Hi: Les Vadasz, Vice President of Intel, told Hollings, flat out that his legislation was a disgrace, that it was impossible to accomplish what he wants for Hollywood, unless he's willing to sacrifice Open Source technology to the depths of criminal disgrace, unless he's willing to sacrifice a $600 billion a year industry [technology industry dedicated to providing advancements that make consumers happy customers] in favor of Hollywood, a $35 billion a year industry that will remove this mailing list, your ability to copy photos of your family on your computer, and the list goes on. Send a thank you to Les Vadasz, and Intel, for standing up to these jerks and their ridiculous CBDTPA law. Visit http://www.eff.org/ for the factual information. :) Thanks, Tom Poe Reno, NV http://www.studioforrecording.org/ http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/ http://renotahoe.pm.org/
Time to wake up! Or, you will absolutely lose Debian! On Saturday 13 April 2002 21:18, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:49:38PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > begin Paul 'Baloo' Johnson quotation: > > > > Does the system on which you're reading this have an Intel processor? > > > > > > No, but they're not the evil empire. > > > > At least as much as Wal-Mart is. And, like Wal-Mart, they have a > > quality product that a lot of people want. In my old home town in > > Oklahoma, they were the best grocery store in town, and the ONLY 24-hour > > place to buy computer equipment. > > > > But my point wasn't that Wal-Mart is good, or that Intel is bad; my > > point was that one shouldn't berate someone else for doing business with > > one evil conglomerate while one is doing business with another. > > > > You aren't doing business with the particular example I picked, but I > > bet I could find one pretty easily if anybody cared enough for me to > > bother. I won't, because the point is made without it. > > I must disagree with you drawing any parallel between Intel and > Wal-Mart. It's worse than comparing apples and oranges ... at least > those are both fruit. > > Intel is an American company, selling goods designed by Americans and > made in America. Intel is not hurting small mom-and-pop operations > all over the country as they sell their product. > > Wal-Mart sells Chinese crap which is cheaper in price and quality than > goods produced elsewhere (like, here). This causes the trade deficit > to remain high. When Wal-Mart moves into an area, smaller hardware, > convenience, and grocery stores suffer. This hurts the local economy > in some cases as profits are removed from the area. > > If Wal-Mart goes into an area and provides services which were > unavailable, that's good. If Wal-Mart goes into an area which was > already well served and destroys local competition by selling inferior > products ... well, I don't know if I'm willing to say that's bad, but > it's not good. Unfortunately, if consumers are stupid enough to buy > the cute Paul Harvey ads and not worry about whether they are getting > the same quality, Wal-Mart wins. > > This is off-topic and should probably be taken up on debian-curiosa or > some other list. > > Cheers, ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
