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  Re: Bye, bye LUGNET
 
IMHO, It would take a huge amount of processing power to analyze the text of every single post. THat's why human brains do it here, not computers. And what happens when you analyze this sentence: I was trying to finish it, but the earthquake smashed (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: rtlToronto19: Balance of Power and other upcoming events
 
(...) It's easier and heavier to do it with battery boxes. I have more then enough of those. In the MIT contest, how do they handle this? Derek (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: rtlToronto19: Balance of Power and other upcoming events
 
(...) Do we really need a weight restriction? I mean, if you really want to load yer bad boy up with lead bricks bought off BrickLink, go right ahead. Calum (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: Bye, bye LUGNET
 
Just my two cents... But if your vocabulary is limited to the colorful metaphors maybe you should study a little... It's not that hard. And if "all hell breaking loose" is one e-mail from Larry then perhaps you should just relax. What could have (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
 
  Re: Bye, bye LUGNET
 
(...) You missed the point of my post Lenny. I contend that not everyone thinks that the word you mentioned above is "bad" in every context. There shouldn't be a silver bullet policy that put you into "bad" territory just for writing a word. In (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Bye, bye LUGNET
 
(...) A well crafted set of regular expressions would make this simple evasion harder to do. (...) IMHO regional filters would be difficult to do effectively. You'd need to know what region the reader is in as well as the region the poster was from (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Bye, bye LUGNET
 
In lugnet.general, David Koudys wrote: <some good stuff that I can't quote without getting censored> To me the suggestion that the current policy in not censorship is ridiculous. It's like the bully that grabs your arm and make you hit yourself, (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)  
 
  Re: Bye, bye LUGNET
 
Now this is an interesting idea. It seems like a simple way to deal with George Carlin's 7 dirty words. Turn the filter on by default. If people want to turn it off, let them : ) (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: rtlToronto19: Balance of Power and other upcoming events
 
(...) I don't think that will work properly, though (from a fairness standpoint). Specifically because: 10 N @ 1 m = 10 Nm So a 1 kg mass (appr. 10 N) at the end of the beam generates a moment of 10 Nm at the fulcrum. Robot A weighs 25 N and robot B (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: Internationalization of the part library?
 
(...) And Lego may change the number of that 2x2 from 3003 to 53456343, but it'd still be a 3003 to us, right? (...) Yes, true. (...) LDraw numbers are designed to be unambiguous. And that unambiguity is enforced by the fact that we store our data (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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