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<snipped .admin.general - this is getting obviously into the realm of just (...) A firewall must exist (at least in part) on a machine that serves the internet at large. Like I said before, a couple posts ago: "you're defining webserver differently. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) to (...) You mean....that all brits *aren't* like Basil Fawlty? Gosh, what a revelation! :-) Bruce (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I guess no worse than worrying about paying taxes on toy auctions, that's for sure... BTW, I take GREAT offense at what you try to imply about me with this little joke of yours. I happen to find you equally ill-informed. May the boots of your (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't think it's normally illegal, no, although I would be surprised if there weren't at least a few gray or semi-gray areas lurking there vis-a-vis publishing links to unannounced products. Mostly I meant wrong in the sensibilities sense, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) HERE! HERE! I agree 100%, well put Lar. :-) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<385C70D7.568E345D@voyager.net> <FMzorw.GrH@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Well I did some digging to find examples but not as much as I could have. While I'd love to devote the time (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The Universal declaration of Hum.. Oh. Wait. Forget I said that. (...) So how does this relate to taxes? I don't think I've ever heard of a court case where it was ruled that you don't have to pay the taxes defined in the laws of the land. If (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What do you mean "firewalls are on an unsecured webserver"? I think you need some more grounding in the terminology, cause I can't make head nor tail of what you're trying to say. If it should happen to be be "otherwise unsecured webserver (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Uhm, excuse me, exactly what did I saw that was wrong about the law? --Todd (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No. Refuse, once released to an ordinary refuse collection service, is no longer the property of the originator. If you don't want people viewing your secret plans, shred them and contract with a secure document service which retains control (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Amen to that, brother! (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Bringing up a world-readable image on a publicly accessible webserver (by any means - either mistyping or experimenting with urls) and invading someone's privacy by going through their medicine cabinets. I don't think you were try to imply (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Poppycock! Since you are apparently in the Netherlands I guess it might be understood that you do not entirely understand the questions involved as they might relate to citizens of the United States, although perhaps you are a U.S citizen (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Claims like that are allowed to stand all the time, and they still get knocked over in court when they try to enforce them. It doesn't matter what a company claims it's legal rights are, it matters <cynicism> how good their laywers (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) If you insist. But no amount of sniping is going to convince me that "webserver"=public. What about firewalls? They're on an unsecured webserver, too - does that make them "public?" (...) And I am saying I don't care about the legalities. I (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You're all ready to go on Jerry Springer as guest, or worse, audience, or worse yet, host. Aren't you? Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The democratic majority agreed. You agreed. As simple as that. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Tom Stangl, VFAQman wrote in message <385AA831.A7538733@vfaq.com>... (...) is NOT (...) don't (...) Yes. You are 100% right. The problem is 100% with TLG. Somebody there is pretty naive I think. Crazy way to run a company - I have to use get past 2 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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(...) I dunno. I've seen some pretty awful American tourists. That might not mean (...) It's all a balancing act -- the issue of "your rights end where my nose starts" writ large. Generally, it's been acknowledged that certain intellectual property (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Gee. That's rather a cop-out, isn't it? (...) Yes, it does. (...) This is not about courtesy. At all. This is about a claim Brad made that it was _legally_ so. I am not saying it isn't impolite (though I don't agree..), I am saying it isn't (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<sarcasm> yes it just pleases me to no end that shows like 'Dawson's Creek', 'Friends' and 'Beverly Hills 90210' go to other countries. </sarcasm> They're bad enough in this country where we know there is no way someone lives like that, let alone (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Interesting side-issue: what about going through the garbage in the alley? I could see it either way - people don't generally leave sensitive information in the dumpster, unless they're idiots, but legally, is acquiring, say, hardware (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) If you think about the vast number of television programmes that spew forth from America and pollute the rest of the world.. then it isn't that suprising that people have this opinion. Almost every other idiot on television is an American, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What two? (...) Heh heh...no, that's not what I meant by "summoned up"; I was referring to snooping or URL trolling. If I summoned up an image by accident, I'd be surprised more than anything else. --Todd (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, you're defining webserver differently. I'm not going to bother quibbling semantics with you. (...) No. "in a place public can get to" != publically available != published. The three of them often co-incide, but do not necessarily do so. