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(...) Yeah! Just this weekend cops in my town broke up three preschool cockfighting rings, so your concerns are well justified. In addition, some local kids induced a coyote to chase a road runner off a cliff, while a rabbit was seen to thump a puma (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Cockfighting causes more pain than StarWars. But I think that comparing Pokemon to SW is a somewhat more valid and interesting situation. I guess that I think Cockfighting is really absurdly bad for two reasons. One is because it promotes the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Good question. I don't have a definitive answer but I do have some further thought starters... In Star Wars, is there a good side and a bad side? Is the simulated violence there as part of the story line? Or is the violence there merely to (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why not? I mean, what makes cockfighting more violent than, say, Star Wars? note: I feel that cockfighting is bad, but I just haven't seen a good enough explanation to justify that feeling to myself... As for justifying Pokemon, it's a game. (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I bet. (...) I bet an accident on the NJT that killed 500 people would make international news! Chris (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Maybe the worst "aircraft disaster", since the biggest I know had a 500+ death total (crashing 747s on the ground). (...) Why? I can't see anything that decreases the safety when compared the dying with 100 other people and dying with 600 (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's the point I think. Selçuk (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.faq)
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(...) Actually, that isn't the best way to do it. Why should I pay for your roads with my lawnmower gas? Ultimately, the best way to apportion the costs for roads might be a toll system using some kind of ID thing on the car (and such a system can (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't think Airbus will decide against it. They really want to go through with this, the only possible problem they face is rejection from thier biggest (I think) shareholder, DaimlerChrysler, which owns about 30% of Airbus. Apparently, they (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So, (...) He's a corporate flack? :-) Seriously, bigger planes do mean some changes required at the gates to load/unload but also, since the number of slots is fixed unless you build more runways and since runways cost a lot more to build than (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Might not be important, but it might be interesting. After all, part of having a community is meeting people, right? (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.faq)
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(...) That's ridiculous. It's not like that at all. It's like meeting someone you don't know at a lego convention, and they give you their card. I've done that. It's got my name and e-mail address on it, it's small, it's convenient, it's an accepted (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.faq)
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(...) Marc, I don't understand. Should people be ashamed of where they work or what they do? (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.faq)
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(...) Cool! (...) I snipped this a bit, but I think this pseudo-quote is true to the intent. So, he's saying they're stupid and that they'll be buying some in the same breath, right? What's wrong with this picture? (...) Cool, so they can buy these (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Greg and Shiri write: (...) But predicting how it affects them is tough. I rebelled against it and basically went out of my way to do whatever peerpressure told me not to do. It was kind of a viscious circle and caused an (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I came to much the same conclusion. Normally I avoid driving in New York, but, my SO brought a little subcompact, and there we were, outgunned on the mean streets. So we got a Jeep Cherokee. It's the smallest SUV that is still able to carry 4 tall (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What? What kind of logic is that? Suppose someone sets off a bomb in a large office tower. Do you feel safe going to work? Boeing has plans to build a double-decker as well, should Airbus decide to go through with theirs. If enough airline (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah, these prices should all be rolled into the price of fuel. But, wouldn't people freak out if gas went up to $3 per gallon and the prices of all non-local goods (like 70% of groceries) rose in price by 30%? I'm really sick of people (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(exert taken from CNN article) "(CNN) -- The challenge for the travel industry in the next century is to accommodate an anticipated boom in tourism and commuting -- and to do so in style. Specialists say to expect bigger planes, larger ships, faster (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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