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(...) Derek's got a good point - lead bricks aren't necessary - lots of battery boxes with dead batteries, or, 8466 tires. I would suggest a digital postal scale for event day, or a mechanical LEGO-built scale. Anyone UNDER the defined weight limit (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: rtlToronto19: Balance of Power and other upcoming events
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(...) I don't know, I've been trying to find the MIT contest webpages but I haven't been able to turn them up. I think there was a size and weight restriction in the original contest. Actually, come to think of it, all I remember was Alan Alda in (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Bye, bye LUGNET
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(...) - snip - This discussion venue, despite what many obviously believe, does not have an agenda to tell you what you should think or what to believe. It's a simple request, really: please just keep the cussing down. Let me be clear on one thing. (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Internationalization of the part library?
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(...) OK, so I exaggerated a little bit. ;-) Only reason it sticks in my mind is because of that one release where it and the 2x2 radar dish shared the same name. (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: A slice of airplane
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(...) Embraer was being funded by the Brazilian government, an approach we didn't take lightly to. IIRC Brazil was offering export subsidies for purchasers of ERJs, making it more attractive for operators to choose them over CRJ. Basically the (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I found this pic of that Actros with a snowplough attached (URL) find this really galling, as we had forecasts for snow where I live, so I purposely completed the transmisson on a bulldozer I was working on just so I could go a ploughing. So what (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Primo castello (work in progress)
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Ciao Ho messo on-line le foto del castello che sto costruendo. (URL) prego di darmi i vostri commenti (positivi o negativi :-)))), e eventuali consigli.. a presto GAetano (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Bye, bye LUGNET
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In lugnet.announce, Willy Tschager wrote: snipped (...) direct from the ToU: "Additionally, you specifically acknowledge and agree that LUGNET and its owners, operators and/or related entities are not liable for any defamatory, offensive, or illegal (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I tried with keyword text search, but I used the descriptions from the Peeron database. Apparently they have different descriptions here. That's why I couldn't find them. Thanks a lot!! Maarten (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | miei lego
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salve mi faccio un po' di pubblicità: (URL) il lotto che ho messo all'asta su ebay. se volete trovarlo in maniera diversa cercatemi come giovy1982. ciao e tutti giovanni (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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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)
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| | Re: rtlToronto19: Balance of Power and other upcoming events
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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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)
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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)
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| | Re: rtlToronto19: Balance of Power and other upcoming events
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Internationalization of the part library?
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(...) 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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