Dick,
Right now GM is involved with the Chinese making mini vans there. The average
Chinese auto worker makes a whopping $64 a month! That I read the other day in
the New York Times.
Best,
Will
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On 8/11/05 at 1:31 PM dick.knol@planet.nl wrote:
>Most likely the design and parts used in Motorola producs is all made
>in PRC.
>The low price of Chinese producs is the heroin for the Western markets.
>Wait until the addiction is there and the pusherman starts to raise the
>price.
>Our industry will be wiped out by then, leaving our kids to the mercy
>of PRC.
>
>Cheers, Dick Knol
>PA3DUV
>
>
>
>
>----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
>Van: N7HIY <N7HIY@comcast.net>
>Datum: donderdag, augustus 11, 2005 1:20 pm
>Onderwerp: Re: [Amps] Metric Conversion
>
>> so all Windoze users are now relying upon the good will of the
>> Communist
>> Chinese government not to leak Billy Bob's source code, hackers
>> world
>> perfect storm. most of the network/system penetrations and worst
>> viruses/worms are coming out of se asia.
>>
>> William may as well have given them your bank account, credit card
>> and
>> social security numbers from his scans of your computers on upgrades.
>>
>> the Commies could not even keep our satellite launch targeting
>> technology
>> safe, Motorola-Loral sat phone launches.
>>
>> Cliff N7HIY
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Will Matney" <craxd1@verizon.net>
>> To: <amps@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:40 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Amps] Metric Conversion
>>
>>
>> > See below;
>> >
>> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>> >
>> > On 8/11/05 at 2:41 AM R.Measures wrote:
>> >
>> >>On Aug 10, 2005, at 9:23 PM, David Kirkby wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Mike wrote:
>> >>>> Thanks Mark for the heads-up on the converter.
>> Unfortunately, it only
>> >>>> works on XP or later OS.
>> >>>
>> >>> A standard microsoft trick, to get you to upgrade the OS.
>> >>
>> >>Indeed. Dollar Bill's pursuit of mammon is so relentless that
>> he won't
>> >>even spend the bucks for a decent haircut.
>> >
>> > I'll about give 20:1 odds he cuts it himself or gets one of his
>> house
>> > keepers to do it free.
>> >
>> > If it wasn't for some of the lawsuits, he would be getting by
>> with a lot
>> > more than he does. I also heard about him letting the Chinese
>> government
>> > have the source code to Windows so they would buy it. What gets
>> me is that
>> > a bunch of the illegal software sites there are on government
>> servers.
>> > Plus the government has been guilty of using the cracked
>> software for
>> > years. He'd sh*t if a competitive version of Windows came out of
>> China! I
>> > for one would get a big kick out of it.
>> >
>> >
>> >>>
>> >>> For some applications, such as drivers for hardware,
>> firewalls, network
>> >>> monitoring software etc, it would be more work to write the
>> program to
>> >>> work on multiple versions of Windows.
>> >>>
>> >>> For a metric converter, that is very different. There is no
>> reason on
>> >>> earth why it could not be made to work on any version of Windoze.
>> >>>
>> >>> Of course, just because it says XP only, does not necessarily
>> mean it
>> >>> will not work on an older version, although the installer
>> might refuse
>> >>> to install it.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> At 18:57 8/10/05, AA6DX - Mark wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> I recently found/installed the new Microsoft
>> converter/calculator,>>>>> and
>> >>>>> really think it's just swell ... you can get it from them,
>> or .. to
>> >>>>> make it
>> >>>>> easy .. from one of my websites, here ..
>> >>>>> http://members.cox.net/kenwood/
>> >>>>> 73 .. Mark AA6DX
>> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>>>> From: <amps-request@contesting.com>
>> >>>>> To: <amps@contesting.com>
>> >>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 2:49 PM
>> >>>>> Subject: Amps Digest, Vol 32, Issue 19
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
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>> >>>> 73,
>> >>>> Mike, K4GMH
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>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Will
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