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 14:53:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: "Luke A. Guest" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 22:53:39 +0100 Message-ID: References: <3F30F167.9070302@noplace.com> <3F338EC2.3070002@noplace.com> <3F34F9EA.1050407@noplace.com> <3F3579F2.2020102@noplace.com> <3F38D990.4010709@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: abyss2.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1061589219 9344 62.49.62.197 (22 Aug 2003 21:53:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:53:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.13.4 (She had eyes like strange sins.) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41806 Date: 2003-08-22T22:53:39+01:00 List-Id: On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:12:00 -0400, Marin David Condic 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 that actually hinders this industry rather than help...oh well, you can't have everything can you? Luke.