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  • Birthday 02/01/1959

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  1. Wow... I pay more a year in tax then most of you dream to make.
  2. Everybody judges people by their appearance. Everybody. You can be the nicest guy in the world, and look like a dork, and everyone will assume you're a dork until you prove otherwise. Why people would want to go out of their way to get people to assume they're a dork is beyond me. Yet studies have mostly shown that people into outrageous clothing, tattoos or body piercings generally have self esteem issues and would rather you judge them by their perceived disagreeable appearance, then by meeting them and simply not liking them. "You don't like me because you feel threatened by my tattoos!" Yeah, right. Of course there are some people who just like them, but I'm sure that's a pretty low percentage. If you ask 100 kids in high school about some guy with a sleeve, they'd probably go "Bad ass, tough guy!" Then ask 100 working adults and they'll go "the guy who works at the car wash until he's 65." The fact everybody seems to hide their tattoos when going for a job interview or to meet the new girlfriends parents tells you even they know it was a bad idea and they know they're going to be judged harshly by it. The truth. No wonder everyone with tatts hates it.
  3. You are just so way off, good grief. I worked for Toyota/Lexus for many years - in part and service (fixed operations management in dealerships). Get a clue before you post. I've been in the auto manufacturing business for nearly 30 years... all over the world... and that's my experience. Like it or not.
  4. Isn't Toyota Japanese? (Sorry, couldn't resist):poke: Actually THAT'S a great example of "Face." I work in Robotics and have been in auto plants all over the world. Toyota is famous in the industry for doing invisible recalls (I forget the proper term off hand). If you have a Ford, and some part is known to go wrong, they'd send you a letter to bring your car in for a fix. Toyota on the other hand waited until you brought your car in for maintenance, then they'd do the work and you wouldn't know anything about it. Your oil change just took longer and there were three guys doing it... it just auto/prints on the work order. You'd think Ford makes crap because they called your car in for another fix, and Toyotas are great because they haven't. Until the lawsuits start from people who DON'T bring their cars into a Toyota dealer for work... and have been driving around with a known dangerous problem. "Face" doesn't always work. Sometimes you've got to stand up and say, we made a mistake... the Japanese aren't very good at that. It wasn't long ago when they'd kill themself for that kind of thing. P.S. Toyota is Sony in the 90s... in a race to the bottom.
  5. In Japan, the workers have more pride in their individual work and it shows in the consistancy of their products. I've spent a lot of time in Japan, and Asia (months a year) and can't say I agree with that much, it's not the guys/builders, it's the company. Japanese companies generally won't ship out crap. If something isn't right, they'll stop the production and fix it, and dump bad product rather then ship it out. Every year they try to make it better, not necessarily cheaper. Quality control is very strict. They care how they're perceived and know the way they "look" today will haunt them for ages. They look long term. They call it "face." The way they're perceived by others. North American companies seem to be more interested in "today." Gotta make the money today to make the investors happy or they'll leave on a moments notice. The company I work for was big into "Ship it... we'll fix the problem on the weekend and the ones we make next week will be fine, or maybe not, but keep building, we need to make 1000 a day or I don't get my bonus!" They've gotten a lot better in the last few years, but no one's paying attention... "we bought one of those before, and it sucked, why would I buy another?" Things seem to be reversing however. In the '70s, if you bought a Sony anything, it was a great product. It didn't matter what it was... now they're in a race to the bottom. While some American products are getting better.
  6. Surprise... A recent counterfeit Les Paul... "looks" pretty darned good... next week they'll get the bridge, plastic color and logo slant right. This one is for sale by me for $2500.
  7. The lights behind the tubes are beyond gay. They stole that tacky idea from ENGL.
  8. Rose Morris bought Vox in 1979, and in '85 put out a lower gain version of the AC30... (it can be modded). In '90 they did a cool Limited Edition (1000?) and '91 replaced that with a production one (with reverb). Rose Morris was bought out by Korg and became Korg UK in '92, and in '93 came out with a real nice AC30 with a rectifier tube back in.
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