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(...) I seem to be able to penetrate through to the one they use on mechahub, but irc, iirc, is a no-go area for me. :( (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) JLUG is died, Long live to Legnut ! lugnet.jlug would be très vool and :wiz: Well, I just started to read daily jlug three weeks ago... Shitlighted. Erik (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Did I say Mistresses? If Ross takes it that way, maybe there is something he would want to tell us... Jude (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Mistress Ross? Jude, what are you trying to tell us? Chris (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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-snip- (...) You mean no more never ending Robotic Cat thread??!! What the hell will I do with myself now??!! So I guess we'll all trudge over to BL chat now? ;-) (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Everyone mail Crown Royal to Mistress Janey, it is our only hope. Jude (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, C. L. GunningCook wrote: snip (...) As an intermittent lurker and appreciator of all things JLug, this is sad news :( I do feel that JLug served a very niche market for the LEGO enthusiast--one which was needed and (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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B****r! Where am I supposed to post ranting b****h-fests about idiots and f*****g morons! What's that you say...stop being an a*****e and become part of the WEC? Oh, the humanity! (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think you may have unleashed a beast ;-) tim (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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I feel like a refugee :-( Tim (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah, with lugnet.jlug.jchat Tim (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snip the unbelievable news> Thanks to Mistress Janey and Ross for all of their effort. Can we now have a JLUG newsgroup on LUGNET? Please? The conspiracy must live on. Where else am I going to post all of those jokes? Jude (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'd be satisfied with chat. I'll create a #jlug IRC channel on espernet but I seem to remember some of you have troubles getting in during work hours. Tim (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Setting up is one thing. Maintaining and administering? ... Well, you'll see. Allister (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) WOW, CL worker, you ARE a RATTC! the list of people who have registered is VERY impressive. Kudo's to you, and your new team. as a side note, and I am NOT a lawyer, but i think you might need permission from CL janey, and/or CL ross to use the (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) No. No discussion. Why not register us, and see how it goes? Will it collapse in a mountain of anticommunitarian trolling? Will you collapse under the admin load? I suspect neither. But carpe diem and all that. You have built it, they are (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) This information makes me weep. I hope that one or both of you will get blind drunk and reconsider. Thanks for the JLUG that was, it will be missed. Tim (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) CM TheAzz (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You know what the really wierd bit is? I don't even know who you were (on JLug) Tim (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Thanks for registering and all, guys. However, this is just a sample, and I'm not sure I'm the one to be administering or hosting a forum. I really just wanted to prove to Allister how quick and easy it was to set up a forum. Perhaps more (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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I forgot to add Thank you Janey, and thank you Rosco, for all the work you put in to give us a sand pit in the sun. If something else eventually gets off the ground, I hope you 2 and all the other who helped make it a grand place come back into the (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nice work, CM Worker! (Or should I say CL Worker?) Hopefully, my prompt registering will result in a low member number (not than numbers mean anything). Spotlighted. Thanks for sharing. Cheers Richie Dulin Future JLUG2 Community Overlooker (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) that would of been :wiz: (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Goodonya Leigh. Who knows what you could achieve in an hour. At this rate, we'll have ITC by the end of the week. (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I feel your pain. Today our community became slightly less warm, and slightly less embracing. But JLUG was a tour de force to be reckoned with, while it lasted. It rawked. Cheers Richie Dulin Former Unofficial JLUG CTOP List Administrator (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah, like it's so hard. (URL) is just a sample, and I've only put 15 minutes work into it. worker201 (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) !
