I live in Indianapolis. For the lucky half of you who live on a coast, the bible-belt really, really sucks. A few years ago our mayor (Bart) was trying to make a high profile to get himself re-elected with. He chose to ban violent video games within city limits. The area, once being Klan central, and still being non-christians-are-to-blame-for-it-all, allowed it to pass. The first day it want active it started to be enforced.
In short time, arcade operators and video game vendors got the help of the ICLU and ACLU (thank god they considered this high profile enough) and sued the city. All the courts up to the state supreme court had no problem with this and let the law stand. Finally, the Supreme Court in D.C. decided to hear the case. A unanimous decision stuck it down as unconstitutional. That little media fiasco cost the city over a million dollars in legal services. Coincidentally, the legal firm that collected most of those billable hours was the same one the mayor used to work for. He made his golf buddies over $400,000 richer. He did manage to get re-elected though, thanks to selective media choosing to give most of the air time to the righteous fight and next to none for the legal loss and absoutely none to the tax money and who got it.
His next re-election campaign was right out of the movies. Anyone remember Footloose? It is now illegal to dance in the city without a permit. One of those will cost you thousands of dollars, unless you run a large music venue or club, in which case selective enforcement ignores you. It's a good thing all of the 'legal' venues play top 40 stuff, because that's quality music. The argument "Dancing and music causes kids to do drugs" just won't seem to die. Unfortunately nobody with money to spare gives a damn about this one.
This one is for all of those politicians who fight the symptoms instead of the disease: I hope you burn in the hell that you create here on earth. Screw your children, Darwinism will see that they get what they deserve comming. I want to shoot some simulated cops before I go out dancing to government approved music tonight.
I don't like payola either, but they do have every right to do it.
I thought payola was illegal. Wasn't some radio personality in Ohio (I think) dragged in front of congress half a century ago, along with many others, for taking bribes to play music?
If I remember correctly, this guy got a stiff punishment, much more so than peope who admitted to taking several times the ammount he took, because he was playing (and making popular) "black" music?
Another thing that demonstrates how opposed to change the recording industry is would be the ferocity in which it has hung on to the busisness models and practices it adopted from it's mafia roots. Theres an old anecdote about a guy walking by an urban high rise. He sees a black man being hung outside a window by his feet. He asks someone "What's going on up there?". The stranger replies, "Renegotiation his record contract." Who's being hung out the window now?
Besides, I'd like you to find one artist played on somaFM, bassdrive, boups.com, ukbass.xrs.net, or MANY otehrs, that is signed to a label represented by the RIAA. You are being forced to take the word of a self-riteous, monopolistic corporation that they will distribute the money to the people whom deserve it. I will trust them about as far as I can throw them.
It's about damn time. They should have been stopped when they extorted royalties from webcasters who would never play any pop filth that they 'represent'. Why should someone have to pay royalties to a body that doesn't hold any of the rights to the content that's being played?
Thats the samelogic that put the small computer shop I once worked in out of busisness. People would come in and have me price them a system. THen they'd argue that Best Buy next door was selling the same thing for $200 less. Then I'd go into the speil about how they could upgrade forever (one thing at a time until they get a new MOBO). I'd tell them all they need to do is drop in no more than $100 (no more than 200) a year to keep it up to date. That never worked. People would rather save $200 now instead of being able to save a thousand over several years. Why upgrade for years at a fraction of the original price when we can throw the thing out, go back up to best buy or gateway, grab our ankles, and let them remove another $600 from our anus every other year? The more experience I have with them, the more I see that the standard human is fiscal cattle.
Actually, here in canada the media tells us that american drug dealers are so dumb that they trade coke for our pot, pound for pound.
I have some freinds in college who would LOVE to meet those idiots. You must smoke too much of those BCs to believe that garbage. Screw the media, no matter which country they are in.
Yea, most of my blocked spam comes from south/central america, and asia. I really do wish people would lock up their servers better. It shouldn't take long before their respective governments realize that by allowing this to continue, they risk dividing themselves from the internet community. Every once and a while a quick wave comes in from the former soviet bloc, but not constant or large enough to worry about. The filters get most of it anyway.
And my boss insisted I borrow that book form him. I read it, but I'd have to say it borders on paranoia. From the sounds of things, I think she would have hailed Farwell's accusation that all of the traditional christian enemies (single mothers, minorities, liberals, ACLU members, etc) were to blame for terrorist attacks. Oh well, if everyone is wrong then no one can be right.
PS: McCarthy should burn in hell for the lives he ruined, and constitution shredding supported, in the process of making a name for himself.
