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| I am doing this from memory, I don't have the article handy ... forgive me if I don't get the details exactly correct! On page 60 of the current issue of Business Week (2/15/99) there is an article on the the expected impact on several toy (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Need piece count for 8210 Nitro Bike GTX
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| Hey all, I'm updating my set inventory (1), and I need the piece count for set #8210, Technic Nitro Bike GTX. The Pause database doesn't seem to have this number, so anyone who can give a piece count will be improving at least two databases! If you (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: "Exclusivity" at DTRH?
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| (...) Well, actually, it only becomes a disappointment if Gene disagrees, but, in my mind, it becomes less of an issue. I feel like I "know" Gene, so I would never think to tell him what to do. I'd respect his decision even though I'd kinda shake my (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | "Exclusivity" at DTRH?
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| /rant on Since this will be about a site that hosts auctions I guess it fits in best here. Well, I received a rather unwelcome surprise this morning. Some may have noticed Gene and I discussing the auction hosting service provided by DTRH.com - (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | My two cents worth
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| As a buyer, I'm not sure what difference it would make whether there were 1, 2, or 10 LEGO auctions on the DTRH server. I current track close to 20 sites that either sell LEGO products or auction off LEGO pieces. I'm not going to stop looking at all (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Sorry
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| (...) Think about what you're saying for a minute: If he's hellbent on doing it anyway, it's not morally wrong that he does it, and it's not hurting anyone except himself, it's not really any of your business whether I help him part with his cash or (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: galactica news (Re: Viper)
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| (...) I think hiring Hatch to reprise his role can only help. But we must know one thing: despite how much he's done to revive BG and even though he's part of the original cast, Hatch is merely a spokesperson type for Universal Pictures, which (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Mini Auction - 6273 - Rock Island Refuge
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| (...) Interesting. I'm glad you posted the dictionary definition, it warms this old pedant's heart to see argument from authority. :-) I see your reasoning, I think. In your view, either you're the organism (and an appendage of the organism is the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Which Threads Ethics - Summary
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| Salient points IMHO are as follows: To quote Todd: "Auctions and threads do not generally have a one-to-one correspondence. Sometimes they do, but when they do, try to keep in mind that you are conducting an auction using an NNTP newsgroup system -- (...) (26 years ago, 14-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: toolchain
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| (...) I am by no means an license expert, but I just happen to have been reading about the GPL, and the MPL is pretty similar, though there are, of course, differences. The doc that I read stated that you can apply the GPL only to the files that you (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Sith Infiltrator
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| (...) I think everyone realizes the scale and detail limitations of LEGO. A lot of accurate details would make for sets that contain a lot of special pieces that have limited use and increase price, vide infra. If a Millenium Falcon were done on (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: New Web Page
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| (...) That's because they can't cash in on it. I can see some of the courtroom proceedings now: Defendant: "Well there wasn't a meter when I got there, your honor." Judge: "No meter at all? We have other parking tickets dated that day for that (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: New Web Page
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| Hi again, (...) I try only to make stuff up when it's inconsequential. ;) My "field" isn't early US/18th C. Britain, it's later, so all I have is ancillary knowledge and methodological things. I'm in agreement with the "they had different worries" (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Builder's Gallery
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| (...) be (...) up (...) LEGO has published my Castle both in Mania Magazine and in the LEGO Creator Activity Book. In fact it was a LEGO employee that contacted me, after viewing my website, for the rights to have my Castle in the Activity Book. I (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Builder's Gallery
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| (...) Read the fine print very carefully before uploading any images! Quote: "The LEGO Group reserves the right to publish pictures on www.LEGO.com which were not selected as part of the eight gallery pictures." This is perfectly reasonable. (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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| (...) But couldn't you add some link between the groups in your newsgroup software so that they are associated? (...) Aah... Could we introduce domain-specific discussion that suppliments the topic discussion of groups like: trains cad.dev (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
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| I (as well as all other participants) got a note from Ian Bishop in early March about a proxy quandary that had arisen. Seems he had a bidder that had bid 285 (a winning bid at the time) with proxy cap of 300. Someone else subsequently bid 300. Ian (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: [DISC] Shortcircuit eBay?
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| (...) Go ahead. And realise that your feedback will be responded to, pointing out that the auction was run in compliance with the rules as they were stated in the auction listing. So it won't count for much, I don't think. If we devise a way to (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: New Web Page
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| Sorry for the absence--it's been a long week. (...) I'm not talking about accepting French aid--which was instrumental to our success--but in exalting the French and the aristocracy of that country. There was a ton of Francophilia going on in the (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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