ditching Apple products due to boycotts?

[Tuna]

Excerpts from Joshua Zeidner's message of Mon May 17 21:37:56 -0700 2010:
>   Tuna,
> 
>     We were discussing macro economic trends that effect all linux
> developers as well as issues pertaining to Arizona and Linux.  Just because
> some deem the issue of illegal aliens to be out of bounds does not mean we
> terminate the discussion whenever we arrive at the subject.  Of course some
> people don't like it being discussed.  Those are the people who want to
> prevent action from being taken.  There are some of these people on this
> thread.  How can we discuss anything these days without addressing *what is
> right in front of our faces every day*!?
>

The subject remains, however, off-topic. It has nothing to do with your 
political opinions, or your expression thereof. All I'm saying is, choose
your medium. Many of us are friends with you on Facebook or some other 
social networking site, and a few of us read your blog. Also respect that 
most people on this list are pedantic about what is off-topic, or simply 
do not care.
 
>     The fact is everyone, this country is in deep doo doo.  It's not a
> laughing matter.  Anyone who was at the Sharpton rally will tell you that
> these people are violent and they most certainly are un-american.  Our state
> is broke, as are many other states.  Our ability to maintain our technology
> sector will rely heavily on our ability to stabilize ourselves politically.
>  This means *your job*.  It might even be an opportunity to position
> ourselves profitably relative to California.  Discussion is absolutely
> critical to moving in the right direction.  Don't let people blow the issue
> out of proportion or try to turn it into some racial battleground.
> 
>     That being said, you may now return to complaining about COX service or
> whatever other stuff is 'on topic'.
> 

I hate those threads too. Internet memo: either we already know that there's a
Cox outage, or we don't care because we don't subscribe to Cox, thankyou.

>   -jmz
> 
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Tuna <tuna at supertunaman.com> wrote:
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> >        ILLEGAL ALIEN IS ILLEGAL
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> > Congrats, Zeidner.
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> > Excerpts from Joshua Zeidner's message of Sun May 16 12:54:33 -0700 2010:
> > > Hello PLUG,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >   I am wondering if anyone is switching off Apple products due to the
> > recent
> > > Los Angeles boycott of Arizona:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/05/12/20100512los-angeles-boycott-vo
> > > te-over-arizona-immigration-law12-ON.html
> > >
> > > <
> > http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/05/12/20100512los-angeles-boycott-v
> > > ote-over-arizona-immigration-law12-ON.html>
> > >  Hopefully
> > > they will choose Linux.
> > >
> > >
> > > -jmz
> > >
> >
> > --