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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5484 comp.os.linux.misc:35688 comp.os.os2.advocacy:80329 alt.folklore.computers:73829 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!psgrain!rainrgnews0!news.teleport.com!news.teleport.com!not-for-mail From: jrp@teleport.com (Joshua R. Poulson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 14 Feb 1995 19:55:16 -0800 Organization: Teleport ISP Lines: 57 Message-ID: <3hrtv4$5j5@linda.teleport.com> References: <950116203411@lambada> <D3Mvy7.1Kq@csc.liv.ac.uk> <3heh7u$scl@umbc8.umbc.edu> <3hg0ei$f96@yama.mcc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: linda.teleport.com In article <3hg0ei$f96@yama.mcc.ac.uk>, Paul Floyd <paul@meed47.ee.man.ac.uk> wrote: >What a jerk! Nice premise. >What use is a 300hp car in a country with a 55 (60 sometimes speed limit)? >Is it to cover a penis inferiority complex? Only 7 states do not have a 65 mph speed limit. There are no states in the union that do not have racetracks. >And do you simply not give a shit about the environment, as long as you're >sitting in a fat slug 4-litre engined car? The days of engines like that >are over, legislation [California especially] is forcing car manufacturers >to produce ~1 litre lean burn engines. I'm sure David Leblanc can put you >straight on these matters. You can run pretty clean without all the extra crap loaded onto cars. Did you know leaded gas no longer has lead in it, but phosphorus? Let's get rid of those damn catalytic converters as they are no longer needed. >As for the product quality, I'm less familiar with the auto industry than >I am with electronics, but I think the fact that the USA has no TV >manufacturers (only foreign owned plants) is a classic example of Japanese >product quality. No, it's a classic example of what "dumping" can do to decimate a market, especially when Japanese companies are backed up by MITI so they can afford the major losses that dumping causes. It happened in the RAM market. It happened in the consumer electronics market. Ask silicon valley about it sometime. >If you knew much about the history of PQ, you'd realize >that it grew up in Japan (ironically, the idea was sold to the Japanese >by an American, who went there after American companies ignored him. Sorry, >don't remember his name). Product Quality has been around as long as Products have. >I'll leave your bright idea about expensive dinosaur iron to the others >in this group. Those of us that feel that cars are tools and not appliances will fondly remember the big iron, and now we drive cars that still let us feel the damn road. German cars from the Volkswagon to the BMW let us do that. American big iron like the new Firebird Formula. Very little Japanese iron FEELS like a car. There are some that do, but they're recent. Thanks for being an open and caring individual. I'm so glad you took the time to understand people that like driving before posting like you did... -- Joshua R. Poulson, jrp@teleport.com, http://www.teleport.com/~jrp/jrp.html