Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:07 PM 3/22/02 EST, SthRosner@aol.com wrote: >My post made no personal reference to you whatever, save to point out your >mistake. Uh, Earth to Planet Seth? Whether you made reference to me is irrelevant. Your original post is bunk. I stated that Leitz never had a glass factory; you posted, with appropriate harumphs, several citations that proved Leitz never had a glass factory. Seth, Leitz nor Leica has ever had a glass factory. Whatever is the problem in this? To the rest of us, the distinction between a research facility (laboratory or, in the regions of the US outside of your domain, "lab") and a production facility (we call them factories but your Harvard-educated intellect probably has some fancier phrase) is plain. Gosh, but there really IS a difference between a lab and a factory. If you don't KNOW the difference, and if G C. Merriam Webster cannot educate you on the difference between this difference, come on down to Virginia, brother. We are probably just plain hickseeds in your New York mind -- but, gosh, we DO have some cutting-edge optical labs locally (the ITT Night Vision Lab is five miles from me as I write these admittedly exasperrated words) and we hickseeds can generally understand the difference between FACTORY and LABORATORY. Seth: Leitz had a glass laboratory. They closed this around 1986. Leitz never had a glass factory. Leica has never had a glass factory. If you have any knowledge that Leitz or Leica has owned, managed, controlled (in a legal sense, you Harvard buzzrard, you!), or othewise managed a glass factory, pray, allow us the knowledge of this -- and cite your sources! Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html