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By experimenting with inlined POV-Ray code I've managed to improve a few parts from their earlier clone.dat incarnations. There's still room for improvement, but the journey continues. I've also been playing around with the newly discovered color (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: predigested pap (was Re: Star Destroyer
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(...) (URL) Dave! (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Thats ok. I don't see everything all the time either. (...) Should've added the drum-and-symbol sound : ) Hasta La Vista, Sean (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Geek Speak?
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(...) Yeah, but they're talking about slow processes monitored over years! How can soft, fuzzy things deserve this metaphor? Try these on: "Increased sunlight seems to impact plant growth" "The volcanic eruption will impact wildlife populations" (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) What makes you think the meteorite imagery wasn't intended? In fact, it's exactly the reason the word is chosen: it implies a quick, overwhelming, and hard-to-unavoid effect. If your complaint is about excessive hyperbole, okay, you have a (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: predigested pap (was Re: Star Destroyer
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(...) I guess I just read from the Spanish sentence to the kimosabe one, and lumped the two together in my mind. Didn't see a tonto reference in your post, but then again, didn't read the post before yours... Everything indicated to me you were (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: predigested pap (was Re: Star Destroyer
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(...) My predigested self : ) Kimosabe I think is Indian for friend, and I said that I'm taking Spanish so I would've known what tonto means. It's ok you didn't understand though. Only the young know how to read "predigested pap" : ))))) Hasta la (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) LOL gotta love, or hate, that pop culture. My University of Chicago Spanish-Engilsh dictionary has 9 entries for words that start with "k," and none of them are "kimosabe." The word vaguely looks like it could be a Spanish word, but something (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Do you have a wrist guard on your desk? (...) touche...Had this discussion been held later in the year, I would know more spanish, I'm taking it this year! Oh, I forgot to say, I now know kimosabe, means possibly, friend? (...) Thanks. Hasta (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Firefly Fans?
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(...) Well.... I sat through an entire episode tonight, on purpose. :) I can't say that it made a 'fan' out of me. I'd still take Enterprise over this show anytime. However, I still love the concept, though not some of the details. 1) The Union of (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: predigested pap (was Re: Star Destroyer
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(...) You won't like it in a few years when your wrists start to go bad. Mice are evil. (...) Ugh, you have never heard of the Lone Ranger? Jeez, these kids today... Kemo sabe was what Tonto (which is Spanish for "stupid," by the way) would call The (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Finding Nemo
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(...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: MS IE SUCKS!
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(...) Why? To make you buy a faster computer, of course. That's the whole reason that Microsoft made it "part of the operating system" - so they could slow it down just like everything else with the new version, to make you buy a new faster PC, (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Cartoons of many different types of flame warriors... who do YOU recognise? <g,d&r> (URL) Cottage kit, 577 pieces! (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Geek Speak?
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(...) One clue is they had to use an adverb to make the meaning. impact as a metaphorical verb is a new and awkward shortcut for "to make an impact". If over time everybody understands that 'to impact' means 'to place a burden on', then it will be (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Yet again unto the breach!
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(URL) own state, thankyouverymuch! I'm not surprised that Rick Santorum, evangelizing Christian creationist and legislative apologist, would back this bill, but it's truly disheartening that the entire state legislature sees fit to establish a (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This usage is clearly metaphorical. Where's the problem? (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The Greatest Generation? (and how they changed the Constitution)
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(...) Furthermore, Jefferson laid the path to "Big Government" with its foreign entaglements when he effectively launched the american navy. Having a huge mercantile fleet and no way to protect it simply lead to piracy - and the worst kind of piracy (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: How not to get fired...
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(...) Are you saying people should get fired just to meet some sort of Quota? What I want to know is who elected the politicians who oversee this mess?! ;) (...) particularly what money is available for staff training/development, salaries and (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: The Greatest Generation? (and how they changed the Constitution)
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(...) if only he knew... scott a (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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