[Info-vax] [OT] Japan, was: Re: HP short of ideas - hiring dancers for inspiration

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-04-23, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2013-04-23, Bill Gunshannon <bill at server1.cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>>
>> And then they wonder why American business is in the crapper.
>>
>> It's a lot like "Agile" and all this other business crap from Japan
>> that has been foisted on American companies.  They are still fighting
>> the war, just changed tactics. "What", you say.  Look at what Japanese
>> methods got them.  Fukushima.  And now we think we should use the same
>> business methods?
>>
>
> Actually Fukushima showed us something else. It showed the average Japanese
                    ^
Insert (and all the other disasters) here. My feelings about the Japanese
people apply to the way they conducted themselves during all the disasters
arising from the earthquake, not just Fukushima.

Sorry for the OT post BTW, but Bill annoyed me with the above.

> person in the street acting with dignity and honour in the face of disaster.
>
> The Japanese victims brought great honour upon themselves and their country
> as a result of the way they conducted themselves during that disaster.
> It's a example some other cultures on this planet could learn from.
>
> There were some incidents to report, but given how rare those incidents
> were actually made the individual incidents newsworthy.
>

Simon.

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