[Info-vax] OT actors being treated as their screen character Was: Re: Nice

[David Froble]

Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 17:10 +0200, Paul Sture wrote:
>>> Patrick Beesley says it best in his book "Very Special Intelligence
>> -
>>> Admiralty's Operational Centre, 1939-1945", one of the best books
>> ever
>>> written. In it he details how the RN "pinched" an Enigma from the
>>> Germans and how annoyed the Admiralty were when the Americans got in
>> on
>>> the act.
>> Yes there was and still is a lot of rivalry between the US and British
>> forces.   A tale I heard during the Russian occupation of Afgahnistan
>> was that a Russian helicopter had been captured and US and British
>> officials had a meeting to decide who got to take it apart.  I think
>> the US won that round, but right at the end of the meeting the British
>> said "Oh, you might find this helpful", dropping a full set of
>> blueprints for the helicopter onto the table :-) 
> 
> Yeah, we're good at that ;-)

Definition "ally".  Only slightly less of an opponent than enemy.

Definition "enemy".  Only slightly more of an opponent than an ally ...

Sort of like a DEC salesperson.  Loss of a sale to another DEC salesperson is 
only slightly less of a loss than loss of a sale to IBM ...   or not ...