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Offline PatriotGame

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Re: Post here business you have/are boycotting...
« Reply #25 on: March 03, 2010, 04:55:04 AM »
I wouldn't expect everyone to know or to remember what Toshiba did. Selling the tech needed to improve the Russian Nuclear Subs propellers only made it into the papers for about a day or two and as far as i know it was barely mentioned at all on TV.

It all happened back in 1986 or 1987 - Toshiba sold milling machine technology used to mill our sub props as a single piece.
I was in college at ISU at the time, owned a Toshiba boom box which was thrown out of my car window at 55 miles per hour after a few many beers after leaving the local races.

The labs for one of the electronics engineering programs I attended used Toshiba oscilloscopes and one of the teachers had ALL of them removed, returned to Toshiba and replaced with Hewlett-Packard units.
Oh and the teacher - Vietnam vet and joined us for many beers at the local pubs.
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Re: Post here business you have/are boycotting...
« Reply #26 on: March 03, 2010, 06:27:14 AM »
It all happened back in 1986 or 1987 - Toshiba sold milling machine technology used to mill our sub props as a single piece.
I was in college at ISU at the time, owned a Toshiba boom box which was thrown out of my car window at 55 miles per hour after a few many beers after leaving the local races.

The labs for one of the electronics engineering programs I attended used Toshiba oscilloscopes and one of the teachers had ALL of them removed, returned to Toshiba and replaced with Hewlett-Packard units.
Oh and the teacher - Vietnam vet and joined us for many beers at the local pubs.

Too bad it didn't bring them to their knees and put them out of business! What would posess a company to let go of state secrets?
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Re: Post here business you have/are boycotting...
« Reply #27 on: March 03, 2010, 08:33:23 AM »
In the event any of y'all have a boycott against Chinese goods, this might be helpful. 

http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/
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Re: Post here business you have/are boycotting...
« Reply #28 on: March 03, 2010, 11:53:08 AM »
Every time I hear of a boycott, it reminds me of Yugo's idiot uncle Cesar Chavez.

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Re: Post here business you have/are boycotting...
« Reply #29 on: March 03, 2010, 12:02:33 PM »
I am boycotting all homeless-owned businesses

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Re: Post here business you have/are boycotting...
« Reply #30 on: March 04, 2010, 09:40:01 AM »
I am boycotting all homeless-owned businesses

Jewelry is cheap from homeless-owned businesses. Their only overhead is an overcoat.
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Re: Post here business you have/are boycotting...
« Reply #31 on: March 04, 2010, 09:50:26 AM »
Jewelry is cheap from homeless-owned businesses. Their only overhead is an overcoat.

I am not really into teeth necklaces though.