On 20/11/2010 17:15, MIG wrote:
On Nov 20, 5:02 pm, Arthur wrote:
On 20/11/2010 16:31, MIG wrote:

It it's "this is all we can afford for now, but it's a step in the
right direction and we can build on it", then it might be acceptable.

Exactly.

As long as money is finite someone is going to get a less than perfect
situation for the time being. And isn't everyone a special case these days?


I dunno about special case, but if "someone" always corresponds to the
same few people, they are going to be upset.

There's a difference between

"we are always increasing the number of facilities available to 100%
of people, but we can't afford to do all of them at once"

Is it ever going to be more than 99.999...% of people? Some are probably
incompatible with each other (though in many cases out of choice).

and

"we are working towards making all facilities available to 95% of
people because we can't afford to make them available to everyone".

Both situations would be less than perfect, and both might be better
than the status quo, but the attitude behind each lack of perfection
is very different.


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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK