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(...) More flamebait *grin*: Of course, in the US, we pour a lot of money into our car-oriented system (Look at the Big Dig in Boston, for example) effectively using public subsidies to undercut public transportation. No wonder most Americans prefer (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) much (...) The primary use of a handgun is to shoot people. If you want to go hunting, it's a poor choice. Target practice? Yes, but that's not why handguns were invented. Ruger. Good choice. Very solid. I liked my Ruger much better than (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh-so-true. I have enough music right now to last over 40 straight hours of music, and that's not counting the CDs I had before (but I don't listen to them so much anymore). Of course I hear much more than 40 hours straight at a time, with (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) complex (...) tenth (...) First, cite your .1 cent figure, please. Do you have access to TLC tooling and raw material costs? What's the burden rate or are they using fully allocated costing, and how much of the R&D budget is attributtable to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Funny, in the US anyway, it seems that the public transit that works the best was built a long time ago by private companies, and the public transit built recently in cities that didn't have any doesn't usually work at all. Here in Zurich, the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) gobbledegook (...) Let's not go down the tiresome "anti-monopoly tirade" route again, shall we? Been there, done that, got the tee shirt. MP3 will lower CD prices a lot better than any smelly old government lawsuit anyway... oh, and by the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Considering that actuall cost (including packaging etc.) is less than one tenth of a cent per "brick" when produced in the quanities TLG does, I disagree. It would probably be even less if it wern't for the high quality and tolerence levels (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) to (...) Without (...) You are missing the point entirely. It is ILLEGAL for them to artifically inflate prices in the USA. That is what they are doing under some gobbledegook reasons that are merely to prevent them from being prosicuted. Also (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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To All, This thread is drifting way off from LEGO directed questions and posts and the like. Please direct all further ramblings about Germans and the like to off-topic.debate or off.topic.fun. I am getting tired of reading this in these groups. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) And more importantly, Germans, as a whole, aren't Nazis. (...) As an (originally) polish Jew, who's grandparents were all afflicted by the Holocaust, I'm slightly offended by that statement (two posts ago). Not offended by Greg - just by the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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