moving from Sco to Linux

[Bill Vermillion]

On Fri, Jul 23 21:30 , Bob Stockler moved his mouse, rebooted for the 
change to take effect, and then said:" 

> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 07:21:29PM -0400, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> | Alan Mazuti propounded (on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:02:21PM -0700):

> | | Just a side note. There were over 1 million people on the
> | | mountain when the fan(s) spit on Lance Armstrong. With that
> | | many crazy fans someone up there is bound to not like Lance
> | | or the US. If I am not mistaken JP speaks French and I will
> | | let him handle any negotiations with the French.

> | | GO JP!

> | Il n'y a rien ? n?gocier.

> | Vous bougres am?ricains, comprenez bien que les fran?ais
> | n'ont aucune m?prise pour vous -- c'est v?tre gouvernement
> | que les ?tourdit et les ?tonne et leur fait peur.

> Which, literally translated, means other than:

>   You rich Americans, we helped you out in your Revolutionary
>   War.  You have helped us out only in the World Wars I and II.
>   You are still in our debt!

Well they are still upset over WWII.   We didn't come to their help
when they asked as we were isolationist.  Germany invaded in
May of 1940, followed by Italy in June, and on June 14th 1940 Paris
fell  and within a week they signed an armistice with the axis.

That move left Paris to be about the only major European city 
that didn't suffer major destruction.  They weren't happy about it
but it saved good parts of their country.  But we didn't help them
until after we had been attacked by Japan.

>   If you would cut your work week down to 35 hours/week and give
>   your people vacations of one month/year, our economy could be
>   more competitive with yours and you could once again gain our
>   friendship and support.

They surely ship a lot of product in the US.  If it says RCA
it was made by Thompson.  GE sold the RCA consumer division to
Thomson when they bought RCA keeping NBC.


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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com