On 1 Mar 2007 07:33:23 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Merritt) wrote: >It is an old, proven marketing ploy. Humans are programmed to respond to >any thing 'new'. In ancient times, it could be food for you, or >something that wants to make food of you. Either way, it was a life or >death situation.
A good example of this is when politicians pass laws "to do something", whether or not that is a something that helps. I can't even begin to calculate how much it cost the country to move daylight savings time up. But I can calculate cost/benefit ratio without knowing this cost (if you don't mind getting a SOC9). We have a lot of such "taxes" that don't appear on the federal accounting. Some of these taxes have benefits - most safety rules, for instance. But others just keep us from doing more productive work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
