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Post #162,301 by deSitter 6/30/04 3:28:45 PM Reply	Everything changes (for the worse) Call it cultural thermodynamics. Crudity always increases. The reason we are no longer free - none of us deserves to be free. -drl
Post #162,302 by admin 6/30/04 3:30:52 PM Reply	Counterpoint Heard on NPR: research shows that the use of crude language does not appreciably change over the years. You'll hear the same epithets with the same frequency on the streets of 2004 as you would have heard in 1854, or 1004 for that matter. Many of the obscene words we use today originate from over a thousand years ago. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #162,304 by deSitter 6/30/04 3:34:04 PM Reply	Re: Counterpoint Language? I was thinking of something more remote.. The sense of the ineffable. The reality behind the oil paint, rather than the reality of paint. -drl
Post #162,311 by admin 6/30/04 3:42:21 PM 6/30/04 3:45:06 PM Reply	Language reflects culture. Oh, and I'll give you effable: eff this... ;-) Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..." Edited by admin June 30, 2004, 03:45:06 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #162,317 by deSitter 6/30/04 4:13:23 PM Reply	It's the pool for you then! -drl
Post #162,318 by admin 6/30/04 4:14:16 PM Reply	Oh, like that wasn't going to happen anyway... I mean, what good is inviting the administrator if you can't chuck his sorry ass in the pool? Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #162,319 by lincoln 6/30/04 4:19:22 PM Reply	Post the video this year unless everybody forgets to bring their digital cameras and camcorders. lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #162,305 by pwhysall 6/30/04 3:34:45 PM Reply	People like you have been whining forever. I've no doubt whatsoever that there were people around in 2500BC in Egypt going, "You know, since Snefru took over, things have gone right downhill. Everything was a lot better under Sekhemket." You've got terminal temporal loliotic verdanity syndrome. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #162,306 by deSitter 6/30/04 3:35:32 PM Reply	Re: People like you have been whining forever. You never lived in a free country - I have. We miss it, some of us. -drl
Post #162,312 by pwhysall 6/30/04 3:46:24 PM Reply	Re: People like you have been whining forever. It is a good thing that people like you are invariably too lazy to actually do anything about their predicament, otherwise we might find that government is infested with legislators perpetually adrift on a sea of nostalgia for a golden age that never existed. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #162,315 by deSitter 6/30/04 4:11:54 PM Reply	Citizen statesmen ..was how Tommy and Jimbo imagined it. We however are nothing but cattle now, so the concept has died. Were I in a position to do so, I would accept the honor and responsibility gladly. But, there is nothing to be done now. -drl
Post #162,339 by Andrew Grygus 6/30/04 6:29:31 PM Reply	I recall seeing a letter . . . . . . complaining about how the younger generation did not respect their elders and deliberately acted offensive, and that trust, community, and everything else was going to hell in a handbasket. It was translated from an original written in Old Kingdom Egypt (pyramid building era). It's all been on a continuous slide for the 4000 or so years since. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #162,328 by ben_tilly 6/30/04 5:18:56 PM Reply	Speak for yourself I know what the world was like a century ago. I know what it is like today. I prefer today. As interesting as it may be to know that my grandfather was a paperboy at age 6 as a way to try to stay alive, I don't particularly want to see young half-Indian kids selling papers on the streets to head off imminent starvation. Cheers, Ben To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act - [link\|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20\|Nebraska Supreme Court]
Post #162,532 by orion 7/1/04 4:24:20 PM Reply	Re: Everything changes (for the worse) Nobody ever was free, freedom is an illusion. We are all slaves to our wants and desires. In order for us to be free, we should be free from our wants and desires. *"What's the use of saving life when you see what you do with it?" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"* [link\|http://www.xormad.com:4096/district268\|I am from District 268].

Are we living in the shadow of a glorious era? - (inthane-chan) - (31) - June 30, 2004, 02:57:33 PM EDT

I think Ross is naive. -NT - (admin) - June 30, 2004, 03:00:40 PM EDT

Everything changes - (pwhysall) - (14) - June 30, 2004, 03:00:46 PM EDT

Everything changes (for the worse) - (deSitter) - (13) - June 30, 2004, 03:28:45 PM EDT

Counterpoint - (admin) - (5) - June 30, 2004, 03:30:52 PM EDT

Re: Counterpoint - (deSitter) - (4) - June 30, 2004, 03:34:04 PM EDT

Language reflects culture. - (admin) - (3) - June 30, 2004, 03:45:06 PM EDT

It's the pool for you then! -NT - (deSitter) - (2) - June 30, 2004, 04:13:23 PM EDT

Oh, like that wasn't going to happen *anyway*... - (admin) - (1) - June 30, 2004, 04:14:16 PM EDT

Post the video this year - (lincoln) - June 30, 2004, 04:19:22 PM EDT

People like you have been whining forever. - (pwhysall) - (4) - June 30, 2004, 03:34:45 PM EDT

Re: People like you have been whining forever. - (deSitter) - (2) - June 30, 2004, 03:35:32 PM EDT

Re: People like you have been whining forever. - (pwhysall) - (1) - June 30, 2004, 03:46:24 PM EDT

Citizen statesmen - (deSitter) - June 30, 2004, 04:11:54 PM EDT

I recall seeing a letter . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - June 30, 2004, 06:29:31 PM EDT

Speak for yourself - (ben_tilly) - June 30, 2004, 05:18:56 PM EDT

Re: Everything changes (for the worse) - (orion) - July 1, 2004, 04:24:20 PM EDT

Re: Are we living in the shadow of a glorious era? - (deSitter) - (10) - June 30, 2004, 03:27:48 PM EDT

Hawking. -NT - (pwhysall) - June 30, 2004, 03:28:14 PM EDT

Wakeman -NT - (broomberg) - (2) - June 30, 2004, 08:56:31 PM EDT

Umm, Mr "I've-got-a-flowing-cape-and-a-Casio-complex"? -NT - (Meerkat) - (1) - June 30, 2004, 11:07:56 PM EDT

Yup -NT - (broomberg) - June 30, 2004, 11:36:37 PM EDT

Music aside - (Ashton) - (5) - July 1, 2004, 05:46:25 AM EDT

Gandhi. -NT - (pwhysall) - July 1, 2004, 06:58:03 AM EDT

Re: Music aside - (deSitter) - July 1, 2004, 08:48:41 AM EDT

MLK jr. -NT - (cforde) - (2) - July 1, 2004, 01:41:06 PM EDT

Re: MLK jr. - (deSitter) - (1) - July 1, 2004, 01:44:12 PM EDT

Hmmm provocative - (Ashton) - July 2, 2004, 02:40:59 AM EDT

To quote Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18): - (a6l6e6x) - June 30, 2004, 03:32:14 PM EDT

Yes. - (Another Scott) - (1) - June 30, 2004, 04:03:19 PM EDT

Nice -NT - (deSitter) - June 30, 2004, 04:12:58 PM EDT

I think Desitter to right - (orion) - July 1, 2004, 04:22:30 PM EDT

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