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(...) Employment laws are one of the greatest achievements of most developed countries. Do you want to return to what your grandparents had to endure, or are you not grateful that things have moved on? Our children belong in school not sweatshops. (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Everybody knows the Dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed. Everybody knows the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost. Leonard Cohen right back at you, and it's a little more relevant than I am comfortable with (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think you'd have a hard time demonstrating that's actually true. After all, the best "brainwashing" is one in which the victim thinks there was no undue influence whatever. (...) I suspect there are no such people anywhere on the earth, (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "There's a crack in everything -- that's how the light gets in !" -- Leonard Cohen -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) theories. This so-called "coverup" is nothing compared to a non-actionable 30-year-old mom&pop land deal or a sexual affair between two consenting adults. THOSE are the issues that the Liberal Media should be tackling. In all seriousness, I'm (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"The Secrets of September 11" (URL) as White House political aides plot a 2004 campaign plan designed to capitalize on the emotions and issues raised by the September 11 terror attacks, administration officials are waging a behind-the-scenes battle (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snip> Have you spoken to other adults who were given that option as children? My understanding is that the problem with this approach is that the child then has no foundation from which to base his decision. I don't have a source, but (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, I am not saying anything. I am asking what the difference is. (...) Yet (some) employers do test their employees for drugs and fatigue and physical capacity to carry out tasks. Why not test for (say) malnutrition, when it's going to (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Are you saying that an employer is now not only responsible for providing a wage, and safe work environment, but now also has a responsibility to assure that their employees are properly fed and rested? If this is the case should a man with (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What is the difference between ensuring workers' don't die at work from an industrial accident and ensuring that workers' don't die at work from starvation? Or for that matter, ensuring workers' don't die from an industrial accident caused by (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snip> I remember those types of exams, and man did I hate them, I much prefered writing pages of compare and contrast etc. By you description of you study techniques you are obviously a hard worker, but you were motivated by a desire to (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) A firm belief in the win-win scenario. Despite my grousing, I am an optimist and an idealist. The optimal result is achieved when everybody wins. When I was in college and faced with the mind-numbing task of having to instantly recall (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Wow, I make a post, go to lunch, come back and the thread now is about me and my religion. (...) Although I do trust in the current president, and appreciate his commitment to religion, this in now way should be misinterpreted as a blind faith and (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes: <snip> (...) completely (...) K, when I drop by to say Hi, I'm calling first, so you know it's me coming as a fellow AFOL and not a "Bible Thumper" where you'll have to "git yer gun at 'im!" (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Excellent! (...) Yes and no. All debates revolve around appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos. In English these are ethical, logical, and emotional appeals; repectively. In mentioning Xtianity, I was remembering Costello's trust in a praying (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Completely agreed, but blaming Christians because of stupid Christians is as dumb as blaming Muslims for stupid Muslims is as dumb as blaming Athiests for stupid Athiests... My compassion, I like to think, comes from my Christian values, but (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Shrub has made Xtianity the excuse of every depraved thing his administration stands for. I stand behind my comment though further discussion may be futile. Again, and I stress it, wouldn't it be better to simply be compassionate? The (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes: <snip> (...) Hey Richard, can we not bring Christianity into *one* thread? It wasn't mentioned before and equating Scotts ideas to Christianity is wrongful and unwarranted in this instance. I'm (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, you bury your head in the sand hoping that unpleasant facts will simply go away. ---...--- "Unprecedented verdict frees Adidas shoe worker in Indonesia" (URL) 1993 a worker named Marsinah, in a situation very similar to Ngadinah's, was (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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This is turning out to be a better thread than I originally surmized--I wasn't sure where to jump in, but here's a good a place as any :) (...) YOur grandpa left an oppressed country to come to "the promised land". My grandparents did the same (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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