jennifer wrote: > On Wednesday 29 August 2001 17:09, Isaac Curtis wrote: > >>This is a bottom-posted new thread, I encourage anyone interested to >>please skim the quote for context before reading below. >> >> >> >>(from the thread Re: [newbie] kde2.2 broke Konqueror Flash plugin) >> >>Ron Bouwhuis wrote: >>--- Isaac Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >><SNIP>. Either buy/order them from a locally owned >>bookstore or, if you don't have the hefty $75 combined price tag, take >>the five-finger discount at the nearest Borders (the place is less >>secure than Windows ME) and buy a few magazines back at your hometown >>shop to support local business. <SNIP> >> >> >>What the hell is a five-finger discount? >> >>I *HOPE* you mean you go to Borders, buy a coffee and >>maybe a pastry, sit down in one of those lovely corner >>sofas and read the excellent Linux references you >>mention (careful not to get sticky fingers on the >>pages). You then write notes to yourself on a pad and >>put the book back on the shelf when you're done. >>Regards, >>Ron. >> >> >>Dear Ron, >> >>Borders ran four of five local bookstores out of my hometown. Borders >>bookstores all across the country have illegally interfered with union >>organzing within my union and others. Borders pays their workers a >>lousy wage so that ignorant high-brow yuppies can come in and get their >>books for a few bucks less than they could at the shop that has been in >>their community for three generations. I will not pay for a book from >>that store. >> >>I am on a very tight budget and can occasionally afford a tech magazine >>or some cd-r's on which to burn software and the latest downloads. When >>I purchase these things I get them from local business and support the >>people that have been supporting my community since before I was born. >>When I need something I can't get from local business, either because of >>price or because they aren't able to get it shipped within a month, I >>will go to Borders and take it. When I have to resort to that, I make a >>point of spending as much as I can afford at a local bookstore. >> >>Last week I picked up "Learning the Bash Shell" and "DNS and Bind" for >>free from Borders, so I went to a local store in downtown and bought two >>history books and a fiction book which I donated to my local public >>library. I actually spent more on the donated books than I would have >>on the ones from Borders, but I am comfortable with that decision >>because what I did supported my community and helped strike a(n >>admittedly small) blow at Borders and everything it stands for. >> >>I am not suggesting we all go on a stealing spree from Borders, but >>rather that we support our local businesses. If we can't get what we >>need locally, than we should take it for free from our local Big Box >>Store (Borders, Barnes & Noble, etc) and find a way to redirect the >>privilege we enjoyed of a free book into a way of supporting the local >>community. This isn't your only option, you could go to your local >>public library and ask them to order a copy to beef up their tech >>section. (If they don't have money for it you could steal *two* copies >>from Borders and donate one of them...) You could get a friend to buy >>it from a locally-owned store out of state and mail it to you, and >>return the favor with an equally priced book they couldn't find in their >>area. >> >>The point isn't stealing, the point is supporting our local communities >>by supporting our local businesses. Mutlinational corporations don't >>care about your community, they don't care about your needs, and they >>don't care about you. They care about their bottom line. This is the >>same thing that has given us Wal-Mart, McDonald's, and Microsoft. To >>copy your syntax a little bit... >> >>I *HOPE* that you, as a Linux supporter, would be able to make the >>connection between why Microsoft is evil and why Borders is evil. >>Microsoft is not just a lousy operating system, it is a morally corrupt >>institution. >> >>I am not sure if stealing is right, but I know that buying from Borders >>is wrong. >> >>Against Capital and State, >>Isaac >> >> >> >>"Necessity knows no law, and the starving man has a natural right to a >>share of his neighbor's bread. Ask for work. If they do not give you >>work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take >>bread." >> >> - Emma Goldman >>www.anarchistfaq.org >>www.infoshop.org/faq >> >>(I realize this qoute is not relevant to stealing a Linux book from >>Borders. It is, however, another angle of opening people's minds to why >>stealing is, if not right, certainly less wrong than other ills of this >>world.) >> > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- > You have go to be kidding me! > > I am so happy that I believe in karma after reading this. > > > Karma? Come on... I'm not gonna have lightning strike me because I lifted a $40 book from Borders. I'm sure lightning can find much better targets in the people that support clothes made in sweatshops (Nike, Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch) or even people who support union-busting companies like Borders that refuse to pay their workers a living wage and rely almost entirely on part-time workers that are not eligible to receive benefits. I'd advise you to steer clear of open windows next time weather gets ugly. Isaac PS: can't hurt to plan ahead... www.weatherchannel.com
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