Everyone complains about hotmail spam. My hotmail account is the least spammed of all my accounts. I get maybe 1 or 2 a month. Now my university account is another story. I have to get on an SSH terminal between every class and empty about 10-20. I've got so many that the text front end is the only efficient way to delete it all. I left on vacation for a single weekend (Fri AM-Sun PM) and my box was full. I ended up missing some very important notes for labs on monday because 3 days unchecked filled my 100MB quota. Thanks to that I set up a script to delete all graphics. Only Profs, teachers, assistants, freinds, and family have ever been given that address. But the address book was available online to anyone before they made it intranet (and VPN) only this year.
Where can I find a list of as many real world home addresses of spammers, accused spammers, and telemarketers as possible? It's about time that their mailbox feels the/. effect of bulk mail and fake magazine subscriptions. Who's with me? As they say, you KNOW they want it!!
Maybe if they up the junk mail, someone at the post office will go...
POSTAL hahahahahaha
DAMN, I'm lame.
maybe now is the time to add some Class A blocks to my router such as:
210.0.0.0/8 (Asia)
211.0.0.0/8 (more Asia)
200.0.0.0/8 (Latin America/Caribbean)
Let's face it, the whole area is 99% garbage and any legit asian company is going to have a much more local front anyway.
Funny... When I click the link, the IP it displays is a loopback (127.0.0.1). Is that also the reason most all popups (the FEW I get) as well as in-page adverts I SHOULD see are blank or 404'd?
If you don't know already and are using Windows, go to Bob's Block List and pay attention to the stuff at the very bottom. Do what it says and add the text list to yuor C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file. This should stop those shady companies like doubleclick, gain, and many others in their tracks. I'm sure adding the IP ranges to your router or firewall won't hurt either.
Next time you get a minute, jump the fence at a power stepping station and hold a florescent tube over your head. I bet you $100 that the free electrons floating around will be strong enough to light it up. I've seen it done a dozen times. Would you want to live under that, even though no harm has yet been proven?
For the longest time cigarettes were not proven to cause cancer. People now say that you should stop drinking and smoking when there is a CHANCE you might be pregnant, instead of when you ARE, which they once did. The reason is because a woman can be pregnant for some time before being aware. The point is, if there is a risk, it might be wise to assume it's true. Ask yourself: is it worth your health or the health of your family?
Go to your local over-priced electronic component monopoly and buy yourself a component fan. Cut a small hole in the case and tack a couple beads of solder on to a 6v-12v line and tape or glue the fan to the case.
I used to have a crap load of components in my entertainent center and the audio processor/Dolby amplifier would always overheat causing my speakers to produce a nice square wave. That is, until I did this. I just sat the fan down on the top since it had convinent air slits anyway.
where do you think all those dead batteries end up? That's right, in your ground and your water supply. Laptops already have the same battery life as they are promoting. The environment isn't THE reason, but it is A reason.
I don't preach to others. I'll talk with people who are curious. But its irritating to me when people make half-assed attempts to do something when it comes to not destroying the environment that sustains you. Only when the last tree is cut, the last fish dead, and the last bit of water polluted, will people realize that you cant't eat money.
Without guns, the government could make everyone into slaves.
Doubtful, slaves don't generate income. Therefore, taxes couldn't be collected and people wouldn't have money to support corporations. That would apply political pressure from 2 fronts. The political environment over the last few decades shows that money is everything. Guns did not help Gandhi or MLK Jr. Violence begets violence, and I feel sorry for those that use it as a means to and end. A gun isn't a cure, it's a cause. That, and I believe that good people with a say would not stand for it.
There's nothing to debate when its 60 million vs maybe 1 million.
That's the perfect time for a debate. 1 million people can't be completely wrong. Something should be addressed or else dissent will grow. They might be 1 million now, but there numbers won't stay there. Ignore and ignorance are the same words, just made for a different context.
That is the exact thing that happened when AIS/HIV started to become an issue in the US in the 80s. Unfortunately, the Regan administration decided to ignore it, and a problem which could have been prevented/reduced instead grew into a crisis. This stemmed from the ignorance of the masses and was a result of the opinion of the majority that only drug users and gays had to worry. Some 'christians' even hailed this as a sign from god to the wicked. We were harshly reminded that a virus knows no politics or religion. Imagine that, a simple virus reminded us that we are all human, and it was only apathy and ignorance towards a minority that endangered human society. How amny died; how many were needlessly infected because the majority was right? Only too late was the issue recognized, but the damage had been done. When you shut one person out, you shut yourself in.
