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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dustin Jones wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> Here's my humble POV-- We can talk of rights of workers and such, and we can discuss environmental impacts and how bad 'those countries' are for everyone... My problem is that we, (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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One of the main reasons I have always been enamored with LEGO bricks is that they are European. I've always been fascinated with being able to build with bricks crafted in Denmark and Switzerland. I can handle production moving to the Czech (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Either everyone has figured out that Dubya is an idiot by now, or they refuse to admit it out of party....loyalty. :-) -->Bruce<-- (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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What a blithering idiot. If the gougers didn't buy all of X up, then it would still be available at normal market price... (...) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: New Faction: The Bonktrons are coming.
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(...) Space is going stronger than ever (URL) elsewhere>... ~Kevoh (19 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Funny how the "LUGNET is dead" pronouncements always seem to come from people associated with other (moderated) forums. It's really too bad that you can't be an admin here and (URL) censor posts>, buy why don't you get over it already? Marc (...) (19 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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I've called (URL) John Stossel> a jerk in this forum previously, but this time I mean it. Jerk. (19 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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At the risk of being told I am quoting out of context, I will leave all of your text here. (...) "..held your nose..." you sir, (up until recently) were an active member of JLUG. you, YOURSELF have said things on JLUG that have explained what you (...) (19 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Okay, maybe not a real MOC, but close enough
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(...) Ah, but if he were English, he would have to ask his mum for permission to marry... us Scots are a little more liberal in that respect. If he were English, he'd also not want me to say this: (URL) NI 1 :Eng(er)land 0>... so I won't! Scott A (19 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Hmm. It sounds like he needs to setup and chair a committee to investigate his own ineptitude. I note that he is now accepting aid from those nitwits at the UN... Scott A (...) (19 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Why hasn't Dubya fired Michael Brown? Why hasn't Dubya fired Michael Chertoff? While he's been President, has Dubya ever fired anyone? While he's been President, has Dubya ever fired anyone for anything other than a perceived lack of loyalty? (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, as he has said, he is 17. In the UK certainly, that would make him not a minor (for a lot of things anyway*, confusing world that it is :) ) Tim *Allowed to get married and serve in the army, but not to buy alcohol or vote (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I had a great-uncle who was a 15 year-old miner before The Great Depression, if that helps. At least, I hear that he was great. Dave! (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) If he lived a country where the age of majority was 15, would you still consider him a minor? (I don't think it is 15 in India BTW) Tim (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Just ignore him, he's a Space Nazi(TM). (...) Is that Tormod 'the modder of bricks' or Tormud 'the Tor of earth' (as Lenny stated) ? pete'Torte'.w (the Tor of desserts) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) !
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It must be humbling to see your unilateralist president begging for international help. If people were not dead/dying, it would be funny. Scott A (...) (19 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) the government version of what's going on in NOLA, and there's what appears to be the truth. Tangentially, this blog makes fascinating reading: (URL) (19 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I wouldn't directly correlate humans and rats, either. Rats turning on each other in bad situations is an 'instinctive defense mechanism' that they can't consiously do anything about. Humans, on the other hand, even though we have 'instinctive (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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My brother in law in Atlanta paid $5 a gallon. I just paid $2.80 in California, which usually leads the nation in artificially manipulated prices. -->Bruce<-- (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Not for everyone. Those who are wealthy enough not to have to worry about a 60 or 80% increase in the price per gallon aren't going to be affected at all, except perhaps to enjoy a larger profit from their oil stocks. Raising the prices serves (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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