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Some new additions to my colour collection: dark purple (#20) blue violet (#22) sky blue (#27) dark green (#31) (URL) (20 years ago, 24-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: The first BimPCast (BimP PodCast) is now available!
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(...) (20 years ago, 24-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Don't forget that - the map of the earth is quite static, it's the same for us all - the way to produce circles and spheres with Lego have been published many times. Taking this in consideration, it would be quite difficult to produce two (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) At least he lost money on it- maybe that will stop him... (20 years ago, 23-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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I haven't seen it noted anywhere before, but there seem to be 3 different molds used to make functionally different versions of this part, the 2x2x2 round robot body (R2-D2 body): (URL) The difference is in how the center hole at the bottom of the (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| | Slithering Fortune Cookies
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Did the enigmatic subject make anyone, who wouldn't normally look, look? Here are two new Indy vignettes: one from Raiders of the Lost Ark and one from Temple of Doom. First: "This whole place is slithering" (URL) Second: "It feel like we step on (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.build, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general) !
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Derek, since you've come out of the woodwork, let's have it out. (...) Are you serious? I assumed you used my instructions since it is exactly the same. Looking at images side-by-side, I see one or two bricks out of place. The other 2,387 are (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) There's also a similar one in the Ultimate Lego Book. It's shown on the front cover, and IIRC inside as well: (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) For years now the OpenGL programming books have featured a LEGO globe on cover. Perhaps that's what you're thinking of. (URL) Have fun, Don (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Let me clarify a few things here. #1 I have more than 20 years experience with brick. Why did you assume that your creation had been copied? You didn't even ask if it might be similar in design. YOU, sir, started with the rudeness as evidenced (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Ahh, I was wondering that myself (I actually did ask a question regarding the origin of the design to the seller and it didn't appear public, so I assumed that the seller had the control to suppress it. JOHN (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Well, even if they copied your instructions verbatim it doesn't seem they've done anything illegal, since there was no restriction on use of your instructions. If they did indeed copy it and are using your work to profit (with their own (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) No. Displaying the question publically is an option for the seller. And can't happen at all during the last 12 hours of an auction. Clark (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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"meenkee" <meenkee@cox.net> wrote in message news:IDrn12.21Fs@lugnet.com... (...) people (...) month. (...) copied (...) sell (...) thing... (...) a (...) Globe I (...) create (...) I (...) community. (...) (URL) (...) Do (...) emailed the (...) (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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If you ask a seller a question, are they required to post it (in the "questions" area at the bottom)? If so, we could bombard the auction with, "Can't you just go to brickshelf and download the instructions?" -type questions. Of course that won't (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) In the specific case of eBay, you can report the violation to them and, if you provide sufficient evidence, they'll yank the listing. -Orion (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) eBay has a system in place for owners to protect their work from copies. Here's a link for more information: (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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Well, IANAL, but I would think that by putting the step-by-step directions on a public website you're encouraging people to build a globe of their own. (Great model, btw - I might have to build one!) But, I also think that the seller should give you (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Touché! (...) Or..."imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery; it's theft". JOHN (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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SNIP... (...) Chalk it up as your own personal experience and put it away for a lesson learned. You'll end up with clearer head, more friends than enemies, and experience for future situations. What if LEGO would have done the same thing without (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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