I don't dig these large scale models
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All the links are broken, but I'm willing to assume that this thing is totaly amazing. Still, I'm really not impressed by these large scale models, I think Legos are best when used at their intended scale (based on 'lego men'.) I can't believe anyone would spend their time sticking together thousands of blocks to make sheets. At this scale, all you end up using are thick 2xwhatever blocks, making hundreds (thousands if you count all the crap they're making now) of accent pieces useless. This incredible expenditure of pieces can't stack up (intended) to the intricacy of something like a space ship or Technics robot built at the proper scale. If you want to make a show off desk, take up wood working.
Exactly where is the line between probable cause and "clear and convincing evidence". If you have to get a court order either way, and you stand the risk of a conviction being overturned if the information is deemed to have been gathered on too flimsy a pretext, wouldn't you allready have to have pretty good evidence for your probable cause? Wouldn't raising the telecom standard just be formalizing this?
This is as much about getting a big reaction as it is destruction or revenge. Probably more. Look at all of this discusion and hub-bub (to which I am now contributing). Someone can point to this and say 'wow, I just got so many people really worked up, i am p0WarFul'. At least they're not throwing rocks off overpasses.
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All the links are broken, but I'm willing to assume that this thing is totaly amazing. Still, I'm really not impressed by these large scale models, I think Legos are best when used at their intended scale (based on 'lego men'.) I can't believe anyone would spend their time sticking together thousands of blocks to make sheets. At this scale, all you end up using are thick 2xwhatever blocks, making hundreds (thousands if you count all the crap they're making now) of accent pieces useless. This incredible expenditure of pieces can't stack up (intended) to the intricacy of something like a space ship or Technics robot built at the proper scale. If you want to make a show off desk, take up wood working.
>Their size should be limited to a market cap of (say) ten billion dollars, for starters.
I agree, but it should be a variable based on the GNP or some other such indicator, not a fixed value. IMO, same should go for personal wealth.
Exactly where is the line between probable cause and "clear and convincing evidence". If you have to get a court order either way, and you stand the risk of a conviction being overturned if the information is deemed to have been gathered on too flimsy a pretext, wouldn't you allready have to have pretty good evidence for your probable cause? Wouldn't raising the telecom standard just be formalizing this?
This is as much about getting a big reaction as it is destruction or revenge. Probably more. Look at all of this discusion and hub-bub (to which I am now contributing). Someone can point to this and say 'wow, I just got so many people really worked up, i am p0WarFul'. At least they're not throwing rocks off overpasses.