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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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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. (18 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 (18 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 (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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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. (...) (18 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 (18 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 (18 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) lol well, gotta run-- I'm off to my Being-Hit-On-The-Head lessons.... WHAAAAA! (18 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!!! (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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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 (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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just came across this: Pending cases at the The International Court of Justice: (URL) of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Serbia and Montenegro) googleing I came across these: (URL) GWB ever have (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Aint that the truth. ROSCO (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmmm. I wonder if (URL) Dave feels the same way>? ROSCO (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'd love to get on this bandwagon, but I have known more than a few left-wingers who put their head firmly in the sand on many issues. I think the desire to want a happy fantasy rather than the truth is a human quality, not a (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) was a great read-- "Two and Two Make 30,000 Winston Smith, the hero of Orwell's 1984, asserts at one point that freedom is the freedom to say that two and two make four. In other words, the ability to state that there are facts which are true (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Reagan? Ronald Reagan? Surely you can't be talking about The Great Communicator, from whose myriad disastrous policies we had only begun to recover when 2001 occurred (with all the implications thereof). The only thing keeping Reagan from (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) That'll put me at 60, and with 26+ years of tirades against the current US gov't, I may be on a 'no fly list', so I'll drive down ;) (...) Didn't read the book. Dave K (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Then in 20 years, you and I will have to have a beer (by then it may be just (URL) Ensure> for me;-) at my future home in sunny Arizona and see for ourselves. I'll have a huge LEGO room, so your sons/daughters are invited, too. I'll have a (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote: <snip> (...) What saved Reagan was the division of powers in the senate and congress. As well, the 'rise' of mediocrity of the Rush's and the Hannity's that push this completely misnamed 'compassionate (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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(...) Sure (...) They're not actually although my understanding of solicit was wrong too. (URL) Invite and request are synonymous but different. And that is one of the greatest and most confusing things about the English language. Tim (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Sometimes the only way to get perspective is through the passage of time. You remind me of my utter comtempt with Ronald Reagan when I was in Kollege. History already is showing that Reagan was brilliant. Given the events that have transpired (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) One of the most brilliant sketches ever written, IMO! Not necessarily-- I could be arguing in my spare time. Oh, I've had enough! No, you haven't! (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Okay, we agree to disagree. (...) "Solicit" and "request" are synonymous. (...) I don't see that example as analogous. (...) I disagree. The point of a public forum is to share information and ideas. That can be 2-way, but not necessarily so (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I still disagree. By posting in a public forum you are, in my opinion, soliciting and inviting response. If you do not wish response, or if you wish only certain people to respond you should either not post or take it to email. (...) I agree (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I was going to quote 'a few good men' for a cheap quotation thing, but instead, in order to score some political karma, I have this quote-- "The GOP has mastered an error condition in the political process, an infinite loop of abstraction that (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Is this the five minute argument, or the full half hour? (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Not quite, in my view, but putting the differences aside, you said: "I didn’t say “expected”; I said solicited." What you probably should have said was: "I didn’t say “expects”; I said invites." (or something similar). Paying attention to such (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) "Invited", "solicited". Same thing, no? JOHN (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I may have missed it, but I don't think you actually said 'solicited' in the post to which Tim was responding. Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Not necessarily. Sure, anyone who is a member is free to read and respond to any given post, but unless there is a "comments welcome"or "LMKYT", for example, responses aren't solicited. When I post a MOC, I do not do so in order to receive (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Or simply FUT lugnet.null. Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Any particular reason for that? (...) I don't see how that answers my question. (...) So why assert your view as fact? (...) Another anecdotal assertion? Or just opinion? (...) Yet you keep responding... (...) I'm sure you can handle it. (...) (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I completely disagree with this. By posting in a public forum you are inviting other participants of that forum to your discussion. You can take it to email if you don't want public responses. To post publically and not expect response is, in (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) No, Ross. What I admit is that for me, interchanges with you in particular most often are games. (...) The manner in which you engaged me. (...) What kind of evidence would suffice for you? Another story about high morale? Anecdotal. A poll? (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Ah. So finally you admit that debates are just a game for you. By the way, the point I was making (remember that? the one you still haven't answered?) was a serious comment about your post, what game did you think I was playing? (...) It (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | The Classic Quotable Movies (was: Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???)
