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(URL) that America - Ashcroft's America - is where we now live. We have plunged headlong into the past. America cringes under the shadow of a militant Homeland Security Act - a ghostly doppleganger of Adolph Hitler's 1933 "Enabling Act," which, to (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Music Downloads and RIAA
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"richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message news:HH43D4.C71@lugnet.com... (...) infringing (...) because I (...) could be (...) right? (...) I just put two things together: Kazaa was sued by the RIAA and found to be not liable for the (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Protecting the Environment
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(...) The market should decide. And the market can and *will* reach the right decision. Just make sure that ALL costs are visible and are charged to the parties that should be incurring the costs. Which is the point of the article and of the book. (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Protecting the Environment
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(...) I like the bit where gov't agencies change their mind when it's them that's losing the money. As per usual, money talks. I'm all for capitalistic endeavours, but there has to be a line, and who's going to decide where that line is? THe line (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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As of posting the link refers to the June 17th 2003 (released after 18th) article. (URL) Petrucelli (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) How grotesque. The nightmare of the Anti-Federalists come to life: that which is not stated explicitly is therefore not a right. Ergo, the 9th Amendment is not worth even the words with which it is stated. Scalia used to impress me with his (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Yaay. Perhaps one of the best rulings so far this term (I was somewhat unimpressed with the U of M law school ruling). (URL) gets it: 'The case does involve two adults who, with full and mutual consent from each other, engaged in sexual practices (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Q&A: Will I be sued for music-swapping? (URL) Yikes! That article seems full of misleading and possibly false information. Now, I'm not the expert on these cases but it is my understanding that the student that was sued was actually running only a (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: The Hidden Costs (was Re: It's All About Control)
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(...) It was either getting all the formatting right so that my reply looked reasonably good, or just convert it to Plain... Lessee here... FTX away-- (2 URLs) Sparky's Space--Where Sparky has his Space... Oops, now it's almost on-topic! ;) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: The Hidden Costs (was Re: It's All About Control)
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Dude: You're killing my gorgeous FTX design scheme with your psycho plain text!!! -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: The Hidden Costs (was Re: It's All About Control)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote: <snip the rest which is great stuff> (...) Gee, if you're Canadian, at least medical comes with the citizenship--you *always* have 1 on the list(not that I'm singing the greatness of Canada--the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | The Hidden Costs (was Re: It's All About Control)
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(...) Wal-Mart Wars (URL) WOULD YOU LIKE a Wal-Mart "supercenter" store to move into your community? Think of the low prices and the convenience of one-stop shopping! You just park once and get whatever you need -- groceries, drugs, plants, toys, (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Shhh -- don't ask, don't tell. This is not america. -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) What's your evidence that either suspicion is justified? Good minds and serious money have been thrown at both issues and we've come up with basically zero. Certainly nothing public, and I can't see why they'd hide it at this point seeing as (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Opposing view editorial in today's USA Today (or "Mc Paper" as I prefer to call it, the WSJ was late getting to the hotel today): (URL) from Cato on this topic: (URL) reiterate my position: - This was a war we should not have sought, should not have (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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From the Associated Press: (URL) have to fix wrapping, sorry) Apparently civilian lawyers are not falling all over themselves to give probono (the government isn't paying for lawyers, these are after all not US citizens we're talking about here) (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Has anyone seen this and care to comment? -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: It's All About Control (was: Re: Possession)
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(...) I am not nostalgic in the least -- I calls them as I sees them. Mom and Pop may have been inefficient, but so ultimately is ANY "bricks 'n' mortar" location except as a distribution center. For many things it is becoming increasingly clearer (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Newsbits: Distortion of evidence, Faith Bias (as if we didn't know)
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Chief U.N. inspectors criticizes U.S. for insisting Iraq has weapons (URL) "It is sort of puzzling I think that you can have 100 per cent certainty about the weapons of mass destruction's existence, and zero certainty about where they are," he said. (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: It's All About Control (was: Re: Possession)
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"John" <John@TCLTC.org> wrote in message news:HGzuzJ.EE9@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) really (...) mind is (...) them. (...) unscrupulous (...) the (...) government. (...) That's another reason why I pushed for a completely free system. If there's (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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