Posted on 06/24/2006 1:43:00 PM PDT by wagglebee
I have mostly classical on my iPod.
Great question, and thank you for asking.
It may have been made in the 4th floor of the factory in China by the same people who made your Mac.
But the point is, I don't blow hot air about such "injustices" while most of the Mac groupies I know do.
This provides me with a nice opportunity to reiterate the point I made last week when the Whole Foods Humane Lobster Policy Press Release was getting rotation: that "social responsibility" is nothing more nor less than a marketing scheme and an attempt to exert political leverage for power and profit, plain and simple, and the joke is on the idealists who buy it to salve their empty souls and dully aching concsiences - the same ones who abort their babies because they're adament about a "woman's right to choose."
Blah diddy blah blah blah -- the modern menu of ideals is about as nutritious as a super sized order of fries.
It's another They-Buy-The-Lie alert.
I, too, have never used an ipod. When I want to save music or sound files from the computer, I download them onto audiocassette tapes.
thank you for the humor.
I'm a right-wing conservative reactionary colonialist who shops (occassionally) at Whole Foods and uses a Mac. Despite their politics, they each sell/make a better product.
The thing I love most about capitalism is choice - sadly, not enough people here understand that basic concept.
Do you want the best product or the cheapest alternative?
Didn't Joseph Farah used to have a brain back in the 90s?
yup. and it's my personal choice, privilege, and conviction to avoid financing hypocrisy if possible, and to penalize it by withholding my money.
and yes, the pickings can be mighty slim.
I share a conviction with Stanley Marcus of wanting the best product available.
My personal view is that you may not understand the workings of most of the companies you frequent.
I bought an 8' Monster cable with a RIGHT-ANGLE mini-plug (very important) from Amazon to connect the MP3 player to the RCA phono jacks in my car's center console.
Learn how to do hi-quality CD rips to MP3. Here's a good place to start:
http://jthz.com/mp3/
http://mp3.radified.com/
You'll pardon me if I reserve the right to be skeptical of the opinions of people who are so quick to jump into someone else's head.
rarely do I find associated with the sort of denial that accompanies hypocrisy in the management of any enterprise, excellence in product or service.
and when I traded stocks for a living (i.e. shares of "companies whose workings I don't understand"), we had a saying: "short fraud." it works.
Like I said, you probably don't understand the workings of most of the companies you frequent.
I spent 20 years in corporate finance and Wall Street roadshows. I'm impressed by little.
1 Yuan (Chinese Money) = $ 0.124961.
You do the Math!
The workers are there for the room and board they get, in addition to the wage.
The police are there to make sure the workers dont steal the ipods.
All I did was show the hypocracy of a big brother computer maker using a tyranical big brother reguime and his commercial that was used to sell it! I understand economics 101, too bad your clueless to hypocracy 102!
Now waiiiiit just a minute... where are the free traders?
Isn't this just good ol' capitalism in action?!
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