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From: Joerg on 24 Dec 2009 16:53 Spehro Pefhany wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:09:02 -0800, John Larkin > <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > >> The best spaghetti is made from durum wheat from the USA. We grow the >> wheat and ship it to Italy for about $5 a bushel. They add water, >> remove the water, and sell it back to us for about $3 a pound. >> >> John > > France does that with "Dijon" mustard-- the mustard is imported from > Canada by the bushel and sold back (and to the rest of the world) at > some huge multiple of the price after processing. > Hey, you guys up there need to develop some business sense :-) If you want to start small this one is on "Dijon turf": http://duproprio.com/st-luc-de-dijon -- Merry Christmas, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: Jim Thompson on 24 Dec 2009 19:26 On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:28:12 -0800, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >John Larkin wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:35:15 -0800, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> >> wrote: >> >>> John Larkin wrote: >>>> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:20:36 -0800, Fred Abse >>>> <excretatauris(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:09:02 -0800, John Larkin wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> The best spaghetti is made from durum wheat from the USA. We grow the >>>>>> wheat and ship it to Italy for about $5 a bushel. They add water, >>>>>> remove the water, and sell it back to us for about $3 a pound. >>>>> I'd have thought that you, of all people would make your own pasta. >>>>> >>>>> ;-) >>>> Pasts is like bread, a big mess, and other people do it better. Like >>>> working on cars. >>>> >>> I know someone who was almost killed by his car shop. They forgot to put >>> the nuts onto all four steering columns bolts ... now that won't happen >>> here. Everything goes onto white sheets and when something is left on >>> there after a repair I will scratch my head and think hard. >> >> I got new tires on my MG Midget, and they only started the lug nuts on >> one of the wheels. I got half a block down Mission Street, densest >> traffic in San Francisco maybe, and a wheel fell off. I walked back >> and screamed at them, and they sent the crew with a jack to put it >> back together. Hell, those guys could have carried it back to the >> shop. >> >> They were doubly incompetant, since they replaced two tires but only >> charged me for one. >> > >Ouch. On I-80 coming back from the Bay Area I dodged a wheel that had >come off a Nissan ZX280 at 65mph. Everyone else was also able to avoid >the wheel but it almost went airborne across the middle rail into >oncoming traffic. That would have been ugly. > >My wife lost a wheel on a Renault once and was wondering about the >crosswind that seemed to have come out of nowhere. Happily motoring >along until some guys on the back of an army truck she was passing >pointed out that something was seriously amiss. I dodged a rear-ender this afternoon. Suddenly screeching brakes... look in mirror, panicked blonde (what else ?:-), blue smoke. Punched myself up into the only gap available. She slid right up to my right rear before stopping :-( ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | Help save the environment! Please dispose of socialism responsibly!
From: Joerg on 25 Dec 2009 15:58 Fred Abse wrote: > On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:53:07 -0800, Joerg wrote: > >> Spehro Pefhany wrote: >>> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:09:02 -0800, John Larkin >>> <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >>> >>>> The best spaghetti is made from durum wheat from the USA. We grow the >>>> wheat and ship it to Italy for about $5 a bushel. They add water, >>>> remove the water, and sell it back to us for about $3 a pound. >>>> >>>> John >>> France does that with "Dijon" mustard-- the mustard is imported from >>> Canada by the bushel and sold back (and to the rest of the world) at >>> some huge multiple of the price after processing. >>> >> Hey, you guys up there need to develop some business sense :-) >> >> If you want to start small this one is on "Dijon turf": >> http://duproprio.com/st-luc-de-dijon > > > "Bord de l'eau, Sans voisins � l'arri�re" > > Parce que l'eau est � l'arri�re ? > Probably :-) Real estate folks can be very creative when it comes to describing a property. In the ads they can make a dump look like a chateau. Until you get there ... -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: Joerg on 28 Dec 2009 21:11 DaveC wrote: >> Just an FYI on Tektronix; >> they are planning to move production from Beaverton,Oregon to China. >> >> More US jobs lost. > [...] >> On their website is the notice about moving production. > > Jim, > A URL to that notice? Danaher don't have a search function and Google turned > up nada. > > thanks! > From August this year: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/08/tektronix_exports_manufacturin.html -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: John Larkin on 28 Dec 2009 21:23
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:11:07 -0800, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >DaveC wrote: >>> Just an FYI on Tektronix; >>> they are planning to move production from Beaverton,Oregon to China. >>> >>> More US jobs lost. >> [...] >>> On their website is the notice about moving production. >> >> Jim, >> A URL to that notice? Danaher don't have a search function and Google turned >> up nada. >> >> thanks! >> > > From August this year: > >http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/08/tektronix_exports_manufacturin.html I think the US is on a longterm downslope of manufacturing employment. It was hidden by the dot-com boom and the recent financial bubble, but it's there. The government hates business and makes it as expensive as possible to have employees, so people who need to build things sensibly react by building them somewhere else. John |