From: unsettled on 8 Nov 2006 10:38 Ben Newsam wrote: > On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:54:10 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> > wrote: > > >>It amazing to me how far afield from the original conversation >>this has been taken in order to avoid confronting the valid >>points that were made. > > > You made some valid points? > > >>I'm amazed too at just how anti-American some people living here >>in the US are. > > > I wouldn't know, I've never been there. Obviously!
From: unsettled on 8 Nov 2006 10:41 T Wake wrote: > > It seems unsettled only has one bogeyman to call on. If you disagree with > him you are "un-American." If you questions anything your government does > you are "un-American." I am amazed he can even spell democracy. I'm surprised you know the English language at all.
From: unsettled on 8 Nov 2006 10:45 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > In article <454F423C.3B207DEE(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >>> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>The days of inheriting a bicycle shop that grew into >>>>an airframe manufacturing enterprise are gone. >>> >>>No, it's not. >> >>Do please supply an appropriate example. > > > The computing technology has been an area where this was happening > fast and furiously. The industry is gradually maturing so that > will settle down. The current fast and furious industry is delivering > information over the nets. The next one will be banking and > trade services. > > The next ones? I don't know. I suspect it might involve custom-made > items. That seems to already be getting started with car sales. None of which is considered heavy industry. My point has not been successfully refuted.
From: unsettled on 8 Nov 2006 10:46 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > In article <MPG.1fb90e071de0287c989aa6(a)news.individual.net>, > krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: > >>In article <454F423C.3B207DEE(a)hotmail.com>, >>rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... >> >>> >>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >>> >>>> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>The days of inheriting a bicycle shop that grew into >>>>>an airframe manufacturing enterprise are gone. >>>> >>>>No, it's not. >>> >>>Do please supply an appropriate example. >> >>Hewlett Packard, Apple, Mc$hit, Dell... Who knows where the next >>one will pop up. >> > > > He'll object to that because they're too old. Google, E-bay, > Vehix(sp?). I can imagine a day where you login to General > Motors and fill out the specs for the car you want and have > it delivered in n days. I'd like to see this done with books ;-). > IOW, mass production will become blase for anything other than > computer equipment :-))). I object because they're not heavy industry.
From: unsettled on 8 Nov 2006 10:55
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > So if one is the head of government, trying to become self-sufficient, > how does one get themselves bootstrapped? Is this where > all that talk about hiring consultants (which I read in history > books) comes in? If you don't have the experts in your country, you hire some while you send your own youth to the United States to be trained. > In the case of the oil fields, other countries, mostly France > and Britain operated the oil fields.....then gradually, or > suddenly if there was a war, control of operations was transferred > to the rulers of those countries. Does the same thing happen > with chemical manufacturing plants? "The action of bringing land, property and industries under the control of the nation." ucatlas.ucsc.edu/glossary.html |