From: Kirk Thompson (mosen_temp@mosen.net)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2006 - 22:25:30 PST
HEHEHEHEHEHEHEE!!!
I should hope so.
At 11:07 PM 3/30/2006, Arthur Bloom wrote:
>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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