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<snipped> away the garbage-- thanks for the heads up, Dave:-) As opposed to the bombs, what are the BEST movies suitable for quoting? Here is my list-- please add on. In no particular order: This is Spinal Tap Ferris Bueller's Day Off The Princess (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) 1 word Don't K, that's really truncated 2 words, but I digress It isn't worth wasting your time. Tim Burton made some great movies, but this ain't one of 'em. Of course, some people really loved the movie--it has a bit of a cult (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, I was wondering if you were reffing something specific, but I couldn't place it, coupled with the fact that I never saw Mars Attacks... (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I quoted.... Well, to much to list, but I'll start with Mars Attacks... :) Dave K (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Hey, he quoted MP and I used a smiley-- it's all good in my mind! JOHN (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Can't we all just... get along? Dave K (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Pot; kettle:-) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) It's people like you wot cause unrest. (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) You started the game; I was just playing along. (...) "Wasting everyone's time"??? Are you serious? The only time wasted is MINE every time I get into some insipid MPesque argument with YOU! If it's YOUR time you are worried about, DON"T (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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(...) About as much as I'd buy some of the other assertions in this thread. ;-) Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) So you were trying to make me make a point that wasn't lost on you anyway? Why not just answer the point with some evidence instead of wasting everyone's time? (...) You did. By posting an assertion publicly with nothing to back it up. (...) (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) hehe, would you buy that the malaprop was intentional? JOHN (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) 'Antidotal'? Do you mean 'anecdotal'? Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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(...) How convenient. So, your point was to parody my assertion by making a non-assertion assertion yourself. Subtle. But your sublime subtlety wasn't lost on me; I just wanted you to make your point instead of trying to WOW me with your subtle (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) John, you really need to work out the subtleties of debating. That was not an assertion - it was a parody of your sentence, used to make my point. Do you actually have anything to backup your assertion? If so, why not post it here, like Dave (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) YOU: "Yeah, there will always be a few heroic, inspiring, and humbling soldiers. But don’t make the misteak in thinking that their attitudes reflect the majority." Deal. JOHN (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Read my post again John. In case you need a hint, the information I provided is "You made an assertion without anything to back it up". And I'll add some more information too - until you CAN back it up, your assertion is pointless. ROSCO (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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(...) Without providing any information of your own, your point is pointless. JOHN (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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(...) No I don't have nearly enough information to make such an assertion, but YOU asserted that "The overwhelming majority of US troops in Iraq are positive, incouraged, and invested in their work." (...) My point is that YOU made an assertion (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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(...) So, are you asserting that the majority aren't heroic, inspiring, and courageous? Point, please. Or is it that you simply like to hear the sound of your own fingers tapping the keyboard? JOHN (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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(...) Oh yeah? You went and asked them all? (...) Yeah, there will always be a few heroic, inspiring, and humbling soldiers. But don't make the misteak in thinking that their attitudes reflect the majority. ROSCO (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I thought that I was answering David's e-mail to my e-mail address. Sorry, I am not too sure how to do all these tree things here and there. It wasn't you, It was mad David. John P (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Patterson wrote: <Snip other peoples comments> (...) John, Does this mean that you are using instructions to build your inventories or are you using actual MISB set contents? The latter would be a lot more accurate, (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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(...) That is a misleading story (go figure!) The overwhelming majority of US troops in Iraq are positive, incouraged, and invested in their work. Many there are re-ups. Yeah, there will always be a few malcontents. But don't make the misteak in (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) Such a vast banquet of irony in so few words. (...) I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Would you care to show one of these 'emails with pictures' that you refer to? Since I don't remember ever sending you an email in (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) If anyone is spring loaded to the piss off position it is you. Regardless of what the page number was, the inventory is incorrect. Valium might be in the future for you, or high blood pressure. You really need to calm down. Let's remove all (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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(...) Well, maybe. And then again (URL) maybe not.> Dave! (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) And yet one of the corrections you made has already been shown to be wrong and maybe a second one too (I don't know and I don't care if it is or isn't). Most people might take that as a sign that possibly their checking wasn't quite as (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Peeron inventories
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(...) Look at page 11 then, what I post here is quick, I sit for a very long time when I make the corrections and do not quote pages or steps. However you want to cut it, there are two tan bricks that are not in the inventory. That is the important (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Peeron inventories
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(...) Yes, it sure does. I rechecked it (page 7 that is), and I stand by my statement; no tan bricks. Perhaps your own inability to count has had a bad impact on the inventories you've made, and that's why they're not being accepted. David (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: BrickFest PDX 2007 - who's getting paid?
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(...) That would seem like a fair compromise between risk and reward to me. Tim (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest PDX 2007 - who's getting paid?
