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| On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 01:34:14 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote: First I'll say this... this thread is making me homesick!!!! (...) Man, they'd just just have to see my music collection to freak out about me. ^_^; Oh well. (it's that naughty (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: My Non-LEGO family experiance (Nice Story)
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| (...) quite possible - though I think we talked on the lugnet.loc.Yisrael... hurmph - need to write to Todd about that. (...) moved (...) heheh, apparently it's not that rare... When I lived in Brookline (which is not Brooklyn, NY), there were about (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Questions for those with LARGE collections...
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| (...) Don't know if I qualify, but... (...) Best estimate is 60,000+, but my estimates get fuzzier as time goes on - I really don't bother keeping that close a track of it. A very significant chunk of that is in buckets and service packs. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: the Balladeers of Castle World
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| (...) LOL! I'm glad to oblige ;-) (...) OK, that I can relate to. My realm could be "the Lion Kingdom/realm"- but I fear that'll be a way too common name ;-) I might have to change it. I have a special bond with Scar, I guess - she caused me to (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Legos get you into college (off topic)
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| We really should move this to off topic. (...) I agree, standardized tests are a poor indicator of actual "brainpower" at best. However, the system as it exists is based on them. It's kinda a compromise, but you have to perform well on them to be (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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| (...) To me there are two issues. The first is do we take people into college who are not necessarily the most likely to succeed. The second issue is how do you assure someone is most likely to succeed. Since I believe it is impossible to come up (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| <this is in follow up to another conversation, but is being re-threaded for clarity. (URL) > OK, here are three case studies. In each of these studies, I don't feel that any individuals should be held liable. I have gotten the impression that, all (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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| (...) I didn't mention that aspect, I took it as a given. Sorry. (...) Yoiks! So if I go to my boss' house, tanked to the gills but very good at hiding it, he's responsible when I kill someone on the way home? Maybe I'm reading this completely (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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| (...) Oh come now. You're acting like it never happens that a previously-thought-unharmful stuff is later considered extremely harmful. cf Asbestos. Greatest thing since sliced bread, right up until the fourties when the studies came out. I really (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: need help for my IR proximity program
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| (...) Yes, of course. thanks for your answer - but as you can see (in the program) did my "not familiar with any language" not mean that i have to start from zero. i have learned a bit C++ before and i can read the nqc-manual, which is not very (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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| Lindsay, I seem to be repeating myself. But anyway... (...) cal truth is much more complex. Hmm.. Well, from the people I have heard talk about this, they are high up, this is another debate I don't want to get into anymore.... (...) en we're in an (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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| (...) It's fairly clear-cut that it *is* their reason for being. You may argue about whether they fulfill that mandate, but their reason for being and the intellectual trajectory that generated them are right in line with the idea that intellectual (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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| (...) I don't think so. Anyway... (...) Who just happened to make IMO, the best country the world has ever seen, where people have unparalleled freedom, etc. This concept of how evil those dead white guys are always galls me. I heard countless (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Swearing?
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| (...) I'm not convinced that it's all that clear cut. I have observed age-peers of mine who are markedly less worldly and make stupid decisions about their lives. At what magic age is one fully capable of making decisions such that we can (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Swearing?
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| (...) Yup. I agree. The problem is, when does something have a victim? For adults this quite clear -- only when there is not consent. For non-adults, this gets very blurry very fast. Does a photographer have the right to publish a photograph of, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Juniorization may be a moot point.
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| I think that if LEGO-Direct allows us the possibility to buy bulk orders, then Juniorization may be a moot point. If you buy a LEGO set that is originally intended for children anyway (based on TLC market studies), the asking LEGO-Direct to change (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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