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(...) Your mistake is to compare minimum income instead of median income. The minimum wage is not a good representation of the earnings of a country. In fact until about a decade ago the UK didn't have a minimum wage so would that mean LEGO should (...) (19 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) My point isn't that LEGO is saying "Americans make less money, therefore we will charge less" but rather than the uneven income (...) Americans, because they make less, do not buy equally priced (to European sets) LEGO because it is (...) (19 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Of course relative buying power plays a big point. I earn approximately half of my British counterpart, but my house, food, etc costs half as much as well. My point is that comparing British to American at strict monetary conversation rates (...) (19 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Waiters earn tips, and generally earn less than 5.15 due to this. Cashiers at Burger King, Book shelvers at a University Library, and such menial jobs earn no tips and recieve 5.15 minus taxes for their labor. (19 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Also in the US tips are expected, whereas in Europe they are not (although they are generally accepted). I couldn't find any info on the relative amounts made in tips, but they are not included in wage comparisons. ROSCO (19 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) If you're suggesting that Lego pricing is due to income levels of citizens, I don't think that's the case. Some of the issues (as I've been told from people in Lego and outside of Lego) are: 1) People in Europe are willing to pay more for toys (...) (19 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: The LEGO Group Selects NetDevil to Create Branded MMOG
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(...) Actually, if I remember correctly, Magic: The Gathering online lets you convert in-game cards into real physical cards (under drastic conditions, as far as I remember). Maybe it doesn't quite qualify as MMOG, though. (19 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Not neccessarily true. You cannot make a broad generalization simply based on the average wage in dollars. The average American pays less for everything than the average Brit so may or may not be "poorer" in material goods and access to (...) (19 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Granted, most of us don't work for minimum wage, but some debate about the Playstation3 price difference on (URL) between the States and Europe has yielded an interesting tidbit of information, perhaps useful in understanding the LEGO price (...) (19 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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So, it seems that slrn needs followup custom headers to be explicitely specified... sorry about the ugly last post in lugnet.trains :/ It would have been nice if the web-preview was FTX-parsed so that it can be seen immediately if something is (...) (19 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.test, FTX)
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| | 2nd wave of Knex bricks in stores!
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Knex continues their major effort to become a big player in the public domain lego system brick market. They have released their first large general construction brick tub, consisting of 820 elements, 695 of which are Knex bricks, including 3 types (...) (19 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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(...) Why should we blindly support our troops ? This is not an era of conscription in the US and UK and so they have all signed up of their own free will. They aren't fighting to protect our countries, they are doing a security guard job elsewhere. (...) (19 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Me, I have more respect for someone who has a naughty shag than someone is the cause of hundreds of thousands of people dying. Tim (19 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'm not sure an American can really use that argument without being hypocritical. (Hey, Britain's record on the subject isn't too great either, before you say anything) Tim (19 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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this is a test. (19 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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??? (19 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.test.bar)
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| | Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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(...) lol well, gotta run-- I'm off to my Being-Hit-On-The-Head lessons.... WHAAAAA! (19 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) SHUT YOUR FESTERING GOB, YOU TIT! YOUR TYPE MAKES ME PUKE! YOU VACUOUS, STUFFY-NOSED, MALODOROUS PERVERT!!! (19 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(URL) me, that's tres cool. But here's what I have a problem with-- "Jupiter is imaged here from more than 11 times the distance between Earth and the Sun, or slightly farther than the average Earth-Saturn distance. As demonstrated by Pale Blue Orb, (...) (19 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another factor in the right wing lunatic asylum--
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(...) I've never understood how people get that wrong- it's a dependent clause, not an unlimited commandment. So obvious as to be boring. Tim (19 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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