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<DIV> Hi</DIV>
<DIV> Thank you Mr. Maddox! Why are we getting this political and</DIV>
<DIV> philisophical discourse on this list? If I wanted a political agenda</DIV>
<DIV> I would watch the news(CNN,FOX or <SPAN class=correction id="">BBC</SPAN>)</DIV>
<DIV> Why does not some one just tell me how to build a descret device</DIV>
<DIV> surface mount OTA with the same footprint as ca3080? The world</DIV>
<DIV> would be a better place.</DIV>
<DIV> <SPAN class=correction id="">Jeri</SPAN>(getting off my soapbox)</DIV> <BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Paul Maddox <P.Maddox@signal.<SPAN class=correction id="">QinetiQ</SPAN>.com><BR>To: <SPAN class=correction id="">SynthDIY</SPAN> <synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.<SPAN class=correction id="">nl</SPAN>><BR>Sent: Wed, 1 <SPAN class=correction id="">Jun</SPAN> 2005 10:14:34 +0100<BR>Subject: Re: [sdiy] Humans are not Becoming Smaller (was: SMD <SPAN class=correction id="">comming</SPAN> your way)<BR><BR>
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<DIV class=AOLPlainTextBody id=AOLMsgPart_0_d000341c-2d87-47c3-ad68-bd53b88ef9f4>Hi, <BR> <BR>> What you mean is that this began happening when <SPAN class=correction id="">MBAs</SPAN> began rolling off <BR>> the university assembly lines with their meaningless but arrogant <BR>> degrees, causing companies to maximize profits to ridiculous <BR>> extremes, cheapening products while claiming "new and improved," <BR>> eliminating pension plans, making more products designed to be replaced <BR>> rather than repaired - take box fans, for example, designed so that the <BR>> blades can't be removed without breaking something in order to lubricate <BR>> a motor in which the "permanent" lubrication is no longer effective. <BR> <BR>nope, when people started demanding unreasonably large wages for work they do. <BR> <BR>> Well, for one thing, it would be far less expensive to pay a <SPAN class=co!
rrection id="">techician</SPAN> <BR>> to repair it than an engineer, or are you making the "politically <BR>> correct, make everyone feel good to nonsensical extremes" mistake of <BR>> calling technicians, and perhaps even help-desk employees, engineers? <BR> <BR>now you are being pedantic. <BR>Fine yes then, the COST of getting a <SPAN class=correction id="">techy</SPAN> to fault find/repair an <SPAN class=correction id="">XBOX</SPAN>, or PC motherboard FAR FAR outweighs the cost of buying a new one. <BR> <BR>> Many companies don't want to pay reasonable wages, but they still want <BR>> to raise the costs of their products and services to make larger <BR>> profits. <BR> <BR><SPAN class=correction id="">Thats</SPAN> business for you, the employees have a choice if they don't like it, they can leave. <BR> <BR>> Many consumers end up paying more and making less, well, <BR> <BR!
>because they can't be <SPAN class=correction id="">arsed</SPA!
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ts a culture thing, people are in herently lazy, why build a car, when you can buy one? it costs more to buy one. <BR> <BR>> That's because the Clinton and Bush administrations <BR> <BR>***YAWN*** <BR>Now this in turning into a political debate, and I'm sorry, <SPAN class=correction id="">thats</SPAN> not something I'm interested in, I'm interested in building synths, and <SPAN class=correction id="">thats</SPAN> what the list is for. <BR> <BR>> You certainly appear to be a determined propaganda "artist!"... or <BR>> else you're sadly misinformed. <BR> <BR>and you seem to be keen for a flame war, not something I'm interested in either. <BR>You are entitled to your views, but to slate myself and others for having a view different to your is wrong. <BR> <BR>Surface mount is comming, you have a chocie, adapt or loose the ability to do a lot of stuff. <BR>People feared computers <SPAN class=correction!
id="">woudl</SPAN> cost jobs, they did initially, now they generate jobs.. <BR>progress is always happening, no one can stop, you, me, or the 'mighty' US of A. its a part of life. <BR>As I say, adapt or suffer. <BR> <BR>Paul <BR> <BR></DIV><!-- end of AOLMsgPart_0_d000341c-2d87-47c3-ad68-bd53b88ef9f4 --></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>