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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: YlangYlangBreeze who wrote (3290)	1/26/2001 12:53:43 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I would think any illegal conduct would be against the TOU and need not be articulated. You can't solicit prostitutes, offer fraudulent documents, make threats, etc. These shouldn't be articulated, but maybe some people are ignorant so maybe TOU's should have some general examples. Aiding and abetting is itself actionable and so is inciting such acts. The TOU should be more practical, it would seem, if we are after quality. I've been told we're after quality in the Boxing Ring and SI in general. One of the things I learned as an engineer in medical device companies is "without specifications you can't have quality". Try to get a product through the FDA without specifications; they'll laugh you into the next universe. I've been generating "quality products" for 20 years. You better hope they are quality because you see them in every operating room and ER I've ever seen. The TOU's will not generate quality because they don't address the raw material. What is the raw material of SI? Poster's comments. You fix quality by moving your specification upstream to the generation of value-added activities. In the case of SI, that means the posters themselves. If people post garbage then you boot them if they can't change their approach. I'm reluctant to continue to post on a thread if I find myself saying the same thing over and over. I'll move on to another area of interest. I suspect that deleting the thread will have the same effect on quality as changing vendors but leaving the same poor specifications on the books - basically nothing. No effect.