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(...) Constant avoidance of the truth does not make the truth go away. A citizen cannot purchase an F22. A citizen cannot have at his or her disposal an ICBM. A citizen can only have, at best, a gun. This makes the differntial rather large. It's the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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"richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message news:HLCGG1.y1w@lugnet.com... (...) in the (...) naming (...) something (...) 575 (...) images and (...) even (...) software (...) This is stuff you'd have to ask Mark, but I know the only (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(3 URLs) I'm with Mike P. What exactly is the excuse for not web-optimizing these very fuzzy images in the first place? It takes like 1 minute to do (even though I screwed up my naming convention on the last image). The new versions of these images (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) <snip> (...) download. <snip> Ducking in here for a moment. If this is a text issue then why aren't you just using a newsreader? [ j o n ] (URL) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ok maybe people interprited that a little more harshly than it was intended. (Very funny post, Matt.) But, seriously anything over 200k in one post just seems a little excessive to me. (...) Well first off text does not take any significant (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Drat - You beat me to this! I rarely visit offtopic.debate but I saw this article and had to post about it. I am a free fall - but I am only occasionally brash and gregarious. Occasionally I sleep on my side with outstretched arms - so I am (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Maybe in Canada but not here in the U.S. (...) The only thing that garuntees the right to vote is the armed citizenry. (...) And won't be so long as we retain the ability to combat such opressors. (...) So long as I am armed my vote can never (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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MP3s Are Not the Devil By Orson Scott Card (URL) I think there are some people that might have missed this elsewhere but that also read this author's stuff. I have yet to read anything by him but this article, but I understand he's supposed to be (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) What a great typo! -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I don't care about law suits, I care about information. Whatever I do, I believe in the right to enough information to make an educated decision. I may smoke tobacco infused with huge amounts of nicotine, I may ingest french fries dripping (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Apathy is rampant everywhere--what can one person do against the establishment? is the common consensus. As for the smoking thing--I'm pretty much on the fence--sueing tobacco companies now 'cause we didn't know the harm of smoking... The term (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, I agree. Here's the problem (and I thought I had touched on this before...ah, yes (URL)): public relations. We aren't having wars -- we are buying into a product. We aren't believing the lies -- the subject of public discourse is the lie (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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How do you sleep? (URL) are all aware of our body language when we are awake but this is the first time we have been able to see what our subconscious says about us," he said. Crouched in the fetal position is the most popular sleep pattern and (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli wrote: <snip> (...) And I don't understand why you have a difficult time grasping the truth. 1776 history shows the differential in technology between the ruling powers and the common man to be rather (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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I am a big fan of Google News ((URL) You can use it to set up "news alerts" that send out an e-mail when a certain keyword is found in news stories (say, LEGO). One of the things I love about it is its breadth of coverage. You get news from lots of (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I could not resist to comment: 1-americans must *really* feel lonely, at 1.4 per home! (*) 2-Those 200million guns (or whatever the figure) can never work as one. For starters, no wanna-be-oppressor would be dumb enough not to have a power (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I care, but I can't really do anything to help. Sorry :-( (...) They're using high-tech microwave ovens: the frogs will just pop when noone expects. Cheer up, Larry: you can still vote for the US presidency. Not everyone can, as Nikita K. once (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Your right but the guns in the other 200ish million homes does. (...) Even a Muskett in everyone's hands would still work. The modern Military can not defend itself from millions of people attacking them in their own bases. (I honestly don't (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Psst! Hey Mike, just for an FYI--we're in the 21st century. What worked in 1776 may not work so much right now. But that's just my personal opinion. And I'll point out once again that the 'establishment' has nukes and what else comes with the (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I was cutting the other side some slack with my 'diplomatic wording'. It's called being nice to the other side. It is my personal contention that a gun's main purpose is to kill/main someone else in front of the gun, and I have as yet to be (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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