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(...) 1000 (...) Just you. :-) B ruce S chlickbernd (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) But it's what I'm stating! The manufacturer is not obligated to lower prices to you after initial costs are recouped. (...) You call it artifically inflated, they call it profit margin. If "profit" is a dirty word to you, then tough. It's (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sign me up as delusional, I guess. Except under very tightly controlled and special conditions, an across the board price of 2 cents is just not doable by TLC and if you think it is, I posit that you just may not know everything there is to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) DVDs (...) lofty (...) that's (...) That's not what he is stating (...) much (...) The Obvious is that the prices are artifically inflated. There are all sorts of bueracratic (spelling?) reasons that are nothing more than hot air. Without (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Erik said the magic word. Give that man a hundred dollars (on a tile). (...) I'm not sure it has. And I'm with Erik on this. Those with vested interests, and therefore those with standing to decide, are the NELUG members, and only the NELUG (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Um, the record company is in it to make a profit, and so is the merchant, that's why they don't pass them on to you at cost. The record company keeps the nice fat profits from all those CDs, and makes much better margin than they used to when (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm familiar with this argument, it's a false alternative. Yes, language changes. No, I won't take a centuries old dictionary, but I think I can learn more from an older dictionary than the muddle that is Random House today. The first purpose (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) of (...) money (...) It (...) like (...) Just one quick note on this... One reason newer dictionaries may change meanings is because the langauge has evolved. Now one can argue about the purity of language all they want, but if you want to be (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) them (...) the (...) Yes by quite a bit. (...) CDs were designed by the record industry as a cheaper alternative to records. (FYI CD-Rs were originally on the first cd players but were not allowed to be imported into the USA untill the past (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Perhaps the biggest benefit of DVD outside of the picture/audio quality is the additional material you get on the better discs. I'm not talking about the extra 9 minutes of awful footage from that awful ID4 movie, but the commentary from (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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