[geeks] can't wait for Vista

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2006/11/07 Tue AM 11:04:59 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] can't wait for Vista

>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 @ 21:42 -0600, Lionel Peterson said:
>
>> There is always a choice in a free democracy. 
>
>You might think this is a nit, but if you mean the USA, we aren't a free
>democracy, fortunately.
>
>The USA is a constitutional republic governed by the rule of law, nearly
>180 degrees away from a free democracy.
>

Point taken.

>> Your set of assumptions
>> seems to include the inability to change employers if they have a
>> policy that goes against your choice.
>
>So, you are trying to say that everyone can vote with their feet?
>
>Not everyone can just pack up and leave when an employer sucks.

Yes, they can - they choose not to. It's not that important to them, and that's fine, but the choice is there.

>> Failure to exercise your choice doesn't eliminate the choice.
>> 
>> Sorry, I just hate the argument about not having a choice...
>
>...and likewise I hate the invalid assumption that everyone has that
>choice. 

I disagree - even in one-company towns, somebody runs the gas station, someone runs the local lunch counter, etc...

Lionel