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(...) I am glad to hear that, as I thought the dumbass spilt it on herself, but it was still "frivolous" regardless of how much she got. She should have been jailed for wasting court time and required to pay all of McDonalds' legal fees. Timbo (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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I got the most recent Mania magazine today. The cover theme is Artic. It also has a little story on Knight's Kingdom and a little information on the 1st annual LEGO club national convention this summer. (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sì. Però è molto più efficiente, perché finché non slitta non hai perdita di potenza, mentre con le puleggie ne hai sempre. Con le puleggie, d'altra parte, puoi realizzare rapporti di riduzione notevoli senza costruire "treni" di ingranaggi a (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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(...) Most stores are pretty flexible on returns because many people want to be able to return gifts. How do you propose that be allowed? The illegality of buying stolen goods is an interesting one. If it is clear that the goods are stolen, I can (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:FoCFKn.FLt@lugnet.com... (...) spilling (...) would (...) I am tired of hearing about that coffee incident being a frivolous lawsuit. The lady got $300,000 which was later reduced to $100,000 in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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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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(...) 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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