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From: JoeBloe on 10 Nov 2006 21:44 On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:22:55 +0000 (UTC), kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) Gave us: >In article <1ac67$4554024d$4fe76f5$27303(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>Ken Smith wrote: >> >>> In article <f4p7l21a400mq09lf26tcq86s8gkv3q479(a)4ax.com>, >>> JoeBloe <joebloe(a)nosuchplace.org> wrote: >>> [....] >>> >>>> Name a foreign part in the M1 Abrams. >>> >>> >>> Q401 >>> >>> That was easy. >>> >>> >>Silliness, goofy behavior, excitability, inappropriate >>humor ... the first signs of bipolar disorder. > >Yes, I think you may be right. You should see a doctor, I hear that have >drugs for it these days. > >BTW: Those in the sci.electronics.design group will have understood the >joke more thoroughly than others. For those: Q401 would be a transistor >and it is very unlikely that there are no transistors in the M1 that are >made outside the country. > A transistor is a discreet component. A complete circuit card assembly would be more like "a part". Everyone knows that chips and such are made in other lands. That doesn't make them not ours however. Even Western Digital has its products made and assembled elsewhere, but it is still an American company.
From: JoeBloe on 10 Nov 2006 21:46 On Fri, 10 Nov 06 09:25:29 GMT, lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) Gave us: >In article <f4p7l21a400mq09lf26tcq86s8gkv3q479(a)4ax.com>, > JoeBloe <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >>On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:40:12 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> Gave us: >> >>> >>>"xray" <notreally(a)hotmail.invalid> wrote in message >>>news:k9u5l2tn644sntciap2sbagjmb5fabq2bl(a)4ax.com... >>>> On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:44:20 +0000, Eeyore >>>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>unsettled wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> However, the Republican Party >>>>>> platform is more apt to provide for economic growth. >>>>> >>>>>Since when was a huge and increasing foreign debt the model for economic >>>>>growth ? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Foreign debt? That's so 80's and 90's. We started this war to try to >>>> make our own internal debt far outshine our foreign debts. >>>> >>>> Of course, since we no longer make a large portion of the stuff we are >>>> using in the war, you might still have a point. >>> >>>Ya think? >>> >> >> Name a foreign part in the M1 Abrams. >http://www.stormingmedia.us/73/7323/A732303.html I guess you COTS me off guard.
From: Eeyore on 10 Nov 2006 21:47 JoeBloe wrote: > Everyone knows that chips and such are made in other lands. That > doesn't make them not ours however.
From: Ben Newsam on 10 Nov 2006 21:10 On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:55:03 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >news:4554AE27.CBE6D283(a)hotmail.com... >> I've seen no-one suggest that the Army, Navy and Air Force be put under >> private >> ownership. > >Well...actually, I have begun to see people talk about this in the US...and >I think it would be a *spectacularly* bad idea. Fortunately, I think the >idea will have difficulty gaining any traction. Wouldn't it be fun when they discovered that some of the shareholders were the Russian mafia? :-)
From: Ben Newsam on 10 Nov 2006 21:14
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:53:26 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >news:ej234l$8qk_015(a)s995.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >> >> The same thing happened to medical pots of money contributed >> by employees and their employers. The pool of monies got transformed >> to insurance companies. > >Now you're catching on. Private insurance companies have profit motive. >Government bodies that provide for health care don't. I have often wondered, re insurance, if I wouldn't get a better deal by going down the local betting shop. In other words, what odds might I get on betting that my house will get burgled in the next year? |