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How To Get Ahead In American Politics

Oct 29, 2006 19:28

Uzi Nissan, an Israeli ex-pat living in the US for the past 30 years, has been president of Nissan Computers Inc. for the past 15. As a computer repair and consulting firm, they bought the nissan.com domain in 1994, before auto-makers even considered an internet presence. In 1999, the Nissan Motor company filed suit against him for cybersquatting ( Read more... )

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well... anonymous October 29 2006, 18:59:41 UTC

clearly the man is of poor taste, but by the information he gives, i don't see how the motor company can hope to have a case. what am i missing?

d.k.

p.s. ב"ה'd docs are unlimited. it's בע"מ'd docs that are limited.

Re: well... yggdrasil_ October 29 2006, 22:53:11 UTC

Personally, I don't give a rodent's posterior about his chances for success. That much was mainly filler. Exposition, if you will. It's the fact that any association with the French can be construed in the USA that amuses me - especially since you can trace this all the way back to Thomas Jefferson - his tenure in France as the USA's first ambassador and the manners he supposedly acquired there were a part of Madison's 1800 election campaign.

I wonder if attitudes towards France have changed now, when domestic US support for the Iraqi war is at a ridiculous low. I'm guessing "no".

Re: well... ygurvitz October 30 2006, 08:17:48 UTC

Surely you mean "Adams' 1800 campaign"?

Re: well... yggdrasil_ October 30 2006, 18:42:52 UTC

Surely.

Re: well... anonymous October 30 2006, 12:16:54 UTC

I don't think this kind of attitude towards the French is something particularly American. It's universal. And the fact that they have great food, wonderful wine, beautiful women, exquisite art, lovely beaches, breath-taking mountains (and so on) doesn't help one bit.

What made me wonder in this story is the story itself. What case would the motor company be presenting? It seems corporate bullying might be at least as dominant an American meme as francophobia.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6144533F-2B39-4B0D-ACFE-06CC841EF296.htm

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