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(...) Why does biting on tin (or aluminum in my case) foil give the biter the sensation of chewing on minifig-scale caltrops? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Guide to Star Wars vehicles?
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(...) My all-time fave (1) is B Squared's STAR WARS Stuff: (URL) you might want to check out the Star Wars Technical Commentaries: (URL) I'm thinking of something with lots of drawings and diagrams. I've (...) This site is about as informative as (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.starwars)
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I agree 100% with what Larry wrote here: (URL) the larger subject of voting, however, I've always felt that up/down is too coarse...that -N/+N systems are more expressive. For example, N=3... Proposition: Blah blah blah blah. Vote: -3 Disagree (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Any good books on jurisprudence?
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I didn't look at the books, but speaking for years of experience on the boards of not-for-profit organizations: By-laws are usually cribbed from a template available in lots of books, or from your state's Secretary Of State office - they regulate (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Thank You! (wasRe: GEEKS HELP!)
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(...) Isn't the president of Gateway named Bill? Steve (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: i admit i was wrong
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Found it. John Bauman wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: i admit i was wrong
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Mookie wrote in message <37B39C10.DD9E29FA@w...tt.net>... <SNIPPED flame> (...) Any Idea how to do this on Outlook express? (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Thank You! (wasRe: GEEKS HELP!)
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(...) Well, just think, for just a little more than that $1100 you could have gotten yourself an iMac, in your choice of flavors. Oh, that's right, you already have a toy - you wanted a computer. :) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Thank You! (wasRe: GEEKS HELP!)
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Thanks, Geeks, for your help. I decided to buy the computer, even though it's a <ptooey> PC;-) The final deciding factors were: Can now get Mindstorms, and will now be able to get into ldraw{:^D And now I will be able to jump on the "Thanks, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Darn those definitions (was: The new Super Car)
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(...) Do you believe in photons? They aren't compressible. How about neutrinos and gravitons? Any massless particle that passes through matter without interacting with it is "incompressible", at least in the way most people are talking about when (...) (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: GEEKS HELP!
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(...) All this time I thought Office2K was only 2KB, not 1GB. <wink> --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: GEEKS HELP!
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(...) Oh, Office2k isn't that big, not unless you install every single little thing, including maybe a ton of clipart. I just did a reinstall of almost the full thing yesterday (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Frontpage) with all the templates, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'd say it's an ok deal, especially if you don't build your own or can't find a better deal. No, I would not buy it, at any price. Well, maybe for $100, but I don't buy stock machines, not for myself. (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: GEEKS HELP!
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(...) On the plus side, hard drive space is one of the easier things to enhance. Get a second drive, set the M/S jumpers (on both drives, right?), and stick it into the system. Steve (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: GEEKS HELP!
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(...) The hard drive is a little undersized. With Office2000 approaching 1.0 GB, I don't know if it would last that long. (Depends on what you would do with it.) Personally, I would buy a non-intel chip (and save a lot there) to splurge on a much, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: GEEKS HELP!
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I didn't want to taint all of your responses. They want $1099. So am I hearing that would be a good deal, maybe not a great deal? Would *you* touch it? -JOhn (...) (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: GEEKS HELP!
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Thanks for the help:-p (...) (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Guide to Star Wars vehicles?
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Does there exist any guides to the Star Wars vehicles on the net? Not the LEGO ones, that is, but the ones from the movies. I'm thinking of something with lots of drawings and diagrams. I've already seen (URL) I find the images to be a tad (...) (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: GEEKS HELP!
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(...) If that's a Gateway then I'd say look at a comparable model on their website, then think maybe 75% or less of that price. I wouldn't pay more than maybe ... $1100-1200 for it? I wouldn't buy it at all, but if I were recommending it I wouldn't (...) (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Any good books on jurisprudence?
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Has anyone read any books on jurisprudence that they could recommend, specifically in the areas of history, sociology, or anthropology? The other night at the bookstore I almost bought (and probably still will someday)... (URL) was more immediately (...) (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: geeks help!
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(...) Just looked at www.gateway.com and a slightly better system, new, is $1449. So take away some graphics acceleration, software bundle, and 8 weeks of use and I'd guesstimate $1000, but then I'm not in the states and have no idea about PC values (...) (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: GEEKS HELP!
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John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote (...) In Oz, about $AUS2000. So maybe $US1600? That's wholesale-ish for an equivalent clone, so it depends what you want out of it. If the warranty is worth money to you, then more, but if not then less. Moz (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) These two cancel each other out, right? <smirk> --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | GEEKS HELP!
