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Note: With this disk, the vandalism started to become a serious
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problem. The entire group of original messages on this disk
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had been deleted. The result was that BWMS was placed into
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protected mode. That means that once a line was entered in the
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system, it could not be changed. There were still periodic junk
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(empty lines, and foul language) filling up the disk, but a group
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of dedicated users were helping to keep things cleaned up.
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LIST
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FILE ON
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MARGIN IS 128
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STATUS: ENTER ONLY
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NUMBER OF LINES: 629
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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask....
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2 ******************* REMOVED: 3 APR 84 **********************
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3 Welcome to BWMS (BackWater Message System) Mike Day System operator
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4 ************************************************************
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5 GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION
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6 PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM.
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7 BWMS was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS is a privatly owned
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8 and operated system which is currently open for use by the general public.
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9 No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the system is
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10 privatly owned, I retain the right to remove any and all messages which
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11 I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the system, it will be
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12 periodically purged of messages. (only 629 lines of data can be saved)
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13 To leave a message, type 'ENTER' and use ctrl/C or break to get out of the
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14 ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering the
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15 message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to replace
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16 the line. To exit from the system, type 'OFF' then hang up.
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17 Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system.
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18 ************************************************************
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19
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20 WELL, IT SEEMS SOMEBODY LET THE CHILDREN OUT.
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21 SORRY ABOUT THAT FOLKS, BUT SOMEONE SEEMS TO HAVE DECIDED
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22 TO DESTROY ALL OF THE MESSAGES THAT WERE HERE.
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23 IF SOMEONE HAS A COPY OF IT, IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED IF YOU COULD
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24 DOWN LOAD IT TO BW IF YOU CAN. I AM AMAZED THAT ANYONE WOULD BE SO CA
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25 UNCARING AS TO DESTROY SOMETHING LIKE THIS. PARTICULARLY SINCE IT IS NO
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26 GREAT TRICK TO DO SO, SO IT HARDLY PUTS THEM IN THE HACKERS HALL OF FAME
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27 IN CRASHING A SYSTEM. THE SYSTEM WASN'T CRASHED, THEY JUST VANDLIZED THE
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28 DATA WHICH ANYONE COULD DO. WOOPEE, I COULD WRITE A PROGRAM TO DO THAT
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29 IN 5 MIN, BUT SO WHAT? SIGH....
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30 ********************** CISTOP MIKEY ****************************
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31 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXI THINK IT IS TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE FOR SOME
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32 ONE TO DO THAT
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33 I HAVE BEEN GONE ALL DAY AND HAVE NOT SEEN THE MESSAGES.
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34 SO IF NOBODY CAN DOWNLOAD IT I WOULD LIKE SOMEONE TO TELL ME
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35 WHAT THE MESSAGES WERE ALL ABOUT
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36 PHERIC FOERENDER
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37 =-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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38 really, I work on such a beutiful day, come home to my computer only
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39 to find that I've missed the entry's for today. Life never was fair
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40 but this is rediculous. Bo
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41 =-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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42
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43
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44 MENU
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45 76
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46
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47 ==========================================================================
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48 Greetings. Sad but true, I guess. I wonder who decided to destroy all the
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49 files again. Seems to me that this is somewhat common any more. At any rate,
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50 some food for thought: Why is it that people seem to view people who work
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51 in gas stations as total idiots? I work in a station, and am hardly illiterate.Just wondering. By the way, Bo. "Who said lif
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52 was fair?????" Whiskey Vic
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53 ==========================================================================
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54
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55
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56
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57 quit
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58 WOW- IT HAS BEEN AWILE SINCE I HAVE BEEN ON THE BOARD AND THE ABOVE
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59 SORT OF BLOWS ME AWAY-WHAT ARE WE AT-THE TOP[ SO WE CAN MESS WITH EACH
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60 OTHER-6 MONTHS LATER TO SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING AND I GET A HELL OF A
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61 SURPRIZE-BMS WAS ONE OF THE NEAT OUTLETS FOR ALL OF US AND I HOPE SOME
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62 IC CHIPS FRY FOR WHAT SOMEONE HAS DONE THINKING IT WAS A JOKE.HEY MIKE-
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63 HANG IN THERE-
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64 ====================================================================
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65
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66 DOES L-5 STAND FOR LANGRANGE (DID I SPELL THAT RIGHT?) 5, THE
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67 GRAVITATIONAL NULL POINT IN LUNAR ORBIT?
