Re: How to force two entities to point to the same lookup value

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:55:33 GMT
Message-ID: <p42Fg.422854$IK3.107692@pd7tw1no>

Bob Badour wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>

>> Bob Badour wrote:
>>
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>
> Nor is it the definition

>> used by economists or pretty much anyone else.

>
> I disagree. I specified the scope of the monopolistic franchise (even if
> you ignored the several sentences where I did to focus on the one
> sentence where I was the least bit sloppy), and it means exactly what an
> economist or Warren Buffet or Benjamin Graham or Larry Ellison or Bill
> Gates or anyone with reasonable intelligence and intellectual honesty
> would give as a definition within that scope.

No doubt about it. My father who thought a disk buffer was something you polish disks with would have immediately recognized them as monopolistic franchises. He knew to always first ask, how does this guy make his living? That's just the tip of the iceberg - at one time or another, Ellison has promoted opposite architectures, saying each time it was the future. Gates' pronunciations about database theory are laughably sophomoric, even to me. Businesses decreeing what the theory is are bad news because their view is necessarily short-term. The time these execs spend talking about the future is a cover for an exposure they feel, a little like people who spend too much time repeating they are your friend.

p Received on Thu Aug 17 2006 - 12:55:33 CDT