Laws should protect the rights of the majority. Why the hell else allow guns to be sold? Alot of individuals dont need the right to bare arms, but the majority do.
You just say that because you want to keep your slaves and your witch trials. Guns are sold because we need to keep the king of england off our backs, and overthrow our government. Oh, yea, also so citizens can kill citizens with extreme efficiency and speed.
What about freedom of speech? This helps the majority but it certainly doesnt help the individual who you may curse at.
Freedom of speech protects the individual more so than the majority. Freedom to peaceably to assemble and freedom of the press protect the majority. It also protects the individual, because it will be the individual on trial for their life, not a group.
The majority demanded freedom, thats why they came to this country...
Sort of. People first came to this country because they were religous prudes and zealots. You must be VERY stuck up for the Britts to think you are stuck up. From time-to-time the rights of the individual intersects with with the rights of the majority, but I'd say less than 50% of the time. Lets not forget that the majority is made up of individuals.
Better question: What about hydrogen cells? I'd like the idea of using electricty to split water at home than paying some unseen body for ethenol. It might also be cheaper too.
That just sounds wrong. You try to help save the environment by saving energy, but you drink over-priced products from a company that levels thousands of acres of rain forrest to grow coffee. Lets not forget that they fund intertribal warfare to help remove any people living there.
Thats like WalMart fighting sweat shops by only selling clothing "Made in the USA". Yea, some small Pacific islands are US holdings, even though sweat shops run amok there. But who cares as long as the gas your SUV sucks down isn't shown by popular media to fund terrorism. "Your Hummer helped kill over 3000 people."
Yes, and of most of those, the artist will be lucky to see 20%.. tops. Besides, I'd like you to find a service that doesn't use proprietary or crippled formats. I'm not going to sink another $200 into a car stereo and another $100 into a portable that supports MP3/WMA and whatever new format they force me to.
Don't you see? There is rarely ever a 'right' and 'wrong'. For the longest itme it has been 'th lesser of the 2 evils'. Besides, law should be used to protect the rights of the individual, not the rights of the majority. Morals are relative to your religion. In many societys stoning an adulterer is morally required by religion. Other socitys Don't you see? There is rarely ever a 'right' and 'wrong'. For the longest time it has been the lesser of the 2 evils'. Besides, law should be used to protect the rights of the individual, not the rights of the majority. Morals are relative to your religion. In many societies stoning an adulterer is morally required by religion. Other societies require a government presence in a person's bedroom so that they may forbid certain types of love
You should read up on anarchy before you throw it around to describe chaos. More people have died under a governemnt or between waring governemnts than anarchy could have ever killed. It takes a large organized body to be that systematically evil.
So what is easier, throwing all of those people in jail and taking their money; or revising copyright law and creating a method for atrists to be paid for P2P?
If enough people did this then somebody would notice.
Yes, maybe so, but not the people who matter and not fast enough. Why give 50 people a hard time over the course of months when giving that 1 'right' person a hard time for a few minutes does the same thing? It would serve no purpose other than self gratification. Don't expect others to do your job. You want you opinion to go to the top? Then take it there yourself, make sure it get's done. There isn't a manager alive who will listen to an employee before they listen to a [would be] paying customer.
Write letters to politicians, record executives, VPs and presidents of music retailers. It's OK to protest and voice your opinions, just don't waste air by griping to someone who might just have the same opinion as you. If you write a politician about the DMCA, don't write to a city council member, write to a senator. And if you don't like protected CDs in your favorite store, then talk to or write the guys at the top of the ladder instead of giving some poor teenager the 3rd degreee. Don't you think they buy CDs too? I bet the person at the register has the same opinion and has already voiced it to their manager. It means more when 100 differnt people say it than one person saying it 100 times. If you wnt to win a war, then fight it, don't just go through the motions.
Ahh, but youmiss my point. Cashiers must ring up sales and restock returned items. That's it, no more, no less. Unless they make commission (very doubtful) they don't care if you spend your money. They don't want your money, the store wants your money. They still get paid anyway.
I'm glad some people on here got the point. If you want to make a statement, unless you want it falling on deaf ears, find a manager. I bet the cashier would be more than happy to get one for you.
And if you want to know the honest truth, 9 times out of 10 they will probably side with you; but thae the downside to being powerless, disposable labor is they can't do a thing for you. The only thing that giving them a hard time will do, is make them stop listening.
