Well Werner, when I think about Henry VIII, who created a new religion, only to be able to get rid of his wives, I'm not so sure about the Brittish non-deviationism ;-) Maybe they simply had fancy words to go around them, like: "Now is the winter of our discontempt made glorious summer..." Just a Wednesday NTC, Ioan -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Werner Engelmaier Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:26 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Stalking High-Tech Sweatshops Hi Rudy, I fully understood what you were saying; but perhaps I did not make myself clear enough. Most of continental Europe's law systems are based on Roman Law, not British Law. The basic European attitutude is: "Laws are there to be broken!"—it is much more cynical vis-a-vis the written law, based on people's experiences with a whole slew of monarchs and dictators of various stripes promulgating laws as it suited them [you do not have to go anywhere near as to what happened to 'laws' in Nazi-Germany]. It is interesting that the British did not develop this attitude—their monarchs were not any better. Werner --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------