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- From: mpolen@suntory.mti.sgi.com (Mike Polen)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,talk.politics.misc,alt.activism
- Subject: Re: Idiotic Japan Bashing
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 17:30:46 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- References: <1992Dec28.010825.25445@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1992Dec28.080944.7939@pegasus.com> <1992Dec28.170740.17094@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- Michael Friedman) writes:
- |> Tom Leylan) writes:
- |> >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 can suggest it, but youy will find it hard to convince me.
- |>
- |> >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.
- |>
- |> So? That does not mean that they can plan 100 years in advance.
- |>
- Sure it does. They can say:
-
- We will defeat the americans in basic manufacturing, even if
- it takes 100 years. We will enact special legislation, interfere
- with their governmental and commercial organizations, undercut
- them, steal their patents, and take advantage of their stupid
- ideas about free international trade. We will continue
- to do this even if it takes 600 years until we beat them.
-
- That is a 100+ year plan.
-
- I am not saying this happened, but there is not reason to believe it
- couldn't happen.
- --
- These opinions are usually my own, sometimes my dog's,
- occasionaly my (grown) children's, never my employer's.
-