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(...) The cheapest way of shipping a car is by ship, as you might expect, and in fact it's more common than some might think. However, for my car, I was quoted $1150 (I actually priced it, just to see), and it would arrive in six weeks' to two (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh, I'd go air, surely. Don't forget to price in a welding torch to weld it all back together in your trade request. :-) (let's see now... One month to take it apart, 3 days to mail it air, 4 months to try to figure out how to put it back (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: "Is he seriously thinking it's going to work?"
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(...) A lobster? Ye Gods, man, I think you're on to something! Now I have to completely alter the power ratios! (And figure out why they've got erectile tails.) Hmmm...that may explain the trans-orange ones, but then why is the riverine example (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The Friendliest Site On The Internet. (Was Re: A little self examination?)
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(...) That was hours ago, I took an overnight monday nite, got to work around 1 PM GMT and did a good half day before I posted. Fortunately I got bumped from Delta onto NW, so I spent some miles to get out of coach and into Business, much better (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, I meant to type postage, inasmuch as I was trying to be silly. For a vehicle of this age and condition, shipping to the UK via the cheapest possible way would be a significant fraction of (or even MORE than) the value of the car. Much less (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The Friendliest Site On The Internet. (Was Re: A little self examination?)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: Lar, Aren't you supposed to be on a flight somewhere? Drag your armored suitcase over someone's toes and get some sleep! Dave! (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Everything has been invented... (was Re: single motor pneumatic pump and switch)
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Just to add to the confussion, there was a Russian patent agent called Genrich Altshuller (not sure on that spelling) who came up with an engineering philosophy called TRIZ or TIPS (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving). Basically himself and many of (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Or, perhaps the red-orange thing is a lobster and not a scorpion at all? That would make the most sense. (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: My Space Theme Wish for 2001
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(...) Hmm, I enjoyed the book (I've read most of the novels and short stories that Clarke wrote), but I thought the movie was extremely slow (saw it on DVD on my computer w/ surround sound). --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh come on now. Don't you know that 2001:ASO was a fantasy film? SF my foot. <gr&r> --Todd (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Social Engineering (was: Re: The Friendliest Site On The Internet. (Was Re: A little self examination?))
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(...) Well I think you probably knew what I meant in that I leave final documentation to someone else, i.e. the copy the customer sees, I have to document my code for internal purposes of course. (...) Well I am not sure but I think it was the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: My Space Theme Wish for 2001
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(...) That's really cool! I knew about the screenplay, but not the book's byline. (...) Is that a book or video or both? I'd love to see it. It's amazing, but even decades later it still remains a standard by which the realism of other scifi (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Social Engineering (was: Re: The Friendliest Site On The Internet. (Was Re: A little self examination?))
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(...) I meant that in the nicest way, of course. (...) I think you left a comma out of that sentence fragment, big fella. :-) All (1) kidding aside (I should have set followups to .fun on the last post but they're set there now), I think if you (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) He's sort of like "Rudolph, the Trans-neon-orange Scorpion." I think you should consider the marketing potential of this, seeing as how Christmas is coming up and all. At the very least, perhaps someone can make a short stop-motion feature. We (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Quite. In _The Making of 2001_ by Clarke, he relates how the book and the movie were written essentially at the same time by both of them, with Kubrick focusing more on script and Clarke more on prose. The book is by "Arthur C Clarke and (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Jubilee (was Re: My Stance
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(...) sort (...) Er, sorry about that. ++Lar (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey! Stay on topic for the group! (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Wow, Todd really went all the way on this one...
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(...) At least one person has been confused by the set number above. I have verified that it is possible to construct a fairly simple search in Altavista to find the significance of that set number... Frank (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Isn't that *twice* daily incarceration? Later this week I will be back to riding the London Underground Jubilee line two or more times a day, which was deliberately made smaller than older(?) tube trains. Ostensibly so that the tubes would be (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Everything has been invented... (was Re: single motor pneumatic pump and switch)
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(...) such (...) In 1875 the Director of the United States Patent Office sent in his resignation, and advised the administration that his department be eliminated, because he was convinced there was nothing left to invent. --from (URL) is an (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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