On Oct 28, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > > On Oct 28, 2011, at 3:59 PM, John Francis wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 02:09:11PM -0400, David J Brooks wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Stan Halpin >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Taiwan? Does he know anything about Thailand? >>>> >>>> stan >>> >>> All i was sent, sorry Stan. Nothing about Pentax , just Nikon and Canon >>> items. >> >> You miss the point. >> >> It's rather unlikely that a plant in Taiwan is under 2M of water; >> the last time Taiwan got hit by severe flooding was two years ago. >> >> The current floods in South East Asia are affecting Thailand. >> This is a problem for several Taiwanese businesses (such as >> Acer) which have manufacturing facilities in Thailand, but >> it doesn't directly affect Taiwanese assembly plants. >> > Thanks John - that was my point which I tried to make too briefly. If your > source, Dave, doesn't even know what country is having flooding issues, can > we trust anything else in his message? From what I have heard, it would not > be surprising if large elements of the electronics world, to include digital > cameras, were not affected by the extreme monsoons in Thailand and elsewhere > in SE Asia and region. But the doom and gloom your source is spreading, > without any link to company announcements, seems like fear-mongering to me.
Confusing Thailand and Taiwan is a fairly understandable braino to make, especially if someone is a bit fuzzy on Asian geography. Here's what Nikon said a couple weeks ago http://www.nikon.com/news/2011/1011_01_e.htm -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
