OT - was Re: ArcNet and the Pursuit of Multiple Topologies

From: Jim Davis <jpdavis_at_gorge.net>
Date: Tue Oct 16 00:29:33 2001

Lawrence Walker wrote:
>
> This is my last OT comment, since we ARE a classic computer mailing list
> and just went thru that rash of OT msgs. Again, my apologies.
> Don the point that I was trying to make was not that you obviously have
> foreign investment in the global economy, but that the US government exerts
> it's considerable economic and media clout to further it's corporate presence
> and ideology in countries around the world to the detriment of most of those
> country's people.

How is this a BAD THING for US citizens? And why would we care about anybody else.
If Canada, New Zealand, Australia or Europe could pull it off, they would.
And in most cases, They are, with tariffs and trade restrictions.

< hwood and media control of canuk pols snipped>

Again, thats your problem, you voted for those morons.

> During the oil crisis, oil destined for Can was diverted to US ports which
> ultimately caused PM Trudeau to set up a Can company to prevent this
> happening again. As happened in the US when the big agribusiness corps
> like Cargill forced the small farmers off the farm, the same thing is going on
> here. But since Cargill and others are US businesses supported by thier
> government there is much less accountability to the plight of the poor
> farmers.

Likewise, free enterprise.

> Our medicare, beloved by all Canadians, is under threat now due to the
> avericious propaganda by US assembly-line medical mega-corps greedily
> eyeing the Canadian market and US government efforts to undermine it
> through International trade agreements. At present if hit by a major medical
> expense our homes are not at risk.

Maybe you should get off of your little socialist ass and fight for real
freedom. The suck from your social systems breeds a bunch of useless
slacker losers and an ecomony that rivals Mexaco. That's YOUR problem.
Not OURS.

< nafta and timber dumping yammering snipped as a courtesy detail >

> Of course,since, but for a few exceptions like CBC and local media, the US
> media overwhelmingly controls what most Canadians see and listen to, we
> are very much influenced by it to our own detriment in many cases.
> And this is to the US's closest "friend" and largest trading "partner". Imagine
> what it's like for more distant countries.

What about LEXX, Tasteless, sexy bordering on porn.

> 'Nuff said.
Not really, but, like you said, "This is my last OT comment,
since we ARE a classic computer mailing list and just went thru
that rash of OT msgs. Again, my apologies."
Whats your excuse?
>
<snip>
ACK, Life sucks everywhere, unless you have a bankrupt government
like Canada that uses irreplacable resources to get the citizens
fat and happy, FOR NOW.
WAKE UP, the party is over!
Received on Tue Oct 16 2001 - 00:29:33 BST