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(...) Slavery is not voluntary, and they CHOSE to participate, as did everyone else on staff. Staffing a convention is not employment, it is a voluntary service to better the hobby. In addition, the money is the *event's* money, not any one (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) From dictionary.com: em?bez?zle [em-bez-uhl] –verb (used with object), -zled, -zling. to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as money or property entrusted to one's care. Which leads to: fraud [frawd] –noun 1. deceit, trickery, sharp (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) That's an unrealistic expectation. (...) I look forward to your announcement of your own LEGO-related event, I'd like to see how that works for you. Good luck with that. (...) Tommy said it well... how can you embezzle your own money? (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickvention 2006 photos
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(...) Nice photography, Braith! Very well done! (...) (URL) wait, that's me... *blush* (...) Hear, hear! And let's hope we all get plenty of spare time to work on new MOCs. Thanks for posting your pics! Cheers, Paul (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Golly Pete In my opinion no monetary compensation for the event coordinator of a major event is akin to slavery. And that is very, very unethical. Once you pay your registration fee to an event you should have no say how, where, or to whom it (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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Somebody can point me the best (cheapest) shop to buy the NXT in London? I will be there by october, and I only found it for £179,99 GBP in hamleys. (ouch!). TIA Patrick Levy São Paulo, Brazil (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Flash Write Cycles
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(...) I don't; John Hansen might. While Flash memory does have a limited number of read/write cycles, it appears that the stated limit is conservative, by a large margin... although some of us have thought about a "test to failure" trial, I've not (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Bluetooth Commands via Perl
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(...) Although I haven't tried it, someone has created a perl module for sending commands here: (URL) haven't tried it because I'm working on a ruby module :) (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Yes, it absolutely does. I expect every cent I put in to go back to the event itself, and not the people running it. The only compensation I expect any staffers to recieve is free entry to the event (since it is more work than play for most of (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) That was great! Thank you very much for posting the videos. (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) I'm not convinced of this at all. My estimations of the amount of money coming in does not match up with information I have been able to glean on costs. I am not privy to the financial details, and could be wrong, but I still have my (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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My almost 10 minute long video is ready. Sorry it's a week later than I said, but it's not my camera so I had to borrow it again. (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Nor do I. In fact, I encourage it. That means there's even more specific motivation to make things bigger, better, more interesting, etc. (...) Dave, excellent point. (...) I think the reality is that in the earlier days, there was barely (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Parts Releases and the CA
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(...) I may have missed this, but has LDraw.org released a list of the parts that need to be replaced? I would think that making such a list available and encouraging part authors to focus their efforts on those parts first would speed things up and (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Flash Write Cycles
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Does anyone know how the NXT firmware handles writing program files into flash? If you re-flash a program with the same name, does it first erase the sectors that the old program was located in and then re-flash these sectors with the new program? (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Oh no, someone beat Derek!
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(...) Ya, Calum has already been taunting me privately with these pictures. The truth is I'm not going to be first out of the gate. It just too big a project and I have too many other projects to work on as well. I'm looking to get into the second (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Hey, BrickShelf-users, seen this? Some more photography basics
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Although most of your advice is sound I'd like to make one comment : You make quite a few save steps before the end result... specially with a format such as JPEG (which is what comes out of most consumer level camera's) loads of info gets lost on (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-(
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(...) NO! Imagine people putting up sticker scans, which you'd want as sharp as possible for reprinting. Using JPEG and having them scaled would kill the details there. Why not educate the clueless user instead of killing features power users might (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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Well, agree or not, Anthony's making a valid point. Some AFOLs may feel used or exploited if the event is a for-profit one, while others don't mind, so long as they get their money's worth. I think the problem is that people don't know. I guess (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Oh no, someone beat Derek!
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(URL) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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