On Apr 26, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Carl Remick wrote:
> Last month I was roundly hooted down for posting to the list this
> comment:
> "I think experience shows that the secret to any kind of successful
> bargaining is to start from an extreme, unreasonable, uncompromising
> position."
Hooted down? I think it's a sound position. At the very least, you need a gang of crazies to strike fear into the rulers' hearts, so the mere reformists look sweetly reasonable by comparison.
Doug