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| (...) OK, two of my three bricks are like that (red and yellow)... (...) ...and the white one is like that. So the 'Danish story' is not completely true, but the bricks are at least very old. Thansk for the history lessons, Gary! (...) I think it's (...) (12 years ago, 31-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Anders, those 1949 era bricks (only 2x2 and 2x4 would have been made that year)... did not have any LEGO identification on them. From 1949-52 there was no LEGO logo on the studs, and none on the underside. From 1952-55 there was no LEGO logo (...) (12 years ago, 30-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Because it's a freedom of speech issue. Same as I support the right of the KKK to march, wear silly sheets, and say mean things(1), while choosing not to actually march, sheetify, or mean-emit with them. Some constitutional scholar you are! (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) "Deserve" a better word? What rights would you ascribe to children? (...) I'm not even sure by what criteria one could use to support or reject such a claim. I go by this: men and women are very different by nature; vastly more different than (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) More like disappointed. Every part of society has issues--every hobby, every gathering, every what-have-you... And, since this is a hobby and not a company, we can't pick and choose who is a part of it. I met Eric at BF2004. I also (...) (12 years ago, 27-Dec-12, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| I have a memory from attempting to use the Kalman filter, starting with a model, and working through the math, that it made some assumptions, which importantly included an originally good sensor signal subsequently clouded by noise. Kalman can (...) (12 years ago, 28-Dec-12, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Stuck in a cell with my ‘chucks just out of reach and wondering just what it’ll take to get out of here (‘cause I’m sure the guys don’t even know I’m here). ‘Stuck’ that is until that Foot bozo made his first mistake calling for takeout! Popeye has (...) (12 years ago, 28-Dec-12, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| The Kalman Filter may be perceived as a discouraging, almost occult calculation method. Many do apply the filter just by following some "cooking recipes", and they don't care much about the internals. However, if the filter is well studied and (...) (12 years ago, 28-Dec-12, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I have in my possession three bricks (2 x 4, slotted) with the following description from the Danish gentleman that sent them to me: "These come from a set we bought to our daughter in 1949 directly from Lego as they were not available yet in (...) (12 years ago, 27-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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| I had always been looking for the very first 1949 LEGO sets with plastic bricks, but the closest I ever got to was circa 1950... a year after the 1949 introduction of the LEGO brick (known as Automatic Binding Bricks until 1953). My German collector (...) (12 years ago, 26-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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| All flyers good from Friday Dec 7 through Thursday Dec 13 unless otherwise noted. No LEGO in the Canadian Tire flyer this week. ---...--- Zellers - Save 30% on all Yellow ticketed toys and electronics. Friday 7-Sun 9, save 10% when you pay with an (...) (12 years ago, 6-Dec-12, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote: snip (...) I don't think it's an all-or-nothing proposition. I mean, even Canadians own guns! (not me, but I digress) There are lines that can be drawn--the ones in their own little camps that have the (...) (12 years ago, 17-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Well, it depends on the cargo. A few years back, a fuel truck crashed on I-95 and I think it was a couple days before they had that section of the road open again. If the accident caused serious property loss, I don't begrudge a certain amount (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote: <snippage> (...) I don't think that the issue is automatic vs semi-auto. All of these mass killings would be tragic whether 10 were killed or 28 were killed. (...) Lay off the LSD, Dave! (URL) (...) (...) (12 years ago, 18-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) there's an interesting project being run by PETA looking at these very issues ( (URL) ). I first looked at the site last year and found it pretty interesting. Probabaly the only thing PETA has ever done that I almost like. (...) Larry, I think (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) So in conclusion with a tragically flawed system not allowing new prospective members to join and all the older members eventually forgetting their passwords and not being able to reset them it seems LUGNET is destined to whither away and die. (...) (12 years ago, 21-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Y'know what else sucks? Firefighters responding to a house fire getting shot at in Rochester, New York. So instead of putting out the fire and saving a home for a family, 1 (maybe 2) firefighters are in the hospital from gunshot wounds, and at (...) (12 years ago, 24-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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