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(...) Well, I'd rather see them all pay the fee beforehand, then be compensated (fee returned, nice lunch, whatever) after there's an indication how good the finances are (which is usually fairly apparent by the end of the public expo). ROSCO (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Which bit? The liar bit, or the friend bit? You're coming along nicely, though. You'll be a fully-fledged CTOPper in no time. (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: HMAS Fruit Bat
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(...) It's just an expression, Al. (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) That's a bold assertion. Got any proof? (...) Is calling someone a liar, a troll and a jerk any way to treat a friend? (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) You, sir, are a liar. (...) If there is anyone on this board who would recognize mockery, my friend, it would be you. JOHN (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: HMAS Fruit Bat
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(...) It's just a turn of phrase, John. (...) Far be it from me to attempt to insult one as virtuous as yourself. (...) Are you mocking me? It certainly reads that way to me. (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: HMAS Fruit Bat
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(...) Experiencing temporal disturbances? I believe I asked you what you were talking about previous to that statement. You are obfuscating. Perhaps so much so that you've confused even yourself. (...) Ah, is that your expert opinion as one who (...) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: HMAS Fruit Bat
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(...) Even if I thought I had anything to prove to you, John, I can't without knowing what 'it' is. Lies? Frivolity? The Holy Spirit? Either way, I took it as an inept attempt at insulting me, and therefore not to be taken seriously, but I could be (...) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: HMAS Fruit Bat
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(...) I thought so. (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: HMAS Fruit Bat
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(...) Well, admitting your ignorance is the first step on the path to enlightenment, so well done, champ. (...) Full of what, exactly? (18 years ago, 11-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: HMAS Fruit Bat
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(...) Squirm. Actually, I don't know, which is not coincidentally why I asked in the first place. I'll let you in on a little secret, though. I suspect that you are, as usual, full of it. Prove me wrong. Bet you won't-- or can't. JOHN (18 years ago, 11-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: HMAS Fruit Bat
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(...) You, know - "things" (18 years ago, 11-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: HMAS Fruit Bat
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(...) Really. So what exactly are you "strongly" suggesting that I internalize? JOHN (18 years ago, 11-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament reActs
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Hi, Nathan. (...) So noted. :) Though I've moved this to ot.debate because it isn't really a discussion of the LEGO constructions themselves nor how I've chosen to illustrate Bible passages with LEGO. (...) Hmm. I actually thought it was one of the (...) (18 years ago, 11-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Perfectly normal expression, at least here in Aus. It roughly translates as 'I strongly suggest you internalise things, and move on." (...) I'm not sure it meets his stringent criteria, but I appreciate the gesture, so I'll just say (...) (18 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) "Pull your head in"? "hypocrit"? Austroll. Ha, think Richie will add that to his (URL)? (18 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Pull your head in, hypocrit. (18 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Very well said. I've always been of the opinion that the *individual* can make decisions for him or herself with regards to, well, almost anything. That said, corporations, institutions, and whathaveyou--stating these almost 'edicts'--"The (...) (18 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Very well said. I've always been of the opinion that the *individual* can make decisions for him or herself with regards to, well, almost anything. That said, corporations, institutions, and whathaveyou--stating these almost 'edicts'--"The (...) (18 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Hi, all-- This is yet another example of why one's faith should color one's decisions. I make a living working for a Bible School. I would be considered "Evangelical" and/or "Conservative" by a good many people. I attend church when I'm not on (...) (18 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Why don't they just call the position 'His Holiness The President' and be done with it? It seems to be what they (unreasonably) expect from him, and any candidates for the position, anyway (and 'they' are not just religious people either). (18 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's completely hypocritical. I understand why people might think divorces are relevant. They're a character issue. And like it or not, people judge others based on character. If you've been arrested 11 times for various robberies, thefts, or (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I read it later and I should have specified that--one does *not* need to be perfect to criticise. However, people pointing out that Rudy is *bad* because of his divorces (however public they may have been) when they themselves have sexual (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, you are implying that one needs to be perfect to criticize, which I don't think is fair. But I will say that I don't think that particular issue has anything to do with the job for which Wudy is wunning. (...) One bad apple (or bushel;-) (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(URL) Tennessee (AP) -- A Southern Baptist leader said Tuesday that evangelical voters might tolerate a divorced presidential candidate, but they have deep doubts about GOP hopeful Rudy Giuliani, who has been married three times. " Yeah, and i have (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: 'Lego Ban' at Seattle School Fueled by Anti-Private Property Crusaders
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(...) Right! Anyone should be allowed to walk into your home, treat your house with disrespect, and call you evil when you object. (...) Of course, because civil engineering has taught us that all humans of every culture fit very neatly and easily (...) (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm. If I was a kid in this class I'd steal my teacher's car. How could they press charges, given their professed beliefs? Bruce (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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This is directed to all people who would like to see sanctions against Ross. (...) I am so sorry that I haven't received Ross' and Eric's emails regarding this matter (both sent before Bob's posting), because if I would have received one of them or (...) (18 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.curators)
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(...) Gimme a break. This is a prank gone wrong, not an abuse of power. Deleting all of a member's posts, or breaking links in a way that couldn't be restored, that would be an abuse. This was actually a little bit funny (and a little mean, I (...) (18 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) !
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(...) So it's OK for you to abuse administrative privilege, as long as only one or two people are bothered by it? Especially if one of the two is a person that a significant people on LUGNET feel it's OK to bully? I just have to post here to say I (...) (18 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) !
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(...) No. The admins will determine if I crossed any line, and take action as necessary. (...) Firstly, that has nothing to do with the point I was making about wanting ALL admins to be "in the loop" when someone "contacts admin". And secondly, the (...) (18 years ago, 19-Feb-07, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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