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Wow, I've been quite reasonable AND made an excellent point today. I'm on a roll. ;) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's silly. Those two have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Brad even specifically mentioned something about "by accident or by intent". So you're telling me that if you accidentally mistype a character in a URL and end up seeing an (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I may revisit this tomorrow after all the spirits are flushed out of my system, but on the surface this is a bogus analogy. Front window/back window. Signs pointing HERE - Look at this! No signs pointing to other areas, but stuff still there (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On my site, I assume that ANYTHING on my site will be viewed by someone sooner or later. If I don't want it viewed, I remove it. The most I do for "security" is put index.html files in directories that I might consider sensitive. But then again, I (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Christopher Weeks wrote in message <385A9C3C.C9739DE6@e...se.net>... (...) You really need to bow down to the great Larry more often. If you did, you wouldn't make so many misteaks... Frank (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Reply-To: mattdm@mattdm.org Message-Id: <slrn85lsvu.1dq.matt...ia.bu.edu> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) (...) *shrug* It's snooping in stuff that they've made publicly available. Walking down the public alley behind a store because you're curious (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Heh heh. No no, I mean when you find some directory with 755 permissions (instead of 711 permissions) and it's got no index.html file, but it's got a home.html file linked to from elsewhere, and home.html contains links to 5 images in its (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You mean you go back and see what you should have felt guilty about, in retrospect? I think that's going a bit overboard! (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I didn't mean it quite that literally. Correcting an obvious typo or fixing broken \'s to /'s is something I think anyone could do without feeling guilt! :) I meant things like trying to guess names of files from partial information, or if (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm coming to think so too. To me, this is fundamentally why we have a URLs -- Uniform Resource Locators. The ability to identify and access resources directly is a basic design decision underlying what makes the WWW what it is. If the intent (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Probably. (...) Maybe you haven't spent much time on personal homepages. Misspelled links in the source are more common than correct ones, it sometimes seems. Oh, and of course all webdevelopment gets done on case-insenstive FAT16/32. And then (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm, maybe that's the heart of the controversy right there! I dunno about the net population at large, but I'd certainly experience guilt feelings if I summoned up an image to which there was no readily- obvious hyperlink, because I'd assume (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Anything in a store _is_ for sale. Anything that isn't for sale isn't _in_ the store, it's _a part of_ the store. That's the only way for the analogy of the web to a store even to remotely work. (...) No he doesn't. He agrees with me in every (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Aha. Flawed analogy. There were NO SHEETS. It was not only out in the open, it was in the main room of the party. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't see how this corresponds. 1. She didn't invite people over specifically to see her paintings, she invited them to housewarming which happened to display a few paintings. On the other hand, the entire purpose of Lego's web site is to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) False analogy. Your conditions don't match Lego's, at least in my estimation. If you stated that the artist's display was on the street, in public, and has the other works uncovered in an inconspicuous but equally public location, then we have (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) All right. You have this artist friend. She paints things. She invites you and fifty other people over for a housewarming party. Great party, lots of fun, lots of neat things going on. She's got a couple of her latest paintings up on display, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I believe I saw it in the GR Press but I can't be sure of the reference chain beyond that. Hey, it fit my preconceived notions about the national press so I bought it. :-) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ...unlocked, with the keys in the contact, pink slip on the dashboard, and with a sign in the window saying in large, friendly letters "This car is free to anyone who wants it". Just to complete the analogy, and all. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Nope, it's not. It's a very close analogy to what Jasper posted: "Yes, it is. Anything on an unsecured webserver is being published." Which you refute much more logically below. (...) Yes, but we're disagreeing on what consitutes "documents (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah, this whole thought of calling it "snooping" seems ridiculous to me. How many times have you had to manually edit URLs you've come across because they just didn't plain work until you "hacked" away at them? If it's world-readable and (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I agree. If I can see by normal means (no serious hacking) using a normal URL and a normal web browser some information that Lego doesn't want me to see, then the fault lies with the webmaster of that site, not me. "We put all this info here (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's a false analogy. Obviously, not everything on the web server itself is public. For example, www.lego.com runs on Microsoft IIS on top of NT 4 -- obviously the system software is not publicly viewable. But everything in the "documents to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Not to put to fine a point on it...hogwash. That's the same logic as "Anything in a store is for sale, that's what a store is FOR." James (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, it was apparantly an error on somebody's part, because the pics and links are gone. Honest curiosity, how does that affect the 'public info' thing? I mean, I agree with most of the people around here, that if information is on the public (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "If you don't want me to drive away in your car, don't leave it in the parking lot." 8^) All in fun, Dave! (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Yep, and I'll respect that statement. But I certainly WON'T agree with it. Putting pics on an open website and then saying "hey don't look at those" is NOT the way to run a website. Don't put them there in the first place, if you don't want them (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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(...) LEGO made an official statement today: (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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(...) Huh. Well, it's entirely possible that the walkway once connected the Uffizi to Pitti. I mean, certainly the Machiavelli had enough money to throw at it to get it accomplished. It seems a little absurd, but certainly physically possible, and I (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ayup! I guess I couldn't be troubled to check for mistakes in the middle of a rant. Thanks for catching that. Chris (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Eric, I'm not sure about whether or not the passageway is walkable from the Uffizi to the Pitti palaces, (partly because I've never been to Florence) but I have a large book on sights in Florence, and it show an arial view of the old town. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think that's quite a bit more extremest than the original statement, but in essense, yes. If it came down to you paying $3.50 or being put in jail for 5 to 10 years, I'd hope you'd pay the $3.50, because it really ISN'T worth the trouble of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Boy, I know some people express some extreme positions, but this one takes the cake! VBG. I assume you meant: "At least most CPAs are NOT actively engaged in murder." (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Am I right in taking what you are saying as: "technically, you may have the right to evade taxes, but you'll get in trouble and it's really much easier if you just go with the flow. After all, the government slowly stripping away freedoms (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) since (...) us (...) one (...) to (...) Key word here is "still." I get a little paranoid (in some weird cases, considerably) about forever etching my words on the net. There was a poll recently on AOL about gun control. With our somewhat (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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[F-UP to .debate, not that this is much of a debate, but it is o-t, and not shopping, and .debate was already on the list.] (...) Got a reference for that? I've wondered, but I've never seen any solid documentation of the 1st/2nd cast vs. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Oh, don't get me wrong, I know. It happens. I've been on that side of the fence a few times myself. Jasper (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Steve, (...) Thanks. Very interesting, and I even learned something from it! :) Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn CAD Operator Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Work Page: (URL) Page: (URL) LEGO Page: (URL) to come: Star Wars LEGO Sets Parts Selling (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Thanks for that ref. notice how it claims the American Horse is a second cast. Incorrect. It is as if you took two sets and mingled the pieces, then reassembled them. Not possible to say which set was first and what set was second any longer. (each (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Chet Corbin <citeman@aol.com> wrote in message news:FMAz0B.CnK@lugnet.com... (...) retailer (...) "In a (...) you (...) I was the source of that 'leak'. It's in my 1996 retailers catalogue, but I didn't notice it until about 1998 (when I started (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) See (URL) Especially, find the section "The American Horse". Steve (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) <fairly major snippage> (...) That door swings both ways, though. While unhappy customers can be/often are hard to deal with/unwilling to admit fault, the other end occurs often as well. A company with a poorly designed/managed customer (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That would have been the da Medici's, IIRC, with their lovely political advisor Machiavelli. And Genoa. (...) They died. (...) That would be 6.mumble meters, right?[1] Jasper [1] Follow-ups to _that_ can go to /dev/null. (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) < Snipped Larry's telling of the horse & Fred Meijer > Wow, that is incredible. Just goes to show how biased the media is, and how entrenched they are in class warfare. Fred has brought thousands upon thousands of jobs and careers to people, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Another Michigan native? Wow, where did you grow up? I grew up in Manton, just north of Cadillac. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "Me too"... Being a Michigan native, I really miss Meijers since I moved to Minnesota. Growing up, it was always a big deal to visit the relatives near Jackson (MI) since that meant we got to stop at Meijers which sold LEGO, unlike all of the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Edward Sanburn writes: <snipped market from the groups list> (...) OK, there's a lot of mumbling coming up here.. It's the talk of GR. :-) Apparently, Leonardo Da Vinci was commissioned by <mumble>, who was ruler of (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Best I could do with what you handed me.. The setup line is as important as the resolution, after all. Jasper (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Larry, I love Meijer too, I have since I was little, and continue to do so. Fred Meijer is what America is all about, and I am glad I can work for that store, and shop there as well. A business born in Michigan, I might add! :) (...) Man, I am (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Hmm... Just goes to show how idiotic, ignorant, and totally useless government is when when it is too big, too powerful, and has too much money. "You're under arrest, Mr. Sanburn." "What?!? May I ask why?" "You violated Section 456.98.0898 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) I DON'T want to talk about that. But if you want to spar, why