James Byrne wrote:
>Sometimes the myopicism of people in authority is truly staggering to
behold.
Not only myopic but also afflicted with tunnel vision.
>The pity is that this person apparently really believes what he writes and
does not conceive of its inherent contradiction. It seems that he either
believes that the HP    >board spent their own money, and not that of the
corporation, in pursuit of a private management objective; or that it is
perfectly ethical to use corporate assets to     >defy a significant number
of shareholders who are spending their private means to  object to his
management's decision.
Did they actually use corporate funds or are we assuming that? If they did
use corporate funds is that illegal? I won't address ethical because its too
gray an area. Discussing moral is totally unnecessary, after all we are
speaking of business practices.
>Just who does he imagine that he is working for, the half that he convinced
to vote in favour of his desires? Who represents the other half?
The same can be asked of any governing body. Does the Republicans
administration represent the 50 + percent that voted for the Democratic
Party's candidate? Does the Democratic controlled Senate represent the will
of the 50 percent that voted for the Republican candidates?
The answer is the dissenters lose. We must learn to live with it while still
abhorring the injustice inherent in the process. Governance by consensus is
a beautiful goal but we are not there, yet.

>Sincerely, Jim--- e-mail is NOT a secure channel
Neither is voice mail. Just ask Carly. ;^)
The opinions expressed herein are my own and not necessarily those of my
employer.
Yosef Rosenblatt

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