I know your question is rhetorical (um, YOU think so too, right?); but it's just crying to be asked: How stupid do you think they think you have to be? :)
Your (hopefully) rhetorical question was asked on a radio show I heard about a week ago (scanning the AM band late at night - didn't get a call on the station, so I can't offer verification) and the response was basically "you're the foreign media - you're nobody. no one has to tell you a damned thing about anything and just remember that you only exist at the pleasure of those who continue to listen to you. It's a foreign country with foreign authorities in charge - you don't even have a right to be acknowledged by them if they don't want to, and your opinions mean nothing to them".
I loved it and wished I could've gotten the station's call to send them an email!
So, how is Tiger? And that dashboard thingy....is it fun? I think my G3 deserves an update...only because I can't customize the visited links colors in Safari...all the fun stuff doesn't run on Jaguar!