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Shiri Dori wrote: <snip> (...) Oops.. you just lost the debate... :-) :-) :-) Frank (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Essay on Emerson vs. Thoreau; civil disobedience
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Snippy snip (...) Can you elaborate on this? Slavery is morally wrong and it doesn't matter to me what the law says about it. A government that abides it (yes, even the US government of the time) doesn't have consent of the governed in that area, (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm.. not necessarily, but most probably. Mostly it's to say that I don't have a problem with you breaking the law, so long as you don't put moral fault on the government for punishing your lack of adherence to it. Basically, should those who (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) d'Oh. Shame on me. I mean when *buf == '\0'. :-) --Todd (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yep, I can totally see that. For God's sake, I don't think that one should *always* abide by the laws, especially when reaching such atrocities like your example. Larry has a point too there, when the law just goes too far then I'd rather not (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Might wanna throw in a comment at the top stating that behavior is undefined (and may even result in a segmentation fault) if fixURL(buf) is called when *buf == "\0". As written above, code assumes that strlen(buf) >= 1. --Todd (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm biased. I live in Ada, Amway pays a lot of my school taxes, and I have a lot of friends and relatives that work for Amway (the corporate entity) in various capacities, including my sister-in-law, several nonLEGO good friends and my LEGO (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I don't have the direct personal experience, but one of my wife's neighbors was in Amway, and ended up having to declare bankruptcy - the minimum order sizes necessary to get anything meant they ended up with a huge stock of stuff they couldn't sell (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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As loathe as I am to generate any more posting traffic in off-topic.debate, I have something to ask of Lugnetters that I know doesn't belong anyplace else. I have a friend who has become involved in a MLM- Quixtar, to be exact. I want to dissuade (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Big ugly trolls (was Re: New stuff on my webpage ...)
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If you guys want to continue this, please do it in debate; don't plug up .castle with this kind of babble. Thanks, -Chris FUT .off-topic.debate (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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