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(...) One word: Ewwww! <grins, ducks and runs> ++Lar (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
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This debate over cockfighting makes me wish I had been to one when I lived at home. Jorge Rodríguez rodriguez.136@osu.edu (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think it's at the very least considered polite to give credit. I'm not sure there's prevailing wisdom, per se. My black hopper, currently available at my brickbay site ( <grin> ), has been reverse engineered in the past. I'm not particularly (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
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(...) In kind? No. In degree, yes. At least I think so. I'm not much in the mood for gorilla meat but I've seen chickens perform tricks. Not as elaborate ones, mind you. I guess I'm saying I'm not sure gorillas are sentient. But then, I'm not sure (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Order Cancellations
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(...) Thanks for the feedback. I believe I agree with your comments. And I doubt one could make a legal case at this time, because there are few regulations or laws (that I know of) regarding e-commerce. But this sequence of events is occuring more (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Mecha Legs
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(...) This certainly is an appropriate display of courtesy, especially given the sensitive and occasionally nebulous nature of online copyright issues. What is the prevailing wisdom regarding reverse-engineering of online models? Dave! (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is cockfighting bad?
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(...) What the--?! No one told me that before! Do you have proof? I demand proof! ;-) (...) Well, I concede that cockfighting as a real-life event is much worse than Star Wars as a fictional story. However, the original debate was comparing Pokemon (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
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(...) How do we define 'sentient?' Is it different to eat a chicken than it would be to eat Koko the sign-language-using gorilla? -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily?" (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Order Cancellations
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(...) There are two problems here. The first problem is that the ordering system is not properly keyed into inventory, allowing people to order items which are out of stock. The system should show you if the item is out of stock, and then allow you (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It depends what you're looking for in a storyline. Certainly some of the story is vapid, but as a redemption myth (both Han's and Vader's), the original trilogy overall has real worth. That's why, in itself, TPM is weaker than the original (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
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(...) Well said. (...) I beg to differ here. How many people go to see Star Wars for the *snicker* storyline? Most everyone I know want to see the cool weapons, the cool starfighters, the cool battles, and the cool bad guys. How is this not (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
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(...) Debatable -- the "good guys" essentially were armed terrorists until they won and re-wrote the history books. (...) The story line for Pokemon includes perhaps the same abount of violence. (...) Another gray area. Certainly, the aspect of Star (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) {snip a bunch} If you guys aren't going to move the topic back to Lego, can you at least move it out of lugnet.general? Thanks, eric (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
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(...) Darth is the one with the split personality, thanks to Obi-Wan. Bruce (and what in the world does cockfighting have to do with movie mayhem?) (No, don't answer that, anyone, it was rhetorical) :-) (24 years ago, 18-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
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Rearranged the order a bit. Chris said: (...) Zero-th order answer: None. To that approximation, we're in agreement. Chicken fighting is something I'd never indulge in, never bet on, and never view. Further, I'd rather my kids didn't play games that (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Building the A10 Thunderbolt "Warthog"
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That is true. I had not thought about the metal bars, I was just thinking about the general shape. I thought someone was suggesting a 2x4-slope-from-2-dee...eep-on-top windshield as the back end of the canopy, and I thought that would be to steep (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: How big is to big?
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I still want those one planes that people have been talking about for oh the past 30-40 years, Basically it's a icbm with people strapped to a pod on the back, halfway around the world in 5 hours with minimal expense. Technically feasible, probably (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, I dunno. I suppose that to some small extent the Pokemon show does embody a bit of the cultural Japanese disdain towards animals (witness whaling), but it doesn't really strike me as cockfighting. The pokemon are uninjured in the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, there you have it. (...) I am almost as uncomfortable with those icons as I am with Pokemon. I suspect that in those cases, children run the risk of identifying with the critters and behaving more violently than they might otherwise. (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
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(...) would (...) You probably weren't really expecting an itemized response, since it was mainly a thought exercize, but here one is anyway. (...) Yes. Though I don't see the Empire as being all that different from most real empires (such as the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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