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| (...) I'll rescind the bit about health care, but there are still other services that VAT and other taxes pay for. Remember, we don't know what kind of taxes your retailers are paying. If they have to make up some of that burden on the retail price (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Jake, As an AFOL, I feel the color change impacts me on a basic, root level. Parts will come and go, themes will come and go. The one constant, to me, was the 5 or 6 original colors of the product I grew up with. This is a change at the (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| Calmly, and rationally.... It is my opinion that the new grays look more... uhmm... "mechanical", and although I'll admit it is absolutely _superb_ for modelling stuff that is supposed to be steel or some sort of metallic alloy, it won't cut it for (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| Well personaly I like the new colors, yes, they may be annoying on the issue of people who invested alot in one color, but... The only issue i have, which Lego can't solve anyways, is, & has been, the naming of the colors on BrickLink, lol, come on, (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) I don't like the new grays simply because they do not match my existing grays. Since I am primarily a Castle builder/collector, I have a substantial supply of OLD gray pieces (both light and dark). The new dark gray has too blue, but the new (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| It's only a couple of weeks in the new year, and it looks like it's going to be an interesting 2004! I have a request, but before I go any further, let me say that personally, I understand the concerns surrounding the color changes. I know many of (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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| (...) Oh, hey. Don't double-post -- crosspost instead. (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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| I have a question, What are the benefits for someone if they are a LUGNET member as apposed to not being one and using this website? Can someone please answer my question? Erik Bush (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) You boys (and girls) over in the US and UK have got it easy - I'm in australia (yes, that little island down there) and getting well and truly fed up with Lego's inflated prices. $299 for a star destroyer is beautiful - in fact, If it cost (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Have a look at: (URL) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.promo, FTX)
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| (...) It was known as "EEC" from 1957 until 1992, then "EC" until 1995 - so technically, you're correct: the "EU" isn't that old. :-) Is it possible that this is a mere coincidence? Before we joined the EEC we had a similar sales tax (with a (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The apparent reason is the market. If the US buyers expect Lego to cost X, Lego can not charge too much over that because they will lose market shares. In EU the clones are not such a big threat (yet), so Lego can charge a bit more. Plain, (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Sure did! And that was only a little part of the fun we had, even though I didn't win the ULV competition (my non-lego-building wife did!). (...) Well, we don't have too much Lego (only Tobbe can build in 48x48 size), and this was our very (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.space)
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| (...) (URL) So what's the difference, excepting color and module size :-) -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.space)
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| (...) This is not strictly true, as we have had VAT in Sweden since the fifties, and EU is not that old :-) The VAT is a tax on sales, and the money drawn in can be used for anything by the government. OTOH, EU has regulated VAT for its member (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) To cut a long story short, VAT is not meant to fund healthcare. VAT is used for "financing" the EU and is redistributed in the form of (mainly) agricultural subsidies, but also the "convergency funds" that have allowed for infrastructural work (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Yes, that is my experience. For instance, the supermarket bill has the full price of every item, with the VAT percentage ahead of it. The total then has another line to say how much VAT is being paid. VAT can be returned if you're reselling (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: HELLO?!, LEGO CO. ! was: Will the educational arm of Technic & Mindstorms continue?
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| (...) Dear All, Recently I have received the following answer from LEGO: "Dear Mr. Schlei, We have no plans of discontinuing the production and sales of LEGO Mindstorms and LEGO Technic products. On the contrary, we consider these products core (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| The picture is to big, it only opens partly. When do people learn to resize their pictures? S Russell Clark <rclark@telis.org> wrote in message news:HrEBEH.Kzr@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) only (...) databases. (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| In lugnet.general, Pedro Silva wrote: <snip> (...) I just came across this site: (URL) around here, and one finds that health care is paid for (I think my health plan co-pay just went up to $25 per visit, in addition to the premium taken out of my (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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