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To: TobagoJack who wrote (28010)	1/27/2003 10:27:01 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

No. Who started that type of calculation were the British. If every Chinese would make his shirt one cm longer, we would have an output for all this overcapacity in textiles. That after other countries -who didn't respected intellectual property- have attacked their copycat industrial revolution of their own. Germany -Taussig says- were selling dirty cheap, inferior quality railway materials, the British said. Hence the British started putting the label: "Made in England" to give it a nice cache to its products. Like Intel puts this label "Intel Inside" and MSFT tries to defend intellectual prperty with nail and claw. I would prefer to say: If every Chinese girl would make her skirt 5cm SHORTER...