<DIV>Hello All,</DIV>
<DIV> A short story about twisted humor. I hope you'll enjoy.</DIV>
<DIV>Many years ago a friend and I watched a 60 minutes special on the out sourcing of government contracts which showed an example of an electronics company that had won such a contract and where they were now.</DIV>
<DIV> "Fuzziez Electronics" ( true name), was one such company won a contract to assemble and test part of a guidance assembly for the xxx missile project. When the reporters for 60 minutes visited the head quarters of Fuzzies Electronics, they found a large garage that had been the head quarters for Fuzzies, but which was now being used by a rock band for a rehearsal area. The equipment and supplies for the governors project had been turned into effects boxes, etc for the band. Fuzzie had went under....if they had ever been at all.</DIV>
<DIV> Hummm.........that's brilliant..........true genius.........Hummm.........</DIV>
<DIV>We also at the time had a rock band and were quite interested in building/acquiring trailer loads of equipment, but........ where does on begin.</DIV>
<DIV> A name , a name , but by any other a name.</DIV>
<DIV>There was the birth of XXX Electronics. And with that name......we could get samples, data books, respect......!!!!!! No one was interested in a couple of guys interested in "art music", but, when we let it be known we made replacement parts for the Hubble telescope......we were important. </DIV>
<DIV> I don't know how many times I spoke with very high up people about our mission and the quantity of replacement parts we would be making. ; - )</DIV>
<DIV> The inside joke was that we had a technician standing by when the time came.</DIV>
<DIV>Again this was many years ago, and all that were involved in that venture have parted ways, though I can help but hear them laughing now, and wondering......</DIV>
<DIV> Maybe we were on the right track after all.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Onward.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> Steve <BR><BR><B><I>"R. D. Davis" <rdd@rddavis.org></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Quothe Peter Grenader, from writings of Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:09:38AM -0800:<BR>> Anyway, does anyone actually *like* the guy? I'm in L.A., we hate<BR><BR>Sure, investors and CEO's who are profiting from all of the<BR>outsourcing that's put so many programmers, web site designers,<BR>etc. out of work, perhaps forcing us out of the computer field for<BR>good, love G. Weaselboy Shrub. Actually, I can't think of many<BR>politicians, in either party---at any level of government, here in the<BR>U.S. that I like. Most of them appear to be crooked puppets of the<BR>eminence grise who love to raise taxes just to have money to waste on<BR>things like their toupees, projects that give their cronies more<BR>money, unnecessary wars, and the building of more highways that we<BR>don't need so that they can destroy more rural areas to make more<BR>money for large corporations and so-ca!
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"developers". I'd say that<BR>it's about time we followed Thomas Jefferson's advice, but even saying<BR>that would probably result in a knock at the door at 2AM, and being<BR>hauled away to neverneverland by the CIA.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Copyright (C) 2003 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: <BR>All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & <BR>rdd@rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such<BR>http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.</BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr SIZE=1>
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