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Kevin, (...) I am a conservative, and I love the brick. Stereotypes of any trait don't do justice, one that has been used in debate too much, IMO. (...) Avoiding the law and court ruling is not innovating, IMO. It is ducting the real issues. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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< cross posted to off-topic-debate > Rich, (...) Hmm... Being a Rush fan and a definite AFOL, I can see the logic of his thinking. Testing people on the ability to build anything, regardless of how good they might be, is a strange way of testing (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Can they do like this?
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(...) True, doing anything excessively will lead to some kind of failiure. KL (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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It's simple. Rush is very conservative. Conservatives in general do not like the artistic or creative elements of society, which is what LEGO products encourage. Conservatives in general also do not favor innovations in education, (of which this (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Cheap American shot (Was: NEW Mindstorms set shown (with picture!))
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(...) In addition to an industrial base which was not in danger of being bombed, and on top of that a growing momentum of industrialization. I would throw in though that I believe our freer system of government almost certainly amplified the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Cheap American shot (Was: NEW Mindstorms set shown (with picture!))
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(...) I'll admit that I flushed with patriotic indignation when I read Mr. Jezek's post. As a geographer, I can, however, concur with Mr. Jezek that the American public school system often does not equip students with an adequate understanding of (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Except the casino owners who are, after all, engaged in a legitimate business, in a country where it is legal, and who now have been impacted. If you really think this is a good idea, there's not much more I can say. There is nothing (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Cheap American shot (Was: NEW Mindstorms set shown (with picture!))
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(...) There's not a lot of things that will get my "patriotic dander" up--but apparently the same thing gets Chris's up too. I'm a professional historian of modern Britain, western Europe, and modern Africa (it's a long and convoluted story (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | The Nature of Evil (Was Re: Blair Witch Project - Thoughts?)
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<snip> (...) By no means. There's a big difference in defensive vs. offensive (a false distinction) and reactive vs. proactive. Defense and offense are really the same thing; both are defined in terms of what provoked them. "Reactive" is exactly (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Blair Witch Project - Thoughts?
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John DiRienzo wrote: < Snipped John and Adams Discussion of Blair Witch for clarity and length > (...) This is what my pastor is saying, and I tend to believe that myself. Since God (At least, in Christian and Jewish beliefs ) is without sin, any (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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