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To: smooth2o who wrote (182895)	12/14/2005 6:05:04 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Smooth, funny story... we received a US govt order at work today that has the strangest requirement - our gear has to be shipped from its current govt location, back to us, then resent back to the customer's receive-shipment destination for an official check-in who in turn will forward the gear right back to its current location. i.e. X --> Y --> Z --> X. It's some type of legal requirement the US govt has. The bureaucracy creates a waste of money & time - so I questioned, "is this so-called capitalism worse than communism?" and an engineer from a communist country overheard this and corrected me and said, "no it's not!", he said, "at least in a communist country people would have the smarts to ship empty boxes (as a workaround to bureaucracy) rather than shipping heavy boxes around in a complete circle like the US does" !!! - he was totally joking of course. Sometimes work is like the twilight zone - never a dull moment, that is for sure. RE: "China may be getting all too friendly" I think that's a good thing. Btw, restricted hightech equipment reportedly is easily transported thru 3rd countries. RE: "isn't there a restriction on computer IP" But I think the real issue for everyone from any country is pervasive IP theft. It gets old. Article on "AMD's Asian Thrust" yahoo.businessweek.com Regards, Amy J