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| Mass transit will have little hope of being effective until the real costs of transportation are directly allocated. Even then, it will still have a struggle since people are willing to shell out a lot of money even now for personal transportation (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) that (...) The "great" MARTA (Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) is a excelent example of what Larry was talking about. This system was built by local goverment (city of Atlanta mainly) to be used by the Metro Atlanta area. That area is (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Hey, I LIKE Brian Setzer, have for years... It's not my thesis that all artists with BS for initials make dreck, (or all Lugnetters, for that matter, (hi Bruce!)) just that I found it funny in this case. At least Britney's easy on the eyes. If (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) that (...) Well, if you want to turn this discussion way over to some other road, there are lots of things we (America) should make a major investment in, to include better public tranport, like lite rail. Others being alternative fuel/power (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) What about Brian Setzer and the semi-inimitible Bon Scott? 8^) Besides which, I don't think the charming Ms. Spears is any less talented than, say, Rick Astley or MC Hammer, both of whom were dubiously quite popular in a glowing testimonial of (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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