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68
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69 =============================================-EVAN-=================
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70 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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71 Deborah -- I still haven't gotten to back issues, but sometime!!! L-5 is
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72 one of the interesting points in the moon's orbit about the earth. In the
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73 erased messages, the bard explained it quite well, i'll try to repeat it as
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74 best i can. In the earth-moon system there exist 5 points where the gravity
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75 of one is EXACTLY balanced by the gravity of the other. These are the
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76 Lagrange points ... L-1 through L-5. L-1, L-2, and L-3 are arranged on a
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77 line through the centers of the earth and moon. L-4 and L-5 are in the
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78 moon's orbit -- ahead and behind by 60 degrees. If you think of the earth
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79 and moon as being holes in a smooth surface, the gravitational forces around
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80 sorry, depressions in a smooth surface -- the force of gravity is the
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81 depth of the depression. L-1, L-2, and L-3 are the tops of hills. If you
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82 leave something there, it will continue to drift and move away from that
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83 point. L-4 and L-5 are at the bottom of wrinkles in the cosmic blanket.
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84 They are points of positive stability and anything left near them will drift
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85 into them. This makes L-4 and L-5 desirable building points in space.
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86 The L-5 society is dedicated to building a colony at the L-5 point. They
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87 have done exhoaustive research and planning on this and it is possible NOW!
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88 The investment is enourmous -- and the payback even more so. I'll try to
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89 get you an address (any help from anyone?) so you can send for their
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90 information. These are LARGE scale dreams!
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91 Mikey -- even though I appreciate the necessety, it sure is hard not o be
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92 able to go back and change mistooks in the previous line. Oh well...
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93 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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94
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95 SORRY, I ONLY DID IT AFTER THE SECOND ATTEMPT. UNTIL SOMEBODY OUT THERE
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96 LEARNS A LITTLE BIT OF RESPONSABILITY, IT WILL REMAIN THAT WAY.
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97 ****************** CISTOP MIKEY **************************************
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98 THIS BBS WILL NEVER CHANGE.'GOOD'!!!!
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99 ...................................
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100 Now I see why some people want less gun control, so next time the Inn
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101 is zapped,,.....
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102 Of course, stiff gun control would reduce the number of people hurt with
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103 guns, since most of it is due to accidents; however it would have very
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104 little effect on what people are afraid of: criminals using them. For
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105 proof of the efficacy of gun control look at New York, which has one of
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106 the stiffest gun control laws around, yet their crime rate using guns is
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107 still rather high. (Except for murders commited "in heat of passion".)
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108 Texas has a very high rate of murders using guns, but such things as
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109 armed robberies aren't much more common, even if their gun control laws
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110 are the most lax in the US. In London the crime rate using guns is
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111 steadily rising, until even Bobbies now are often armed; this in the
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112 face of very stiff laws.
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113 But let's admit it, the arguements about gun control have very little
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114 to do with safety, and a lot to do with POWER, or more expilcitly, who
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115 will have it over another person. It is such a nice feeling to be able
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116 to tell someone else what he MUST do. A gun is a symbol of power, and
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117 being able to deny someone else the right to have one is power. All the
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118 other arguements for gun control also imply the restriction of all
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119 dangerous tools, or dangerous games, like cars, or worse car racing, or
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120 maybe mountain climbing, or high school sports (which kill more people
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121 than guns do), or ... But if enough people do it, even if logic says
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122 otherwise, it is OK, or if it feeds our egos (like the local team
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123 winning) it is OK.
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124 ===================================
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125
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126
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127
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128 More people get killed by high school sports than by guns? Hmmmm, I
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129 didn't know that. Max
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130 ########################################################################
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131 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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132 Hmmmmm... It seems someone's mother didn't breast feed them when
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133 they were a baby. Or maybe they still are in diapers. The first time
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134 I don't check the board for a day or two and everything gets
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135 erased. Must be April Fool's Day. Now where did that fool go?
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136 Dr. Frankenstupe
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137 +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_
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138 -----------------------------------------------
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139 Hi, I'm new here. Is this just for messages
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140 only?
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141 Rachel B.
