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I have a couple of RCXs and of late my preoccupation gas been friendly and not so friendly competition. The first attempt at a battle of the bots was a simple touch sensor with bumper on top of each bot and see who can build the better design. Now (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) While I and the other vocal on-lookers don't see any wrongdoing on the part of TRU, I'd bet any judge in Michigan would find for you on this one. Their track records seem to imply that they have some sort of agenda against corporations. Not (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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I'm willing to order several sets of 6097 if there are others out there that want specific pieces from this set. Maybe we can work out a mutually beneficial deal before hand. I am mainly interested in the minifigs from it. Or if someone else is (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) a (...) This is due to the relatively light gauge of metal used in the track rails. Over a long layout they have a significant resistance. If you are seeing slowdowns at the far end of the layout, just run some heavier wire (12ga or even 14ga (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: WTB: Gray egg shape shields!!
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(...) but I'll be watching for that. Will it be on eBay? (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I could almost trade this, unfortuanately, I don't think I have the stickers. I do have the instructions, and was figuring on breaking it down for parts, so if you find a copy w/o instructions, perhaps we could swing a deal (or if you can find (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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From: "David Leeper" <david.leeper@destiny.com> (...) the (...) I was planning on doing this with LegOS, which uses a different scheduler (and John said). With the standard firmware it might work as well, it really depends on how slow the thread (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have already done that. But buying stolen goods is not legal and reselling them is even worse. It doesn't matter if they "know" or not. The reason they should check ID is so that they verify the person who they are giving the refund to is (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) The beauty of the coffee lawsuit is that you _know_ that same person would have brought the coffee back if it was just a little too cold! Dave! (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) This is a very good point. Many stores don't even require a reciept any more. One somewhat funny story I have is of a warehouse worker at a company that I used to work for got caught stealing some relatively expensive consumer product. The (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Mr L F Braun (<387F7F9F.766BF76@p....msu.edu>) wrote at 19:57:19 (...) I *knew* there was something about it that made me uneasy :-) (...) Absolutely! Spell checker overridden on that one. (...) Hmmm. Interesting point, but not (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I have use valves this sort of size, but the costs are so high, that they are impractical for the RCX. (twice the cost of a complete Mindstorms system for just one valve...). Best Wishes (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm not sure that you are blowing this entirely out of proportion, but file a police report and demand the return of the stolen item. That's about as far as you can go with it. Bruce (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) A friend of my father's had his window broken so someone could steal two quarters once. (...) How are they supposed to check? How would they know who purchsed the set? For all they know, you could've given the set to that person. They aren't (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Are you serious? That's not as ridiculous as suing McDonald's for spilling coffee in your own lap but is still pretty out there, IMO. Yes, they screwed up. I thought their attempt at damage control ($100 gift certificates) was a fine gesture. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Snipping all that stuff that I didn't write.... (...) Kind of like someone from Boston, "I have to pahk the cah." Even my Boston Terrier has to bark, "Bahk, bahk!" :-) Canadians are hard to pick out, but I can usually do it (and these are (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Capisco... pero` io ero serio... :-))) Se non sono buone magari ne prendo anch'io... Ciao. Marco. (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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No offnse, but how was TRU supposed to know the item they were refunding was stolen? I agree that it sucks you were robbed, and I hope you find the culprit, but I don't understand why TRU should lose money in the deal. That is what you wanted (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Mario Ferrari <mario.ferrari@edis.it> wrote in message Fo8psn.634@lugnet.com... (...) stupide), (...) applichi (...) ingranaggi. (...) presa. (...) Allora, se ho capito bene, assolve alla stessa funzione delle puleggie collegate con elastico? -- (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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pneumatics are fun stuff, but they are also hard to control. I have devised a pressure regulator made out of lego that control my presure to be in-between 0.5 kg and 0.9 kg. Too high, it would pop out the hoses, and too low, the pneumatics don't (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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