Re: Mobil phone company O2 sues company for using 'O2' to refer to oxygen!!

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:57:01 +0000 (UTC)

"Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1110924586.4e2b8b17ae69a2f21de821a19615df6b@teranews...
> On a sunny day (Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:42:20 +0000 (UTC)) it happened
> jimp@specsol-spam-sux.com wrote in <d17krs$au2$4@mail.specsol.com>:
>
> >Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> On a sunny day (Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:30:20 +0000 (UTC)) it
happened
> >> jimp@specsol-spam-sux.com wrote in
<d17k5c$au2$2@mail.specsol.com>:
> >
> >> >Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> >> This article is in German,
> >> >> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/57564
> >> >> but the short translation is:
> >> >> The mobil phone company named 'O2' sues
> >> >> medical equipment mnanufacturer Weinmann GmbH + Co.KGm, in
Germany,
> >> >> because it sells equipment named 'Venti-O2' and 'TOTAL O2'
these are
> >> >> oxygen generators for people with breathing problems at home.
> >> >> The 'O2' company refuses to settle.
> >> >> Fear is now that using 'O2' for oxygen will no longer be
allowed.
> >> >
> >> >Utter nonsense.
> >> Maybe yiou should learn german, you are going to need it as they
will
> >> soon own your place (buy US for 1 Euro sent).
> >> And learning more then your own home dialect is good for your
general
> >> comprehension.
> >> Idiot!
> >
> >Actually I was fluent in German many years ago.
> >
> >However, since the talent was useless to me other than to converse
with
> >the Luffwaffe Sargent I used to fence with, I have since forgotten
it
> >all, as well as my Latin, Russian and Korean.
> >
> >BTW, today's financial section says the dollar is up compared to
the Euro,
> >but I didn't know the Euro was controlled by Germany.
> >
> ><remaining babble snipped>
> Germany is main exporter in Europe, and Germany's export is bigger
then that
> of the US now I think (anyways EU's is).
> Given the US trade deficit, and the trend of the USD over the last
year, I
> am sure you can make a little graph and extend that line to where it
crosses
> zero.
> It will be even more fun once the oil producing countries ask gold
or Euros
> for the oil.
> US will have to find buyers for the current debt, and buyers want
return
> more then when they have their stuff in the bank.
> How are you going to do it?
> No way!
> So then, in fact, by EU exporting, US is slowly changing ownership
to Europe
> and China.

My understanding is that China is in fact winning the race for buying
up the USA, since the latter is importing much more from the former
than vice versa, leaving China with a lot of dollars which are pretty
useless except for buying pieces of the cake in the USA.

[snip] 

-- 
Franz
"One Galileo in 2000 years is enough."
 Pope Pius XII

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