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To: Tommaso who wrote (51468)	10/14/2005 9:24:29 AM
From: CommanderCricket	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 206214

Tommaso, I took the TGV from CDG to Bordeaux last year and it was nothing like the Chinkansen trains in Japan (IBM's European commodity team is located in Bordeaux). The TGV is very clean and conveniently located at CDG but nowhere near as fast as the Japanese trains. Perhaps I got on the wrong one but we stopped every 20 minutes and the train never did go anywhere near 120 - 140 kph. Even stopped at Disneyland. That said, traveling in Europe or Japan is alot more fun than here in the US. The Japanese have train travel down pat! Michael

To: Tommaso who wrote (51468)	10/14/2005 10:34:51 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 206214

Tom, I can recall people's reaction in Germany when they first have gone there. They were in awe. Everything worked and all those conveniences. I had to remind them. Do you know how much this cost? Flying a helicopter to catch people speeding up? Taxpayers money paid for that. All those trains up and down? Subsidies paid for that. Taxing efficient sectors of the economy and transferring to the inefficient ones. And those six weeks of holidays and all that labor protection relics of the industrial age... I concluded: One day this is going to end. It is not sustainable. Some set of circumstances allowed Europe to be, well, Europe, and those circumstances having disappeared, they will have to become like everybody. The day that is ending that, is today. And this is only the beginning of the beginning. We have much more to see until the end of the beginning. Oh, by the way, the guys who arrived in Germany, I was talking about, were my Brazilian country men!