🚀 go-pugleaf

Sorry 'bout replying to an old one, but...

In article <13510039@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>, stanb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Stan Bischof) writes:
>[On the subject of recordable CD:s]
>A secondary (and very real) reason why you won't see them for quite
>awhile is good old Congress. The lobby groups are against any recordable
>media since it supposedly cuts into their sales. Ask yourself why you
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>can't buy a DAT recorder in the US, while they are readily available 
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>in the rest of the world.

Is this actually the case?! And, if so, could this somehow be related to 
the observation earlier in the thread about whether engineers are in 
shortage or not, that there are more lawyers in New York alone than in 
all of Japan? :-)

Tomas
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Tomas Eriksson                                          tomas_e@physchem.kth.se
            Surface Force Group, Department of Physical Chemistry,
               Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

"These latter-day practitioners of surface chemistry reflect a lingering of the
adventurous spirit of the Enlightment" -- Charles Tanford