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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Liam Parnell (<99093012333600.018...rrender2>) wrote at 11:31:59 (...) It's a nice idea. Do you want to go for beauty or height? (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Idea for building activity at NorthWestFest
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Richard Franks (<FIvI0w.4y5@lugnet.com>) wrote at 12:43:44 (...) Those of us who were at LLW, and indeed the staff, were in awe of Liam's tower building prowess :-P (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | LEGO Town Quiz - Answers
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Below are the answers to the questions I posted a few days ago. Feel free to disagree with any of them. 1) Which was the Widest town vehicle produced? #6675 Road and Trail 4x4. (Note the question related to "town" not "LEGO System". 2) Apart from (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Utah Legomaniacs Get Together
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(...) Sounds great -- wish I could make it, but it's a bit of a walk for me (from Boston :) BTW, dunno how your naming plans are coming along, but last week I ran a script to look up which .org domains were available matching the form (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: 8448 Street Sensation Racing - Are you game?
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(...) This could almost be a challange. How about marking up a circuit by marking the curbs with black tape. Then let the car race around trying to map the circuit and find the way through. After a coupple of laps it could finish "learning mode" and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC 2.0 and some math questions
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(...) I think that if you do something like this you should use a semaphore to secure no tasks access y and z simultanously. But that wastes another variable storing the sema. (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: 8448 Street Sensation Racing - Are you game?
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(...) What about adding a real combustion engine and control the throttle with the RCX? This would indeed add a new dimension to LEGO... (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO Town Quiz
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James Powell <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:FIw4r3.KCx@lugnet.com... (...) are (...) Those would be the airport runway plates that were available from 1990. They appeared in sets 6396 "International Airport" and 6597 "Century (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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(...) Ian, I was very impressed with your post. I sent it on to a good friend of mine that works for the company that handles the marketing for Mindstorms. He put on the LEGO Robogladiator event at the E3 convention that happened in Los Angeles some (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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(...) Via e-mail, simply use the Reply-To mapping... That is, If you're posting via a newsreader, then set your headers like this: Newsgroups: lugnet.foo,lugnet.ba...ugnet.gonk Followup-To: lugnet.gonk and if you're posting via e-mail, then set your (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Chicago Legofest
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(...) And I thought that my 5 hour drive to Toronto for a minicon (mini convention) was bad... Charles (Fenton, MI) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) My point is, where do we draw the line? We are dealing with creativity and imagination. Who is to decide what is allowed and what is not? I certainly don't want to be the one who does it. All I care about is having a place where I can showcase (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Why are SSIs bad?
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(...) If you're the site admin, there's not a security problem. The security issue is with letting your _users_ use SSI, because those commands execute as the user which owns the web server. Which, if you don't trust your users, is a bad thing. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Hunger website
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(...) Not by a longshot. (...) Although it doesn't really fit the "fun" in .off-topic.fun, it does fit .off-topic.fun far more than it fits lugnet.general (which is for general LEGO-related topics). .off-topic.geek or .publish would probably work (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Official catalog of part numbers
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From memory the internal parts catalogue system is made up of three components: 1) The catalogue which shows images of all 2000 or so parts broken down into themes and further into "classifications". 2) A second catalogue which details the colour (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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I believe that you can add (even via mail) a "Followup-To: lugnet.general" to your message headers and it would do what you wanted. (...) I would like to point out that I think what we all want isn't adult legos, but rather sets that don't insult (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Sad State of Minifig Box #1
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I can understand the partial minifigs - if somebody wants a black witch hat but has no use for an entire witch it's silly for them not to leave the rest of the fig in the box. But if people do trades like taking all the non-yellow hands and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) Depends on where we want to go. If we want to set up a framework for a believable, interesting interstellar society, we've pretty much got to allow FTL technology. Even practical sub-light drive technology is way out there. (...) There's a lot (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Trains, Technic and Space!
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Hi, I have the following sets that I am considering exchanging for 9volt train sets or selling. 7735 7745 7857/8/9 8865 8842 6970 6980 . With the exception of 6970/6980 the sets are in good to very good, hardly used condition. Some boxes available, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: The Sad State of Minifig Box #1
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Don't worry, Ed. If that box ever comes my way, I will be sure to relieve it of the air tanks and put in there something more pallable (SP?). Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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