Good Afternoon group, Man, what a interesting discussion. One of the last comments I read was asking about the quality of Chineese products available to the public sucks, then what about the quality of products available to places like your local nuclear plant ? And it got me to thinking. About the only way the "ramming of China down our throats" is going to get a second look is when huge failures start taking their tolls. I have to agree, that we have only ourselves to blame for where we stand right now. For years we have demanded less expensive products. Nobody cared that the radio or toaster didn't last 20 years. We had to have the latest and greatest to keep up with or even out do the Jones. And if you remember, at first, foreign quality was actually better than US products. But, slowly the quality started to fade off. No body really cared much because we had become a "it's disposable" society. Remember that little "Fix-it shop" on the Andy Griffith Show ? That use to be as important as the local barber shop. After a while no one wanted to repair a 20 year old toaster, because a new one was cheaper. We have to change the way we think and we have to teach our children differently. To some extent it is the same mind set I witnessed when it came to watching my kids with video games ( which I absolutely despise with a passion ) It starts out with "just got to have that game...it's the greatest" which progresses to "I'm bored with trying it the hard way, where do I find the cheat code that makes me invincible." which finally leads to "I'm bored, but there is a better game that we just got to have..." Took me about three times around that tree and I said enough. Unplugged it from the TV. There are a number of things to blame, but untimately WE are responsible for how things really are. And the good news is WE can change it. It's going to take dicipline and self control, but it can be done if that's what WE really want.
That's all I got.....for now.... Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
