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(...) Is it ok to "force" music in public? Or overhearing people talk to each other, or on cellphones? What about the people in the airport that have a few hours to kill, and you turning off the TV will make their wait feel that much longer? Why do (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I wouldn't use one of these in a sports bar, but then again, that's one reason I don't go to sports bars. I'm mostly concerned about public places -- city buses, cafeterias, airports, and the like. I'm prepared to take an active stance to (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Heh. Driving home after the game ended was definitely an "interesting" experience :) (...) I'd expect an option to control the TVs from a wired device... Though, this might all blow over - a similar worry was voiced when universal remotes came (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Good idea. However many consider it polite not to change the location of the post without any warning. Since you posted to ONLY off-topic.debate, people who subscribe to dear-lego by mail, or even by nntp, didn't see your post at all, and (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) (URL) I can't wait to get mine. I hate those dang idiot boxes. (...) Yes! If I end up getting one of these, I'll always ask an employee (and thus agent of the owner) for permission before using it... (...) Why, did something significant (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I saw it... and yet... Yes, I can understand hating TV. But in your own home, you have your own remote, so you don't need this. In a public place, isn't it the proprietor's privilage to choose what, if anything, is on? Can you imagine the riot (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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My dad told me about this a few days ago, and Jake just blogged it. (URL) can't wait to get mine. I hate those dang idiot boxes. -Tim (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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If (URL) this> link doesn't work, try (URL) this> one. Why do I have the feeling that, if Kerry had done this, we'd be hearing about it morning, noon, and night on at least two 24-hour cable news retailers? Dave! (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Potentially the most valuable site you'll visit over the next five days: (URL) OT.Debate (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.people, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I still don't agree that "structure" and "meander" are reasonable opposites except in some interpretive, poetic sense, and in this regard they forfeit their use as scientific tools of assessment. Looking at the Myers-Briggs test, I can't (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I am not sure I get it!?!... (...) Right. (...) Attractive, yes. Very interesting! (...) I am French, and I *love* debates! I am afraid of a "big brother is watching you" kind of society. When you say it makes everyone "responsible for his/her (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) because of their established slave labor practices & the 'first' world nations general willingness to look the other way for cheap stuff. (3 URLs) & just do a search for "chinese slave labor" or "laogai" I'm changing the forum to (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Ah, now there's where I'm concerned-- you added an extra qualifier to "decisive". Useful vs. Non-Useful (Dubya-esque). Each is still decisive, no? What's the 'decisive' element, minus the 'usefulness' qualification? (...) Hm. I guess that's (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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That title was supposed to be "open mouth, insert Bush" but I could see the risque sidepath that would be dragged down... ;-) (URL) "A political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yikes! If you're suggesting that, based on my definition, I am allied with the corporate world, you have either misread my intent or I have miscommunicated it. Or perhaps I'm again misreading you. (...) Now I think perhaps you _are_ (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ha! If anything I would be implying the opposite! :) I'm trying my best not to place a judgement on being "decisive", though :) (...) Heh, yeah, that's how the corporate & political worlds love to define it. All the good, none of the bad. (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) To that, I have no objection. Increased empathy and understanding are always positive IMO, and if this test helps someone achieve these, then great! But in the professional world the test is actually used to evaluate people's management (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm. Upon reflection, I see that I was inferring a value judgment where perhaps you didn't really imply one. It sounded, to me, as if you were making "decisiveness" a positive attribute, so that "more decisive" was more positive than "less (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) cameras (...) be (...) I think that cameras in law enforcement vehicles are an excellent idea all-around. If someone's committed a crime and they know that their actions are being recorded, I like to believe that this would have the effect of (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Interesting. In my own experience, necessarily limited just so, I have found this quite helpful. Granted its possible for someone reasonably bright to answer the questions so as to deliver whichever type they desire, but for bonafide (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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