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  Re: Website
 
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:11:54 GMT Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Website': (...) oh - ok, I agree... having a case-insensitive platform, well, it just isn't good :) I thought the jab was at W2k or somesuch that finally does (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Website
 
(...) Actually, the EVIL part isn't uppercase filenames per-se, it's that WinDOwS is case-insensitive about filenames, even to the absurd point of allowing filenames in IIS-served URLs to be case-insensitive. There are few things more evil. --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Website
 
(...) MS made evil uppercase filenames popular. Inherited them from CP/M in 1981 and didn't begin to get rid of them until 1995. --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Trying to understand
 
(...) gun (...) It's not the solution to the bigger problem, but I don't see how it's a bad idea. Are you railing against the seatbelts in your car because they impede your movement when you're driving and trying to change the radio station? It's a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Trying to understand
 
Dan, (...) How can requiring gun manufacturers, providing this gun lock, making the consumer pay more (I don't care how "cheap" it is, this is used for taxes as well, and I don't buy it), and them going in the trash, going to solve anything? Bad (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Trying to understand
 
(...) how is this "trying tog et rid of guns"? solve problems like kids shooting themselves when they "just wanted to look at it"... hurt others? like not being able to shoot fast enough? well, if you keep your gun under your pillow, you probably (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Trying to understand
 
(...) wrote (...) I don't see how a trigger lock is an attempt to get rid of guns. A trigger lock is SUPPOSED to help prevent an accidental discharge from a gun, over and above what the safety switch is for. Do you think there was this much debate (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Trying to understand
 
Update: Billy boy just said "Kids are dying everyday (Unless Congress passes new gun control laws), they don't know it's an election year." Al Gore was babbling about campaign finance reform, he is the one who can't even follow the laws in the first (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Trying to understand
 
(...) It all depends if they're in season or not, and if they're on state game lands. (...) Or Little Buddha or My Own Private Idaho or even Johnny Mnemonic (though he wasn't the only thing wrong with that film...) Dave! (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Trying to understand
 
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:27:57 GMT "Scott E. Sanburn" <ssanburn@cleanweb.net> wrote concerning 'Re: Trying to understand': (...) I agree that there should be better education - but as long as guns are around, accidents will happen. IDF [1] makes (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)


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