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142
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143 ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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144 I HAD NO IDEA 69,000,000 WERE KILLED IN HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS SINCE 1914.
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145 THAT'S ABOUT HOW MANY HAVE BEEN KILLED IN ARMED FIGHTING SINCE THEN. SO
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146 WHOEVER MADE THAT STATEMENT NEEDS TO DO A LITTLE RESEARCH.
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147 PIPER: A RECENTLY OBTAINED A BOOK THAT IS ON A SIMILAR TOPIC. BUT IT'
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148 CLAIMS THAT THE BUILDING OF SUCH A PLACE BEGAN PRE 1979. I HAVE NOT
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149 EVALUATED IT'S AUTHENTICITY YET, NOR HAVE I FINISHED READING THE BOOK.
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150 IT'S ENTITLED " ALTERNATIVE 3 ", EVER HEARD OF THE BOOK? IT'S A COMPI-
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151 LATION OF EVIDENCE, NEWS AND OTHERWISE, SUPPOSEDLY PROVING THAT THIS
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152 COLONY ALREADY EXISTS. WHO KNOWS?
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153 ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!DEBORAH?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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154 HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU EXIT THIS SYSTEM? MAYBE THAT'S THE REASON
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155 THINGS GOT ERASED. I'VE TRIED TO EXIT SEVERAL TIMES AND FIND IT
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156 IMPOSSIBLE TO DO SO. EXIT DOESN'T WORK WHEN I TRY. MAYBE IT'S MY
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157 SYSTEM, BUT IF I CAN GET ON AND NOT GET OFF EASILY, ONE MIGHT BE TEMPTED
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158 TO TAMPER WITH THE OTHER MESSAGES ON THE SYSTEM. SYSOP, PLEASE TELL ME
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159 OTHER WAYS TO EXIT THIS SYSTEM WITH OUT UNPLUGGING THE LINE.
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160 SIHM
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161
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162
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163 =======================================
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164 Gensyn med Danmark
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165
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166 Forunderligt, saa soedt et smil
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167 ej smiler nogen anen strand,
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168 som naar en soldag i april man ser igen det danske land.
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169
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170 Et stille land!
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171 Den gamle jord med groensvaer klaedt i havets skoed!
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172 En venlig slaegt ved soeen bor.
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173 Her gjorde regnen kinden roed.
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174
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175 En koelig yndig flora gav de danske lave kyster lae.
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176 Jeg laegger ned min vandringsstav og kommer, kaere, til dit knae.
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177
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178
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179 God dag!
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180 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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181 How many were killed?......
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182 Whisky Vic: I thought you were going to quit your job anyway a fairly
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183 long time ago. I've still got my job (for better or worse).
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184 Rachel: this system is for just about anything you want, from fiction to
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185 debate to whatever.
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186 Bo
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187 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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188 HELLO, IAM NEW HERE TOO.I HOP I
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189 CAN GET OUT.BY THE WAY WHOSE BEEN WRITING IN SWEEDISH OR WHAT
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190 EVER THAT STUFF IS.
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191 I DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT DE
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192 STATISTICS SO I CAN'T BE OF
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193 MUCH HELP THERE BUT DID YOU
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194 KNOW THAT MORE PEOPLE ARE
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195 KICKED TO DEATH BY DONKEYS THAN
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196 DIE IN AIRPLANE DISASTERS.
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197 THIS IS THE BEST BBS I
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198 FOUND SO FAR SIMPLY BECAUSE
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199 YOU DONT HAVE TO DO THIS,THAT
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200 AND THE OTHER THING TO F
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201 MESSAGES.HERES ANOTHER ODD FACT.
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202 THE OLDEST KNOWN INSECT IS A
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203 TERMITE QUEEN AND SHE IS OVER
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204 50 YEARS OLD.AND THIS QUEEN
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205 USUALY LAYS 300,000 EGGS A DAY.
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206 SO FAR SHE HAS GIVEN BIRTH TO
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207 (JUST A MINUTE I HAVE TO
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208 ACTUALLY FIGUIRE OUT THIS STUFF)WELL OVER ONE HALF MILLIONLITTLE BUGS
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209
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210 I MADE A MISTAKE THAT 300,000
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211 BUGS IS ACTUALLY 30000 BUGS.
