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| (...) I just read an interesting piece in The New Republic about the sanctions on Iraq: (URL) that the Iraqi govt. IS able to get food from other nations, but it exports it to pay for luxuries for the party elite. It supports the case that sanctions (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| marc, nelson (score: 0.851) |
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| | Cutter pictures
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| I have a favor to ask of everybody: could you guys post some links to pictures of cutters? The only things I have been able to find so far are Frank Filz's Sea Wolves and the pictures from the Pirate Game at Brickfest. I have recently built some (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Sanctions (was: Libertarian Propaganda)
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| (...) debate. (...) to (...) place (...) foreign (...) to (...) So if trade is bad, then shouldn't the Iraqis be grateful that they are sanctioned? Now they don't have to worry about American economic imperialists exploiting their labor and natural (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| marc, nelson (score: 0.848) |
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| | Re: Worth the wait? (NO!)
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| (...) I think the rerelease of old sets can be a step towards better new sets. One of the reasons I always wished LEGO would put out old sets is that it would raise the bar for current sets. I like to think that once people are exposed to older, (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| marc, nelson (score: 0.847) |
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| | Re: Sanctions (was: Libertarian Propaganda)
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| (...) So if a business, American or otherwise, trades with Iraq, selling food, tools, whatever, and they make lots of money -- is that bad or good? Are they economic imperialists? Are they exploiting the Iraqis? What about buying oil from Iraq? Does (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| marc, nelson (score: 0.846) |
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| | Re: Libertarian Propaganda
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| (...) As a card-carrying Libertarian, the foreign policy plank is probably the part of the platform I disagree with the most. Regardless of what domestic policies we persue (libertarian ones, I hope), our national interest doesn't change. Now, I (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| marc, nelson (score: 0.846) |
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| | Re: The legend died (Re: The legend lives)
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| (...) LEGO is not a collector's item, like Beanie Babies or Elvis commemorative plates. It is a toy, meant to be played with, not sitting MISB in someone's closet accumulating value. Anything that LEGO does to make a great set more available is an (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| marc, nelson (score: 0.846) |
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| | Bionicle commercial before movie
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| I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this; I searched "Bionicle movie preview" and didn't get anything. Anyway, last weekend before either Pearl Harbor or A Knight's Tale, I saw a commercial for Bionicle during the previews. There was a (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| marc, nelson (score: 0.845) |
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| | Re: The legend died (Re: The legend lives)
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| (...) Oh, yeah, this was definitely targeted at us. I don't think it's a coincidence that the first set they picked for rerelease was the highest-rated Castle set in the LUGNET database and one of the more expensive ones on eBay. I was just saying (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| marc, nelson (score: 0.845) |
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| | Re: Libertarian Propaganda
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| (...) policies (...) and (...) Well, exactly what our national interests are is certainly a matter for debate. I was just saying that whatever we decide they are, it is fine to use force to protect them. But if by economic imperialism, you mean free (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| marc, nelson (score: 0.842) |
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| | Re: Some Photos of Brickfest Castle Room!
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| (...) Yep... 44 and 72 have a glimpse of Christina's tudor house, K8 prize winner last year; 44 also has Frank's pink tent with his stunning Paradisa knights (or should I say knightesses? heehee :-). (...) Plus my daphne & rose's cabin, and Joel (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| marc, nelson (score: 0.840) |
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| | Re: New Sculpture on Lego S@H
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| (...) Aside from being a really cool-looking model (which it definitely is), this set comes with some neat pieces: -brown 4x8 space wings -red rounded fences -brown 4x4 tiles w/4 studs (I think) I really hope LEGO makes a series out of these. I, for (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Much faster stl2dat
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| Hello, I have uploaded a much faster version of stl2dat. It can be downloaded here (URL) Klein (14 years ago, 17-Dec-10, to lugnet.cad)
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