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(...) The reason you won't hear a debate about porn and prostitution without morals cropping up is that that is the ONLY argument against these issues. The worst thing the US Supreme Court ever did to free speech was to define obscenity as community (...) (21 years ago, 4-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Wall Street to ship research jobs to India" (URL) Street research analysts have suffered rounds of layoffs, big pay cuts, and accusations that they routinely lied to the investing public. Now there's a new worry -- that their jobs are being shipped (...) (21 years ago, 3-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) By all accounts, Atlanta doesn't really suffer from that kind of thinking, but I suppose it answers the question when people ask why there are still "black colleges" (Morehouse is in Atlanta). -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 3-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Apparently these are private functions, rather than publicly funded ones, so the school can't put its foot down and insist on just one prom, regrettably... Freedom to associate includes freedom not to associate, remember. Remind me not to move (...) (21 years ago, 3-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have read (and will search for the cite) more annual revenue than professional baseball, football, and basketball combined, but somehow it's still viewed as a perverted fringe product/service/industry. (URL) Dave! (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Seriously, why isn't this stuff legal? Forget the moral issues--what is the downside to legalizing pot? And isn't porn already legal? Can't I walk into AOV and buy por nmovies/magazines? I would love to hear a debate on legalizing prostitution (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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More proof that what is really needed, but will never happen, is an economic Jubilee akin to what is described in the Old Testament. -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) baccalaureate will be held by the light of a burning cross. Dave! (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The true irony here is the fact that labor laws have not improved working conditions, just relocated them. The same conditions that were so horrible in this country, now exist in under developed countries, and those manafacturing jobs that (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Moral issues aside, this makes interesting reading: With pot and porn outstripping corn, America's black economy is flying high (URL) pornography and illegal labour have created a hidden market in the United States which now accounts for as much as (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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