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212
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213 BYE.LETS SEE NOW HOW DO I GET
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214 THIS THING SAVED AND ME OUT OF
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215 THE SYSTEM.
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265 *******************************
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266 TRRKKIES,TREKKERS,AND OTHERS!
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267 STAR TRE]I[:THE SEARCH FOR
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268 SPOCK PRIEMIERS JUNE FIRST.IF
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269 WHEN I CHECK AGAIN IT LOOKS
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270 LIKE ANY BODY CARES I HAVE TONS
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271 OF DOCUMENTATION ON THE LONG
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272 AWAITED THIRD STAR TREK MOVIE.
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273 ****************HAWTHORNE******
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274 THIS IS THE STRANGEST BOARD I HAVE EVER SEEN. WHAT IS ITS PURPOSE? WHY
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275 IS IT MADE THIS WAY? THE CONFERENCE SOFTWARE SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD
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276 BETTER FIT THE NEEDS THAN THIS ONE, WHAT KIND OF SOFTWARE IS THIS
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277 ANYWAYS? BYE
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278 *******************************
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279 YEAH,I LIKE THE SYSTEM TOO.HOW
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280 CANI GET MY GRUBBY LITTLE HANDS
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281 ON THE SOFTWARE?BY THE WAY,
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282 WOULD A PLANET WITH MORE THAN
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283 ONE MOON HAVE AN EQUIVALENT OF
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284 THE LAGRANGE POINTS?IF SO WOULD
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285 NOT THE NUMBER OF POINTS BE IN
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286 DIRECT PORPRTION TO THE NUMBER
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287 OF MOONS ORBITTING THIS PLANET?
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288 ******************HAWTHORNE****
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289 I DONT THINK THAT A PLANET WITH
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290 MORE THAN ONE MOON WOULD HAVE L
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291 POINTS UNLESS THE PLANET WAS SO
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292 LARGE THAT IT COULD SHIELD THE
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293 OTHER MOON FROM ANOTHER MOONS
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294 GRAVITATIONAL PULL.THAT MIGHT
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295 HAVE BEEN WHAT YOU WERE GETTING
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296 AT WITH THAT 'WOULD' PART.I
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297 JUST GOT MY MODEM TOO.AND I AM
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298 A TREKKER-EXTRAORDARILY A
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299 TREKKER.I HAVE FOUND OUT TO
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300 MUCH ABOUT STAR TREK iii THE
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301 WAY IT IS.IF YOU DO LIST SOME
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302 OF THE STUFF YOU HAVE ABOUT IT
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303 PUT A WARNING ON THE FILE
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304 SO I CAN TURN AWAY FOR A MINUTE
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305 I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN LISTEN-
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306 ING TO ANOTHER FAN'S RAVING ON
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307 OTHER ASPECTS OF IT THOUGH.BY
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308 THE WAY JUST CALL ME ZIPSTER,OR
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309 AT LEAST SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS
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310 REASONABLY LIKE THAT ANYWAY O.K
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311 GLAD TO MEET YA. BYE.
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312 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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313 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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314 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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315 Ah yes - the constitution specifically enumerates the right of every
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316 idiot to own a gun. Let me dig out my copy. There we go, a little
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317 dusty but none the worse for neglect. Of course you all have a copy
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318 of your own, don't you, so you can just follow along. Here we are,
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319 the bill of rights. I think the second amendment is what we want.
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320 Now, just in case someone doesn't have a copy, I'll quote from mine.
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321 "A well regulated MILITIA, being necessary to the security of a free
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322 State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be
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323 infringed." Caps mine, of course.
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324 I can see that at a quick glance, especially if taken last in
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325 the sixth grade, It would appear that our venerated founding fathers
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326 had wished us to be able to indescrimanently own the firearm(s) of
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327 our choosing. But a literal interpretation, the kind the NRA loves
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328 to espouse, ties the ownership of arms directly to an organized
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329 militia. No where do I read that all citizens are guaranteed the
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330 right to kill whomever they choose, or any othe interpretation
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331 equally as silly. And as to the earlier comment that cars should
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332 be outlawed, when was the last time you drove you gun to work ?
