On 1/29/02 1:09:00 PM, Tom Markham wrote:
>There still my friends but
>just mooch friends.
Answer: Glad to hear you sound like a good friend, you may still like to confront your friends in an appropriate way about their "mooching".

>One is a
>grad student at U of O but
>would rather spend his money
>on cd's and beer.
Answer: Not completely uncommon!

>The other
>would rather work the least
>amount possible and get food
>stamps, what he can't get
>there, he gets from his
>parents.
Answer: Nor is this!

>Neither one of them are really
>poor, they just do not care to
>work hard and will take
>anything they can get for
>free.
Answer: Perhaps they will become more responsible and reasonable. Developing a good work ethic is a very valuable skill. And, will food stamps always be available for people, or social security, welfare etc? It's a good idea to have other good means to provide for oneself for this and so many other good reasons.

>I do not spend that much time
>with them but they're still my
>friends. I do not plan on
>kicking them to the curb just
>because they're bums.
Answer: Glad to hear you sound like a good friend, you may still like to confront your friends in an appropriate way about their "mooching".

>As for Bill Gates, if I were
>him, I'd do some sort of James
>Bond thing and try to take
>over the world from some
>underwater palace or inside a
>volcano. Even if it got me
>killed, it would be a fun way
>to go out.
Answer: Interesting ideas:O

>It's his money and he doesn't
>owe anyone anything. I do not
>buy things hoping that the
>owner of the company will give
>me a kickback.
Answer: I still think that every excessively wealthy person does have the personal responsibility to give back. And, I don't just hope that the owner of a company will give me a kickback, I think it ought to be a law that he/she does.

>He should
>repay his customers by
>providing high quality service
>and selection at a reasonable
>price.
Answer: Yes. Most definitely this is true. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be the case very often these days for many. With some smart shopping, good sense, and politeness, one can get a good deal though, have good customer clerk relations, and an over all pleasant, reasonable shopping experience.
Many products today are not of good quality, made to break, not made to last.
I worked at Sony Disc Manufacturing, and it never ceased to amaze me that their state of the art multi-million dollar machines broke down continously, sometimes every 10 min. This confounds me. One would think that with all the advanced technology Sony has access to, if not completely owns, they could come up with more efficient, reliable machines. It might be quicker if they got rid of these stupid machines and gave me the multi-millions they spent on these ridiculous machines. I'm sure that with multi-millions of dollars, I could find some inventors who could do a better job at putting a simple machine together than Sony has!
Furthermore, when I worked at Sony, for piddly pay etc. etc.
the only so called possible redeeming aspect of Sony was the cafeteria. After I'd worked there only a short time, a big group of Sony partners all dressed uniformly in black and white business suits came to visit our Springfield Sony Plant. They looked like they were all Asian. The first thing they did to cut costs, after surveying our plant, was to cut out a good portion of their cafeteria service!
Some departments of the Sony manufacturing plant seem like such a joke to me, and almost opitimize the descriptions of a crummy manufacturing workplace and management.

>Thanks for your input though.
Answer: You're Welcome.

>I like to hear other points of
>view.
Answer: Me Too!

Signed, Shaunasi