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Moving this to .debate, for lack of lugnet.off-topic.comp.risks. (...) BO isn't cracking - it's carelessness on the part of the crackee. Anyone can distribute happy99.exe, but breaking root on an up-to-CERT unix box is something very few can do. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Adventurer Maps
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(...) my (...) human (...) unfathomable, (...) really (...) I'm sure you're aware of the Mayan pyramids in Mexico (I believe). Well the idea of alien intervention did have a profound impact on culture, lore, and spirituality among those pyramid (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Adventurer Maps
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(...) century (...) he (...) cranes (...) Cheops. (...) very (...) Not to say that there haven't been people willing to undertake the project of reconstructing the Giza Pyramids. An Egyptian businessman was willing to create an attraction in Brown (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Adventurer Maps
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(...) century (...) he (...) cranes (...) Cheops. (...) very (...) Ramps? Lots of people with nothing to do after all the crops are harvested? What's so mysterious about that? Tremendous organization was required, but the ancient Egyptians were (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Adventurer Maps
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(...) Well, Hancock believes that the construction of Cheops would tax even *20th* century technology, much less a culture that existed 15,000 years ago (which is when, he believes, all of the stuff at Giza was begun). For example, there are only 2 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Adventurer Maps
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(...) John: Thanks for the info. on Graham Hancock - I'll definitely look into them. In my mind, the construction of the Pyramids is the greatest unsolved mystery of human history. I don't fall into the camp that believes that they had Alien (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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(...) That'd be Emmanuelle. Jasper (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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Emmanuelle for a woman, AFAIK. -John (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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Hm, could be. I know Emma is a female name, but Emmanuel, when I've run into it, has been a male name. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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Tom Stangl <toms@netscape.com> wrote in message news:3851A130.DA3204...ape.com... (...) Emmanuel of DYA is a he?..:) I thought that it was a female name. Selçuk (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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(...) Yup. Although some sets are just plain cooler than others, any discontinued set becomes more valuable. Today's commonplace set becomes tomorrow's rarity. The moo-men will eventually command the sort of premium that wolfpack or forestmen sets (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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(...) I doubt it. The demand for the older sets, will go up exponentially, and DYA will probably raise prices at that point IF Emmanuel deems it necessary (like he thinks "hm, not getting as much through my contacts as I used to..."). As the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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John Neal wrote in message <3853EF6C.1D77857F@u...st.net>... (...) wouldn't (...) business (...) when a (...) like to (...) service to (...) I wonder how long the type of things he does will continue to work. Right now there is a feeding frenzy as (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Has the world gone mad?!?
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(...) I actually foresaw the problem enough to have two separate entry categories - "set" and "original". Of course the judge was still clueless as to which entries were really sets or not, and apparently didn't even care enough to really (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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Mecanno? What's that? I don't know my Mecanno from my Medinano;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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Just remember, that he doesn't live on Lego alone ;-) Mecanno collectors seem to be pretty diehard, and he lists LOTS of Mecanno. So I'm sure he's doing fine ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: 2000 Catalog scans - TLC stance
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James Brown: [ LEGO retailer catalogues ] (...) I have seen them in at least two Danish stores. They are definitely not made generally available to the costumers. But on the other hand, they don't appear to be any more secret than that retailers (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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(...) Well, time will tell, but I do know one thing from being in a streaky business myself-- you have to strike while the iron is hot. It is times like those when a business is hot that will carry a business through the cool times, and I'd like to (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Lasik eye surgery
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Scalpel? This is Lasik, the ONLY time a blade gets anywhere near the eye is to shave back the top of the cornea. About the worst that can happen at that point is if the shaved layer isn't even, in which case they lay it back down, call of the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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(...) Emmanuel KNOWS he can charge more. Time after time, he has gotten sets that people have requested, and he has sold them out virtually instantly. He HAS to know he could raise the prices and still sell them out. But he doesn't/hasn't. Again, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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