[ale] Re: HP buys two new GVs

[Robert L. Harris]

I personaly have decided my next printer will not be an HP, I will never
buy an HP/Compaq computer and I'll recomend the same to all my family
and friends.

If HP really wanted to save money when visiting their employees they
should just hop on a bus or elevator, not spend 35 Million on 2 jets
with 3 more in the works, to go see how jobs are that they've sent over
seas.

As per traveling to clients, etc, let them fly coach and save the money
for hardworking employees and the people buying their friggins hardware.
They're human beings like the rest of us, not godly creatures too good
to travel with "the help".

Bob, there's a difference between you owning your own plane and flying
yourself around.  Did you sell your kids off and put your wife in a
sweatshop so you can fly to the bahamas and talk about how great life is
on the beach?


Thus spake Bob Toxen (bob at verysecurelinux.com):

> Mike,
> 
> While this may be just squandering money and I don't think much of HP or
> Carly,
> it could be legitimate and cost-effective.  As a long time pilot and
> aircraft
> owner (single-engine props), I can assure you that for someone whose
> time is
> valuable, that the time saved often can be well worth the cost of owning
> and operating the aircraft.  With all of the false security nonsense
> these
> days, I save lots of time by flying myself and I have more flexibility
> in times
> and can land at an airport closer to where I want to be.
> 
> When HP sends over ten execs to Bangalore to see how their Indian
> sweatshop is
> doing, the GV probably is more cost-effective than the alternative of
> first class
> travel there.  Look at the numbers!
> 
> On the other hand, how about writing about how HP is one of the computer
> companies
> with the largest outsourcing program of programmers, SysAdmins, and
> other computer
> people to India?
> 
> At least HP chose to spend this money on a Georgia-based company.  I've
> toured
> their plant in Savannah.
> -- 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bob Toxen, CTO
> Fly-By-Day Consulting, Inc.
> "Your expert in Firewalls, Virus and Spam Filters, VPNs,
> Network Monitoring, and Network Security consulting"
> bob at verysecurelinux.com (e-mail)
> 
> My talks on Linux security this year include:
>   at IBM's Linux Competency Center in New York City     on March 06
>   at the Atlanta SecureWorld Expo in Atlanta            on May   22
>   at the Enterprise Linux Forum in Silicon Valley       on June  04
>   at Computer Associates' Atlanta Linux Security Summit on Sep.  16
> 
> Author,
> "Real World Linux Security: Intrusion Detection, Prevention, and
> Recovery"
> 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, (C) 2003, 848 pages, ISBN: 0130464562
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