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(...) Do you really believe that the only way people (kids) learn about safe sex is through schools? I hardly pay attention during commercials and I see public health messages about safe sex from famous actors ALL the time. (...) I disagree. The (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Its very simple: AIDS is a communicable disease, a plague that spread exponentially in the late 70s and early 80s, and continues to do so in Africa. If the US Government had funded AIDS research, or even AIDS education, in the early 80s, far (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Kevin Wilson wrote: [snip] (...) Are you allowed to say that in this group? This is an off-topic group, where Lego is on-topic! :-) /Eric McC/ (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Targeted advertising could soon become pervasive and inescapable. Be careful what you wish for. See (URL) for the latest in involuntary user profiling that could become standard equipment at ISPs. Until people get mad and start to take back (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You're saying (quoting actually, but I'll assume you agree) that the wealth was actually destroyed? That is, that the world as a whole contains less wealth now than it did before? (...) Looted means stole, right? So did they steal or destroy (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Apologies for repetition, here are my views: - There is no such thing as a natural monopoly. All true monopolies are a result of government interference that raise barriers to entry. Get rid of barriers to entry and you won't have monopolies. (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Thanks for the note. (...) I agree that the government's bizarre inaction is a cause for concern, but I don't see the link between that occurance ~15 years ago and the current over-representation in the media. (...) And they did a good job of (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: PW validation terms/labels
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(...) oh! OK. I totally totally totally agree with that! --Todd (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (1) is certainly true, (2) is mostly true (there are many ATMs, including ones in stores which can not eat cards, and probably don't alert the cashier to take the card [possibly dangerous if the person using the card is a real criminal]). (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Me too. There's a good treatment of the larger subject (including the above) in Evan I. Schwartz's book _Webonomics_. --Todd (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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