do you make such lame jokes? that soccer ball thing was pretty weak, surely you can do better? (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Steve Bliss, all around good guy, but resident of an inferior school district, opined on how swell Meijer is: <I snipped it> Meijer rules. And Fred Meijer is aces. He MADE Da Vinci's horse happen and those hoity toity coastals didn't even invite him (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Well, there seems to be little traffic here, so i thought I'd try and summon up some discussion. James Bulger. Discuss. Jasper (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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[followup to .debate, cause I don't think this belongs in admin.general] (...) Ignorance I can deal with. Willful stupidity and bigotry I can't. (...) So what words, exactly, are vulgar? Whit? Sheesh? Luser? American? Let's just say that I disagree, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You're right. It is insulting. But, it makes great fiction : ) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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< Cross posted to off-topic.debate > (...) Well, this all leads back to parental responsibility, and teaching children about these things, which has been discussed to a great extent here at off-topic.debate. The government can't seem to protect us (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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(...) mistaken. (...) If (...) Occam's razor: (URL) should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything" No reason to add aliens into the mix to explain the pinacles of ancient human achievements. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think that the Mayan pyramids are in Guatemala, although I might be mistaken. Anyway, I'm willing to digest alien intervention, but what evidence have we? If none of the culural impact surived the millenium, then how do we know that it was (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sure. But the issue isn't how it happened. The end net effect is the same -- it makes it easy to do something that's coming from someone else's box. (...) Again, true but probably not relevant -- such info certainly isn't in news server logs. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Moving this to .debate, for lack of lugnet.off-topic.comp.risks. (...) BO isn't cracking - it's carelessness on the part of the crackee. Anyone can distribute happy99.exe, but breaking root on an up-to-CERT unix box is something very few can do. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) my (...) human (...) unfathomable, (...) really (...) I'm sure you're aware of the Mayan pyramids in Mexico (I believe). Well the idea of alien intervention did have a profound impact on culture, lore, and spirituality among those pyramid (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) century (...) he (...) cranes (...) Cheops. (...) very (...) Not to say that there haven't been people willing to undertake the project of reconstructing the Giza Pyramids. An Egyptian businessman was willing to create an attraction in Brown (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) century (...) he (...) cranes (...) Cheops. (...) very (...) Ramps? Lots of people with nothing to do after all the crops are harvested? What's so mysterious about that? Tremendous organization was required, but the ancient Egyptians were (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, Hancock believes that the construction of Cheops would tax even *20th* century technology, much less a culture that existed 15,000 years ago (which is when, he believes, all of the stuff at Giza was begun). For example, there are only 2 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) John: Thanks for the info. on Graham Hancock - I'll definitely look into them. In my mind, the construction of the Pyramids is the greatest unsolved mystery of human history. I don't fall into the camp that believes that they had Alien (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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(...) That'd be Emmanuelle. Jasper (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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Emmanuelle for a woman, AFAIK. -John (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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Hm, could be. I know Emma is a female name, but Emmanuel, when I've run into it, has been a male name. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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Tom Stangl <toms@netscape.com> wrote in message news:3851A130.DA3204...ape.com... (...) Emmanuel of DYA is a he?..:) I thought that it was a female name. Selçuk (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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(...) Yup. Although some sets are just plain cooler than others, any discontinued set becomes more valuable. Today's commonplace set becomes tomorrow's rarity. The moo-men will eventually command the sort of premium that wolfpack or forestmen sets (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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(...) I doubt it. The demand for the older sets, will go up exponentially, and DYA will probably raise prices at that point IF Emmanuel deems it necessary (like he thinks "hm, not getting as much through my contacts as I used to..."). As the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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John Neal wrote in message <3853EF6C.1D77857F@u...st.net>... (...) wouldn't (...) business (...) when a (...) like to (...) service to (...) I wonder how long the type of things he does will continue to work. Right now there is a feeding frenzy as (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Has the world gone mad?!?
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(...) I actually foresaw the problem enough to have two separate entry categories - "set" and "original". Of course the judge was still clueless as to which entries were really sets or not, and apparently didn't even care enough to really (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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Mecanno? What's that? I don't know my Mecanno from my Medinano;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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