On 16Nov23:1420-0500, Tony Harminc wrote: > > The analogy is cute, but I think it fails The problem is that in some > circumstances that's a perfectly reasonable way to manage a car. > Depending on the age, how much you depend on it, whether you ever > drive a significant distance from home, etc. etc. there may be nothing > wrong with deferring or not doing some maintenance.
I agree--the automotive analogy is not compelling. Even the aerospace analogies fail to make it personal enough for the average PHB. A blood pump analogy gets a LOT closer to the "heart" of the matter, though. "I've never had a heart attack, so I don't need to see any expensive cardiologists or pay for their exhorbitant tests." -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
