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H2Ocaver wrote: .... > Here is the major problem that you fail to address-FAILURE means > death and site closure Are you saying that the Parks people will revoke the existing WKPP permits, if the USDCT has a fatality? I do not think so. ....snip... > >In sales, you never > >put down the competitions product. You politely acknowledge their existence > >while you explain why your product is so good. By putting down the other > team > >you make your self look small, and mean. > > First-this ain't sales. True. > Second- if my competitions product is over priced, underthought, > dangerous, and based on hype and bullshit,I am gonna point out every flaw. > Do you want to call that "talking bad"? Well, we all want to. However, that is not effective as a way of influencing people. And if you are "selling" DIR, or the WKPP, or whatever, then insulting the competition or alternatives is not effective. So which do you want? Get the job done, or get a lot of good insulting done? -- Wrolf Wrolf's Wreck: http://www.concentric.net/~Wrolf "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1927 -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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