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(...) Redundant is saying the same thing twice - typically in different words. An example is "that _big_ truck was _gigantic_." Chris (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: stuff (was: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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You know Scott, I really don't get you sometimes. My post was mildly derogatory to a faceless group - not to you - and you completely took it as an attack. (...) You're welcome to believe what you want. That's fine. I don't happen to believe the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: True Right Wing Fascists
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(...) Yes. Redundant = unnecessary duplication. Using two things where one would be enough. However, I think that totalitarianism comes in both right-wing and left-wing flavors, so I don't see the redundancy in the term "right-wing fascist." Both (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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<388320C1.F3E0E6D1@eclipse.net> <FoHr3F.Isu@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) In some ways that might be true. In others, and I think these are more important, corporations would be (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And eBay does have an interest in the listings being useable by people. If too many listings are unuseable, people will be less likely to use eBay, also, if the useablility of the listing eliminates a bidder or two, eBay may realize less (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: IP (was: Re: Any suggestions on a homepage?)
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(...) <snip> Care to provide some reasoning behind this position, or is it just a troll? James (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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This is just reminds me that the very obvious thing that why "religion" is nonsense: "Any given religion has always more disbelievers than its believers"..:-) Selçuk Mark Rendle <rendle2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FoJDxI.L0E@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: True Right Wing Fascists
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Mark Rendle <rendle2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FoJEuB.23x@lugnet.com... (...) I'm not a native English speaker, so sometimes I can't get some sentences true, but If I'm getting what you are saying correctly(1), you are just right about (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: True Right Wing Fascists
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Isn't "Right Wing Fascist" redundant? -- Mark Rendle rendle99@hotmail.com "Scott E. Sanburn" <ssanburn@cleanweb.net> wrote in message news:388476A5.EE261F...web.net... (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"All art is utterly useless" - Oscar Wilde -- Mark Rendle rendle99@hotmail.com "Jasper Janssen" <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote in message news:38764671.535053...net.com... (...) to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) While that is true, it is still wrong. If we were to prohibit things simply because they offended some group of superstitious primitives or another, there would be precious few things in the world. Music, technology, freedom of expression, art (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: IP (was: Re: Any suggestions on a homepage?)
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Property is Theft. Therefore Intellectual Property is Intellectual Theft.* *If quoted, please attribute, as a lawsuit may offend. -- Mark Rendle rendle2000@hotmail.com "Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing we can do" - Major Tom "Jasper Janssen" (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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< cross posted to off-topic.debate > Rob, (...) That is true, in terms of not bidding if you don't like it, but Ebay is a private firm (AFAIK), and they can impose whatever they want in terms of you using their facility. If you don't like their (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.market.auction)
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| | True Right Wing Fascists
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To All, There has been a lot of what I would call name calling, I admit I am guilty of it as well, and a few posts of this really got to me, especially the right wing religious fascists. Last night, on the History channel, they had a program about (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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(...) Uh, Larry? I _was_ kidding. (...) So how do you figure the costs of erosion? TIhe lumber companies own their land, usually, after all. Or they have permission from the owners. And if the use that land to deposit the waste on, why shouldn't (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: IP (was: Re: Any suggestions on a homepage?)
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(...) Yes. There is a difference between SEEING content, and thus learning from it (read about "prior art" in the context of patents if you're interested in learning further about this topic), and USING content. If I read a book, that book is (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You can see content when you "view source"... Anyway, how do you make that view jive with your copyright views? Let's get back to those, in a separate thread. I can't even find the appropriate posts anymore. You've said earlier that you think (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: New policy for LS@h
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(...) Government (which is the they in the sentence above) != "people"... Assume the best from people. Assume the worst from government. See the difference? Or in SAT format: People:safe | Government:dangerous (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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(...) Agreed - I guess that's why the whole a-ism thing has very much an emphasis at a low community level. (...) Heh - thanks! I'm still studying for it, so save the congrats for about 5 months until I get it :) Richard (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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(...) Sad as it is, I see neither of these things occur very regularly in bog cities. Both break down in the context of millions of teeming ants. (...) Honours, no less? Congratulations... Summa Cum Laude. Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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