Most likely the design and parts used in Motorola producs is all made
in PRC.
The low price of Chinese producs is the heroin for the Western markets.
Wait until the addiction is there and the pusherman starts to raise the
price.
Our industry will be wiped out by then, leaving our kids to the mercy
of PRC.
Cheers, Dick Knol
PA3DUV
----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: N7HIY <N7HIY@comcast.net>
Datum: donderdag, augustus 11, 2005 1:20 pm
Onderwerp: Re: [Amps] Metric Conversion
> so all Windoze users are now relying upon the good will of the
> Communist
> Chinese government not to leak Billy Bob's source code, hackers
> world
> perfect storm. most of the network/system penetrations and worst
> viruses/worms are coming out of se asia.
>
> William may as well have given them your bank account, credit card
> and
> social security numbers from his scans of your computers on upgrades.
>
> the Commies could not even keep our satellite launch targeting
> technology
> safe, Motorola-Loral sat phone launches.
>
> Cliff N7HIY
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Will Matney" <craxd1@verizon.net>
> To: <amps@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Metric Conversion
>
>
> > See below;
> >
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
> >
> > On 8/11/05 at 2:41 AM R.Measures wrote:
> >
> >>On Aug 10, 2005, at 9:23 PM, David Kirkby wrote:
> >>
> >>> Mike wrote:
> >>>> Thanks Mark for the heads-up on the converter.
> Unfortunately, it only
> >>>> works on XP or later OS.
> >>>
> >>> A standard microsoft trick, to get you to upgrade the OS.
> >>
> >>Indeed. Dollar Bill's pursuit of mammon is so relentless that
> he won't
> >>even spend the bucks for a decent haircut.
> >
> > I'll about give 20:1 odds he cuts it himself or gets one of his
> house
> > keepers to do it free.
> >
> > If it wasn't for some of the lawsuits, he would be getting by
> with a lot
> > more than he does. I also heard about him letting the Chinese
> government
> > have the source code to Windows so they would buy it. What gets
> me is that
> > a bunch of the illegal software sites there are on government
> servers.
> > Plus the government has been guilty of using the cracked
> software for
> > years. He'd sh*t if a competitive version of Windows came out of
> China! I
> > for one would get a big kick out of it.
> >
> >
> >>>
> >>> For some applications, such as drivers for hardware,
> firewalls, network
> >>> monitoring software etc, it would be more work to write the
> program to
> >>> work on multiple versions of Windows.
> >>>
> >>> For a metric converter, that is very different. There is no
> reason on
> >>> earth why it could not be made to work on any version of Windoze.
> >>>
> >>> Of course, just because it says XP only, does not necessarily
> mean it
> >>> will not work on an older version, although the installer
> might refuse
> >>> to install it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> At 18:57 8/10/05, AA6DX - Mark wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I recently found/installed the new Microsoft
> converter/calculator,>>>>> and
> >>>>> really think it's just swell ... you can get it from them,
> or .. to
> >>>>> make it
> >>>>> easy .. from one of my websites, here ..
> >>>>> http://members.cox.net/kenwood/
> >>>>> 73 .. Mark AA6DX
> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>> From: <amps-request@contesting.com>
> >>>>> To: <amps@contesting.com>
> >>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 2:49 PM
> >>>>> Subject: Amps Digest, Vol 32, Issue 19
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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> >>>> 73,
> >>>> Mike, K4GMH
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> >>> --
> >>> David Kirkby,
> >>> G8WRB
> >>>
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> >>Richard L. Measures, AG6K, 805.386.3734. www.somis.org
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> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Will
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