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333 I don't care what anyone says, A handgun is only good for killing
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334 poeple. Rifles are a different matter, but no one is trying to get
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335 rid of them for justifiable reasons. If one is able to buy an item
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336 that is made expressly for killing other people, and do this with a
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337 clear conscience, then that fact alone should preclude their abilty
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338 to own a handgun.
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339 So there; nyah,nyah.
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340 Mr. Tim
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341 Greetings again. Bo, just how is it that you happen to know me???? Hmm?
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342 Interesting. At any rate, as for guns, little needs to be said that if
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343 Guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns, no? (Author unknown).
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344 A little aside: Methinks that Mr. Jackson (You DO know who he is, don't
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345 you????) has shot himself in the foot with his many and varied comments
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346 ranging from derogatory comments on Jewish people to preaching style.
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347 Will be an interesting thing to see how many votes he ends up getting.
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348 Why is it that I turn on my tv and someone is asking for MORE MONEY?
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349 Doesn't Uncle Sam have enough to go around, or are guns more important
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350 than people? Yet another telethon was on last night with pitiful attempts
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351 to beg, borrow and steal money from the American public. ENOUGH ALREADY!
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352 When will we see the end of this?????? Until later, then. Fgrep Whiskey
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353 ###############################################################
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354 Mr. Tim, Suggest you study both the Constitution AND history a little
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355 more. Also, you shouldn't pick out only those parts that you like. It
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356 must be taken as a whole, and considered in the intent in which it was
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357 originaly written, not a definition to fit your own desires. First the
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358 term Militia; Shall we look up the definition? 'An army composed of
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359 CITIZENS called out in time of emergency.' Agreed that the
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360 Constitution does not say which types of arms are allowed, but if you
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361 were to study it further, you would find that it says that if
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362 something is not indicated within the constitution, that does not mean
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363 that it is not allowed, but rather the opposite. I noticed that though
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364 you capitalized the word MILITIA, you convienently ignored the rest of
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365 the statment "the right of the 'people' to keep and bear arms shall
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366 not be infringed." Note that it speeks of the people, not of just a
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367 conscript army. Also, though the handgun is used to kill people, so
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368 is a rife. When was the last time you heard of someone using an M16
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369 to shoot a dear? On the other hand, it is a very uncommon thing for
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370 someone to kill somebody with a blackpowder pistol.
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371 Also, the point being made with the car earlier, was that it is the person
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372 behind the wheel that kills, and not the car, just as it is the person
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373 behind the gun that kills, and not the gun.
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374 ###########################################################################
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375 *******************************
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376 IT SEEMS TO ME THACONT-
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377 ROL WORKS.BUT NOT IN AMERICA.I
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378 CITE NORTHERN IRELAND A CITIZEN
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379 IS ALLOWED ONLY A RIFLE FOR HIS
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380 OR HER PROTECTION.IT WORKS FOR
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381 THE MOST PART.BUT THE IRA AND
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382 I IMAGINE SOME CITIZENS STILL
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383 GET OTHER WEAPONS.BUT USUALLY
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384 THOSE WEAPONS COME FROM NATIONS
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385 THAT HAVE NO GUN CONTROLLS.THE
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386 ANSWEPEARS TO BE SIMPLE.GET
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387 GUN CONTROLL IN EVERY NATION,
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388 INCLUDING AMERICA.THE REASON
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389 THAT I TERMED THE SOLUTION AS
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390 APPEARING SIMPLE IS BECAUSE IT
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391 IS NOT IN ACTUALITY SIMPLE.
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392 GUNS,RIFLE,SMG'S, ETC. ARE
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393 VERY HARD TO DESIGN AND BUILD
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394 THE REQUIRE MONEY,TALENT,MACHIN-
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395 ERY ET CETRA.THE PLACES TH
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396 MAKE WEAPONS THEREFORE SHOULD
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397 BE EASY TO FIND AND CLOSE DOWN
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398 ,RIGHT,WRONG.
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399 A GUNSMITHY CAN BE VERY SMALL.
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400 AND CERTAIN NATIONS(AMERICA INC-
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401 LUDED) GUARAUNTEE THE RIGHT OF IT'S CITIZENS THE RIGHT TO BEAR
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402 ARMS.THIS RIGHT IS ONE OF THE
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403 BASIC RIGHTS IN AMERICA.TO EVEN
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404 OVERTHROW THIS RIGHTWOULD MOST
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405 LIKELY RESULT IN THE OVERTURNING
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406 OF OTHER RIGHTS,JUST AS SOON AS
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407 THOSE RIGHTS BECAME INCONVIENENT
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408 .THAT IS SOMETHING I WOULD MOST
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409 STRONGLY DEFEND AGAINST.
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410 THE SIMILIE OF THE GUN TO A
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411 CAR IS CLICHE.FOR THE COMPARISON
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412 IS BAD.YOU MIGHT AS WELL COMPARE
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413 THE OWNING OF KNIVES TO THE
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414 OWNING OF CANDLES.BUT WHAT I
|
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415 THINK THE MESSAGE WAS IS MORE
|
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416 ADEQUATELY TERMED AS OWNING
|
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417 KNIFE AS COMPARED TO OWNIG A GUN
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418 BOTH OFTEN ARE USED TO KILL.BOTH
|
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419 OFTEN HAVE VERY LEGITAMATE USES
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420 THE KNIFE,AS A BASIC TOOL,AN
|
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421 ONE OF MANS OLDEST.THE GUN AS
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422 A TOOL OF SPORT(NO,I'M NOT IN
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423 FAVOR OF HUNTING BUTSPORT
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424 IS POPULAR AND ADEQUCOTRO-
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425 LLED)AND AS PROTECTIO-
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426 N.
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427 *****************HAWTHORNE*****
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428 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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429 I AGREE WITH HAWTHORNE,A GUN IS
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430 ONLY A TOOL.RESPONSI-
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431 BLE FOR IT'S ACTIONS THE USER
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432 IS.BY THE WAY HAWTHORNE,WHAT
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433 DI YA THINK ABOUT STAR TREK:THE
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434 MOTION PICTURE,AND STAR TREK:
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435 THE WRATH OF KHAN?
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436 ++++++++++++++++ZZZZIPSTER++++
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437 *******************************
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438 I LIKED STAR TREK:THE MOT
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439 PICTURE BUT ONLY IN IT'S BOOK
|
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440 FORM.THE REAL STORY DOES NOT
|
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441 TRANSLATE WELL TO THE BIG
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442 SCREEN.AND IT ESPECIALLY DOES
|
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443 NOT FIT IN WITH THE NEW EQUIPM-
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444 ENT THAT PARAMOUNT WANTED DESI-
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445 GNED.
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446 I LOVED SAR TREK:THE WRATH
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447 KHAN.THE WHOLE THING WAS GREAT.
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448 IT WAS EVEN A BETTER BOOK.
|
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449 *******************HAWTHORNE***
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||
450 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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451
|
||
452 NOTICE: VITAL INFO.
|
||
453
|
||
454 IT SEEMS THAT BACKWATER USERS
|
||
455 HAVE BEEN HARRASSING(HOWEVER
|
||
456 ACCIDENTALLY) THE PERSON WITH
|
||
457 THE PHONE NUMBER 230-xxxx.WHEN
|
||
458 EVER SOMEONE REVESES THE LAST TWO NUMBERS OF BACKWATERS PHONE
|
||
459 NUMBER HE GETS CALLED.AND WE
|
||
460 ALL KNOW HOW LATE SOME PEOPLE
|
||
461 CALL BACKWATER.
|
||
462 WHAT REALLY SADDENS ME IS THAT
|
||
463 HE SAYS THAT WHEN BACKW
|
||
464 USERS SCREW UP AND GET HIS
|
||
465 HOME PHHONE NUMBER,THEY VERY
|
||
466 ABUSIVE.
|
||
467 LOOK ALL IT TAKES IS A SLIP OF
|
||
468 THE FINGERS AND THIS GUY GE
|
||
469 WOKEN UP AT 3:45 AM.SO, LETS
|
||
470 BE CAREFULL OUT THERE.
|
||
471 ++++++++++++ZZZZZZZZIPSTER+++++
|
||
472 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
|
||
473 I AM NEW HERE SO I WOULD LIKE
|
||
474 KNOW JUST WHAT THE HISTORY OF
|
||
475 BACKWATER IS.
|
||
476 .
|
||
477 .
