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| (...) Just to clarify before this gets totally out of hand "in the reading between the lines department" (grrrrrrrr @ Chris for ripping something out of context), "big boy bed"[1] is correct, but the other works also! *MY* definition of the (...) (20 years ago, 13-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Personality test vs. Religion
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| (...) "Deliberately" general? Got any empirical proof? :) I wouldn't say it's useless at all, except insofar as it IS error prone. If its category divisions are indeed correct (I'd say they seem to be), they may indeed help us understand how people (...) (20 years ago, 1-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: New poll: sexuality and Lugnet
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| (...) Okay, so that works on an individual celular level, with cells that have evolved specifically to do this. Do you really think something as tied to the core psychology of self as sexual orientation would be post-natally programmable at the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Profanity again
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| (...) Well, it's only my opinion, but I'd suggest that a "true" clone brand is based on the studs-and-tubes system and is able to maintain reasonable clutch power with LEGO bricks and plates. I used to consider the 3:1 plate:brick height ratio to be (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: World's Smallest Political Quiz
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| (...) That would involve admitting that an error was made... (...) Try this search: (URL) you'll find some cites that do indicate that we spend a lot of our GNP on healhcare, for instance this one (URL) this one (URL) these sorts of studies seem to (...) (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Hey Pyramid Guy!!!
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| (...) If you consider basic friendships as meeting the requirement for that tier, it really throws a different spin on that than if you consider it as only referring to dating-or-higher relationships. There have been studies showing that even having (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Legged Robots
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| (...) Not to disparage the results of his studies, but that has got to be the funniest thing I've heard in months. On the surface, I can see that it's a valid source of robotics research, but if I think about it too hard I keep coming up with images (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| | Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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| (...) (Marshall Fields customer stuff snipped) There is a disconnect here. The AFOL segment is largely disconnected from the Lego-buying parent segment, even if there's overlap between the two groups (at 5%, there can only be so much overlap with (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: polygyny in "biblical times"
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| (...) But there IS a humane way. Help societies to move away from subsistence agriculture (and the modern sweatshop equivalent) by introducing the rule of law, property rights, and fostering the growth of free enterprise. This reduces the incentive (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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| (...) Lego may or may not care what we think. At their peril. And since I have already said my piece, I will add a quote of someone else's to the fray. This was not written about lego: ===quote=== (from (URL) by Rick Phillips) "Marshall Fields, the (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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| (...) It's part and parcel of the denial that AFOLs are but a passing afterthought to TLC. Some people can't get over the fact that, in the scheme of all things related to Lego in the marketplace, they generally* don't count in these kinds of (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Summer's Bridge Study 15
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| (...) Looking good! Some of the things I particularly liked: * Fluting on the support columns * Use of plates on the base to get an interesting slope * Detail work on the handrails The one thing that I might suggest would be to work a little on the (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jun-04, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Question for the Conservatives out there
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| John, I want to go back and apologize for saying that one thing or another that you wrote sounds dumb. It was a stupid way for me to communicate. (...) OK, I'll approach this seriously. To claim that our society is "founded" upon any thing(s) (by (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Spybotics playing tag - project
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| (...) had a wrong CR/LF after copying ) and looked at the source and test of "Brian B. Alano" - very cool ! So everything I need ( HERE-THERE-ANYWHERE ) could be done in NQC. My Spybot is now able to follow a beacon or bot in the HERE-Zone. But (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | More Orwell, for everyone!
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| (...) Mmmmm. I have long advocated that 1984 should be required reading in the last year of high school education. And the older I get, the louder I hear it echoed in the world around me. Maybe that's me, maybe its the world. The other thing I have (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Space Elevevator design studies using Mindstorms
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| (...) That's pretty cool. The Robot Society of America (RSA) listed on that page, has hosted a couple ribbon climbing competitions, including one at the ROBOlympics in March with a grand prize of $1000 for the fastest robot to climb the ribbon. (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Civvie space contest entry II - Aircar.
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| (...) Before I saw that you'd done so (URL) here>, I was going to suggest picking up a couple of (URL) I think these little sets get overlooked, and this one in particular has some especially useful parts (apart from those round black rubber (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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