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Posted on entry Not Really Blogging. ::: July 31, 2004, 10:35 PM:
Does "QJM" stand for anything? I spent ten minutes at various links on its website, and it seems to stand for nothing.

I'm going to assume it used to be "The Queen's Journal of Medicine", but that became anachronistic.
Posted on entry Annals of not-entirely-convincing economic nationalism. ::: November 22, 2003, 05:52 PM:
Well, last night I bolted together a CPU stand that was labeled as "Assembled in China from US parts." Given that this was about as completely unassembled an object as possible

I think the label assumed you were in China, and were functioning as, in effect, one of their employees by putting it together yourself and therefore paying a lower price than you would for an assembled item.

The fallacy, if you all didn't spot it, is assuming that a consumer is in China.

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