|
||
478 SIGNED,
|
||
479 SARA M.
|
||
480 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
|
||
481 ********************************
|
||
482 TO ALL ROLE PLAYING GAMERS OUT
|
||
483 THERE IN CRT LAND.LEAVE A MESSA-
|
||
484 GE TO HAWTHORNE ABOUT A FREE PBM
|
||
485 PLAYTEST.SORRY,NO PRIZES.
|
||
486 *****************HAWTHORNE******
|
||
487
|
||
488
|
||
489
|
||
490
|
||
491
|
||
492 WHY DONT PEOPLE PUT SPACES IN BETWEEN LINES ANY MORE,HUH?
|
||
493
|
||
494
|
||
495
|
||
496
|
||
497
|
||
498 BOTTOM
|
||
499 U 60
|
||
500 TO HAWTHORNE
|
||
501 FRO DRENNON
|
||
502 RE P B M
|
||
503
|
||
504 WHAT IS IT CALLED,WHEN ARE
|
||
505 DECISIONS DATELINES,WHAT ARE
|
||
506 THE RULES?I WANNA PLAY!!!!!!
|
||
507
|
||
508
|
||
509
|
||
510 UP 40
|
||
511 AW SHUCKS IT HAPPENED AGAIN
|
||
512 spaces between lines waste disk space.-- Your Mother
|
||
513 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
|
||
514 ALL: please forgive me (for the gun control) (i didn't know it was loaded)
|
||
515 Piper: if L-4 & L-5 are gravity "wells", then why arn't they full of space
|
||
516 junk? in fact, why don't they have an atmosphere? over the eons, one would
|
||
517 expect to have to satellites (natural) in those positions...
|
||
518 One might also observe that since those points are availiable in limited
|
||
519 quantities (2) (except Morrison), why would a planet wish to clutter them up
|
||
520 with fixed objects? These points would obviously make excellent "holding"
|
||
521 areas for spacecraft, yes?
|
||
522 We can even get creative: Some advanced planet, eons ago, spotted our
|
||
523 humble planet, and realizing that earth would, some day, support an advanced
|
||
524 culture (such as our own?), zoom off through the void of space to meet space
|
||
525 ship earth as sort of a cosmic welcome wagon. Before departing, a quick
|
||
526 neutrino scan of our neighborhood revealed 2 PERFECT places to park their
|
||
527 space cruiser.....so perfect they set the co-ordinates into the guidance
|
||
528 system before they leave Grekotznik (name of advanced planet). Imagine
|
||
529 their dismay at finding an expanded version of sputnik in their parking
|
||
530 space (pun). They have to park the space cruiser SOMEWHERE......the
|
||
531 trip has been VERY long (next rest area: 1.2 light-years).....the
|
||
532 photon cannons ARE charged up......hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I wouldn't want
|
||
533 to be in L-4&5 THEN, now would you?
|
||
534 Aaron
|
||
535 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
|
||
536 ********************************
|
||
537 HECK NO!!BUT WHAT ABOUT KLINGONS
|
||
538 AFTER ALL WE ALL HAVE A BIT OF
|
||
539 KLINGON IN US.THEN AGAIN WE ALL
|
||
540 HAVE A LITTLE BIVULCAN IN
|
||
541 US.I GUESS THAT'S WHAT MAKES US
|
||
542 HUMAN.I THINK.
|
||
543 MR.DRENNON CALL ME AT 1-503-283-
|
||
544 xxxx FOR DETAILS AND A MAILING ADDRESS.
