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| I think this is one of those articles that is half truth, half B.S. -- probably written by someone with a very specific set of fears and a very specific agenda in mind. It has enough of the truth to look and feel like the truth at first blush, but I (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| During one of my random searches for "conspiracy" fodder, I came across this; (URL) link may not work of course, the *wavy* symbol appears to be a superscript in the origional link but I'm a bit ignorant about linking) The document appears mostly (...) (23 years ago, 2-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| In lugnet.market.shopping, Scott Arthur writes: (snip of message which led to Scott Arthur's response) (...) My experience is that all of this is PARTLY true. On the good side, as Scott suggests, you can often get articles from journals which (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) You are 100% correct (~ '88 is the best we get). For my field that is not all that much of an issue - but for others it will be important. Indecently, I work quite closely with the facility mangers at the National Archives of Scotland, they (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Hi Mike: This is just a follow up to our discussion so it doesn't seem like I was dogging you arbitrarily. I haven't yet found any "original" source for this quote (by which I mean the actual document or speech in which Brady made the comment) (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Libraries (was Re: Bad news for TRU)
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| Gosh. From the rant below, you must be almost as old as me. You didn't mention one other feature of the "cybrary" model -- that there are seldom enough computers or terminals to accomodate the same number of researchers as the old books. When the (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Alas for "dead storage". Do less people browse now? There is nothing like flipping through the card catalog just to discover the breadth and depth of what exists. There is nothing like wandering the stacks and discovering that your library posesses (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Paul--you may wish to check JSTOR ((URL) if memory serves) for older articles. Your library needs to be a subscriber, and they should have a connection through their Library homepage. There are fewer journals than you'll find in ProQuest, but (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I think the cords I seen were faded red. Th guy called them "papal bulls"? (...) The building is called Thomas Thomson House. It uses a siphonic roof drainage system{1}. We study these things for various reasons, and the facility manger has (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) The first time I was in the building we work with (the main document repository on the edge of town) we got the grand tour. In the restoration room a guy was restoring the very things you are talking about - the lead on the seals attacks the (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Former Yougoslavia. Chechnya. The streets of "Anytown, USA". The Middle East. Taiwan. The Russian mob (no kidding, a month ago a whole bunch of russian military arms was found in a house in the Algarve, owned by russian mobsters. Scary!). And (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) So was I 8?) (...) That'd be kewl. (...) end (...) However, western media was always pointing out how far we were ahead of the russians, and I've no doubt they were saying exactly the opposite. Who has greater abilities (or fire-power) doesn't (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Why would it be preferable, in this hypothetical example, to be ruled by machines than governed by humans? Dave! (Only half kidding... After all, we cannot allow a mine shaft gap.) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) What do you mean exactly with "encourage"? IMO, the conditions for the present overabundance of conflicts in Africa has more to do with the Berlin Conference than it has to do with the Cold War. This period only enhanced pre-existing rivalries (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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