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- From: mascdb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (C D Burdorf)
- Newsgroups: alt.california
- Subject: Re: relocation
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.133209.9263@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 13:32:09 GMT
- References: <166@steiny.com> <1992Nov18.113923.598@gdr.bath.ac.uk> <Qf3159C00UhW84fcUR@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK
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- In the referenced article, cs67+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher M Stanley) writes:
-
- >I would like to add some comments about the auto and steel industries.
- >
- >The auto and steel industries shot themselves in the foot - in a big
- >way. Both industries became big lumbering giants. They thought no one
- >could touch them. They also felt they had the right to tell their
- >customers "what they were going to by".
-
- Sorry, but how did the US steel industry tell people what they wanted
- to buy?
-
-
- >using American methods and know how, asked people what they would buy
- >then produced it. And lo and behold people actually prefer this kind of
- >treatment to someone ramming a product down their throats and saying BUY
- >THIS!!! Seems to me the Auto and steel industries killed themselves.
- >It's called not keeping up with technology (aka sticking your head in
- >the mud).
-
-
- I disagree. I think that Japanese cars are overated. They are
- reliable, but mostly unsafe, they rust badley, are too small and
- cramped, and most of them are poor on performance.
-
- >
- >What is this crap about defeating the Soviet Union? I don't remember WE
- >having anything to do with it. Was this not your quote?, "I strongly
- >abhor the dehumanization of any group of people due to their race,
- >religion, political or sexual preferences." If this is true why would
- >you want to "defeat" the Soviet Union?
-
- Lots of hot heads around here. I don't like totalitarian states,
- and the Soviet Union was totalitarian. Therfore, I'm glad that
- it fell. I do think that they weren't as big of a threat
- to the US people as was being made out at the time.
-
-
- >keep the status quo. Who can we get to be the bad guys now? Sadam is
- >still around? Hmmm, mabe if we sneak him some more arms....
- >
-
- It might just improve the economy eh?
-