Subj : Re: Industry Calls for More Foreign Programmers
To   : comp.programming
From : Joe Seigh
Date : Thu Aug 25 2005 12:34 pm

Duane Bozarth wrote:
> Mike wrote:
> 
>>In article <1124885709.469618.270740@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, spinoza1111@yahoo.com says...
>>
> ...
> 
>>>So why, we I lived in the USA, did there always seem to be some loser
>>>pulled over to the side of the road with his car on fire?
>>>
>>
>>Because they are unwilling or unable to learn the simple and relatively broad rules, or maybe because 80% of American-
>>designed and -built cars are unreliable :).
> 
> 
> Mostly because there are so many cars it's inevitable to have a
> mechanical breakdown...
> 

If it's a Europe vs. America observation, some of the European countries require
the cars to be in better condition.  In the US you can drive any old junkheap
as long as it passes inspection which is basically just turn signals, brakes,
tires, and windshield wipers for cars too old to emissions check even.  You
can't do this in Europe.  In Germany, the American GI's stationed there could
own and drive cars the Germans weren't allowed to put on the road, at one time
anyway.

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Joe Seigh

When you get lemons, you make lemonade.
When you get hardware, you make software.

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