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(...) Explain the Civil War (from {either} vantage point). (...) That is an extremely false analogy - is Frank saying that we need to have flintlock rifles and muskets? No, so where does this stuff about candles and dirt come in? Technological (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In my view you always want both a router and a software firewall behind it. I just bought a Linksys BEFSR41 at Best Buy for $40 after the mail-in rebate. With a hub the thing expands to something like 50 DHCP/static IP boxes -- more than (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) You do realize, of course, the irony of not cross-posting that? ;p James (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (URL) of course, answers just about nothing beyond what it says right there in the URL, and the date of November 23rd. Be sure to check your underpants before then. ;-) -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think Breathed is going to feature Opus. I dunno if it's going to be a remade 'Bloom County' or 'Outland' or something completely new, but supposedly Opus will be in it. Dave K (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And I mentioned that in other countries, an armed citizenry is needed in order for them to make it to the end of a day. Are you saying that America is on par with Afghanistan? That you face the same problems? (...) Cites please. Show me at (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ya, but so can cleaning up after worms and virii! These days, running directly connected to the internet without some sort of firewall between you and the rest of the world is not good, in my view. I was running that way for a while and was (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yay! Is our favorite penguin going to be part of this, or is this a totally new creation? Bruce (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) A cynic might even claim that the only reason the civil rights movement progressed was that a white minister was killed... See: (URL) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) However, fighter jets and ICBMs don't "hold" territory. Just look at what's going on in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine for examples of what an "armed" citizenry might be able to do to resist oppressors. (...) Right now the situation is not (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why do people post 1600x1200 pictures on BrickShelf? I love looking at these pictures where I have no idea what on earth the thing is because you have to scroll all over creation. People are just lazy sometimes. Personally, I crop pictures (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, I just tried to get DSL. It's not cheap for me. I would have to upgrade my OS (I'm still running Windows 95 at home - I just tried to get DSL, they wouldn't sell it to me because I'm not using a supported OS), which would probably (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Supposedly from 'The Daily Show' last night... (since I only have basic cable and don't get to watch it) " "Let's see. Darrell Issa found an obscure clause in the CA Constitution from over 130 years ago, shelled out over $2 million of his own money (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) there are glimmers of hope. There are hints of salvation. Because Berkeley Breathed, genius creator of the much-loved and expertly drawn and slyly wry "Bloom County" strip from the '80s, is returning to the Sunday comics page. " " "Bloom (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Wow, that's big news: The Admiral is a Compartmentalized Dork! CDs Unite! JOHN (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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(...) Specifically what I said was: "Anyone that tries to take away my constitutionally protected fundamental rights better find a cure for brain lead first." (...) One that recognizes Freedom was purchased in blood. I highly doubt that I will ever (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'm gonna go with "not". What bugs me is that most everyone seems not to care. So, all you frogs out there, what's the temperature now? How many degrees left till we get to boiling? (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Okay, but now we're back to "guns don't kill people; people kill people." If you wish to condemn guns based on their "intent," then you can't simply abandon that argument in favor of the user's "'usual' purpose." You seem to be claiming (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote: <snip> (...) But are you a master debater? Dave K -I says pardon??? (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Doh! Well, I guess that's right, but see below: (...) So you're saying that my specious argument (which took up lot of space) and Dave's specious argument (which also took up a lot of space) were of the same spacious specious species? After (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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