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(...) Total strangers? Us? :) What's the worst we'll do? Take him out into the middle of a field & make him play with Mega-Blocks? John, I'm up for a road trip if we know the time in advance. If the Tiffany wants to drive up to columbus, we can (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cin, lugnet.general)
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...and how on earth did you get them to release _TWO_ blue hopper cars to you?!? I placed my order on Tuesday when they called to say that the 2150s were in stock and ready to ship, but they would only allow me _ONE_ hopper 8-( Jon. Lawrence Wilkes (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) I guess I've missed it or not paid attention - but what exactly was the cost per set (in dollars or pounds)? I know shipping has to be figured in at some point, but is somewhat offset by us not having to pay your ridiculous VAT. (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk)
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[ XFUT lugnet.publish ] Jon: (...) Not if the publisher has allowed you to republish. Does the colophon say anything along the lines "Reprints are allowed with full attributions". That is the strict interpretation. A more relaxed on would be to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.publish)
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(...) And in many cases this is an almost completely empty gesture meant to stop the obvious scalping (or the non-persistant scalping) and the whining of parents who didn't make it to the store on time to get the coolest new thing their kids must (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Tim, Check out www.acroname.com. They have motors there that are a little slow, but are geared DC and run with the HandyBoard 9.6 volts. Use larger wheels to get more speed, or...... If you want the motors to be faster, you can pull one of the L293D (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) It depends on what you're linking to. If you're linking to a site or sub-site's top-level homepage, for example (4 URLs) no, you usually don't ever need permission to do that. However, if you're linking to something like this from inside a (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.faq)
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(...) Yah, did this in college long ago, before laser pens were common. We used the "big" lasers. :-) We also glued a small mirror onto a piece of aluminum foil wrapped around the end of an open tube, and placed it outside in the quad. Then we (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Sorry, I don't demand all this touch-feely crap from the businesses I deal with. I want to call them up, buy whatever they are selling at whatever price they're asking for it, and not be bothered with, "uh, let us check our list to make sure (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ha ha. Thanks for your support - though I don't think you're going to endear yourself to many Americans with comments like that. If what you say is true then I find that very sad. But what concerns me is that so many sets went to just two (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk)
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I shipped Technic Box #1 to Canada a coplue of weeks ago, adn I'm sending Junk Box #1 to Bryce McGlone on Monday. Paul Sinasohn (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Want US Exclusive sets, but not in the US? I'll get them for you for COST
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Yes it does, though the postage on them can get ridiculous. I tossed one in a box to Israel, and it increased the postage $3! (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Well, perhaps someone driving by could pick you up on the way, if your mom doesn't have a problem with you driving around the state with total strangers! (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) First, to be case-insensitive is to create a non-1-to-1 (and therefore non-invertible) mapping of characters which destroys the usefulness and expressiveness of 20% of the character set domain (about 1/3 of the typically usable characters). (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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If there's one thing I'm complete in, it's Mania Magazine. I just happened to have a couple hours free this morning so I scanned them in and put them up on a web page. URL: (URL) are 300-400K each as to get the highest quality/detail. ---Jon P.S. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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In lugnet.robotics, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Chris Osborn) writes: <...snip> (...) This is the best use I've heard of yet for an AOL CD! (...) And if you use one of those nifty, high-powered, rock-vaporizing lasers, you won't even need to bring (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Tower Building
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On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Ian Bishop (<x9TlRKA7I0$3EwZm@g...on.co.uk>) wrote at 13:25:15 (...) I was thinking about stability and simplicity. The current (evolving) proposal is for everyone to bring their sections, and we'll build the necessary transition (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Simon Robinson wrote in message ... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) you suggest with both Halloween Buckets and Star Wars LEGO sets. The limit was two per person. I don't know how they enforced it but there was a sign in the Star Wars aisle stating that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Naboo Fighter
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If you haven't seen it yet, please take a look at my Naboo Fighter, complete with landing gear, firing torpedo launcher, and bottom-loading R2 socket: (URL) LMKWYT! (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Modified 8880
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If you haven't seen it yet, please take a look at my modified 8880 Supercar, complete with full body, V12, and scissor doors: (URL) LMKWYT! (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)
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