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61 [lbo-talk] ChuckO and the Rings of Mordor -- rank: 855

Chuck0 wrote: > > No, I'm not saying that technology is evil in and > of itself. Many of us here will agree that certain > technologies are inherently evil. Like the atomic bomb. Just wondering, what do you think of this argument in favor of the atomic bomb? At the start of this ...

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Author:	W. Kiernan
Date:	Tue Sep 16 19:29:38 PDT 2003

62 [lbo-talk] ChuckO and the Rings of Mordor -- rank: 898

... positive use. You have to show me > your Ring of Mordor before you can credibly suggest that something as > obviously useful ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Tue Sep 16 15:36:19 PDT 2003

63 [lbo-talk] ChuckO and the Rings of Mordor -- rank: 898

Comrade Chuck, Look, to be a bit smart-assed about it, we know what kind of social order predominates when people are reduced to pre-industrial conditions: feudalism in all its forms - warlordism, gangsterism, what have you. Compared to those social forms, fascism is a picnic in the park. Why do ...

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Author:	boddhisatva
Date:	Tue Sep 16 12:49:48 PDT 2003

64 [lbo-talk] Re: Depleted Uranium hoohah -- rank: 269

Look, Folks, the claim was as follows (with one explanatory note by me included) : " 'Yikes is right,' he responded. 'This nightmare [meaning the dirty-bomb-type scenario] has now essentially come true with the use of depleted uranium on anti-tank and other shells in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq. The military ...

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Author:	boddhisatva
Date:	Tue Sep 16 11:54:38 PDT 2003

65 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 539

>On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:25:25 -0700 (PDT), Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote: > >>On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Brad DeLong wrote: >> >>> >one thing not mentioned in this discussion of THE LORD OF THE RINGS >>>>is that the bad guys in Tolkein all seem to be dark ...

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Author:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Mon Sep 15 20:08:31 PDT 2003

66 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 699

... jdevine at lmu.edu & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > CB: Mordor is sort of like New York-WashingtonDC, the center > of the evil > empire. > The top bad wizard in Mordor has all the rings but one. If he > gets the ... world. The plot is on how > the bad guys > in Mordor are trying to get the last ring and how the ... last ring. I > think that can only > be do in Mordor or something, so of course they have to _go_ > to Mordor. > Right Dennis ?

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Author:	Devine, James
Date:	Mon Sep 15 13:34:02 PDT 2003

67 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 808

... hobbit has a computer printout above his desk which reads, >> "MORDOR SHALL FALL". >> >> -- DRR > >I watched the second "Rings" last night ... s such a successful enterprise? And who the hell is Mordor? Doug ^^^^^ CB: Mordor is sort of like New York-WashingtonDC, the center of the evil empire. The top bad wizard in Mordor has all the rings but one. If he gets the ... world. The plot is on how the bad guys in Mordor are trying to get the last ring and how the ... last ring. I think that can only be do in Mordor or something, so of course they have to _go_ ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Sep 15 13:11:43 PDT 2003

68 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 269

... Brian Siano wrote: > 3) Frodo and Sam attempt to enter Mordor. Gollum, a Hobbit who's been > twisted and ruined by ...

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Author:	Matt
Date:	Mon Sep 15 11:42:47 PDT 2003

69 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 1000

... hobbit has a computer printout above his desk which reads, >>"MORDOR SHALL FALL". >> >>-- DRR >> >> > >I watched the second "Rings" last night ... s a Baedeker to get you started. 1) Sauron, in Mordor, is massing his forces to take over Middle-Earth. His ... still seeking the One Ring, which Frodo is taking to Mordor to destroy. 2) Saruman, a powerful wizard, has decided to ally himself with Mordor. To supplement Sauron's Orcs, and to build himself a ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Mon Sep 15 11:19:01 PDT 2003

70 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 269

... hegemony - the slow advance of halflings Frodo and Sam towards Mordor (the land Sauron rules) - goes entirely unnoticed. As I recall ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Mon Sep 15 10:20:54 PDT 2003

71 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 425

... hobbit has a computer printout above his desk which reads, >> "MORDOR SHALL FALL". >> >> -- DRR > >I watched the second "Rings" last night ... s such a successful enterprise? And who the hell is Mordor? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 15 10:06:32 PDT 2003

72 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 269

... hobbit has a computer printout above his desk which reads, > "MORDOR SHALL FALL". > > -- DRR I watched the second "Rings" last night ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin
Date:	Mon Sep 15 05:56:11 PDT 2003

73 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 269

... hobbit has a computer printout above his desk which reads, "MORDOR SHALL FALL". -- DRR

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Sun Sep 14 22:12:22 PDT 2003

74 [lbo-talk] sigh -- rank: 269

... 32% is an astonishingly high figure for the Land of Mordor. I would've expected 10-15%. The good news is ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Sat Sep 6 14:20:41 PDT 2003

75 [lbo-talk] employment -- rank: 269

... of the Bubble era > (Jan 1998-April 2001) anticipated the Mordor-ization of Bananamerica. > From Black Mesa Labs to the Aesir ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Sat Sep 6 14:16:17 PDT 2003