| From: Alvin Starr <alvin@netvel.net> A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text? A: Yes. Q: Should I trim down the quoted part of an email to which I'm replying? <http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html> | Canada had a pretty good audio industry going back quite a ways. | Radio Speakers of Canada was old when I was young but they seem to be long | gone now. | They made some pretty good speakers in Ontario but they never had quite the | sex appeal of Bose or Lansing. I didn't know of Radio Speakers of Canada, but Google found this interesting article that mentions R.S.C and NRC and PSB <http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/231/index.html. It mentions that Ian Masters suggested to Paul Barton of PSB that he should see Floyd Toole of the NRC. (I met Ian once because he was the husband of a schoolmate of mine.) The article mentions Stanley Lipshitz who I had as a 2nd year calculus prof. I also heard him speak at a meeting to the Toronto chapter of the Audio Engineering Society. | My guess is that NAFTA and production in China made sure Canadian production | was killed off. Mass production, yes. Audiophile products don't have quite that cost pressure. | So as much as Harper screwed science in Canada I doubt that he killed off the | loudspeaker industry. Right. But what I said was: | > I guess Harper cured NRC of this kind of adventures. I'm talking about curiosity-driven research. That's probably where Toole started. It later became commercially consequential. That's not possible in Harper's model of the NRC.