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Article #207Re: Tubular Debacle Highlights Moral Bankruptcy
From: Orvin Lau
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00
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In article <4ct4rp$1sv@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, babbott@unixg.ubc.ca (Barrie Abbott) wrote: | Phil Fraikin (Phil_Fraikin@mindlink.bc.ca) wrote: | : babbott@unixg.ubc.ca (Barrie Abbott) wrote: | | : >As I said further up the page: live with it; you lost this one. | | : Keep laughing, but you haven't heard the last of us - maybe next time | : it'll be your job that's lost. | | Gee, thanks for the threat. You know, I wasn't laughing when I wrote | "live with it". Maybe I was being arrogant and that can make more enemies | than friends. Mea culpa. By the way, who is the "us" in the "you havn't | heard the last of us"? Sounds kind of scary. And confrontational. It | would be wise of you to remember that unions are a reality. They won't | just go away. The best thing for you to do is to learn to live with the | situation, try to understand what unionism is about, why it came to be | and why it exists today. Threats won't lead to any kind of understanding. Agreed. Extremism mistakenly relieves people of the responsibility to think and act rationally. -- Orvin Lau, M.Sc. Student (Advanced Technology Management) Faculty of Commerce & Business Administration The University of British Columbia Internet: olau@unixg.ubc.ca [All opinions and knowledge above are my own. Do not expose to open flame.]
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,5a83af437f1d6226 X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public X-Google-Thread: 10c943,5a83af437f1d6226 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c943,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,5a83af437f1d6226 X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public From: olau@unixg.ubc.ca (Orvin Lau) Subject: Re: Tubular Debacle Highlights Moral Bankruptcy Date: 1996/01/09 Message-ID: <olau-0901962215380001@port57.annex4.net.ubc.ca> X-Deja-AN: 135246354 references: <4cju23$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