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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Latest Pegasus news?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.183523.11863@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 18:35:23 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.201155.29373@microsoft.com> <BzqMxr.MuH@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Dec27.164247.20711@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec27.203327.21241@iti.org> <1992Dec31.004513.12224@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725820266@convex.convex.com>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
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- In article <ewright.725820266@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >In <1992Dec31.004513.12224@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >
- >>You misrepresent my position. All I'm saying is that new systems are
- >>rarely as cheap and easy in metal as they are on paper.
- >
- >You're setting up another strawman, Gary. No one ever said that
- >building launch vehicles was cheap or easy. If it was, teenagers
- >would be building them in the family garage.
-
- Talk about strawmen!
-
- >IMHO, anyone, in any industry, who believes a million dollars is
- >a small amount of money deserves a pink slip.
-
- Sadly, a million just doesn't go as far as it used to. That's one
- payroll for a modest 300 employee service operation. It'd keep GM
- or AT&T in postage for a week. And the Federal government would
- go through it in 23 seconds. Keeping track of the pennies is a good
- plan, but not if you lose sight of the real money in the process. It's
- far too easy to be penny wise and pound foolish. I'd much prefer an
- employee who grasps return on investment strategies and rough order
- of magnitude profit/loss estimates than one who counts paper clips.
-
- Gary
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