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To: IHUBDOWN who wrote (49668)	1/19/2006 4:27:54 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196649

<You seem to have some inbred/inboard hatred towards Europeans ..... Just imagine what the world would be like if there were no "standards". Maybe you just like chaos.> Not at all. No hatred for Europeans. It's the ideology endemic in European political circles which I despise. I have seen too much of government economic destruction, waste, inefficiency, kleptocracy and suffocatocracy. Once upon a time, when young, before I knew what was going on, I thought governments should be more efficient than competing private enterprises, as they could be single suppliers, running things efficiently. But that's not how humans work. When I experienced real life in person, I realized my early ideas were bung. So changed them. Some standards are good, some are bad. Having seen government attempts to create standards in the oil industry, I am deeply suspicious of any government enforced standards. Industry standards are questionable too, as too many industries are more interested in operating cartels than competing for pre-eminence. I was pleased to personally stymie one standard at birth, for re-refined lubricants in New Zealand in 1983. It was well under development, and I got it ditched. I had thought it was fait accompli, as did Graeme Wilson of Shell, who left the meeting thinking the i's were being dotted and t's crossed. He returned to find it had been tossed altogether. Ah the joy of life at times. Unfortunately, the NZ government subsequently established a standards for petrol and diesel, which I used to do part time, but they required years of jamborees to achieve a half-baked faulty specification. I warned them that they were heading for a mess with their unleaded petrol in the 1990s, [having left the industry years before], but they ignored my sage advice. Then, when it all went bung, they decided I was right after all and rapidly changed the proportions of aromatics. BP moved to 98 Research Octane Number. I am sure the same sorts of idiocy have been applied in cellphone/cyberphone standards at great expense and inefficiency. Standards are usually stifling. Sometimes standards are necessary [such as for protecting the commons; air, sea, noise, spectrum, rivers, plants, etc]. Chaos is how things are [see Chaos Theory]. imho.com Ordering things rationally is good. But regimentation for the sake of a lot of saluting and having tickets clipped is not. Mqurice