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In article <wXtB9Ny00VA9Q810hj@andrew.cmu.edu>, jd3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jean-Marc Debaud) writes:
> *Just a less, uh, "developed" legal system.
> So we are undercivilised ? Are we ?
> Just typical of a certain attitude about foreign countries.

I think you are too busy being a feisty Frenchman to recognize that as a
jest.  Throwing in "uh," and quoting "developed" was intended as a swipe at
the litigious American legal atmosphere, not as a slur on the French.
Please calm down and accept my apology for not having appended a smiley.

> >>Suppose you tell us what US manufacturers did to kill it.
> >The same way automakers killed the passenger railroad industries. (Through
> >lobbying in congress to get laws favoring them even indirectly.)
> 
> *What kind of laws?  More specifics, please.
> 
> Sorry I don't have the reference numbers... but, [general stuff about
> intra-American highway-rail skullduggery]

I expected you to give specifics on what laws were passed by the US Congress
to thwart the Concorde.
 
> Concorde has a range long enough to cover 10000 Km. in one shot.
> *Baloney.  If it did, we would be seeng Concorde nonstop routes from Paris
> *(or London) to Hong Kong, Capetown, Mexico City, Rio de Janiero, and
> *Tokyo.
> 
> Thnaks to treat me as a liar.

If the shoe fits...

> Besides Honk-Kong is much farther than 10000Kmfrom Paris.

9640 km, according to The World Almanac.

> Just Paris-JFK is 6500km apart and I know that for instance Pres.
> F Mitterant visited Venezuela 2 years ago and flew straight from Paris.

Neither of these proves your assertion of 10000 km range.  As a matter of
fact, Paris-JFK flights don't prove that the range exceeds the Paris-JFK
distance, which is where the argument started.  If Concorde carried
"Pres. F Mitterant" (I presume you mean Mitterand) nonstop from Paris to
Venezuela, it didn't have a full load of passengers.
 
> If a Paris Brasilia or else wasn't done it might be because there weren't
> enough pleople ready to pay the high price of a ticket.

Actually, there was talk of service from Paris to Rio de Janiero --
with a refuelling stop in Dakar.
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