|
||
545 AND BY THE WAY THAT WAS 'BIT OF
|
||
546 VULCAN' NOT BIVULCAN.
|
||
547 ZZZZZIPSTER.TRIVIA QUESTION-WHAT
|
||
548 IS THE GRAVITY ON VULCAN'S THIRD
|
||
549 MOON AT A HEIGHT OF 5 METERS?
|
||
550 **************HAWTHORNE*********
|
||
551
|
||
552 ********************************
|
||
553 WHAT!?!?!?! NO ANSWER YET!
|
||
554 **************HAWTHORNE*********
|
||
555
|
||
556 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
557 TTRIVIA QUESTION ANSWER:THAT ISN
|
||
558 'T FAIR.VULCAN HAS NO MOON,
|
||
559 DIDN'T YOU KNOW THAT?
|
||
560 TRIVIA QUESTION:AT WHAT TIME,ON WHAT DAY,IN WHAT MONTH,DURING
|
||
561 WHICH YEAR DID STAR TREK'S FIRSR
|
||
562 EPISODE PREMIER?
|
||
563 +++++++++++++++++ZZZZZZZIPSTER++
|
||
564 UP 10
|
||
565 EXIT
|
||
566 OUT
|
||
567 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
|
||
568 Aaron and Deborah -- Celestial mechanics is a little bit over my head,
|
||
569 so most of the stuff I'm quoting you is from popularizations-- but here goes
|
||
570 nothing. The case of the earth-moon-third object is the well-known
|
||
571 (in circles that compute orbits of bodies) three-body problem. For th
|
||
572 rest of us -- simple solutions for more than two bodies orbiting one anoher
|
||
573 in free space do not exist. Add a third body and a simple set of equations
|
||
574 accurately describe the orbital motion of three or more bodies, exept in
|
||
575 one particular case -- where the third body is small in comparison to te
|
||
576 other two and occupys the L-4 and L-5 positions. An L-4 and L-5 position
|
||
577 should occur for each pair of bodies in our solar system -- for the
|
||
578 sun-earth combination, for the sun-venus, for the sun-mars, for the
|
||
579 sun-jupiter and so forth. In fact a group of asteroids known as the
|
||
580 Trojans occupy the L-4 and L-5 points in the sun-jupiter system. The forces
|
||
581 at these points are INCREDIBLY SMALL. The gravity wells at these points
|
||
582 are more of the magnetude of cm/week2. However, the earth-moon points do
|
||
583 contain small amounts of debris. One of the main proponents of the L-5
|
||
584 society is a man called ??? O'Niel (first name got lost) thus in some of
|
||
585 our present science fiction the presence of O'Niel space habitations, his
|
||
586 contribution to the movement. Aaron -- yes, I agree that these points are
|
||
587 the logcal staging areas for inter and intra-stellar traffic. When th
|
||
588 Whimseys from planet Whim drop by for a visit, they most likely will wait
|
||
589 there for an invitation to descend. In fact ... ever think about how big
|
||
590 that area of the sky is? And just how small and insignificant a sperical
|
||
591 craft a mile in diameter would be at that distance? Now if I wanted to
|
||
592 keep an eye on a bunch of primitives, I'd use an asteroid, hollow it out,
|
||
593 paint it black, and set it at either the L-4 or L-5 points. When they
|
||
594 became civilized enough to come out and talk, then we'd think about contact.
|
||
595 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
|
||
596
|
||
597
|
||
598 ********************************
|
||
599 THERE ARE MANY SCIENCE FICTION
|
||
600 (SCIENCE FACT?)STORIES ABOUT
|
||
601 THAT SORT OF IDEA.I WOULD LIK
|
||
602 TO KNOW IF(JUST IN CASE)THERE IS
|
||
603 ANY BODY OUT THERE WHODOES NOT
|
||
604 BELEIVE IN EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE
|
||
605 ,I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW,ALSO,HOW YOU SUSTANCIATE YOUR CLAIM.
|
||
606 ***************HAWTHORNE********
|
||
607 EXIT
|
||
608 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
|
||
609 I THINK THAT THOSE LAGRAN
|
||
610 POINTS WOULD PROBABLY THE BEST PLACE TO BSTATIONS.
|
||
611 NATIONALLY OWNED SPACE STATIONS
|
||
612 WHICH IS WHAT IS MOST LIKELY
|
||
613 WHAT WILL HAPPENSPACE
|
||
614 STATION IS PERMANENTLY LOCKED IN
|
||
615 TO AN L-? ORBIT THAT PLACE CN
|
||
616 NOT BE INFRINGED UPON,CAN IT.
|
||
617 IF THE UN BUILT AN INTERNATION
|
||
618 AL STATION IT COULD BE A GREAT
|
||
619 SYMBOLIC FEAT.THE BALANCING OF
|
||
620 EARTH'S POWERS.
|
||
621 .
|
||
622 .
|
||
623 SARA M.
|
||
624 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
|
||
625 To my unsigned critic:
|
||
626 I'll get back to you with a little constitutional history when I
|
||
627 have some space. Why do I feel so vindictive??? Mr. Tim
|
||
628
|
||
629 REPENT! THE END IS AT HAND!
|
||
|
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