From: V SCHWARTZ (vsaws@optonline.net)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2006 - 05:06:30 PST
This has all the earmarks of some sort of conspiracyby the french . It must
also be OT. Excuse me while I get my morning coffee.
----- 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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