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| Thread ID: 29473 | 2003-01-22 00:24:00 | OT: The Great Debate (feel free to join!) | agent (30) | Press F1 |
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| 115797 | 2003-01-22 00:24:00 | Ok people, the following line is the topic of this Great Debate: "The best things in life are not free". There. You have your moot. I will now define the key words for you. Best: "most good, having all or the appropiate good qualities in the highest degree". Things: "any possible objects of thought including person, material objects, events, qualities, circumstances, utterances, and acts". Free: "without cost or payment". You choose what side you are going on. Do you agree with the topic? Or do you disagree. Remember, this is a debate, and you are entitled to state your true thoughts, without any limit to your vocabulary (except 'swear' words, please censor these by typing the first letter of the word and using asterisks (*) to represent the rest of the letters). You may switch sides, or even "sit on the fence". You may be swayed by opposing arguments. Let your mind ponder on what people say. Think about everything. I will announce the winning side of the debate either at the end of the upcoming weekend, on the Auckland Anniversary holiday, or sometime in the following weekend, depending on how many replies this thread gets, and how active it becomes. |
agent (30) | ||
| 115798 | 2003-01-22 00:36:00 | I'm on the fence. I think a lot of the best things in life are free (smiles, kind words, hugs, hot lovin' - unless you pay for that sort of thing, of course), but then there are a lot of the best things in life which you have to pay for, such as holidays away, suprise gifts and kick*** 'puter systems. Go on then, sway me. Or did I just miss the point? |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 115799 | 2003-01-22 00:39:00 | I am all for keeping this forum light and friendly. I don't think that this is going to do that. As for being "Off Topic", it is not even marginally relevant to this forum. There are places where this sort of discussion goes on. Have a look at the newsgroups: maybe somehwere in alt.soc.* . But this is not the place. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 115800 | 2003-01-22 00:58:00 | > it is not even marginally relevant to this forum An OS you pay money for vs one that you don't. Windows vs Linux. Mac vs Linux. Anything technology related that you pay for vs a similar thing you don't pay for. |
agent (30) | ||
| 115801 | 2003-01-22 01:14:00 | > > it is not even marginally relevant to this > forum > > An OS you pay money for vs one that you don't. > Windows vs Linux. Mac vs Linux. Anything technology > related that you pay for vs a similar thing you don't > pay for. So would we be debating this purely with an IT aspect? |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 115802 | 2003-01-22 01:48:00 | If you think it should only be IT that is debated upon, then you can do that. There are many other things that it could apply to though. Free food samples vs food you buy. Rather obvious which is better, isn't it. But there are many aspects to this. I just won't enter the argument (debate) for the sake of being fair, as, if it continues (some people have no sense of fun), then I'll be judging it. | agent (30) | ||
| 115803 | 2003-01-22 02:30:00 | If you have the time for non related pointless discussions on a computer forum then that is unfortunate.. Some people have more constructive things to do. |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 115804 | 2003-01-22 02:44:00 | Free air... Free speech come to mind. | Elephant (599) | ||
| 115805 | 2003-01-22 03:22:00 | Came across the following recently and am thinking of framing it: "The cheapest solution is the one that works". |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 115806 | 2003-01-22 10:43:00 | I like this saying. You have been blessed with two ears and one mouth so you should listen twice as much as you talk. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
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