On Friday 17 April 2015 09:32:47 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 17 April 2015 12:46:04 Petter Adsen wrote: > > I think it's Chinese or Taiwanese, so it's probably the Communist > > Party that has the backdoor :) > > The poor Tawanese! |ny dead ones must be turning in their graves. > They are more anti-communist than the USA!! They fought a nasty civil > war against the communists and didn't really concede defeat - they are > the last territory to fall, and haven't yet fallen. > > Lisi
And thats a statement I whole heartedly agree with. Unfortunately, the mainland has rather effectively ensnared the Taiwanese with an economical chokehold. If I should buy yet another machine to run with LinuxCNC, I would happily pay a 10% premium for ball screws to drive it with from a Taiwanese supplier, just on the rinciples of the thing. But the mainland people now own that market, starving the Taiwanese out of the running. And with our present administrations attitude, there is not one damned thing I can do about it with my $700 when I can buy the whole kit minus motors from ebay, made on the mainland, and in fact made very well. In the long view, the mainland will win that war they've been posturing about for 60 years now, without firing more than a ceremonial shot. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201504171400.02922.ghesk...@wdtv.com