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- From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
- Subject: Re: Idiotic Japan Bashing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.053123.18740@pegasus.com>
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
- References: <1hnk0tINNnna@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 05:31:23 GMT
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- carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU insufferably writes:
- >
- >I suppose they're still using exactly the same sort of vats they used 600 years
- >ago? And exactly the same processes? I rather doubt it. I suspect that
- >public health laws have caused significant changes in those breweries.
- >
- >Yes, they may still be operating. Are they still lighting the places using oil
- >lamps? Is all work accomplished either via manual labor or through the use of
- >draft animals or waterwheels or windmills?
-
- If you supposed these things why do you then doubt it ? Oh... you're being
- purposely stupid to illustrate a point. What was that point again or are
- we playing "I've hidden my point in the following paragraphs ?"
-
- >>You're trying to wedge your own definition of "100 year plan" into the
- >>works and if you mean "show me where they say how many units they will
- >>sell in 2092" then by all means there is no plan by your definition.
- >
- >Just because a business survives for more than 100 years doesn't mean that it
- >was possible to plan for 100 years. You're confusing continuity and
- >prescience.
-
- And because a company survived for 5 years doesn't mean that their 20 year
- project is worth the paper it is written on. You can believe that 600
- years of continuous operation is dumb luck but few others (except folks
- like yourself) are likely to.
-
- If you had read what I wrote (the paragraph is still there) then you could
- determine that I don't believe they predicted the number of gallons of
- beer that would be produced 100 years later but rather that they made
- business decisions that would pay off for more than a century.
-
- If Oracle goes belly up in 10 years do we phone up the Oracle guy and
- explain that he didn't "really" have a 20 year plan since he didn't
- accurately predict what kind of delivery trucks he would be using ?
-
- Lift your finger off the flame thrower you're taking yourself far too
- seriously.
-
- tom
-
-