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It is a sad day today, I really enjoyed relaxing in Jlug, not needing to worry about watching what I or other would say. to be able to post irrelivant topics about nothing at all, or just smacking each other silly. for old times sake :wiz: :'( (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) We could form a committee to discuss it, and then all resign in a fit of petulance. That'd be fun. They could run the server from a handcranked laptop in Africa. It'd probably be more reliable than those shonky Northstar servers. (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Doesn't seem fair, does it? It was one of the good ones. (...) I feel much the same way. I was contemplating setting up a website called save.JLUG.com, to provide a forum in which fans of JLUG could work to save JLUG. We could have provided (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Nooo...ooo! :-( (big sigh) Even though I never post on the site. I did lurk on the site a quite few times every week. I am bummed that the site...has let's say...is taking a LONG vacation or in other words... in a coma. There is a movie title (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Didn't you guys keep back-ups? I gotta say I'm pretty upset by this news - it's as shocking as it is unexpected. I feel like I've lost a dear friend. (...) From my perspective, I think it was enough fun, but I expect I wasn't on the receiving (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) And it died before ITC could be implemented. <Single tear>. I hope the much loved JLUG statistics can be published somewhere for posterity. Cheers Richie Dulin Former JLUG Community Overlooker. (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I just can't stop crying. Where do I go to curse and post bondage vigs now? I even took a picture of a couple cranes, a Halal Pepsi can, and a robotic cat to share with everyone... (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Thanks Janey, and Ross too- it was a blast. See you 'round. (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, C. L. GunningCook wrote: snip (...) Janey, Thank you for all the effort you and ross put into JLUG. It will be missed. You ran a fine site, and stuck to your values. thank you. Chris (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Here are a few new JLUG slogans.... JLUG - The end of an error.... errr I mean era. JLUG - Been there, done that, cant be bothered to do it again. JLUG - The "sandbox" is condemned. Sadly during the recent crash we (JLUG) got hit pretty hard. Our (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate) !!
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(...) Yeah, but if the percentage of people who posed an immediate risk to people other than themselves was significantly higher, there would be more political capital to do something about it. Once the public perceives a lack of risk to themselves, (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) The Judeo-Christian heritage of the United States government says that it's wrong to kill anyone, therefore it should be illegal. That does, of course, lead to the obvious question of why they thought it should be a capital crime. I mean, as I (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I agree with most of what you have said, however I'm not certain your car analogy is valid. While cars can be a deadly weapon that is not what they are designd for. A well used gun is one that is never used whereas a well used car is used all (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I will agree that the homeowner was wrong, but on different grounds. He did not properly identify his target before firing. In many states, you are allowed to presume that any un-invited intruder in your house is a deadly threat. Such laws are (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) It's not in that situation, either. It is noble and compassionate to try and comfort and help provide meaning to one in pain and agony. Further, not helping someone kill themselves can hardly be characterized as "forcing" them to live, Dave! (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) You're correct, but that's kind of a dumb law. There's a ton of things that you can do to yourself that you can't do to others without consent, among which tattooing and masturbation are perhaps two of the most obvious examples. Why suicide (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I don't know that it's as simple as a black-and-white declaration. If someone is at full mental faculty but is physically incapacitated by constant agony with no hope of relief, how is it noble and compassionate to force that person to (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I dug up (URL) some statistics> (page 288- of the PDF) and it would appear that in the US just under one third of drug users are using something other than marijuana. So when talking about high-risk people (those whose actions are a danger to (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'd say that depends on the society. In the US there is a problem with people mugging Oxycontin(sp?)-dependant people for their prescriptions and mainlining it. It is perhaps more expensive than heroin, and anyone who actually needs it to (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) Yes I don't doubt it but I think that the basic Conservative position (as opposed to the position of Conservatives) is against it. It becomes an 'exception to the rule' rather than part of a grey spread. (...) Yes. I'm still talking (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) You're supposed to feel sympathy for Darth Vader because right before he redeems himself, we see Luke on the verge of making the same monumental mistake that his father made before him. Of all six movies, that is easily my favorite scene, (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) It is, as Dave suggested, an entirely cultural notion. Look to untamed nature to see the natural "might makes right" position, where the strongest (whether it be physically, or in terms of mental cunning) survive by killing, maiming, or simply (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I thought the difference between melodrama and drama was the cheesy music. That's what one of my theatre profs told me, at least... (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Hey, there's no need to go insulting Batman by calling him twinky names like that. (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, they did sorta include the