on 24/7/02 20:40, (G-List) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:03:15 -0700 > Subject: Re: Comments on Apple and Steve Jobs by Rush Limbaugh > From: Aaron Willems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Your Right on the money. Politics have no place in the Work Place. It sounds > like Apple is missing the Boat Here. Their Loss.....
Politics has a huge role in the work place -- it affects how the work place runs. It's inescapable & many a company out there explicitly or implicitly participates -- e.g. guess who's moral authority was compromised when Enron pumped millions more into one of two presidential candidate's campaign. M$ puts millions into both Rep & Dem coffers (I think last time #s were available they heavily favoured R coffers) & also into such politically motivated "think tanks" (if there ever was an oxymoron that would be it) such as the highly political & Rep Cato Institute which accepts money from M$ & in turn puts out reports supporting M$' claims. (certainly an argument that there *should* be some degree of separation of politics and the corporation). But if the politics which they could associate themselves with are out of touch with certain principles (possibly those accepted or espoused by the directors, for example), then they should definitely affect the day-to-day operation of a corp and how they -- what would we be able to conclude about a company that does business with a dictatorship (other than the fact that money is more important than the rights affirmed in the constitutions of every functioning and semi-functioning liberal democracy; and, that many Western gov'ts endorse and/or actively pursue such a policy :( (the irony of the situation is that trade doesn't seem to work well as a liberator of people (China), *nor* do sanctions (Cuba (40 years?), Iraq (12 years of abject poverty & he's *still* in power) (& yet the US and some others (the US may be a prime example of double standards and stupidity in economic policy but many of the Europeans and Japanese aren't much (if any) better)) make the argument that sanctions will work against Cuba (hahahahahahahaha... HOW MANY presidents has Castro outlasted and OUTLIVED even?) and Iraq, but (through the haze of $$$,$$$,$$$,$$$) China is to be "engaged" in dialogue through trade (I guess where there's money to be made you engage a dictatorship & where you gain more by keeping them under control your stick sanctions on them). Anyway, enjoy! (damn... too much "Re: Comments on Apple and Steve Jobs by Rush Limbaugh" stuff in my inbox now :) Eric. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
