[gameprogrammer] Re: PC game Outsourcing

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 23:14, grant hallman wrote:
> At 07:49 AM 28-04-04 -0500, Bob P wrote:
> >On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 00:48, Alexander Whaley wrote:
> >
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >Considering that the US pushed so hard for the WTO and NAFTA we haven't
> >shown much interest in actually obeying those treaties. Ask Mexico and
> >Canada about how well the US has kept its promises about Interstate
> >Highway 35, the so called "NAFTA Highway". The slow action, inaction, is
> >mostly the results of the I35 states fighting to keep I35 from actually
> >carrying trucks from Mexico to Canada. 
> 
> Ask most Canadians who follow this stuff, and they'll tell u about the 27%
> softwood lumber tariffs the US imposed on Canadian lumber used to build US
> houses. US did that at the urging of the US softwood lumber industry.
> Canada went to US and WTO courts, won every time, and the duty is still
> there. It's shut down an entire industry on Canada's West Coast, 10,000
> folk out of work, /and/ made US houses cost more.
> 
> Or ask about the US duty on Honda engines made in a Honda plant in Canada
> and imported to a Honda plant in the US. Or the total shutdown of live beef
> imports, over a single case of BSE in Canada, compared to the non-shutdown
> of US sources over /their/ single case.
> 
> Wonder how many US cits could correctly identify their country's largest
> trading partner? 

Yeah, I know. (Hangs his head in shame.) The best/worst example of that
I ever saw was at a NAFTA office in south Texas. Of course, the office
has all three national flags flying over it. I overheard people saying
something like "The one with the bird and the snake is Mexico, and that
one is ours, but what is that red one with the funny thing in the
middle?" They were pointing at the three flag poles flying the flags of
Mexico, the US, and Canada.

                Bob Pendleton

> 
> Just curious - grant
> 
> 
> 
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