Todd Walton wrote: > On 10/8/05, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So what do you believe? What is the best course of action? > > If you don't like it, don't buy it.
That is meekley accepting it. > Buy something else. This is a positive action. It is still dependent upon something else being available. Given all the flap over region codes, I see that most DVD's carry region codes. Given then flap over CSS, I see that most DVD's use CSS. Where is this elusive ``something else'' to buy? I guess there is always BitTorrent. > Tell your friends to buy something else. Again, this is a positive action. It suffers the same lack-of-options as buying something else does. Your friends will look at you and say ``what else is there to buy?'' > Leave feedback and reviews. Thisis probably the most assertive stance provided. This one could also cause a backlash if not done carefully enough. It also depends where this is done, if you end up tilting at windmills. > It's not an all or nothing thing. It doesn't have to be a choice > between guns or hiding meekly. I tend to agree. But the closer you are to armed conflict, the closer you are to actually being able to acheive your will. Even if what you are armed with is a pen and battalion of lawyers. > And nothing gives you the *right* to entertainment on your terms. I have a list of men that believe otherwise: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton ``We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'' -john http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
