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Christopher Weeks <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote (...) Yes. And that's a very good argument for throwing it away. Tax does not *have* to be complex. Did you know that the NZ tax code for private income earners (your personal tax return) is down to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I know very little about the tax code itself, but one of my best friends is an accountant and she is the first to admit she doesn't know everything, or even a little bit, about some kinds of taxation. That's why they have several accountants (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<37D44B67.BC996AD6@voyager.net> <FHtIB8.M2G@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) I'm replying to you in this thread so it may seem like I'm picking on you. I don't intend that it seem that way (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) products (...) without (...) happening to (...) be a (...) car, a (...) the (...) our (...) Yeah I'd be uneasy about this. It does seem unethical. My reasoning? We'd all agree that taking something that legitimately belongs to them by force is (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) On this subject, I wonder if we're both making the mistake of trying to rationalise people's motives too much. There are a few of us here - people like you, me John DiR, Christopher Weeks, and others, who have come to different conclusions, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I thought I'd made it clear that I do not believe in theft. I think all of us here respect property rights. Where we disagree is that the money that you claim you should not be paying in tax is money that I believe was never rightfully yours (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I loved that movie. The Big One was also a hoot. (...) This is, fortunately, illegal in the state of California now. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't think they ever would. This basically was the result of being frustrated over a conservation with a coworker about how she thinks corporations can do no wrong and they serve us, a recent re-reviewing of "Roger&Me", and the abuse of (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I know about the six red windows in 3225, although I was going to order some stuff from s@h soon that would be enough to get me a McD's. So now that I know i can get something for free such as red windows, I want them. I am just just as human (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hey, I am confusing to just about everyone, it is a special gift! :) (...) Yes, that is how I feel. (...) DWB- Driving While Building? Very dangerous! :) (J/K) Seriously, I don't think it is right to target anyone, at anytime, for anything, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah! THat would rock. I used to drive St. Louis to Chicago avery couple weeks and a bit south of Chicago there is a massive Mobil refinery that I always looked forward to seeing. Day or night, that thing is beautiful. I would love to see LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh yeah, me too. Thousands of feet of scaffolded pipe, water cooling towers, 20 story processing plants, huge storage tanks... the list of cool looking stuff is endless. I should know - I work at Dow. (...) Me neither. Before anyone gets too (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'd buy the chem plant. The parts would be tres cool. And why not sell a model depicting a chemical plant? I don't see anything inherently wrong with manufacture -- I like to have stuff. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) with (...) only (...) I look at it this way. I am also not a fan of McDonalds and some of their practices. I also can't remember the last time I ate there. On the other hand if I were to by $75 from S@H I would not tell them to not send me the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<37D64CA8.96CF1964@voyager.net> <FHsKo5.Dq8@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) I think I want to drill into this one a bit more. Let's be clear... are you saying that to break any law (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Buy 3225 and part out/sell off the rest of it, including the other 4 train windows. No ethical problem. (...) Sure, here's one... what's the issue again? If cross promotion lowers the cost of goods to me I don't have an issue with it. And if (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I came back from vacation this week and saw the news about the McD's Drive-through promotional kit and hit an ethical dilemma. I used to be(still am?) an anti-McDonalds activist. I sat outside restaurants passing out fliers and stickers for hours (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<FHrGyG.6pn@lugnet.com> <FHsKoE.DwJ@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) So what is the relationship between the Maori and the English there now? Are they all interbred and one big happy (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Warning: LONG MESSAGE! (...) Yep. As I said before, I was curious as to whether or not this was more a straight consequentialist argument or one of both consequence and underlying morality. I didn't see the morality put forth directly, just kind of (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Moz (Chris Moseley) wrote in message ... (...) Thats about what I wrote, at one time or another, every country is guilty of the same thing (allowing genocide). I don't know if Australia is still allowing it or not, but I am sure there are more than (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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