On Jul 24, 1:42=A0pm, Tihomir <tgreb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Instead of taking 32 puffs of smoke, Jef. spoketh upon us:
>
> >"...if you had a beef with a department store, for instance, you could
> >always go to another department store: '**** you, Macy's I'm going to
> >Gimbels!' "
> >"You couldn't say: '**** you, Phone Company! I'm going to the ...uh...
o=
ther
> >phone company...' "
> >' Yeah, schmuck? *WHAT* other phone company?'
> >"Man; you get too hot with the Phone Company and they'll **** *you*,
Jim=
!
> >You'll wind up with a piece of string and a couple of tin cans: 'Hello?
> >Hello...?' "
>
> Home appliances? There used to be dozens of manufacturers to choose
> from. All with their original ideas and designs. All made in Europe.
> Now there is only Electrolux, who bought out every other major company
> in Europe.
> Cars? German Volkswagen bought Audi, bought Spanish Seat, bought Czech
> Skoda and so on. Peugeot bought Citroen, Talbot...
>
> Globalisation everywhere. But do we really understand what it brings.
>
> The best joke is this: whatever brand of computer or computer part you
> buy, it is all made in the same neighborhood. You can't buy a
> motherboard made in Germany. Or a DVD drive from the UK. There is, for
> example, a large, huge, plant for manufacturing motherboards, which
> are sold to half a dozen companies who stick their stickers on them
> and sell them under different names.
>
> I am getting carried away, but honestly, every day we have less real
> choice. But that is not the real problem.
> The real problem is that we think we do.
>
> --
> Tihomir 1Y1M, Knin, HR 44=B0N 16=B0E
> =A0http://www.quitbuddies.org
>
> Quote 2148 of 9169:
> "What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
> -- Ursula K. Leguin
I'll tell you one choice I have that I didn't used to have.........
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