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Do You Believe In Love? - Huey Lewis and The News

Labor is cheaper over there, and less people to argue about it.... Less regulation on factory conditions.

We aren't talking about blocking him from EVERYBODY, just the ones who decide to block his results. Yes? Parla usted ingles?

I guess I'll chip in. Say something if I'm wrong, because I probably am The company buys pellets of rubber, vinyl, dead birds, whatever, to make their tires with. Buying a small amount of said material would cost more than buying a large amount in unit prices, because many distributors cut the price a little on a bulk order because... A ) they can afford to: they have a lot of product. B ) it keeps customers coming back: "I got a great deal on these [rubber pellets, vinyl pellets, dead birds]!" Now, each person is happy. The buyer has his great deal on product and the distributor got a new customer. Now the customer (AMT, this is) makes their pellets into tires. On these tires, they silkscreen an image, say Blue Streak Goodyear stuff. They must pay Goodyear a little chunk of the beast so they don't get sued. But, you still must figure in cost of production. The machine they use to make tires gets a little worn out for every tire they make, and it would be safe to say that some accountant has figured out exactly how much money they're losing in wear on each machine for each item that passes through it. So, our happy little tires still have a ways to go. The factory workers must be paid, for which they'll sort out the tires that are good, and the bad as well: there's some more money gone, but in all hope, they can reuse these by melting them down to make better ones, or sell them as factory seconds. The boxes have been prepared. The boxes have been paid for. Into the box with the tires, and into a bigger box with more packs of them! Then, they presumably will be loaded onto a pallet. The pallet is then loaded onto a truck. Remember, the truck is slightly worn every time it is used, just like the machine used to make the tires, and the forklift to move the pallets with. Along the roads goes the truck, trundling to the distribution center. Here it is offloaded, then processed again for damage. Pay those workers, there, too! From here, MORE trucks will take them to the places they're supposed to go. By this time, each package will have been priced at the factory. However, they aren't the only ones looking to get money out of the deal. The person who gets them from the distributing center also wants more than what he bought them for, so he'll mark it up from the MSRP. Now the saga of the little Blue Streaks is over, until you, the consumer, purchase them. Raw materials worth very little have had their price inflated many times due to effects on machinery, workers needing to be paid, licensing, shipping insurance (which I had forgotten about), and mark-up so someone can recoup what they've lost in the process. Yes?

I think you have a right to "protect" yourself from it... It would be like if you have an age-limit on your DirecTv box and you had to reset it after every channel flip.

Sometimes, porkchops get a really doggy smell to them. If I come out into the kitchen and someone's frying porkchops, if it smells like that, I'm going to bed with no dinner. Never liked cauliflower. It's just weird.

Still up... Was in Breaking Bad in a very famous "two minute window..."

Maybe your photo quota is full. Delete some under you attachments in settings and see if it helps. I have to keep doing this every once in a while.

...and beer, sandwiches, many food items... Drums! Keyboards! We're about to get another organ, as it happens. A Technics double-manual with disk drive, weighted keys as well. Cost? Some Bug parts we have in the shop.

Exactly what I used to get... I grew up with different inconveniences, such as, "Get off the phone, I'm trying to get on the Internet!"

ADHD used to be called "bratty kid...."

I'll jump in. I found my box of models from when I was a kid not long ago. I had a Scout in there, and that's what I'll make. I wrote on the side "House painting" and a phone number, in purple Sharpie on a blue body The suspension is gone. I'll make it a 2WD. Keeps it simple. The roof actually melted in places because of glue, so I'm going to cut the roof off. Going to be rusty and beat-up, and with the same idea: a house painter truck. I'll use the same phone number there, too, but no Sharpie this time

Will you remember the famous men Who had to fall to rise again? So pick yourself up Dust yourself off And start all over again

Yes I think the best version is by Billy Ward and His Dominoes.

Has anybody made one? Like how my dead-end stock Austin Devon project is going from a gasser to a mild street machine.... Anybody made anything like this? What I'd really live to see is a 1/24 stock Topolino

I buy everything right now from my LHS. It is nice to have a brick-and-mortar store to go into, look at something before you buy it.

I haven't bought from them yet but I plan to: Hobbylinc. Good looking site, great deals, easy to navigate....

I wasn't impressed with my AMT kit I got last. From what I heard on here, it was a kit with excessive flash, which happens with every few out of a hundred, but, needless to say, I won't be getting another AMT kit unless it's really really good.

I saw someone that had the Monogram Ford Dually and he broke it up like that, except he had each part at $30 a pop! $30 for two tail lights, $30 for the grille... Wow.

Had to fix a broken ground clamp for a plasma cutter. It had snapped on one of the jaws. It had to be reinforced with a piece of aluminum stock bolted into it and reconnected... It came out crooked but it still worked.

That's what I do with my trades.... I seem to take a long time, so once we've figured out who gets what, I'll say, "Wait until you get my package to send yours, okay? It might take a while... Anything you might like that I could throw in the box with it?"

And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the meadows of my heart

Yep!

http://www.modelersworkbench.com/bell-huey-gunship.html I wonder if I can scrape enough together to get it....

I never knew! Jeez, I need to find one.