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xfut .o-t.debate [Mmmm, Debate Topics] I just noticed the [new?] links on the front of .off-topic.debate... Cool! Thanks to whoever put them on! Oh, and I absolutely agree with this article, and also what they say about the SATs (take the link to (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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Mike Petrucelli wrote in message ... (...) Windows. (...) for (...) the (...) company. (...) Windows. (...) Are you aware that Bill Gates (with Paul Allen) produced one of the FIRST commercial programs for a personal computer? He wrote BASIC for (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This was all over the news a while ago in the USA. Bill Gates was working for IBM when he created Windows. He then stole that program (which would be the propertey of IBM because they paid him to make it) and founded his own company. (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What grade did you say you got in personal computers 101? :-) Bruce (standing well clear of the impending demolition zone) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and his revolutionary program Windows. Nevermind the fact that he stole this program after IBM contracted him to create it. Oh and how about that whole 'force consumer to install Internet Explorer deal.' The whole (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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(...) 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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(...) For the average person or script kiddle to crack a 4-digit PIN via brute force, they'd have to: (1) first actually get someone's card; and then (2) manually try out up to 10,000 combinations, and IIRC, ATM's are programmed to eat cards after a (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I like this idea. I really hope the marketting world starts to realize the value of targetted advertising. I would happily fill out a fairly detailed survey if I felt that it's use would be to make sure I received only mail I am interested in. (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Perhaps part of the problem is the relative weights attached to various elements of strength of passwords. I would generally agree that a 4 character password should not be accepted (of course I suspect most of us have a significant amount of (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Investors (...) behave (...) just (...) Two wrongs make a right? And I see lots of systems at my job that have unix, not windows. (...) I really don't want to sit and enumerate all of Microsoft's trangressions. It's a big, sprawling, complex (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) While MS may have had some anti-competitive practices, I haven't seen anything which justifies a breakup. Some thoughts of mine on some of the issues which have been raised: - MS billing vendors for a copy of Windows for every machine sold: Do (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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