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(...) "non-debating"?! You must have me confused with someone else--I nitpick **everything**! 8^) (...) Oh, I don't deny that the vehicles of mass transit are often very cool--I myself love to watch trainyards at work, and I'm not even a train (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hi non-debating Dave, I'm in New York, and I was a transportation junkie. I would enjoy standing on top of the "subway" elevated platform at Woodside in Queens, where it crosses over the Long Island Railroad tracks. One night, there I was, listening (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm not unaware that you're calling down "the law". In fact, I'm pretty sure it already happened. I just don't have any respect for that ideology. You can call whatever you like "artificial" and get listeners. If you still think "profit" is (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think this is an important point. In a class I took a few years back here at the U of Pittsburgh (History of the Holocaust), it was pointed out that Hitler's Nazis only had ~33% of the vote in 1933, when Hitler became part of the German (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) sorts (...) a (...) gobbledegook (...) not (...) ??? They can charge whatever they want as long as the entire industry doesn't collude to control those prices. Supply and demand. On CDs, the price was originally high because there were so few (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Believe me, after living in a city that has gone through the process of hosting the Olympics, it isn't that big of a thrill. Basicly you give over all rights to your city to the IOC for 3-4 years and let them do as they will. Sure you might (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Here in Houston the local politicians are concocting a really bone-head plan to start a light-rail system. They want to put it along our main street corridor from downtown, through our museum district and medical center to the Astrodome/ new (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This is certainly true--a related problem with mass transit involves the current impossibility of on-demand convenience; if I want to pick up a few groceries, I can hop in a car and be there and back in twenty-five minutes. If I'd try to take (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So you're saying the public transportation needs to be in place before the city? Makes sense to me -- if a city-organism is in the mode of transporting by car, it makes little sense to for it to jump to public transportation mode, just because (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I take it you didn't bother to read down to where I point out my own "wacky" name. Lighten up, and kindly don't pull a quote out of context. Bruce SCHLICKBERND (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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