Yeah... see Windows provides a little bit of morality to your life. Since it's merely a vessel for porn, it crashes on you to let you know you're doing something you shouldn't be doing! lol Borders was a family owned business, and family run for the most part until it really started to take off, and then was sold to KMart. They were based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Store #1 is still downtown. The Borders family has always been very nice, and very pleasant, and involved in the community. Here, in Ann Arbor, going to Borders is supporting the community. Yes there are other "Mom & Pop" bookstores, as there's "Mom & Pop" everything here, but Borders started out as that, and just managed to expand to such a large corporation. I've worked contracts for Borders, and as a corporation, they're just as unorganized as anybody else, but they have some very good people working at the stores all over the place. I've talked some of these people, and can attest that personally. Meanwhile the whole issue of non-union workers is a whole other debate, that's more a personal view point at this time. But not only are punishing publishers, writers, you're punishing the "Mom & Pop" stores as well. Shoplifting is a huge reasons for markups. The publisher lose money, so then the writers lose out. Then they mark the books up more so they can make up for money lost. Not to mention the people that work in these stores becaue they're 16 and can't find anything else. The people that don't have a problem with making $8, and are glad they're getting that much, and they're not working in a fast food envirenment. There are other, more effective ways of tackling this issue of yours. But just as you have your own beliefs, you have your own methods of addressing them. tdh -- T. Holmes ----------------- UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------- "Real Men Use Vi!" Uptime: -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:02pm up 14 days, 18:47, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Don't you know big brother is always watching. Especially, un*x groups, | listserves, and irc channels. Reason why, UNIX people are the smartest | on the planet. | | BTW: Windows is only good for one thing porn. It even crashes on that, | guess that means you shouldn't look at porn. | | Eric --------------------------------------------------------------------
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