owned firearms were/are responsible for the vast majority of crime. The first article states that tighter gun control will not have any positive impact (but probably have a negative one) on the crime (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "Well look at it from another point of view. We still have messes to clean up from ejecting the Moors. What can an expedition to China do that would make such an expenditure worthwhile? Let Columbus help solve the problems here in Spain first" (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) well, look at it from a resources point of view. a colony in space or on another planet would cost trillions, and yet people are starving to death here on earth. What can a space colony do that would make such an expediture worthwhile? I'm (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Now on this we completely agree--this very discussion has caused much consternation between myself and my SO--I say we're not in space enuf, she wants to see us take care of *everything* here before we even think about getting into space. Dave (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The MASH movie, as intended by the director, wasn't suppose to mention that it took place in Korea at all to 'blur' the line between thinking it was about Korea or about Vietnam. Another interesting tid-bit about the movie was that there was (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) But, you see, there IS a solution. Get a large enough industrial base going in the system that any object moving at less than relativistic speeds can be cheerfully disassembled as soon as its vectors are calculated, and turned into shiny (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My biggest beef with MASH is that it was rather blatant in its bias, and worse, it was good enough that it made Alan Alda and Mike Farrell (useful idiots both) and other fellow travelers shedfuls of cash. But it's a pretty funny show (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Not that I haven't talked about my favourite 'Classic Rock' radio station *all day* today... But at 7:55 a.m. (usually on my way in to work) they have "'The Last Word' with Maureen Holliway" She gets on there and basically talks entertainment (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes: <snip> (...) More like novella... <g,d,r> (sorry) JOHN (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Radar talking over anyone and getting things done... You're right--very cool. I had a wee sniffle when Radar left the show, with the salute and all. Notable highlights in my mind regarding Radar... When Margaret thought she was pregnant and (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's all about the comedy, -->Bruce<-- I was just reminded of when I was a kid with my friends, and we'd all be just sitting around and if one guy stood out for any apparent reason, it would be suddenly time for everyone to jump on him (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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