On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 12:15:12 Chimpsarecute wrote: ... >Can and will a collapse of the US be a major factor in ending the staus quo as far as >metric is concerned? > >Any opinions? > >Euric > I just wanted to give this forum my 2-cents worth on the above.
I truly believe that there has been *massive* shunning at the grassroots level of US products overall *everywhere*! And the US has Mr. Bush to blame for his hideous war-on-Iraq and "if-you're-not-with-us-you're against-us" fiascos when the overwhelming majority of the world population in general was *vehemently* against that. Well... I suppose that they're now reaping the "benefits" of those actions. I know from my contacts that an incredible number of people have simply placed a *total* embargo on *anything* American, unless they can't avoid it. So... there. Now, for the second part. If the US is indeed behind this "drive" for the keeping of ifp units then most certainly this would hopefully also translate into a slow demise for these archaic units (at least so we hope...). But only time will tell though. Marcus ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
