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Quote: Originally posted by groverat My fiancee's father thought I might like Al Franken's new book for Christmas. Why he thought I might be intereted in an entire book of partisan bitching I have no idea. (To give you a hint, he gave my fiancee …
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Quote: Originally posted by The General your from London right? if so, is this the same London that is part of England, that still wont pull out out of Northern Ireland, the same one that is in Europe? Europe is no better, older, more whiney, but…
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Quote: Originally posted by the cool gut It seems that Bush wants freedom for the people of Iraq, but not for the people of Taiwan? That sounds cute, but it's painfully naive. You can usually avoid embarrassment by actually thinking about w…
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Quote: Originally posted by chu_bakka You forget that 49% of the American Public already thinks the war was a bad idea. I thought that was wrong, and I just had to find the poll: http://www.usatoday.com/news/polls/t...-iraq-poll.htm
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Quote: Originally posted by filmmaker2002 So true. With all the money being spent in Iraq right now...we could easily fund a manned mission to Mars. Except that it would compromise national security. Going to the moon is great, or Mars, or U…
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Quote: Originally posted by Carol A 24 months later, I saw my product on the market, with the exact name I had given it and the exact promotional words I had used in my assignment. I wonder what the statute of limitations is on such a thing.…
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Quote: Originally posted by groverat I have been falsely accused of plagiarism twice in my career as a student. Me too. Not seriously, though. Once I presented my working papers and source documents, they couldn't argue with it either ti…
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Quote: Originally posted by agent302 So if pot were legal, it wouldn't be a gateway drug? Isn't that an argument FOR legalization? (I personally am in the cash-crop crowd with Eugene) Yes, a very effective one. But it's also an argument …
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Quote: Originally posted by BRussell Interesting. On the other hand, the notion of gateways more generally makes a lot of intuitive sense to me. Human behavior changes gradually. It's hard to believe that if you went up to someone and said "hey l…
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Quote: Originally posted by chu_bakka Then they give you the "gateway drug" B.S. Here's a question... what do kids try BEFORE they smoke pot... ALCOHOL and CIGARETTES... the true gateway drugs. ALCOHOL and CIGARETTES aren't sold via a…
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Quote: Originally posted by Aquatic alcimedes don't shoot the messenger. the GOP is always like this. They want TOUGH penalties and to be tough on crime. Good, I support that, and the death penalty. But they also love to cut critical governme…
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Quote: Originally posted by chu_bakka Wow. Delusional. Wow. Denial.
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Quote: Originally posted by ShawnJ According to Paul Krugman... Well, enough said on that one. Krugman opposes it, so I'll have to be FOR IT. He's a moron. Worse, a biased and transparent moron.
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I think you should go and deliver the card. I think I'd want to do that for one of my students, esp. if I knew them well. I understand your uncertainty -- suicide is dicey. You never know how to play it.
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Quote: Originally posted by Scott Oh but ... yea ... there's one in every group. At least you know who yours is, Scott. I always tell students that there's one loser in every group, and if they can't tell who it is, then...
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Quote: Originally posted by alcimedes So, my question is in all honesty, do folks think that a Republican Senator could have made this same comment without catching a lot more flak than this? Hell no, don't be ridiculous. Ambiguous term…
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There is a solution outside of the divorce cases. Men shouldn't be in potentially compromising situations with women, or women with men, until they've known each other a while. Just like when I was growing up.
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Quote: Originally posted by trumptman Charities should be able to judge. Not just to judge, but impose standards upon those that they help. What's wrong with saying that as long as you stay in our shelter, no drinking? Works for the Salva…
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Quote: Originally posted by trumptman I won't blow you. I prefer the reach around. Perhaps my memory is just a bit off but I remember every bit of this on the left as well. Bush has been called stupid, an average student, a frat party boy. He …
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Quote: Originally posted by curiousuburb invented in the theoretical sense might mean credit goes to Alan Turing That's what I'd always heard. And Von Neumann was the father of the "digital" concept, or maybe the basis of IRQs. Got that…