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From: kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Would you say this in front of a nun ?
Keywords: Mid course correction
Message-ID: <5500@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 88 03:57:11 GMT
References: <107@hrsw2.UUCP> <4364@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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In article <4364@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>In article <107@hrsw2.UUCP> bakken@hrsw2.UUCP (David E. Bakken) writes:
>>Keywords: Toshiba submarines 
>>
>>/* soapbox mode on */
>>
>>Yeah, if you don't mind supporting a company that has cost our country
>>dearly in terms of national security and the money (probably > $billion)
>>to counteract it (I'm talking about much quieter propellers for Soviet
>>submarines).  I personally won't buy another Toshiba product and will do
>>everything within my power to persuade my government, employers, friends, 
>>and acquaintences to do likewise.
>>
>>/* soapbox mode off */
>>-- 
>>Dave Bakken   Boeing Commercial Airplanes		(206) 277-2571
>
>Yes, but as far as we have been able to tell, nobody has died as the
>result of the top coming off of a Toshiba laptop while in operation.
>
Are you quite sure, Richard?

Let's accept Dave's estimate of $billion as $1,000,000,000.  In terms
of fully burdened employees, $50,000 per year is probably reasonable,
so this is 20,000 work years.  Let's be generous and say everybody
works 50 years (the truth is we are hovering toward 55 as a retirement
age); then that is 400 person-work-lifetimes wasted because those at
Toshiba wanted to make a buck, and didn't care who they hurt doing it.

If the whole result of your lifetime of work is a waste, just making
up for someone else's greed, don't you die a tiny death, Richard?
Perhaps you are not that sensitive a person.

Seems to me I could take the trouble to find an equivalent product
from another company to protest this sabotage; that is not too much to
ask of me compared to depriving the productivity of 400 lives of
meaning.

Thanks to Dave for bringing this to the foreground again.

Kent, the man from xanth.