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(...) The same logic would also apply, however, if I asserted that I have supreme power and choose absolutely not to act on it; does someone's inability to disprove my power make it so? The bottom line, for me, is that if logic could prove the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Gafla (was: Re: LP POINT 1)
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(...) It is not in my dictionary either. However, a web search suggests it is a Scandinavian potato dish. :/ Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: One for the road sir? (Re: US supreme court strikes down...)
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(...) (I think you omitted "and then driving" as I have seen no evidence that there is any stigma attached to being drunk, per se, in the UK. :-) Indeed I have been the beneficiary(?) of public drunkenness, having been soundly kissed (in the West (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
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(...) No they're not! Not in the LUGNET namespace they aren't... They're named differently, and thus are not in the same equivalence class when partitioned by the partitioning function "allowed in market.buy-sell-trade?". The fact that this is their (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Gafla (was: Re: LP POINT 1)
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(...) I can't find "lefsa" in anywhere, too..:-) Selçuk (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | One for the road sir? (Re: US supreme court strikes down...)
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(...) Here in the UK random alchhol test are not strictly legal. However, they do sort of occur. However, for 10-20 yaers now drink driving has been effectivly stigmatised to the point where even drinking within the legal limit (80 mg/l) is frowned (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: The god debate again... sigh (Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) I think it is obvious that christianity (and of course any other religion like Islam and the others) are "supportable", and again all of them has great influences on the known history, but this does not mean they are "reasonable" or (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | US supreme court strikes down drug checkpoints
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A small bit of good news. However when one reads the article one discovers that the court considers drunk driving checkpoints constitutional, and sees no problem in detaining someone outside their home for hours while a warrant is obtained. (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: LP POINT 1
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<cut> (...) Opps. I forgot to say, that fact the LP would stop me from switching the lights on in my own house, is not the only problem I have with it, or libertarianism. Most of the rest evolve from what we discuss here: (URL) And I already told (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You are, off course, assuming a linear scale. I'd view it as logarithmic. (...) One of the big criticisms of the LP argument is that they harp on too much about the evils of "Big Government", without tempering that sentiment with a reflection (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: The god debate again... sigh (Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) My original point was that "nearly" every "significant" event in history was in some way, big or small, effected or affected by Judaism or Christianity in response to LarryP statement that Christianity is "unsupportable" and that God is (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: The god debate again... sigh (Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) Alternate history is an obviously speculative exercise, but I don't see what any of this (except the inquisition and crusades) has to do with Judaeo-Christianity per se. Given that we can't really separate religion from culture and history, (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: The god debate again... sigh (Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) Again, that's why I said "nearly". I was referring mainly to such things as the World Wars, the Reformation, the Renaissance, the Dark Ages, Israel's significance to everything Middle Eastern (both because of location and direct involvement), (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: The god debate again... sigh (Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) Ummmmmmm, what are you defining as a "major event"? Greek major events excluded? Roman? Chinese? Indian? Japanese? Egyptian? Sumerian? Assyrian? Mayan? Viking? Scientific? That's not to say that many major events weren't linked in some (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: The god debate again... sigh (Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) No, you're right. Ultimately there is only one truth, obviously. But, in a forum where such ideas are presented, predicated upon freedom of speech, I have the same right to present mine as anyone else does. I also restate the fact that (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | An interesting North American Election (was Re: Cdn Election Day)
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(...) Hey, how does the Candian electoral system work? Is it by proportional representation (with set tickets) or by electorate? Based on provinces, or nationally? And is the Prime Minister and Cabinet "chosen" from within the ranks of the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: The god debate again... sigh (Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) Actually, I think it fits because, as in Larry's case, he doesn't WANT to know God as he perceives Him to be. The problem is his perception of what God is. And yet, in my opinion, the blame for so many who are utterly repulsed by the thought (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Try here; (URL) at the moment, as I checked, that very cover page has plenty of election coverage. There's even a National Results link on the right side (under "snapshot") that takes you to a chart with various percentages and the like. Don't (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: The god debate again... sigh (Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) And yet it is kinda like sharpening swords and having at it, isn't it. Must be a guy thing. (...) And again, that's fine with me. I know what I believe, and more importantly, I know why. Believe me, I'm a huge skeptic, I question myself and (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
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(...) Paul certainly is right: SBA's and OBO's are the same thing. (...) No, I haven't. I never have said that single-round sealed-bid auctions were the same as, or equivalent to, or even remotely the same as, straight sales. I _have_ been trying to (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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