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(...) if you've got a proper newsreader, you ought to be able to turn off the display of signatures, assuming people use the proper dash dash space ("-- ") delimiter. that should prevent your being annoyed. (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.faq)
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(...) Points well taken Richard. There are several ways of looking at my comments. Here is a recent direct email I received from this post and my reply to this poor Canadian: ##### Dave Hylands wrote (me directly): Hi, Marc Cook wrote: > What I (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.faq)
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Hi, (...) And some people, like me, just configure their email program to automatically include the signature. I read lugnet using email, not using news. I don't consider it "bragging", I just consider it professional when dealing with others. I (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't disagree with you, but at the same time I think that people should be allowed to have whatever signature they want. I see it as a form of freedom of expression. I wouldn't want to stop people from posting with their chosen signatures (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.faq)
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I've noticed a few people like posting their signature files on Lugnet or a "signature" like saluation. I think degree posting a quote, or a link to your lego pages is fine. What I really see as bragging and I feel is really annoying is posting your (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.faq)
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(...) cool -- problem is I don't have those pieces. I'll come up with something. Thanks for the link. - Marc (URL) [ UH-60 L ] (URL) [ UH-60 C ] (URL) [SEAL Team 9] (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) (URL) - jsproat (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) do, (...) ground- (...) I've have not heard this rumored replacement of the a-10 by the f16 falcon. I challenge the rumor and would like to see press release proof. Your comments jsproat are spoken like true A-10 lover. I'm closer to loving (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) I am well aware of what POV can render. I have been modeling in POV for years, long before I discoved tools for creating dat files and converting them to POV. Although your models are very cool looking, They appear to not be buildable out of (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Our minister recently did a service on Harry Potter. Her original intent was to counter the religious opposition, assuming that most religious conservatives were against the books. What she discovered was that while there was a vocal minority (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I seem to recall the pot having this same conversation with the kettle. Drew, I wasn't going to comment on your Harrier, and I especially wasn't going to say that it doesn't look "cool", but hey, I'm having a less-than-glorious day. Here's my (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) They also come in light gray, dark gray, desert brown, black, and (I kid you not) I've seen one painted *red*. I'm guessing here, but they probably get them out of the factory in some grayish color, then paint them later... (...) Isn't this (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build)
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(...) D'oh--Sorry, just a mistype! Though I could have spelled it "Picksburgh" and still been using a locally-accepted pronunciation! (...) On second thought, that's what I was doing--I didn't mistype it. 8^) (...) That is 100% correct! I live about (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) that--mass. (...) Sheesh! Pittsburgh! Not Pittburgh! :-) I'll at least give you credit for creativity (usually people write Pittsburg, which is how the other Pittsburgs in Kansan, CA, TX and where ever else spell it). Sorry if you were making (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Thanks Shiri, I agree, what started as an ( intended ) simple reminder should be no cause for fighting over the network. -Joe US Marines- The World Is My Playground (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Uh, uh, ouch. Looks like you two should both take a deep breath and let it out... sloooowly... no reason for bashing each other, really. Mladen was giving some advice, it's easy to mistake a tone over the net. If you still insist - take it to (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Right on, brother. (...) Oh, and Dan Siskind (who is also a better designer than TLC... for adults) does? (...) Well, you just proved #1, not that it needed proving. :-) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I'm sorry if I came off a little strong, I didn't really mean to. You're absolutly right, All southerners do not support the Confederacy, and that does not make them one bit less southern than the next person. I don't want to get into a debate on (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I was joking, but I don't think it would be a bad sub-theme. (...) and to some people the Confederate flag is a thing of pride. That's why they hang it in their front yards, and I doubt that there are any people (not to mention minifigs) that (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I would rather see a rumor about DC and Lego as then maybe a wonder woman set would come out. Just think of all the clear plastic special pieces that might come in an "invisible jet" set. Matt (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah, I started those rumors. (: (24 years ago, 8-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Snip (...) I hope that Lego won't licence everything. Lego is not about creating a model and letting it sit there (although that's what most AFOLs are doing, me included). Lego is about building, dismantling