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(...) The most damning part of this tale isn't given; was the woman sentenced or acquitted? (...) I appreciate your candor and your understanding of my skepticism. I still have trouble believing that the case could have been gagged or swept under (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I think I heard Rumsfeld was considering using non-lethal chemical weapons. It would be both illegal and rather ironic; but it *may* deliver the desired result with reduced civilian deaths. (...) ... if the letters page is on-line, it is normally (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah, how Star Trek basically trashed anything 'non-human'--the Q Continuum-supreme beings acting like spoiled children and needing our humanity to temper them--and as you mentioned, the Borg. Even though there are many post-modern references (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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There has been a lot of talk about post war. I've said I feared we'd lose the peace if we let the UN bloatocrats and the IMF and World Bank do their usual. Ditto if we just put in another strongman and don't reform the society. Kurtz argues that if (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Some pundits have been advocating that the best way to minimise civilian casualties in this war (taking as a given that it has started and that it will be seen through to the end one way or another) is to win quickly even if horrifically... the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I read "Childhood's End" a few years ago and, I know it was written something like the 50's[1], but the end struck me as completely counter to what I think I was supposed to feel. "Childhoods End" :::SPOILERS WARNING::: It could be a that steady (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I loved Asimov’s Foundation ‘trilogy’ due to its rather dated version of the future – atomic powered watches come to mind. I had a former-colleague who collected all his books just for the covers [many of them had little relevance to the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So as I pick up my very well-read copy of the Foundation Trilogy, and looking at the ripped cover and bike grease (I was biking home from school one day and it slipped outta my hand and right into the bike chain!), I fondly recalled all the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | [brainstormin’] [was Re: Parental Responsibilites (was: Megan's Law, and its implications)]
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(...) [brainstormin’] 1. Do think we'd benefit from having more than one debate group? I'm not sure what the best split would be: lugnet.off-topic.deb...nt-affairs lugnet.off-topic.deb...thing-else or lugnet.off-topic.debate.guns (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Indeed. But there is enough Scottish blood in Canada to make it almost perfect. ;) (...) ...and how much of your "top quarter" supported a 2nd resolution? How much supports the current illegal conflict in Iraq? (...) Indeed, and it was those (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Basically, I don't care. Still their problem and not mine. I would suggest that they have nothing to live for and might as well risk revolution. I suppose you're going to tell me we should send american boys over there to fight and die for (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So countries "deliver" "Quality of life" "to their citizens" - very libertarian! ;) Scott A (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Toast: He'll be burning French books next. (...) Shame on them. Scott A (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You also have the problem that whoever gets to administer the fund instantly becomes a target for the terrorist organisations who have been left out in the cold. But the best proposal I've seen yet. ROSCO (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Perhaps RM erred in such a large snip, but I immediately took his comment to refer to: (...) which seems to be investigating the potential of a country to deliver [quality of life] to it's citizens, as a metric for superiority. No doubt I'll (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What if the population is being so wickedly repressed (speak out against me and I'll kill your *entire* family in front of you) that they are afraid to resist? (...) You missed my reference. A man asks Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In my view this is a more well thought out proposal than just about any I've seen: (URL) not laying any odds it will actually happen this way. My suspicion is that the UN bloatocrats will get their fingers on most of the revenues instead. (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Colonial America and the French during WW II were both actively resisting their oppressors. I don's see this in modern day Iraq. Plus, our entrance into WW II was prompted by the agressive acts of two aggressor nations: Germany and Japan. Japan (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Did we deal with that problem *alone*? (...) Good question. At least the *opportunity* can be given. Why storm the beaches at Normandy in WWII? (...) "Who is my neighbor?" JOHN (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I believe Richard's straw term is the actual equivocation here (particularily when he snips the entire post to which he is responding). Further, Larry never used this word in the first place; is not even synonymous with his intended meaning. (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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