| | Interesting article on Wal-Mart
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Here's an interesting article from Fast Company (URL) actually found the link on an EDI mailing list I'm on (Wal-Mart requires all suppliers to use EDI in trading with it, good for us since we're pretty strong in EDI, but not necessarily great for (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Freedom of Religion? (was Re: A retrospective on moral clarity)
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(...) None of the detainees have 'spiritual guidance' from their particular religions flavour--so at least there's no 'favouritism' going on--all detainees are being treated equally in this regard. Eh, there are larger fish to fry, as pointed out in (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Freedom of Religion? (was Re: A retrospective on moral clarity)
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(...) (URL) Very nice.> This will prove to the world that the US isn't at war against Islam. Dave! (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Babies who threaten to topple Israel?
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(...) The Republicans in Northern Ireland are also said to be playing the waiting game. (...) I'm not sure how silly it is: + Israels population growth has not been internal. + The current state of affairs must be acting as a disincentive for the (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Babies who threaten to topple Israel?
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(...) This sounds remarkably like the natalist scares/forecasts of interwar Europe (and, in fact, even before WWI) that raised a cry over German fecundity that would destroy France and England; it also isn't unlike dire predictions concerning the (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: A retrospective on moral clarity
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(...) I suppose the final slide will be SH's trial... and I doubt that will happen before Bush's "re-election"... Washingtons historic support for SH is really small beer when compared to its involvement in places like Indonesia [CIA helped kill up (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Howard Dean: Just the 'Job'?
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(URL) Poor Howard>: "Mr Dean said he prayed daily and had read the Bible from cover to cover. Asked about his favourite book in the New Testament, he named Job (the story of a religious man whose faith is tested by God through suffering). An hour (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: More ammunition?
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(...) I think that was his point? (...) If you read the cited text you'll see data with suicides excluded: "Homicides dropped to 47 in 2001 from 84 in 1991, accidental deaths dropped to 18 from 29, while other forms of firearm deaths slipped to (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: More ammunition?
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(...) Snipped the second URL, it seems munged, but you can go upthread to find it. (...) That's a small number from a large population. Is the increase statistically significant? Also on the Australian stats cited upthread, what is/was the overall (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: A retrospective on moral clarity
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(...) So, then... Is it better to play the realpolitik game, with the State Department and the CIA careerists running things with or without (mostly with) the connivance of the current administration of whatever color/stripe/type? Or... is it better (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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