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(...) Ah, but my scorn is targetted to a few specific people, not the whole population ;-) (...) No worries, really. As I'm sure you've seen me post before, I'd be much more fearful of President John Neal than President Frog ;-) -- Tom Stangl (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) How could anti-american agendas like the Patriot Acts I & II be anything but premeditated? I mean, really -- even McCarthyism was a planned thing -- it stank to high heaven but it was someone's specific agenda. Just like the Inquisition and (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ?? (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) First, I'd say there's a difference b/w a corporation and a gov't institution--separation of church and state is gov't, not corporation. Dubya 'talking God' is irrelevant. Dubya supporting keeping "Under God" in the PoA is wrong. I also thing (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, maybe not. (...) They don't themselves have to be citizens for their actions to be protected. Engage in this thought experiment with me. Suppose I take out an ad in the paper that says "Hop Frog sometimes posts mean things in (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) I am as big a proponent of free speech as anyone I know, but I don't accept that corporations are citizens protected under the first amendment. Ditto any corporate executive or agent speaking on behalf of the corporation; the speech of *the (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Thomas Stangl writes: <snip> (...) I took it as a wonderful reference to a "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip myself... But then, almost anything can be "Kevin Baconed" back to "Calvin and Hobbes". Dave K (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<jump, jump> ;-) Froggy, Others may not have the time to visit all the links you post. You posted decent excerpts this time, but even then, some may visit the first link, read it through, and extrapolate that they don't have enough time to finish (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Simply never saw it. In any case, it speaks for itself, I think. The only way it will really correct itself is by investors looking at the executive pay and figuring that that execs are siphoning off too much money, money that they don't (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I suppose they can suggest it to those predisposed to believing in a Greater Being, yes. But when you consider the # of stars in just our galaxy, and the # of planets that they can have (we find more and more every year, and as our technology (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Part of it is that I'm so disgusted by it that I can't bear to comment, and another reason is that I don't want to invite any lectures me re: "they're only receiving what the market says they should receive." I heard or read somewhere that a (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I am slightly disappointed that nobody has anything to say about this post. Before Stangl jumps all over me, I am not specifically calling attention to myself as much as the issues I hoped to raise with the original post. Y'all can go right back to (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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How exactly is what you are advocating different from cosigning discrimination? useful definitions: discrimination -- treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit prejudice -- irrational suspicion or hatred of a (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hey, all are welcome! (...) Bruce addressed this already, but I thought I'd throw in my view as well. The first is the problem of precedent: when you estimate the odds of a bus accident, you can base it on known occurrences under similar (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, in a democracy the people get to self-determine already - so one can argue about the use of having two states in similar circumstances taking similar decisions, when this only works to double institutions. The more states there are, the (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Er, no you don't... You merely know that I chose not to make that particular finding clear one way or another. :-) (any flattery I may have uttered at the time notwithstanding) (URL) to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Costello writes: <snip> (...) I'd like to be there for that competition! Dave K (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I was yesterday reminded of the case of John Rocker. For those of you that aren't familiar with Rocker's situation, he was a star closing pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, very popular and highly regarded with the organization. In a Sports (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Again, if I were a hockey fan I might know fer sure who was still innit. I grew up in a sea of hockey fans so all my info is thru them. I think the Sens are still in and I know the Canucks are. So Vancouver or Ottawa--two teams i don't have (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Given the right conditions (and we are talking about an incomprehensibly high number of planets with varying conditions), it may well be that the odds against life happening somewhere are the longshots. Atoms and molecules like to form certain (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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