RE: Metallized valve OT

From: <Steve>
Date: Mon Feb 21 2005 - 04:21:00 EST

And to who invented the internet?

Try Tim Berners-Lee: a pom as usual, as poms are frequently the starters of the most useful (e.g. electricity, mini) and useless (e.g. hovercraft, Z80) inventions.

He did not patent his idea, and made his information freely available as he thought it might be of use to others.

Compare that with Bill. If "Bill" has been copyrighted, then I am probably in trouble.

Sorry, I'm having another bad hair day today

In exasperation

Steve

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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve McKenzie [mailto:mechproj@xtra.co.nz] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 9:12 PM
To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [PipingDesign] Metallized valve

Hi Paul
would you like to get off the soapbox now, or would you like me to try to shoot it out from under you? Surprised Chris hasn’t done so already. Don’t know what you were drinking (or thinking) when you wrote that posting, but could I order 1000L or so?

Cheers

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Bowers [mailto:pbowers@pipingdesign.com] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 1:46 AM
To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] Metallized valve

Steve McKenzie wrote:

> They may mean methonized which is a surface treatment for steel to
> prevent corrosion, especially in seawater.

That was an interesting and insightful comment. Piping is not always for

an exotic, sexy fluid like cool liquid hydrogen. Often it means basic infrastructure for a society.

This is why helping the "third world" is important - we (in the western world) have a moral resposibility to share what we know.

Ignoring the Asian dragons and the existing Russian influence will only hurt us in the long run - this phenomenon seems to me be prety obvious.

The world is going to change drastically (but for the better) due to the

internet. I guess we have the Americans to thank for that bit of social development, although many countries are following their lead.

Paul

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