Re: Elektor Electronics new website

From: Franc Zabkar (fzabkar_at_optussnet.com.au)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:54:21 +1100

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:46:20 -0500, keith <krw@att.bizzzz> put finger
to keyboard and composed:

>On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:21:16 +1100, Franc Zabkar wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:34:27 -0500, keith <krw@att.bizzzz> put finger
>> to keyboard and composed:
>>
>>>On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:59:53 +0000, Fred Abse wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 13:18:46 -0500, keith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Nope. "Satisfied" smacks of "he's paid enough". i.e. communist
>>>>
>>>> Other way round. The recipient satisfied with the payment that has been
>>>> agreed. That's bargaining. The basis of capitalism.
>>
>> A perfect capitalist bargain is struck when neither party is
>> satisfied.
>
>Bull***! If you truely believe this you're not worth doing business
>with.

This particular position can be viewed in many ways, each equally
valid. It's a bit like that proverbial half glass - you can see it as
half full, half empty, or twice as big as it needs to be. In this
particular case, if the employee were satisfied, then the employer
would be thinking, "damn, I could have screwed him down a little
more". OTOH, if the employer were happy, then the employee would be
thinking, "damn, I should have tried to screw more out of him". The
ideal bargain is reached when *neither* party is happy because it
follows that *both* would then be happy.
 
>>>But then you go on to say:
>>>
>>> Maybe I should have said "overpaid"
>>>
>>>Which is worthy of a Cossack hat.
>>
>> Cossacks were *not* communists. In fact your glib remark does them a
>> gross disservice. During WW2 they fought on both sides, some to free
>> Russia from the existing tyranny of Stalin, others to protect Russia
>> from the impending tyranny of Hitler.
>
>Ok, so you're a Cossack, and not a commie. Russian hats, all the same.

No, I'm none of the above. I'm just someone whose view of the world
extends beyond his own backyard.

>> See http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/6150/cos.html
>>
>> After WW2 the British intentionally repatriated tens of thousands of
>> Cossack POWs and refugees (and many others) knowing that they would all
>> be butchered by Stalin (ref. "The Minister and the Massacre" (1986) by
>> Nikolai Tolstoy).
>
><yawn>

You are already well established in Usenet as an arrogant buffoon, but
this comment is a new low, even for you. Your original comment was
ignorant but forgiveable. A man of stature would have apologised and
moved on, but you are not such a man.

- Franc Zabkar 

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