[SunRescue] Re: size of countries , also ADIC 8mm library upgrades

[Robert Novak]

On 29 May 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> On 29 May 2001 02:33:18 -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [snip]
> > crazy laws are just not compatible with my needs!  As it is I consider
> > myself very very lucky to be a Canadian and I hope my efforts and those
> > of my countrymen will continue to bring into power Canadian governments
> > which will be able to resist at least the worst parts of any oppression
> > from our giant neighbour to the south and indeed also any from our
> 
> You do realize that Canada is the second largest country in the world,
> right?  (second only to Russia).  Hard to call us a "giant neighbor"
> that way, isn't it?  I doubt that the GDP of the US that that huge
> compared with Canada, but I haven't done any economics in a few years
> (and don't really care to look).  Later!

I think the US can safely be considered a giant neighbor (or neighbour)...
but just for your amusement, here's the info from the CIA Factbook at
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/indexgeo.html ... 

Canada: 9976140 km^2,  31281092 people, GDP $ 722.3b,  750 ISPs
USA:    9629091 km^2, 275562673 people, GDP $9255.0b, 7600 ISPs
Russia:17075200 km^2, 146001176 people, GDP $ 620.3b,   83 ISPs
China:	9596960 km^2,1261832482 people, GDP $4800.0b,    3 ISPs

Figured I'd throw the ISP count in to make this almost look like it could
be mistaken for being on topic.

To further feign on-topicness, does anybody know if an ADIC 8mm VLS
library can take an AIT drive without major trouble? Anyone got docs for
this sort of beastie? (adic.com doesn't really admit it exists anymore)

--Rob
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