Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]DonjR43198@aol.com wrote: > The Allies did not pay for the technology but took it at gun point. If that > is done by private citizens, it is a felony whether you like it or not. > Thus, in my books, the technology was "stolen." It most certainly was not > developed by Americans. However, some good criminal defense lawyer may > decide to use your "reparations" theory to spring his client charged with > armed robbery. I find your equating war with armed robbery utterly ridiculous. There is absolutely no logical way to be found, at least in this reality, to equate the two, morally, politically, whatever. War and armed robbery are different. Understand: the Germans LOST THE WAR. If you want to make up your own definition of what "is" is, that's your call I guess. I even consumed the recommended daily allowance of The Macallan 18 single malt and then re-read your paragraph - it made even less sense, as I started to recall in a loud voice my experiences in the Boer War.... Okay, I consumed MORE than the r.d.a. of Macallan ;-) I do find it odd that Richard Feynman is nowhere mentioned anywhere by either of you two scholars of the Manhattan Project, even if for a joke or two in the middle of your posting. RF made many fine contributions, including the use of manual calculators operated by humans as a highly parallel computer. Though I suppose the discussion of RF would also be as off topic as anything else on the subject :-) . Cordially Patrick Giagnocavo a222@redrose.net