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Having seen the length Plagiarism thread that's been running on .general lately, it led me to thinking... At what point - in your own opinion - does getting inspiration from another person's model become copying it? Supposing you see a novel way of (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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dkrenz <dkrenz@mc.net> wrote in article <37ABB158.93EE24A3@mc.net>... <snip> (...) Thanks Julie! This is exactly what I was talking about. Very interesting to read about the people & their collections around here. (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Favourite LUGNET thread ever
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(...) Fingers crossed! (...) Say, by chance are you the same Paul Baulch who put up pictures of a spaceship about 5 years ago? The ship was blue and had four large engines and lots of weaponry. The email address had the word "shnub" or something in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: GMLTC at the NMRA National Convention
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(...) Maybe there are some other Lego operations being closed down that could be utilized. How would we find such information though? (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Technic Building for Beginners
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Beginners learning to use LEGO Technic parts should look at the exercises in set 1031. You will find scans of the instructions on Kevin Loch's site at (URL) mostly simple instructions include: - How Technic parts fit together - Triangles for (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: NQC 2.0 ready for beta test
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(...) The topic comes up from time to time. I'm *way* too busy with other projects to extend the firmware, but if someone else wanted to, I'd be willing to extend NQC as needed. If someone else is seriously interested in taking on this work, please (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Train prices
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On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:52:14 GMT, Simon Robinson uttered the following profundities... (...) Though I am not a trainhead, I believe the Entertainer, (a chain predominantly in the SE), is cheapest for track. Sorry, but don't remember the prices (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Super Car (8448)
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On Thu, 5 Aug 1999 07:51:41 GMT, Michael Edwards uttered the following profundities... (...) ^^^...^^^ LOL! (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | 1857's, (remember those!), £7.85!!!!!!!!
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Remember 1857, the 950 brick "value" boxes, which cost 13.50? They're back! And on sale! I went to 4 Tescos today, looking for their 99p super bouncing balls. All sold out!! But, on the offchance, found in two of them (Amersham, in Bucks, the other (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: I Can't Spell
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(...) Hi. When I first got the demo I created a new player (Dan The Man) and played as him. I only had limited access to the pods. But by chance my idiot brother started playing as the ready created player Anakin. For some reason, while playing as (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: LEGO vs. O'Reilly (was Re: RCX 1.5 'paranioa')
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(...) I tend to agree with Matthew Miller. I've also worked at an ISP, and the technially sophisticted customers generally called once. I'd give 'em the info they needed, and they could handle the rest. (...) But it isn't, in this case. Mindstorms (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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Well, it was in 2 days, actually. But that was as much or more Lego than I had purchased in over a year. I tend to rarely ever find sets I like on clearance, but when I do, look out! (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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(...) I'd have to agree with that, although it's always heartening to have my opinions of others confirmed I don't think a popularity contest is useful. I don't do what I do or say what I say for the sake of popularity. I'm not Bill Clinton, after (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: US S@H shipping 8448
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In article <FG3nvq.1yF@lugnet.com>, John Morgan <trees@utk.edu> writes (...) No you didn't <gnash> Please describe (well, it *is* in .build :-) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Favourite LUGNET thread ever
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I want to express my thanks to everyone who participated in the thread "Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed". Many excellent things were said and much frustration[1] was "vented" in what really was a healthy and constructive manner. And it made a great (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What's the weather like?
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(...) I must admit that I exagerated a bit. I don't know the average salaries, but the "minimum salary" in Denmark is around 130 kkr. 90% of the population earning less than 300 kkr sounds probable. Play well, Jacob (who should check www.danmark.dk (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.dk)
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| | Re: Darn those definitions (was: The new Super Car) (fwd)
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(...) Exactly. And from an engineering standpoint (with all due respect to Mirriam Webster et at.) that's the difference between pneumatics and hydrolics. Whatever the media invloved, pneumatic devices operate through the flow of *compressible* (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Darn those definitions (was: The new Super Car) (fwd)
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(...) Note: the following is not a flame. I sense from your spelling and phrases that you are younger than many of the hard-core LEGO folks here...that's good and we welcome your comments. You are right, this IS Lego not fluid dynamics. But we're (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | www.nelug.org is a reality
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The New England LEGO user group now has an offical web site. The temporary site hase been moved over to NELUG.org until our first meeting this coming Tuesday at which time I hope we will decide on an offical page layout and design concept. Eric (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.loc.us.vt)
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| | www.nelug.org is a reality
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The New England LEGO user group now has an offical web site. The temporary site hase been moved over to NELUG.org until our first meeting this coming Tuesday at which time I hope we will decide on an offical page layout and design concept. Eric (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ri)
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