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  4. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  5. Subject: Re: Idiotic Japan Bashing
  6. In-Reply-To: mpolen@suntory.mti.sgi.com's message of 31 Dec 1992 17:41:28 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <JMC.92Dec31105329@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  8. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  9. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  10. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  11. References: <1992Dec28.080944.7939@pegasus.com>
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  14.     <1992Dec30.013645.16214@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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  16. Date: 31 Dec 92 10:53:29
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  18.  
  19. Mike Polen says:
  20.  
  21.      Japan is a highly nationalistic company.  Corporations and
  22.      the government work hand in hand.  Unlike the US, you can
  23.      not draw a distinctions between the two.  If a company or an
  24.      industry wants the government to support their plans against
  25.      outsiders, they've got it.
  26.  
  27. This seems exaggerated to me.  Japanese companies compete with
  28. each other, sometimes in the face of more intrusive regulation
  29. than in the U.S.  If the U.S. copies this mythical Japan, we are
  30. in real trouble.
  31. --
  32. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
  33. *
  34. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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