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5th November 2000, 11:52 AM
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| System Lord of ASciFi.com  Join Date: Jul 2000
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| So what sci-fi shows are actually made in the USA anymore? The three most popular ones at the moment i would say: Stargate - Canada Andromeda - Canada Farscape - Australia I guess Star Trek Voyager is USA, X-files where is that? Still, the three most recent shows to start (the above ones) are all being made outside the USA, what's going on i wonder ??? |
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5th November 2000, 03:33 PM
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| wandering  Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Texas
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| money money money LOL MythingLink, that is so true on a number of things. Just look at NAFTA. Let's import everything so that some little 12 year old in Mexico can make it for 1.00 a week and then sell it here for 52.00.  politics. |
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5th November 2000, 04:34 PM
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| First Prime of ASciFi  Join Date: Jul 2000
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| How does one separate money from economics?  X-Files first went to Canada because it was cheaper to make their shows ... they didn't have to pay the high prices for personnel that the unions here in the states ask. In fact if I remember correctly, they weren't limited to only using union members in their crew either. Cheers, |
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5th November 2000, 04:45 PM
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| System Lord of ASciFi.com Join Date: Jul 2000
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| one aspect of economics is the influence money has in a market system, but money does not = economics. You can have an economics of a command economy that does not have money in it. good on the x-files. You would think that the most advanced market economy in the world would not have such a probelm with labour unions as you do. In the UK they are hardly a feature any more in all but the public sectors and even there have a realtivily minor influence. |
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5th November 2000, 05:22 PM
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| Kulls Chosen  Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Australia
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| The economics of it all. Right now the Aussie dollar is pretty low against the US greenback. $5.00 USD will net you $9.50 AUD almost double and financial guru's are not predicting a change any time soon. What better way to make your budget stretch further than taking you money and getting the most you can for it. I only wish I had the same options at the supermarket. |
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6th November 2000, 08:30 AM
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| First Prime of ASciFi Join Date: Jul 2000
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| Yeah having those same options at the market would be a great thing, wouldn't it? Unions - here's hoping that the proposed writer's strike doesn't occur. The timing might not affect SG1 as much as the rest of the shows we all dearly love to watch and it won't affect Andromeda because they've taken that into consideration in their writing now, but those others ... Cheers, |
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