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To: RJA_ who wrote (30458)	3/6/2008 3:02:45 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217656

You are trying to put me on the ropes. :-) I picture Elroy coming to jab my shin and hit my liver with punches! I am trained by the Germans. I noticed quality has more to do with the customer and the level of competition rather than anything to do with the producers. I discussed this with many Germans and klaser too. All producers would love to produce everything quick cheap dirty and sell for a good profit. Consumers and competition do wonder for make producers provide quality. Then I notice that the skills to produce quality are fairly basic. Granted we need chemical engineers, and standardization bodies to make everything come together. You can instigated a sense for quality just by providing basic education: If the guy is used to ride at the back of the car, has comfortable home, and things work around him. He won't settle for less. He demands that. Basically I am trying to say: We should not be intimidated thinking that we need an army of PhD’s to get quality stuff. Give you an example: The quality level of the house I built is the result of the foreman taken care of the construction rather than the architect and the engineer. Once I started talking with him he discovered I knew about an ongoing project. So he opened up the booth of his car, got a bunch of photos and showed the houses he had built. I explained to him that I build stuff, pointing to the mobile site 300m away. Then we always could do together things that was not in the project. Automatic garage doors, pluvial drainage, frontal wall.

To: RJA_ who wrote (30458)	3/6/2008 9:29:07 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217656

It's 2:59PM: Since the floor cleaning: I had a electric engineer here to revise our office and switching facilities concerning lighting. I told you to come because there are lights in the ceiling to illuminate got damn Maracana stadium or a small city. He did not understand why I needed less light. I showed the laptop screen trying to say what is back lit. He kept saying, I put more switches. I said, it doesn’t work, everyone who comes switch them all and will be upset once on if I'll switch off. Run out of French words (here's is a speaking country). Got an article from the University of Toronto on Office Lighting . Damn Canadians, no bilingual article! Went to Dictionary.com, instant retranslated into French, since it is technical came flawless. he read a few lines, and hi face brighten and he went and corrected all by himself. Then he asked me if he could taken. Then he asked which site is this one? I said I would email the URL to him and explained how to use. In the end I said: "You see! Brazilians are clever. They always find a way!" He said: "What? Beninois are clever too! next problem: Guys wanted to start the second switch installation, before finishing the works. Disaster wait to happen!! I have to let them know: (two engineers stand by they come from Ghana.) QUOTE Hi Maffon, Can it be done as Steve says? We need to be careful for nothing go wrong: Safety: No live wires around Climatization: If Air Con not working the place will get very hot like a sauna Lighting: they need at least some interim illumination for the engineers We need to be sure the painting has dried and other things not to have builder coming back to us and say we destroy any part of their work. I spoiled my back pack with the wet paint while taking the photos yesterday. UNQUOTE I will not tell you the one about the new driver. Got a car finally today. It is too silly. Let me go get my tkt refunded. I have a long day still ahead. Look my warehouses!! warehouse nr 1 waherouse nr 2 warehousing yard for twoer generators and cable drums

To: RJA_ who wrote (30458)	3/6/2008 9:38:58 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217656

now you guys know why I stop to write here. I do it to get away from pole-climbing work and relax. Then recharged my batteries I go back and attack another problem. this is going to be my new office where I have proper lighting... I’m puting one mobile switch center, one fiber optic transmission, pole-climbing office set up complete with planning dept plus implementation dept. Some training and O&M at the back. Once ready if I can finish it before my contract runs out, I will show you how it looks. Even filer coffee I will have there. Overlooking Cotonou... Like those guys in Manhattan overlooking Central Park... :-)

To: RJA_ who wrote (30458)	3/8/2008 10:20:23 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217656

It was very important not only to translate complex subject into simple terms. It is also necessary to condense it into the shortest statement. If you condense to the essential it becomes blunt to the point of making epople ressent and disregard. Therefopre is necessary to look to issues as they are and not as they make one feel good. When you look deeply into a subject, you are not doing to get ‘feel good effect’. You want the truth. What makes difficult if nt impossible to explain complex subjects in simple terms and condense them into the shortest statements, is political correctedness and social conventions. In order to be acceptable you need to ‘dress up’ what you are saying to the audience to take it. Need to sugar coat it. Once you do that, the message is lost among the bullshit you wrapped it up. Continue to listen to read and listen to explanation of subjects dressed up for political correctedness and pretty soon you will discover that you don’t know much even though you have read and listened a lot. I tell Brazilians “there are only 7 millions capable of operating productively in a modern economy.” I told Germans. Once the funding was there after the war ended, it was just a matter of give a showel and picks, cement and sand and they constructed the new germany Many Americans don’t like when I put: The American educational system is geared to produce a tiny limited amount of people, specialized in very narrow subject, those are the ones that do heart by-pass, are a klaser or strap boosters to send satellites to space. Spread over the masses only a shallow and narrow education enough to be a porter in hotel and a cashier at the bank. When you say that to, Brazilians Americans or Germans they resent those statements. Germans because they tap themselves on their back as builders of the wirstschaftwunder (economic miracle). Brazilians because they don’t want to acknowledge there is a vast majority of ignorant and useless people. Americans because they don’t accept anyone disputing the whole thing there is THE thing. I say: there’s no miracle. Singapore was not miracle, nor Japan neither Germany. What do exist are ‘set of circumstances. Given the right set of circumstances, the monkey can talk. Give the right amount of sugar loaded in the back of the donkey, and its asshole will be sweet. There I go again: another blunt statement.

To: RJA_ who wrote (30458)	3/8/2008 10:30:39 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217656

I have noticed that appreciating quality goes along with level of intelligence. Steve jobs, ten years ago was explaining how he chosen a washing machine and ended up buying a German one. I have a Italian friend who helped me choose my SLR camera. I learned that they value quality and the guy is a clever man. Valuing quality needs intelligence. Look to TJ justifying the purchase of his car. Thus we can say just picked up from the top of my head: German (exclude service which is lousy, Swiss, Japanese and Swedish (cars), French as niche because of the food, Italians because of the food and sense of aesthetics, service is lousy) are intelligent people. Not implying all others are not. Just giving examples There are many consumers of quality cars (in any country of the planet)who are not exactly what we can call intelligent. People who try to emulate others are not much intelligent: ex: Czechs, like to emulate Germans. Also never state or try to prove somebody is an idiot. Always let your ideas prove it.