[Rockhounds] Ice question ?

[Axel Emmermann]

And the Belgian solution:

First we drink a few Beers.
Then we realize that Belgium is too small to shoot anything that needs a
scope...
Then we celebrate this insight with another fermented beverage.
I may have said this before but: take Florida and a pair of scissors... cut
off the part that is south of Tampa. Put aside the larger part. Yes, the
small part is about the size of Belgium.
We had 3223 breweries in 1900. Belgium was even smaller then since we
acquired the eastern cantons after WW1.
There's about 240 breweries left now... These are dire times, my friends.

Cheers
Axel


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> Namens Kay Davis
> Verzonden: dinsdag 20 januari 2009 15:23
> Aan: 'Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors'
> Onderwerp: RE: [Rockhounds] Ice question ?
> 
> Axel said >. Oh well, that 's how I would make such a sight.
> 
> Ah but there are 3 schools of engineering
> 
> The Russian School: Comrade we need 1 Mcg if tritium, so lets put 1 Mg,
that
> way it will for sure work... maybe  Health effects what is that...
> 
> The German School: Get a team of engineers to determine that the sight
needs
> to work for 20 years to meet customer expectation. They then calculate the
> exact amount of Tritium needed and build a sight with that plus a small
> safety margin.
> 
> The American School of thought: Get a bunch of marketers together to
figure
> out how short a warranty they can put on the sight and get away with it
> working enough so the sight won't comeback during the warranty period, but
> will fail 1 week later so that the client will need to buy another.
> 
> And now we have a 4th school
> The Chinese school: Doesn't matter what the contract says, build the sight
> with Melamine instead of Tritium and laugh if you try to return it because
> it doesn't work
> 
> With tongue firmly in cheek
> Kay
> 
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