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(...) do (...) are (...) I didn't contradict that. Note above that in my attempt to show what you were saying, I state that eating is a need. So it is what you said...right? (...) I agree with this for the most part. Many predatory fish will eat the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, that's your interpretation of it, but that's not what I said. "Rights" are an artificial construct of humans so that they can better live together. Eating is a one of our most basic needs, not a right. (...) I explained why I feel they are (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
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(...) Your claim was that the 'need' to do something (eat) granted the 'right' to do something (kill (almost) anything). But you reject the first analogy that I tried relating the hunting of deer to the hunting of people. So I tried relating the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
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(...) To further the line of ungermane thoughts, I think it's safe to say that more people have died from club attack than nuclear weapons. I'm not sure why that seems significant at this time, but it does. Chris (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
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(...) That may be his assertion, but I would say that nuclear weapons are the natural outcome of eons of development too. The entire time that we've been growing more efficient at eating mroe things, we've been growing more efficient in defending (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Larry Pieniazek writes: *** much editing (...) This is pretty clear. Either you are a first time customer or your not. Whether eToys should have some different checking mechanism that just checking the email address is up (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) True, most people have multiple email addresses. That's one correct statement in the paragraph, anyway. Let's go to the eToys site, shall we: (URL) from that page (with some snippage of complete sentences...) Restrictions: This offer is valid (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Slightly OT - Microsoft Train Simulator
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(...) Ya, "best-selling" because they give a copy away with every PC Gateway sells, seems like. ++Lar (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme
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(...) The biggest terrestic sauropsid species today is the Komodo Dragon...... (...) the (...) variations in (...) Yes, because it is a selective advantage for poisonous animals to let their possible predators know that they are poisonous.... I (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: How big is to big?
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mark Herzberg (...) getting a new $1.2 billon 99 gate terminal for northwest (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) These are rather sweeping statements. I find them to be an interesting contrast to something else you posted recently" "Yup. People who put down other people for their interests are just trying to boost their own egos by putting down those of (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) just because I'm feeling combatative, I figured I'd challenge you on this ... what recent species are you extrapolating from? Many many reptiles and amphibians display massive variation in their coloration: lizards tend to have lighter (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Violence in comics (was Re: A General Question About Castle World)
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(...) It was never officially released, I beleive it got tabled after post-produciton was completed because, well, it was so heinous that parties feared it would do nothing but further hurt the image of Marvel properties as movie subjects. Which was (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Violence in comics (was Re: A General Question About Castle World)
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(...) Eh... yes and no. Some of it takes place in the time after Kingdome Come. Some of it takes place in the time before Kingdom Come. I don't want to go into too much in case you read it at some point, but there is time travel involved. eric (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Violence in comics (was Re: A General Question About Castle World)
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Eric Once again thanks for your insight and opinion. Good to see that you also didn't care for Liefeld (if you did I might have to stop talking to you, Ha ha). I think his copycat comic was (or is) Fighting American now that you mention it. I'd (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
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(...) You are right, it is not germane. :-) Or to put it another way: you go hunting with a nuke? I don't see how the "right" (need, whatever) to use nukes relates to killing some animal for food (which is what this was about). It's a weird tangent (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Violence in comics (was Re: A General Question About Castle World)
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I never read Kingdom... since the art wasn't by Alex Ross :^D I thought it was supposed to be a prequel to Kingdom Come? ~Mark (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Violence in comics (was Re: A General Question About Castle World)
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(...) Not officially- not even on video! I have seen some stills (one SGI developer's kit had a shot of the Human Torch using a fireblast to deflect some sort of beam, and there was at least one other) but that's all. I have talked to a lot of (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Violence in comics (was Re: A General Question About Castle World)
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(...) Was that ever released? I saw some production notes a few years ago, and it looked terrible! Up until X-Men, Marvel was entirely unable to make a superhero screen adaptation that wasn't awful, so it's nice to see a change at long last. I think (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Violence in comics (was Re: A General Question About Castle World)
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(...) Yeah, this is the place for stuff like this. I usually don't even read it, but I'm willing to brave the wilds to talk about comics. :D (...) Yeah. Liefeld... I'm not a big fan of his work. If I'm not mistaken, Liefeld is also responsible for (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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