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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-22 19:55:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: 22 Aug 2003 19:55:13 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <3F3579F2.2020102@noplace.com> <3F38D990.4010709@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.242.19.28 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1061607314 27926 127.0.0.1 (23 Aug 2003 02:55:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Aug 2003 02:55:14 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41814 Date: 2003-08-23T02:55:14+00:00 List-Id: Luke A. Guest wrote: > > There is a law of the universe that is just as reliable as any of the > > gas laws. Its called "Supply and Demand". Although many have tried, > > nobody successfully violates it for very long. The "Correct" rate to pay > > someone is equal to the "Going" rate. A thing is only worth what you can > > get someone to pay for it - including one's labor. My advice would be to > > get comfortable with that law, study it thoroughly and learn to use it > > to your best advantage, because otherwise you will go through life > > flogging a dead horse and being frustrated over the fact that it won't run. > > Yeah, and there's that defeatist attitude Well, this is not necessarily defeatist attitude, this may be another quite natural behaviour: sitting on a comfortable place and preaching eternal laws of universe. You asked for a project, but you are offered much better thing -- a law of universe, you should enjoy and be thankful. Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia