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(...) I agree completely, and have been taking a similar course, for similar reasons. There's a parable isn't there, about scattering seeds all over, and the seeds sprouting and giving forth a harvest whose size depended on the kind of ground onto (...) (20 years ago, 8-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, I doubt I'm in the choir to which you are referring in your subject line; you probably have me in mind when speaking about the "small conservative fringe on the right" (BTW, what does that mean, exactly?). So let me tell you about my (...) (20 years ago, 8-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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I've noticed that o-t.d seems to be populated largely by people who will never change their minds about the issues being discussed. There are a lot of us on the left who seem to be pounding the same arguments into the ground against a small (...) (20 years ago, 8-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hey Tim, Thanks for posting this! I can imagine this bill would affect DVR (i.e. TiVo) owners too. Adr. (20 years ago, 7-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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The record and movies industries are pressuring Congress to pass a bill this week that will threaten the iPod and peer-to-peer networks. I just sent free faxes urging my reps in Congress to stop the INDUCE Act. Convincing even a single Senator will (...) (20 years ago, 7-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) If you consider basic friendships as meeting the requirement for that tier, it really throws a different spin on that than if you consider it as only referring to dating-or-higher relationships. There have been studies showing that even having (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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So there's this Maslow guy who talked about the 5 tiers of basic needs-- physiological needs - food, water, secure place to sleep, etc safety needs - won't get eaten, stabbed, whatever love and affection - emotional bonding with others esteem - (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Those crazy Canadians... Like everything else, shoestring budget (350,000) and using a baloon to get to a good altitude. Whoda thunk? Dave K (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "Back-Bacon One, you are cleared for take off, eh?" WElcome to the private spacerace, neighbors! Dave! (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hmmmm ... it is probably NOT a good idea to get into this at this place. I am not a huge moore fan, and I can certainly understand how he can come accross as extremly annoying. But your post has left me wondering and, with all the due respect that a (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(URL) whatever reason, this was binned into the Oddly Enough section on Yahoo (because Reuters did, I guess). (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) We've got Absentee Ballots, but they're primarily aimed at those who either can't be in their district on voting day (such as deployed troops), or can't reasonably be expected to travel to their voting place (such as the elderly or (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Postal votes have been used in the UK for yonks. However, they have been used recently as a tool to improve voter turnout. This has led to three problems: Party workers have been "assisting" voters with the paperwork. Within some ethnic (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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"Purple Dave" <purpledave@maskofdestiny.com> wrote in message news:I1zIBB.6M0@lugnet.com... (...) you (...) to (...) not one (...) party (...) door). The best ballots I have seen so far were in Wake County North Carolina. A very easy ballot where (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I've been against e-voting from very first moment I heard about it, because the closer it gets to being done over the internet, the closer it gets to the point where either a hacker can directly tweak the results, or a timed virus can prevent (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Interestingly, it appears that the GOP has decided that e-voting is so unreliable that it's encouraging Florida Republicans to use their absentee ballots instead. (URL) this is all becoming less and less hypothetical as we go along. Hmm... (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) Red Cross says Tipton Three may have case: US abuse could be war crime> "Some of the abuses alleged by the detainees would indeed constitute inhuman treatment... but we can't comment on this publicly since this type of allegation is raised (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) No, only that it was intended to be taken in a humorous way. (...) Okay. You got the "joke" but decided to deliberately respond with hostility anyway. Fine. LUGNET just got a little less civil. JOHN (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, that was my point. Last I heard, adding a smiley doesn't automatically make a statement into a joke, it generally requires some humour to be present. (...) Really??????? No kidding????!!!!!????? Ha ha ha. ROSCO (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, that was the joke (hence the smiley). Your post was about 4 minutes after mine... (...) (URL) Lighten up, Francis.> JOHN (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well John, that might even be slightly funny if it was all old news, but if you read carefully, you'll see I included more than your solitary useful link and one totally meaningless one. So please try to keep the stupid **** in (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'd ask what a pentagraph has to do with either a pentacle or a pentagram...but I live in Holland, and I know how stupid some of the locals can be about such things. They did chase an Oscar-winning Dutch film out of town, after all. What (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'll try to take your views on board. (...) I feel better already! (...) The one left of centre gets my vote. ;) Scott A (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Interestingly, (URL) this> makes it sound like the firework was named after the window... It (URL) appears> they are not normally octagonal. Scott A (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) eh? What's *5* got to do with it? The name of the paper is pAntagraph, not pEntagraph (personally I'd love to publish a paper so titled in, say, Holland, MI to get the mundanes all uptight, but I digress) or pantOgraph, which was my original (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh I caught the rtlT topic relation, and I especially liked the 'eh' bit 'cause, well, I am Canadian and I like the 'eh', eh. But I just wanted to clarify for my faulty recollection that a Catharine wheel/window was 8 sided instead of 5. Dave (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I didn't give a good enough hint with the "eh", I guess. This obscure reference was to rtlT's discussion about St. Catharines (town name) vs. St. Catherines (incorrectly spelled town name)... not to any torture devices, fireworks, windows, or (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I always thought a Catherine Wheel was a rock band; maybe it's just that I have been staring at the sun too long;-) JOHN (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I always thought a Catharine wheel was 8 sided, like a stopsign--I was told that those little 8 sided windows usually on the 2nd storey of small brick houses built in the 30's-40's were called 'Catharine windows'. Of course, all this is (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Er, PantAgraph. Where's St. Catharine when you need her, eh? (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This link (which I got to via: (URL) which I got to via a google search for Pantagraph and Moore ) would tell you, I bet. (URL) the first article down However it's wasn't worth 2.95 to *me* to find out. Perhaps it is to someone else. However (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This appeared the other day somewhere else (Los Angeles Times?). The really big difference was that they were reported as asking for $1 (note the significant lack of the word "million") in compensation for damages (a token amount so that they (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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It seems that (URL) Moore played it a little too fast and loose in F-9/11>. A newspaper was shown on screen with "Latest Florida recount shows Al Gore won election" as its headline. The Pantagraph of Bloomington Illinois, which is the newspaper in (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Prior to 1965, the 9th Amendment was not used to restrict the states from excercising their 10th Amendment rights. At that point, it was used to safeguard the privacy of one's home, but subsequent citations of the 9th Amendment have shown that (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Do you know that you are a bad bad person?(1) ++Lar 1 - You do know that you are bad, *not* for modifying, some of my best friends(2) modify stuff, but actually for not setting the FUT right? (3) 2 - Did you think to yourself "AND Rob (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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(...) What do you think? (...) Are you ignoring my clever wordplay? (...) Are you now the green-eyed grammar police? (...) :-) By coincidence, my son and I watched the original Batman movie last night-- they don't mak'em like they used to, do they? (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, I suppose they did, though I wasn't really paying attention. I apologize if I let him off the hook too easy (and I think it is an established fact that John and I do not see eye to eye on politics or religion at all). But I do think he (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Does that impact my rhetorical question one way or another? (...) What would make you think otherwise? (...) Is that a rhetorical question that I just questioned? (...) Ascii depiction of Frank Gorshin in his Batman nemesis role? ??>Bruce<?? (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) lol Like I said, you choose to make noise rather than be honest. I hate nobody. I have a dislike for Sharon, his policies and extremist Israeli nationalism in general; but I know I’m not alone in that. I also have a dislike for Palestinian (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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