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    Re: stuff (was: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]) —Jasper Janssen
   (...) Maybe it'd be a good thing for the country or the world -- but not necessarily for the individual voter. Anyway, we currently get enough non-economic refugees here in .nl that it severely skews the population count -- and in some cases we're (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: stuff (was: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]) —Frank Filz
     Jasper Janssen wrote in message <3889b27e.4370108@lu...et.com>... (...) One problem with this is that in the US, minimum wage for 40 hrs/week isn't really a minimum sufficient wage (for most parts of the country). I do think that companies have to (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: stuff (was: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]) —Christopher L. Weeks
     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Right, but you've set yourselves up for that. By having all those friendly social programs, you paint a great big target on your chest. My grandfather expatriated to (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: stuff (was: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]) —Jasper Janssen
      (...) Yes, I know. I really do. But it's not just the dole. It's also generally the better economic climate. (...) If the government stopped feeding them, they would be fed by charities. Maybe. At least, that's what the libertarians keep telling me. (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: stuff (was: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]) —Christopher L. Weeks
     (...) Some would, and some wouldn't. Obviously if your culture feels that it's appropriate to feed them via the government, they would still feel that way if the government disappeared right? But they might make them work a little for it, which (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: stuff (was: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]) —Scott Edward Sanburn
   (...) Just a quite note on gasoline: One of the engineers here at AEI has a husband who is an electrical engineer for a certain car manufacturer (I won't divulge too much) They have been working on hydrogen fuel cell cars. It has been so successful (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: stuff (was: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]) —Jasper Janssen
   (...) FUp-to: geek. There are two kinds of car that seem to be surging ahead right now. There is the fuel-cell type, and the hydrogen type (which may also be fuelcell, but whatever.) Fuel-cells typically use hydrocarbons (ie, gasoline (but cleaned (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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