and rebuilding. Where goes the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) employs one. (...) spaceports (...) Obi Wan and Luke were trying to hire a *fast* ship that would be likely to stay away from official channels, as a spaceliner would likely have gotten them picked up by Imperial Customs. (...) That's a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Erik Olson" <olsone@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:FxD8tx.M55@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) one. (...) spaceports (...) passenger (...) just (...) flying (...) Vader, who (...) dream (...) are (...) Wars (...) Thanks for the insight, Eric! I (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Looks like we agree on that! I wasn't saying anything bad about cars. Mostly, that life in a big city is a chore. (...) I gotta hand that one to you. The most I've schlepped on the T was a suitcase and a computer and a monitor during rush hour (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The only Best Buy I've checked is in the South Hills, though I've checked another bunch of stores throughout town and the North Hills. Best Buy had the best buys, but the selection wasn't as exhaustive as I'd've liked. I was grossly (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Really, just a couple? Geez, it's going to take me 35-40 discs, just for the LPs. That's ignoring all the CDs I've got. But maybe you go for more compression than I do... (...) ... yep, definitely more compression ... (...) mp3.com is already (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think I did read something about CDs being marketed by about 5 or so companies, and the did have agreements in place to sell CDs at certain prices. Dave, have you been to a National Record Mart since you've been out here in Pittsburgh? CDs (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Mike Petrucelli" <lordinsanity@usa.net> wrote in message news:FxApBH.4Ix@lugnet.com... (...) doesn't (...) statement. (...) make (...) they'd (...) to the (...) a (...) their (...) the (...) is the (...) don't (...) peices at (...) a (...) studio, (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Because you like to hear your self talk remember... follow-ups to lugnet.off-topic.fun (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I think you might have cut too much away as I have no idea what you're getting on about. Referring to a post in what way? As flame bait? Mine. To baldly state what some people don't like to acknowledge is indeed flame bait (0). In this case (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:FxBDoK.IEy@lugnet.com... Which post are you referring to? Yours or his? Or both? If I see nothing from you but childish insults, I'll just ignore you and move on. If I see an argument I (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hit fire too soon, forgot to say "and that sucks, by the way... blue laws have the unintended consequence of keeping women unliberated..." although maybe it's NOT unintended... Laws are passed mostly by old men, after all, and if keeping (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) equal (...) week. (...) Yep. I like them as a tourist (and would as a commuter) but I'd never ever want to do grocery shopping the way US people do using them. Here in Zurich (and in Heidelberg per my cousin the PhD molecular geneticist who is (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think the meeting on Tuesday (which I am toying with trying to make, turns out it's hypothetically possible) will decide that. ++Lar (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Your ability to completely miss points continues to amaze me! (...) took (...) Two things: 1. What does this have to do with the argument? yes, Windows may not be perfect, but it's what people use. The argument is that the government meddling is (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well said Tom. I think it's hilarious when people say how much better their country is than the US because they get free X, and then whine about why everything costs more in their country or why businesses don't want to set up or expand (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Perhaps you misunderstood my point; I'm asserting that trolleys and the like *do not* equal the convenience of a car, and they likely never will. In fact, every week I do the grocery shopping for my family of two, lugging the bags the 1/4 mile (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And one day you'll (maybe) be grocery shopping for a family of 4, and you'll think Wow, it would suck to have to carry all this on the trolley, every week. I'm a do-things-for-yourself kind of guy. Yet my NLSO thinks it's great when we can pay (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes, those silly consumers don't know enough to make sure that their computer comes with a programming language, or kernel sources. As a result they can't fix things that are broken, and that makes it a sucky computer that they bought. Sheesh, (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) They will be having a discussion at their next meeting. Hopefully they will see this message and realize that it would be a good idea to start a new thread to say whatever they are going to say about the decision. Optionally, just watch (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oops. That should probably read "If I were selling something @ $10 per..." Dave! (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Was a decision ever made on changing NELUG's age limit? I don't have time to run through oer 200 messages, unfortunately. Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Worst in what way? Popularity? Identifiability? Public recognition? Its near-iconic status in the computer industry? My Windows usage primarily involves word processing, personal finance, the web, and low-key graphics applications. Since (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You're misunderstanding the nature of collusion; you and I aren't colluding to post to Lugnet, but we're both doing it. Likewise the recording industry isn't conspiring to keep CD prices high, but prices are high nonetheless. (...) Sure it (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm (...) any (...) one (...) ANY (...) the (...) is (...) "white" (...) Interesting. I have always (even as a child) thought of mini-figs as the inhabitants of Legoland. There are no humans in Legoland on Planet Lego or otherwise. They did (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ROTFLMAO Windows is one of the worst programs to ever hit the PC. The fact that it took off is testament to the blatant stupidity of the average consumer. I would be more than willing to spend twice as much on an OS that is reliable. Oh wait, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That is what they are doing. Hence the artifical inflating prices statement. (...) simply (...) just (...) costs (...) CD (...) As i stated most artists make next to nothing off CD sales anyway. This is the reason most artists don't care, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's approximately how I did my Christmas shopping this past year, but it wasn't anything like a convenience. Among my purchases were a 10 quart glass punch bowl, an armful of books, a CD player and several CD's. As such, I had to make about (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have no doubt that an effective mass transit system is possible, and in some regions even necessary, but in the (only) five cities where I've lived, mass transit couldn't compete against cars for convenience. I guess that's my thesis, in (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I should correct myself. I personally don't consider Miami's MetroRail a waste of money. I'm actually a semi-fan of mass rail transit (subways, etc.). However, I'm not surprised that only 45,000 to 50,000 people ride this system in the largest (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ->snip<- (...) ->snip<- (...) I posed the question to my son (who's now nine, but I think he was seven at the time). I pointed out that (almost) all Lego minifigs are yellow, but no one is actually bright yellow - did he think of them as a (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, to my knowledge, CDs were not designed by the record industry, they were designed by Philips, and they were not designed to hold just music, but that happened to be a good use for them. (...) I really don't see that the record (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) First off, the duplo-figs are different than the minifigs. They are not portrayed as yellow at all, only 'white' or 'black'. OTOH, there aren't any black *mini*figs. True, TLC created one (1! just one!) red minifig, but that was over 20 years (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Gerry and all, Well said, in terms of the race issue. I was making a sarcastic reply to the "black pack" when I referred to the "white pack". I am rather tired of the endless debates in terms of SW, TLG, and race, and that is where this comment came (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Mass transit can work for day-to-day useage if the places you want to go are convenient to the mass transit lines. In Boston they are. Part of this is that many of the buisiness districts were developed before the car, and therefore are along (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I used to do a Christmastime shopping spree in Boston using the T. I would walk down to a bus station from my mom's house (a 5 minute walk), and then hit a bunch of stores all over Boston (and one out in Malden). My spree was not as efficient (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm familiar with that Boston trolley history, but NY is a little different. The underground lines for the most part date from a 1900 city-financed project let out to a contractor. It was charted to serve Manhattan and the Bronx. Other (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, not exactly. More like it has to be driven by market forces. NY subway, arguably one of the best US ones (in terms of routes, connections and coverage possible), is a socialized amalgam of several competing subway lines that were built by (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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(...) 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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(...) fizz. (...) I mentioned that DVDs don't wear out before. My statement was meant as though, if both are brand new they will be the same. It is true however that only DVD retains that quality. (...) :-) -Lord Insanity (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Not after ten watchings. Even a nice gentle VCR running VHS will degrade the tape perceptably after ten watchings. Not if exposed to even slight magnetic fields over the long haul, like those caused by the speakers in your home theater. The (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) order (...) does (...) them (...) If you have a good VCR (a SuperVHS for example) they picture is the same, as DVD must be forced to NTSC. (...) The (...) While there are some DVD's that are NTSC by default any disc that is Digitally Mastered (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This seems like a funny issue. I've tried to talk about it before without much success. Who gets to decide purpose? I own a handgun. Do I get to decide what it's purpose is as the owner? Does the company (Ruger) that manufactured it get to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) $599 check around (...) neccesary (...) VHS, (...) If you can't see the difference on an NTSC TV you should have your eyes examined! (...) DVD's that are released currently are for NTSC format. Viewing them on an HDTV will make no difference (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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