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Skriven 2014-08-24 20:37:32 av JOHN GUILLORY (1:396/60)
     Kommentar till en text av Roy Witt
Ärende: Planes
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->  JG>    Your making Russia sound like China...

-> China isn't the first...Japan took our old beer cans and made tin toys
-> out of them after WW2. Japan took our radios and tv sets apart and made
-> their own verion of them. I suspect that even our allies have done this
-> same thing.

   Yeah, I understand ham folks in the USA as a general rule aren't too
found of hams that buy chinese radios... But first off, I honestly don't
know what brands to buy that are not either Japanese or Chinese made!
Possibly icom, kentwood, and Elecraft... Granted, that's probably the 3
highest brand radios on the market!  Compare that with radios made from
China and Japan... You get the same features and in most cases quality
for a fraction of the cost...  


->  JG> The folks who take our technology, make a clone of it, then

-> Iran has taken USA built F-16s apart, built their own version and don't
-> worry about the sanctions imposed on them since the 1970s.

I can remember when Japan had got upset, because after the war, we cut
them some slack on their imports, then once the time ran out, they made
enough money to get on their feet, we excercised or taxes again on their
imports, and Japan complained because they couldn't make as big of a
profiet now...  I had to laugh at the time, they was lucky we gave them
a break to begin with!  Other countries place way steeper embargo's or
taxes on imports than we could ever dream of.  If the usa did as they
did, we wouldn't have the problem with folks not wanting to buy american
made!

-> [china]

->  JG> sell it back to us cheaper, made with poorer quallity and generally
->  JG> more dangerous...

-> Japan did that with machine tools and have even included robotics in them,
-> beating anything we've made in that field.

->  JG> Hmmm, we should let China make our M-16's!

-> That can't happen, because our chickenshit politicians have banned
-> anything that even resembles an 'Assault Weapon' from being imported.

-> A foriegn made M16 clone would not have a chance of getting off the ship,
-> let alone being marketed here.

It might, just not in such a way that it gets taxed, or sold to the
individual or even military.... Probably gets sold to the druggies
without you realizing it....  Sadly its probably more reliable than the
junk that's furnished to the soldiers.... I hear a lot of that going
on...  The tanks, weapons, etc. given to the soldiers are a lower
quality than that which we send to foreign countries that end up using
them when they go to war against us...
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