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Hello Mike - 

CA>> AIRBUS was a collaboration. France didn't do this alone. 

MR> I'm very glad you have a keen eye for detail but who really
MR> cares... But, uh, they *are* being sold! 

Well I care and I suspect the people in competition with that
product care. 

MR>> a rocket program that regularly launches satellites for
MR>> many countries, 

CA>> This is somewhat true. They have a limited capability
CA>> AFAIK. 

MR> You always say something amazing... (but it's not
MR> sensational!) You can't be somewhat pregnant... either you
MR> are or you aren't. The French have the infrastructures to
MR> place satellites in orbit. What else can you add to that? 

I can understand how you would see the French as "somewhat
pregnant" but I fail to see the comparison. The French could
never get Hubble into orbit or any number of other satellites.
Their capabilities are more limited than that. 

MR>> nuclear reactors for sale to whoever wants one, 

CA>> Yes, 

MR> At last something positive... (I understand what a strain
MR> this admission must be for you. ) 

Not a strain, a way of explaining why they aren't working as
hard to stop Atomic proliferation as other countries are. They
_profit_ by pretending to be selling nuclear reactors for power
stations. 

CA>> , in fact they had just signed a deal to sell them to
CA>> Saddam not long ago which probably explains their
CA>> reluctance to boot him out of Iraq. ;-) 

MR> But why the rest of the qualifiers though? Either they sell
MR> nukes or they don't, who cares! 

"Who cares"? Now you are babbling. 

MR>> and countless other leading edge technologies. 

CA>> Such as? 

MR> You totally exasperate me! Have you ever taken your head
MR> out of the sand and looked around a little? The French are
MR> leading edge in electric motors, generators, motor controls, 

I'm not in a position to monitor country of origin for electric
motors. How do you happen to know who uses what countries
electric motors? 

MR> tunnel digging machines, 

Yes, well a country of cheese-eating surrender monkeys _would_
be good at digging tunnels to hide in. :-) 

MR> and jet fighters (Eurofighter - yes, yes, a collaboration
MR> sheesh!). 

When IBM and Microsoft move to India and China you will be
thinking India and China _created_ the software and are
superior to everyone else. 

CA>> Last time I watched a documentary about wine they said
CA>> that the differences between California wines and France
CA>> were mainly imaginery. I'm not sure that selling booze
CA>> makes a country great. 

MR> Are you sure you didn't watch an imaginary documentary? The
MR> US wine industry sometimes promotes its wines by making
MR> bogus documentaries in the same style as the Pepsi vs Coke
MR> ads. If it was a documentary made in Canada or the UK
MR> perhaps it could be a little less biased. 

Lately the UK seems to be lying as much, and as often, as my
own homegrown government. 

Canada, yes I tend to agree but I suspect it's often "little
brother" trying to tell mommy what bad things "big brother" has
done. :-) 

MR> However take note there must be something in this since the
MR> comparison is invariably made to French wines. 

Habit? 

MR> Personally, I prefer Italian wines. (g) 

All this filibustering and you don't even drink French wine?
Geesh! 

MR>> They may have eminently stupid intellectual institutions
MR>> and politicians but you are dead wrong to underestimate
MR>> the competition! 

CA>> You are entitled to your opinion, of course, but I really
CA>> don't think anyone is underestimating the French. 

CA>> http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf/thefrench/htm 

MR> I don't surf, so please, spare the links, they're only
MR> meaningless gibberish to me... In my opinion if you need
MR> others' opinions to support a point then the least you
MR> could do is to paraphrase them in your own words. 

I am DosGhost. 

MR> Otherwise you come off for example like a pedant professor
MR> referencing page #296 of "Archetypal Structures of
MR> Neo-Elizabethan Grotto Decorating" to discuss the 1001 ways
MR> of decorating a wedding cake, among others. Besides it's
MR> only a step away from plagiarism. 

(see above) 

MR> (Have you no shame, man?! (g)) 

Good question and I do notice that when I was younger a man
past the half-century mark was considered 'mature' and now is
considered a has-been or a burn-out. After being treated that
way I do wonder if trying to be helpful isn't something I will
be ashamed of one day. 

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