From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: "Leon Jones" Subject: Re: Your english sucks, mine is better. Date: 1997/11/25 Message-ID: <01bcf94a$43fbc1c0$LocalHost@default>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 292397709 References: <65ab3u$v07$1@news.nyu.edu> <3479B4F1.D575BEFC@SomewhereElse.com> Organization: British Telecom Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Me wrote in article <3479B4F1.D575BEFC@SomewhereElse.com>... > > billg@jk.pst.com wrote: [snip previous content] > What are you, some sort of freaking communist? Honesty and integrity are > fundamental for capatalistic success! Yeah, ask Bernie Eccleston, Al-Fayed and Robert Maxwell!! > A company will not maintain a customer base > if it is not fundamentally honest. Is Sun's little benchmark fiasco going to go > unnoticed or unconsidered by their customers? Being dishonest and _getting caught_ being dishonest are two completely different issues. Your failure to distinguish between the two suggests a fundamental nievety. Either that or you view the world through rose tinted specs. > If you develop a good solid product, > it is unnecessary to decieve customers into buying it. This just doesn't follow unless your's is the only company in a particular market. How often do you see advertisments along the lines of, "Well, it's good but not as good as X/y's along the road.". Someone's got to be lying - they can't all be the best. If there's so many great products, out there in "Honest Corporate Land", that don't require advertising why so many adverts? > There was a time that a > company could get away with deception and dishonesty (kind of like the current > President.) but with the information that is available on just about anything, it > is very difficult for one to get away with it today. If you want to see the > biggest example of lack of honesty and ethics, go back to the Soviet Union where > you belong! Oh, sorry it's not there anymore. I would like to know how you can substantiate your claims that the Soviet Union was inherently more corrupt than other administrations. Are you suggesting that congress, (I assume you are american), is as pure as the driven snow. Infact America's attempts to cripple other countries into conforming to it's elitist, arrogant definition of the ideal world amount to nothing less than blackmail - an honest and commendable practice? I fear not! The only thing that makes me more angry is the fact that our current British administration continues to follow America like a sad, lost puppy further feeding it's ambition to occupy the moral high ground and preach to the rest of us. Anyway this is going decidedly off topic but I invite further comment on my e-mail address. Believe me I could go on forever :-) > Matt 'Capitalist Pig' Corey > > (preparing flame-retardent capitalist-pig dark suit and red tie). > leon.jones@lineone.net Leon