Re: 40M for Bush Inauguration and 15M for Tsunami Disaster WAS Re: Bush accused of undermining the UN with aid coalition

From: John Woodgate (jmw_at_jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:53:23 +0000

I read in sci.electronics.design that Matthew Russotto
<russotto@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote (in <MuidnTPsD4VWfUfcRVn-
iw@speakeasy.net>) about '40M for Bush Inauguration and 15M for Tsunami
Disaster WAS Re: Bush accused of undermining the UN with aid
coalition', on Tue, 4 Jan 2005:
>In article <z8BZpXMIwt2BFwbh@jmwa.demon.co.uk>,
>John Woodgate <noone@yuk.yuk> wrote:
>>I read in sci.electronics.design that jimp@specsol-spam-sux.com wrote
>>(in <crek8h$68q$1@mail.specsol.com>) about '40M for Bush Inauguration
>>and 15M for Tsunami Disaster WAS Re: Bush accused of undermining the UN
>>with aid coalition', on Tue, 4 Jan 2005:
>>
>>>Speaking of heavy lifters, there was a blurb on the news this morning to
>>>the effect that in some areas the only usable machinery is elephants.
>>
>>It's not 'usable' but 'available'.
>>>
>>>Seems they don't need runways or roads, can haul a lot of stuff, and are
>>>really good at clearing debris.
>>
>>They are pretty good at large-scale mechanical handling, but they are
>>hopeless at SMD assembly.
>
>There's an NIH-IBM pilot program trying to breed microscale and nanoscale
>varieties to handle that and similar problems.

Oh, that's such an old one that even I can't do more that present it
academically.

To catch an elephant, you need binoculars, tweezers and a matchbox. You
look at the elephant the wrong way through the binoculars, pick it up
with the tweezers and put it in the matchbox. 

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