From: Arthur Bloom (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2006 - 22:07:55 PST
I do not eat frogs. Does that count?
apb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Jankowiak" <recycler@swbell.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:00 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Fw: [MV] Update French MV Situation
| As to French products:
|
| Since I work for a semiconductor company with a factory in Grenoble (one
of
| our many plants on the globe including more than one in France), I am in a
| unique position to advise all "French-product-avoiders":
|
| You need to get rid of your satellite/set top boxes, cellphones, TV sets
| (especially that 50" plasma job), your computers -from servers to laptops
| and all the infrastructure in between, including routers and ADSL or cable
| modem, your GPS's, sattelite radios, and better check your home appliances
| especially anything with a variable speed motor control in it.. anything
| substantial with a USB or RS-232 port or a small high-pixel-count built-in
| camera is especially suspect as is anything with a voltage regulator or a
| hard disk drive; Confidence is high that each of these electronics
products
| has at least one of my company's French-made products inside.
|
| Are you willing to risk it?
|
| To save time and eliminate any questions of how to purify your home of
| these awful things, you may ship your electronics goods pre-paid to me (no
| broken items please). fedex ground is cheap. Contact me offline for my
| receiving address. I'll reserve some warehouse space.
|
| I will donate them to poor families in my inner city neighborhood (of
| course I may pick one or two from time to time for myself to cover my
| expenses).
|
| I should have saved this for April 1, now that I think about it. -but it's
| all true. We do today live in a world where any product may contain parts
| made in any place on the globe. Avoiding a product stamped as "from a
| certain place" guarantees nothing in terms of ultimate product avoidance.
|
|
| Patrick
|
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