From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: edrhodes@hotmail.com   
   Subject: Re: THE SHAT won't be in Crap Trek 2   
      
   On Aug 24, 1:46aam, Anim8rFSK  wrote:   
   > In article <4e5457cf.14617...@news.west.earthlink.net>,   
   > aques...@infionline.net (Harold Groot) wrote:   
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   > > On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:02:15 -0600, "Dragon Lady"   
   > >  wrote:   
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   > > > wrote in message   
   > > >news:fja2579j6k5t4imiee7n7c8rsqoj5o93h9@4ax.com...   
   > > >> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:02:13 -0700 (PDT), MITO MINISTER   
   > > >>  wrote:   
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   > > >>>On Jun 21, 8:45 am, "Bast"  wrote:   
   > > >>>> Steven L. wrote:   
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   > > >>>> Since the "trek" franchise is pretty much on life support at this   
   > > >>>> point,....it would be the humane thing to do.   
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   > > >>>How so? It made more money than any of the other films and a sequel is   
   > > >>>in the works. That's called SUCCESS.   
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   > > >>>STRA TREK is showbusiness. ENTERTAINMENT.   
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   > > >>>Your opinions are worthless.   
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   > > >> You DARE call out someone's opinions as worthless and YOU have the   
   > > >> stupidity to write "STRA TREK" a?   
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   > > >> Your spelling is worthless. aOh, and educated people double space   
   > > >> between sentences.   
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   > > >Um...educated people double space between paragraphs, not between   
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   > > You two are talking about two different things there. aThe first   
   > > person is talking about using two spacebar spaces after a period when   
   > > starting the next sentence in the same paragraph. aYou are talking   
   > > about using two carriage returns before starting the next paragraph   
   > > (thus leaving a blank line between them). a   
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   > > Actually, this is more of a "Your Generation May Vary" thing than   
   > > anything else. aBack before, oh, 1985 or so people were taught to put   
   > > two spaces after a period when typing. aSomewhere along the way in the   
   > > Home Computer Age, however, this stopped being taught. aI suspect that   
   > > it was because a lot of people who were self-taught on a keyboard were   
   > > not using this convention, and the Powers That Be decided not to fight   
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   > It came out of the first electronic typesetters, which couldn't handle a   
   > double space after a period if it hit a line break, and you ended up   
   > with sentences that started with a space. aI ran one of the damn things. a   
   > They got put out of business by Microsoft Word and desktop publishing,   
   > but the damage appears to be done.   
   What system? I've run several from the Compuwriter IV to the   
   Mergenthaler CRTronic and I can't remember the last one I used before   
   the company I worked for switched over to Macs.   
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