Re: Digikey policy change on backorders


"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 21:44:35 -0700, "Richard Henry" <rphenry@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Tim Hubberstey" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >news:90Gye.108513$9A2.73215@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Richard Henry wrote:
> >>
> >> > "Tim Hubberstey" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> > news:0lEye.108495$9A2.36453@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>Watch it there, Sonny! Why I remember a time when the mighty
y'all-buck
> >> >>was worth LESS than the Canuck-buck! OK, it was over 20 years ago --
but
> >> >>it happened!
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I remember when I moved up near the border (late 50's) we got 4 cents
> >extra
> >> > for a Buck Canuck.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>Mumble, mumble, mumble... And we whipped your butts in the War of
1812
> >> >>too! So there!
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Not entirely. Look up "Battle of Lake Erie".
> >>
> >> One battle does not a war make. There were similar whippings dished out
> >> by the Canadians (Fort George, for instance). The end result was that
> >> the American invasion of Canada was rebuffed and the border was
> >> essentially unchanged.
> >>
> >> I'd be willing to bet that what we were taught in school differs
> >> significantly from what Americans were taught. While it is true that
> >> "history is written by the winners", I believe it is also true that
when
> >> it ends in a draw, history is written by each side's textbook authors.
> >
> >I remember being taught that the war was over free passage on the high
seas,
> >that the White House was burned, and that the British ran so fast the
hounds
> >couldn't catch'em at New Orleans.
> >
>
> The Battle of New Orleans was fought well after the war was officially
> ended,

The speed of light was much slower then.

> by a treaty that was mostly humiliating to the USA.

Article 1 of the Treaty of Paris:
"His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New
Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent
states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and
successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and
territorial rights of the same and every part thereof."

and from Article 3:

"It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy
unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all
the other banks of Newfoundland, also in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and at
all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at
any time heretofore to fish."








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