🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: ubc.general
Article #207

Re: Tubular Debacle Highlights Moral Bankruptcy

#207
From: Orvin Lau
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00
30 lines
2069 bytes
In article <4ct4rp$1sv@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, babbott@unixg.ubc.ca (Barrie
Abbott) wrote:

| Phil Fraikin (Phil_Fraikin@mindlink.bc.ca) wrote:
| : babbott@unixg.ubc.ca (Barrie Abbott) wrote:
| 
| : >As I said further up the page: live with it; you lost this one.
| 
| : Keep laughing, but you haven't heard the last of us - maybe next time
| : it'll be your job that's lost.
| 
| Gee, thanks for the threat. You know, I wasn't laughing when I wrote 
| "live with it". Maybe I was being arrogant and that can make more enemies 
| than friends. Mea culpa. By the way, who is the "us" in the "you havn't 
| heard the last of us"? Sounds kind of scary. And confrontational. It 
| would be wise of you to remember that unions are a reality. They won't 
| just go away. The best thing for you to do is to learn to live with the 
| situation, try to understand what unionism is about, why it came to be 
| and why it exists today. Threats won't lead to any kind of understanding.

Agreed.  Extremism mistakenly relieves people of the responsibility to
think and act rationally.

-- 
Orvin Lau, M.Sc. Student (Advanced Technology Management)
Faculty of Commerce & Business Administration
The University of British Columbia        Internet: olau@unixg.ubc.ca

[All opinions and knowledge above are my own.  Do not expose to open
 flame.]
Technical Details
Message-ID: <olau-0901962215380001@port57.annex4.net.ubc.ca>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
References: <4cju23$sqn@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <4cq5ue$jf7@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <4cs0o6$m7t@fountain.mindlink.net> <4ct4rp$1sv@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,5a83af437f1d6226
X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public
X-Google-Thread: 10c943,5a83af437f1d6226
X-Google-Attributes: gid10c943,public
X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,5a83af437f1d6226
X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public
From: olau@unixg.ubc.ca (Orvin Lau)
Subject: Re: Tubular Debacle Highlights Moral Bankruptcy
Date: 1996/01/09
Message-ID: <olau-0901962215380001@port57.annex4.net.ubc.ca>
X-Deja-AN: 135246354
references: <4cju23$sqn@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <4cq5ue$jf7@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <4cs0o6$m7t@fountain.mindlink.net> <4ct4rp$1sv@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
organization: The University of British Columbia
newsgroups: ubc.general,van.general,bc.general