reception desk. Sorta. In the first floor, aside from the sliding cage door, there's some sort of computer terminal with a phone and a swivel chair. Not very desk-like, but hey, it's not very asylum-like (...) (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Agreed. There are still consequences for actions. (...) Hmmm. Very broadly speaking, perhaps. But there are plenty of Conservatives who could easily sympathize with the killer in your example. (...) Well, you are certainly taking a risk by (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) I'd be more sympathetic too, but they're still a murderer. What about someone who has been abused by a partner for many years and lacks the capacity to escape. If they kill that partner in cold blood they are a murderer but I'm pretty (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Okay, I take it now that we have dispensed fantasy and are now dealing with real life situations. Vigilantism isn't ideal, because there isn't a standard-- that, of course, is the beauty of Law. The problem comes when the law fails to bring (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) No, that's just reality. It's just that liberal minds take a bit more effort to take it into consideration. (...) Does that mean you support Court by vigilante and death penalty for thievery? Do you really think it's up to the (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Generally speaking, this is the idea to which I object. Identifying with bad guys is bad. (...) Is Han really bad? Sure, he undermines the laws of an evil empire, but does that make him "bad"? Shouldn't we resist evil (bad)? (...) I can't (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) snip (...) I still say it's 7!!! :) Dave K (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well in this case the homeowner was definatly in the wrong. There can be no doubt that he shot without any warning, (otherwise his daughter would have made herself known to him) and thus he can't claim self defence, because he wasn't being (...) (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote: SNIPPY (...) Hey , what about the innocent men and the guilty women and children? (I had a strange cultural default twinge there as I typed 'children') SNIPPY Tim (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Part of Dave K's post (URL) here> brought this issue to mind and resonated with a recent news story. Here's part of the text of a post I wrote back in 2003. I've isolated it here rather than replying in-thread because I don't want to put any (...) (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) And if I may intrude into this here, we have had some wonderful fiction on the telly lately in which what is considered to be 'the bad guy' in the 'tv show universe' is the person we most relate to. Loads of examples, but starting off with (...) (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Just making sure. Got that one from Duffy, did ya, Dave!? (...) Hold on right there! I wonder why that is the case! And I certainly don't believe it is by Cawinkydink. And if it is so easy, than why would it be restricted to our culture? I (...) (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Fair enough. Actually, I find it a lot more convincing as points of view go than the semantics one. ;) Cheers Richie Dulin (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) First off, "sophistimacated" was just a means of letting out some air so that I don't start taking myself too seriously. Let me disclaim that it in this passage I'm speaking specifically of fiction rather than reality. The reason it's more (...) (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) You keep out of this. I'll decide what you did and didn't say! ;) Dave! (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Right. Semantics, that must be it. Even so, even if that was what Dave was meaning, it would be nice for him to have the used the phrase "Richie's comment" or "Richie's post". It would save you the hassle of having to explain this stuff to me, (...) (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, it looks like the same antics to me. (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) And god forbid that anyone gets accused of being anti-Semantic. a (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) But you brought their judgment into question. Semantics here, IMO JOHN (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Just a point of order, Dave: I didn't include a question in my initial post. Cheers Richie Dulin (17 years ago, 8-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Not to mention your eloquent gift of good grammar and tongue-in-cheekiness. (...) Well, yeah, that's basically what I meant. (...) And that, my friend, may be one of those "nutshell" differences between a liberal and a conservative. Assuming (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) My generosity and my humility are the two attributes of which I'm most proud. (...) But you can hate the crime without loving the victim, can't you? (...) Ah! But that's the difference between melodrama and drama. The more sophistimacated (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) All you do is give, Dave! (...) Oops! Mea culpa, but a rather funny blooper there, nonetheless:-) I'll bet you are only too happy to invite me into your little den of iniquity, Dave! :-) (...) I agree, and I think that fantasy provides a (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. (...) Hey, you poser--we're talking about Batman sets here. Keep your escapist fantasy characters sorted out, will you? Of course, if you're looking to talk about the current Spider-man (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) But, they're making a toy. Saying they have a "curious lack of sensitivity" implies that there is some sort of sinister commentary on their part. Just because it reminded one person of something horrible doesn't mean that issue should've been (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) You think? (...) I think that there is a definite line WRT to reality and fantasy. The holocaust sets were offensive because they portrayed reality; these Spiderman sets deal in the realm of fantasy and make-believe, and so they shouldn't be (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Timothy Gould wrote: I sincerely doubt that either post will cause a (...) Sounds like a great them for a time travel movie! (...) Well, I still respect you. And I think we actually feel the same way about the original (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yes. But my point here is that by responding with a reference to the cartoon you're making it a little bit more likely to be seen by the very people that you think may get upset. I sincerely doubt that either post will cause a calamity but it (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Although it's unlikely that LEGO intended the set as a commentary on Abu Ghraib, their choice to foreground an institutionalized torture chamber speaks of a curious lack of sensitivity on the subject. Given TLG's long-standing policy of (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Which is exactly my original point. Any focus group could stumble upon Richie's original post and get all up in arms over it and start some sort of movement against LEGO. Putting the idea out there, anyone can read it and over-react any number (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) But that is why we have .off-topic.debate ;) (which both of us forgot to move to... sorry, Lugnet) (...) I suspect the cartoonist either didn't think much at all or consciously set out to be malicious but we'll never really know the answer to (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.licensed.batman, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I remember a time when there were no weapons in the sets. There were pieces that you could pretend were lasers in the space sets. It was a gentler time then I quess. But I do remember that lego made a plastic toy gun at one time, perhaps (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I guess I was using your opinion and those that spotlighted it as a barometer for what the public is thinking. Its usually safe to assume that if someone has a mild discomfort towards something, someone somewhere is up in arms about it. (17 years ago, 5-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) It certainly does, though it's not something I choose to portray in my pirate MOCs and not something that LEGO has chosen to portray in its sets (beyond prison cells, and planks for walking. Oh, and I once built a guillotine). (...) Conflict (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) That's clearly true, and it's unfortunate that there's always somebody eager to be offended by pretty much everything--not that Richie is such a person, but his thoughtful question definitely brings the issue to mind. (...) Also clearly true, (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I understand where you're coming from. But I wonder, where do we draw the line between having fun and addressing every possible concern that could arise? The pirates theme, your theme of choice I believe, has a disgusting and horrible true (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jun-07, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) !
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(...) Why would someone impersonate you? Near as I can tell, you posted a bare handful of times prior to 2006, and the email Terry pasted was written in a very similar style and signed the same way you sign your posts. Not only that, but (...) (18 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I was not going to respond, but I never wrote that email. It is either made up or someone hi jacked my name for that. I have nothing against the French, hell they helped us win our first war. Maybe someone did what others did when they made a (...) (18 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) I never denied it. Unlike you I'm usually aware of when I am or am not being rude. (...) No. Most would understand the difference. It takes a special sort of brain not to see the difference. The kind of brain that would also do (...) (18 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I did not go on about, but did not hide the fact. I mention it in my Lugnet page. I mention it and do not feel any need to hide it. I also have never mentioned what by graduate degrees are in. As for you being a doctor, so are my kids. My (...) (18 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) Pretty sure you called me Timmy first but it really is unimportant. (...) And I'm a Doctor if you want to be precise but I've never gone on about it like you have about your rank. (...) This is the main reason I wanted to respond. I (...) (18 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I think I understand your point, but, even so, I must say I don't think using that term is a good idea. (...) I would? I defer to your knowledge of the Israeli military - incidentally, I'm sure that's not the only thing about some of them that (...) (18 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) But it does make a point. I read a lot of old messages and it seems that there are some people here that want the forums to be what they want. If something does not fit their point of view about subject or style they let everyone know. Nazi (...) (18 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) While fora often have some people who are overzealous, and some who post "not nice" messages from time to time, in my experience, labelling them with a term that signifies hate and genocide is not likely to be productive. Richie Dulin FUT (...) (18 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Ah, I see it now. Didn't pick it last night. I blame the drugs. Cheers. (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I was saying that I was sorry for stealing almost all of Tim's words from his post seen here (and the joke being fairly lame now that I think of it - lol): (URL) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) He didn't apologise... he appologised. There was a reason I snipped ;) Tim (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The funny thing is, as far as I can tell, and fwiw, Word Spellcheck agrees, Bob didn't make any spelling errors in that post. And so the mystery remains as to what exactly Bob was apologising for... Allister - spring loaded to the baffled (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think I do get it. (...) I appreciate Tim's contribution to the community here, few come close to his involvement and knowledge. His MOC production is, I think, unequalled in recent times. I do not think LUGNET is 'his forum', but I (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Rather, only one pair of original parents. ;o) Giving me a name appropriate for Jewish men born in the 1920's (and random bad-guy henchmen) was soo creative! -Lenny (18 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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