Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]MArk- Okay- :0) smiley first before I throw myself into the fray! One- Never owned a Ford (Fix Or Repair Daily)- always a Chebby or a Mopar product. Never owned an IBM though we were forced to use one in school- does the word KLUDGE sound right? They foisted obsolete technology with their first 8088 machine from the start, and have bben playing 'catch-up' ever since! And as for Newsweek- I have never subscribed to it- the last time I actually read one was to use it for a research paper, and used it for a source, of sorts! Same for Time, US News and World Reports and the other so called news magazines. I also refrain from watching CNN (Collapsing News Network) as I find Fox more entertaining, and since I have access to the BBC world news and the CBC Newsworld International, I have actually been able to see and hear what has been going on elsewhere in the world! I watch Der Deutsche Welle, and the Japanese news as well, thankfully with translations. Also, let me apologise for bringing up Waco and Ruby Ridge- Despite the claims of many, their transgressions were never proven in a court of law, and without some sort of due process, the sight of civilian dead, lying in the shadow of US military equipment gave me quite a turn. I am quite certain that many who feel the inhabitants of Waco got their just desserts also feel that Mumia Abu Jamal was a railroaded poor black man who is now a political prisoner. Our perceptions differ, sorry- and I promise to try not to crunch so many toes next time! I also have a Jupiter-12 that I find quite useful on a Leica IIIc, so I am probably guilty of something else too! :o) Dan(Trying to be the scan man) Post - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:08 PM Subject: [Leica] Nazi Paraphernalia Punch cards from hell!!! > Hugo Lopes wrote: > > > > >I think they were part of the I.G. Farben consortium, but if a finger > > were > > >to be pointed- what about BASF (Badische Anilin und SodaFabrik)- every > > time > > >I see their commercials on TV I add to their blurb- "yes, the wonderful > > >people who brought us Zyklon-B...." > > >I have to admit, I do not knowingly buy BASF products.... > > >Dan > > > > A couple of questions Dan: > > - Have you ever owned a Ford? (Henry Ford donated money to the Nazi > > party before the war) > > - Do you read Newsweek? (They elected Hitler man of the year in 36) > > - Do you own an IBM (see the latest news) > ><Snip> > > > From CNN > http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/02/12/ibm/index.html > The book includes gruesome allegations that concentration camps used IBM punch > cards to categorize victims: homosexuals rated No. 3, > Jews No. 8, Gypsies No. 12. > > IBM, as a nearly exclusive supplier of database equipment to the Third Reich, > fed their demand not out of Nazi sympathies but from a > desire to dominate global markets for its products, Black argues. > > The punch-card-machine -- the mainframe computer of its day -- dates back to > 1890, when Herman Hollerith, a German American, first > built them to compile the U.S. population census. > > (And the part i love the most!!!:) > IBM remains one of the world's largest suppliers of databases and Hollerith > punch cards are the same technology blamed for the > election counting problems in Florida in last year's U.S. presidential election. > > One of the machine made by the company -- believed to have been used in the 1933 > German census, the year the Nazis took power -- is on > display at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. > > What about Television? > And jets? > > Cant we sue NBC and Boeing? > > mark rabiner > :) > bad mark!!! > bad!!! >