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- From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
- Subject: Re: Idiotic Japan Bashing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.080944.7939@pegasus.com>
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
- References: <1992Dec28.010825.25445@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 08:09:44 GMT
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- mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes:
- >jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker) writes:
- >>but Japan supposedly has a 100-year enviro-industry plan
-
- >I keep hearing this kind of bullshit. Does anyone out there really
- >believe it? After all, can you imagine the hundred year plan that a
- >business or company would have come up with in 1893?
-
- Michael, May I suggest that your difficulty in believing any particular
- thing is due to more to your upbringing and environment than anything
- else.
-
- You take a trip to Germany and you sit yourself down in a brewery that
- has been brewing beer for 600 years and you get yourself a sense of
- continuity.
-
- There are places throughout Europe that existed when Columbus sailed
- to the U.S. still operating... though to be honest the management has
- changed hands.
-
- This is surely the case in Asia. A company that made steel for swords
- hundreds of years ago is probably still in existance.
-
- You're trying to wedge your own definition of "100 year plan" into the
- works and if you mean "show me where they say how many units they will
- sell in 2092" then by all means there is no plan by your definition.
-
- In short they plan to exist 100 years from now, and they plan to serve
- their customers and to have employees and your stock certificates will
- still be worth something.
-
- Get it ?
-
- tom
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