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I normally don't post here (or even subscribe) but I need the assistance of the experts:-) I have the opportunity to buy the following computer used for 8 weeks at a computer camp: COMPUTER SPECIFICATIONS: -Pentium III 450mhz -64MB RAM -17 inch (...) (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | the compressibility of water (was Re: Darn those definitions (was: The new Super Car)
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(...) Water is compressible, just not enough for people to notice. Just in case anyone cares, I looked it up. Compressibility of water at 20 degrees Celsius: 49.1 PPM per atm (from 1 atm to 25 atm) 47.6 PPM per atm (from 25 atm to 50 atm) 46.8 PPM (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: OS advocacy (was: Re: Perl rules!)
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(...) Celerons. And it didn't work. I'm sure there ARE 366's that will oc to 550 just fine, especially since I could buy pre-tested ones that are guaranteed to run stable, but all 5 of the ones a friend at a store tried either wouldn't post at all (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: OS advocacy (was: Re: Perl rules!)
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(...) Let us know how it goes, won't you? I've heard others say the 366 can be reliably clocked to 550, but I'm skeptical right now. I do assume you're talking Mendocinos here? Jasper (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: I'm off for a while
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First off I want to wish Tore the best of luck. Family is more important than anything in this world and it is good to see that Tore is spending his time concerned with his daughter and family. Secondly, Jonathan where do you get off??? Did you read (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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have you done whatever needs to be done (submitted them etc) for the belville swing,swing stand,samsonite gear and tile with ball parts? what set #s used the samsonite gears? also what is missing from the curved train track? just the teeth? i have (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Hey Jasper, you there? ( Re: Government's role [Was: Re: What happened?]
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Is something up with dynip.com?? I am getting mail bounces from both my mail accounts trying to mail Jasper there. Jasper Janssen wrote: <usual babble> (25 years ago, 2-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Government's role [Was: Re: What happened?]
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(...) Hm. (...) Odd. Maybe it's just an interaction between CNews and Netscape, then - the servers at my ISP run Diablo on linux and <something> on Solaris, respectively. Jasper (25 years ago, 2-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: O vs WO vs AH
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Todd Lehman wrote in message <37a0e8e2.108331275@...et.com>... (...) Is the east coast you refer to the upper part of maine? I never heard it pronounced like that. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: testing new profile
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(...) Here's a popular sig going around: "The day Microsoft starts selling products that don't suck, is probably the day they start selling vaccuum cleaners." --Todd (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | O vs WO vs AH
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(...) Hey, how close is that to TWOD? (I gather that's the native-East-Coast way to pronounce it -- similar to BWOS'-tin. :) Where I grew up (Minneapolis) it's pronounced TAHD, but not quite the nasal TAAHHHD that they say in Milwaukee and Chicago. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Phonetics for "LUGNET" trademark and member IDs (was Re: member id's: simple numbers or something mo
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(...) That's essentially the problem with colloquial phonetic spelling -- there are two methods. Some people (like me) use existing words whenever existing words are available: Todd: "TODD", Lugnet: "LUG-net", Steve: "STEVE", phonetic: (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geometry
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(...) With a, b and c being the length of the sides, and A being the angle of the edge just opposite of a? Why, that looks just perfect! Thanks! (I'm used to using A, B and C for the lengths and the corresponding lowercase letters for the angles, so (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Phonetics for "LUGNET" trademark and member IDs (was Re: member id's: simple numbers or something mo
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(...) I don't actually know a sonorant from a fricative either, aside from what I can figure out by looking at the examples. But if Tom and Jeremy are into linguistics they probably already know more about it than we do {-; (...) You can use it if (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm. Y'know, you're right! -- I should've simply written MUCK. By MUHK, I was trying to get the "uh" sound. I'm no phoneticist! :) Anyway, so his last named is actually pronounced MUCK-ow, but we incorrectly pronounced it MOO-kow (or MUKE-ow), (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geometry
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(...) Reaching way, way back... Can you use the law of sines? sin A / a = sin B / b = sin C / c Seems like there's a step missing though. Perhaps the law of cosines is better: a*a + b*b + c*c = -2bc*cos(A) Solve for A? Anyhow, good luck. Don (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: OS advocacy (was: Re: Perl rules!)
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<379E1341.88686655@c...souri.edu> <slrn7pst1h.1om.cjc@...S.UTK.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Oh my! I've been here at MU for eight years and we haven't seen either extreme that you've watched. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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