Eaton Corp. to buy Cooper Industries

It'a hard enough to even tell what the name of the game is .... anymore without adding another "player".

without adding another "player".

Eaton will then outsource overseas whatever Cooper still makes here in the USA. It is the way these buyouts work. All funded buy taxpayer dollars in some way, shape or form...

Jim Rojas Technical Manuals Online!

I will never understand why a company like Cooper that produces product is worth

Jeez now I'm starting to sound like Jim

worth 12 billion but Facebook is worth 100?

You just may be becoming a little bit smarter .... that's all.

But don't get all excited now. I'm sure it's just a case of Flowers for Algernon.

worth 12 billion but Facebook is worth 100?

You might have that backwards

You are getting flowers and Algernon is getting smarter?

Funny part is most people reading this thread aren't old enough to have any idea what all of us are talking about.

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I'm a Sci Fi fan... well I use to be. I spend more time fishing or tinkering in my machine shop and reading machining books these days.

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I stopped reading Sci Fi when the stories started to include castles, drago= ns and swords intermixed with spaceships and rayguns.=20

I read lots and lots of Asimov, The Foundation and Robot series. Lot's of H= einlein, Methuselah's Children and following Lazarus Long in subsequent nov= els. Stranger in a strange land and Bradbury, A sound of Thunder, Fahrenhie= t 451, I sing the body electric.=20

I liked the Dune series too.

And I liked most of Arthur Clarks work,except towards the end of his career= . One of the most memorable was ( for me, anyway ),one by Clark. Not a prof= ound or popular novel but just memorable because I never suspected what the= ending was until I read it. Childhoods End.=20

But now .... like you ... I read technical manuals and spec sheets and rese= arch equipment for audio video installtions. I still try to watch out for a= good Sci Fi movie when I see an advertisement. Some of them are pretty goo= d. I'm usually more impressed by the special effects nowdays, than the stor= y line. Most memorable of the oldies is Forbidden planet and This planet ea= rth.

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