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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Idiotic Japan Bashing
- In-Reply-To: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us's message of 28 Dec 92 07:20:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <JMC.92Dec28100225@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
- References: <901.38.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 10:02:25
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- In article <901.38.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us> paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett) writes:
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- TO: mfriedma@uucp
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- MF>>but Japan supposedly has a 100-year enviro-industry
- >>plan.
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- MF>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?
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- Think about the hundred year plan Japan might have had in 1938 - they
- have encountered a few technical difficulties, but seem to be getting it
- back on track.
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- I would imagine that Japan's 1938 100 year plan would have been based
- on the use of Manchukuo (their name for Manchuria or Liaoning) and
- probably on further conquests in China and maybe in the Soviet Far
- East. Not much salvageable from that plan.
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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