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I live in Indianapolis. For the lucky half of you who live on a coast, the bible-belt really, really sucks. A few years ago our mayor (Bart) was trying to make a high profile to get himself re-elected with. He chose to ban violent video games within city limits. The area, once being Klan central, and still being non-christians-are-to-blame-for-it-all, allowed it to pass. The first day it want active it started to be enforced.
In short time, arcade operators and video game vendors got the help of the ICLU and ACLU (thank god they considered this high profile enough) and sued the city. All the courts up to the state supreme court had no problem with this and let the law stand. Finally, the Supreme Court in D.C. decided to hear the case. A unanimous decision stuck it down as unconstitutional. That little media fiasco cost the city over a million dollars in legal services. Coincidentally, the legal firm that collected most of those billable hours was the same one the mayor used to work for. He made his golf buddies over $400,000 richer. He did manage to get re-elected though, thanks to selective media choosing to give most of the air time to the righteous fight and next to none for the legal loss and absoutely none to the tax money and who got it.
His next re-election campaign was right out of the movies. Anyone remember Footloose? It is now illegal to dance in the city without a permit. One of those will cost you thousands of dollars, unless you run a large music venue or club, in which case selective enforcement ignores you. It's a good thing all of the 'legal' venues play top 40 stuff, because that's quality music. The argument "Dancing and music causes kids to do drugs" just won't seem to die. Unfortunately nobody with money to spare gives a damn about this one.
This one is for all of those politicians who fight the symptoms instead of the disease: I hope you burn in the hell that you create here on earth. Screw your children, Darwinism will see that they get what they deserve comming. I want to shoot some simulated cops before I go out dancing to government approved music tonight.
I don't like payola either, but they do have every right to do it.
I thought payola was illegal. Wasn't some radio personality in Ohio (I think) dragged in front of congress half a century ago, along with many others, for taking bribes to play music?
If I remember correctly, this guy got a stiff punishment, much more so than peope who admitted to taking several times the ammount he took, because he was playing (and making popular) "black" music?
Another thing that demonstrates how opposed to change the recording industry is would be the ferocity in which it has hung on to the busisness models and practices it adopted from it's mafia roots. Theres an old anecdote about a guy walking by an urban high rise. He sees a black man being hung outside a window by his feet. He asks someone "What's going on up there?". The stranger replies, "Renegotiation his record contract." Who's being hung out the window now?
Besides, I'd like you to find one artist played on somaFM, bassdrive, boups.com, ukbass.xrs.net, or MANY otehrs, that is signed to a label represented by the RIAA. You are being forced to take the word of a self-riteous, monopolistic corporation that they will distribute the money to the people whom deserve it. I will trust them about as far as I can throw them.
It's about damn time. They should have been stopped when they extorted royalties from webcasters who would never play any pop filth that they 'represent'. Why should someone have to pay royalties to a body that doesn't hold any of the rights to the content that's being played?
SomaFM forever!!
I didn't bet that the electrons would light it. I just said that it would light up. Either way, there are forces iinvolved that I can live without.
Thats the samelogic that put the small computer shop I once worked in out of busisness. People would come in and have me price them a system. THen they'd argue that Best Buy next door was selling the same thing for $200 less. Then I'd go into the speil about how they could upgrade forever (one thing at a time until they get a new MOBO). I'd tell them all they need to do is drop in no more than $100 (no more than 200) a year to keep it up to date. That never worked. People would rather save $200 now instead of being able to save a thousand over several years. Why upgrade for years at a fraction of the original price when we can throw the thing out, go back up to best buy or gateway, grab our ankles, and let them remove another $600 from our anus every other year? The more experience I have with them, the more I see that the standard human is fiscal cattle.
Actually, here in canada the media tells us that american drug dealers are so dumb that they trade coke for our pot, pound for pound.
I have some freinds in college who would LOVE to meet those idiots. You must smoke too much of those BCs to believe that garbage. Screw the media, no matter which country they are in.
Yea, most of my blocked spam comes from south/central america, and asia. I really do wish people would lock up their servers better. It shouldn't take long before their respective governments realize that by allowing this to continue, they risk dividing themselves from the internet community. Every once and a while a quick wave comes in from the former soviet bloc, but not constant or large enough to worry about. The filters get most of it anyway.
And my boss insisted I borrow that book form him. I read it, but I'd have to say it borders on paranoia. From the sounds of things, I think she would have hailed Farwell's accusation that all of the traditional christian enemies (single mothers, minorities, liberals, ACLU members, etc) were to blame for terrorist attacks. Oh well, if everyone is wrong then no one can be right.
PS: McCarthy should burn in hell for the lives he ruined, and constitution shredding supported, in the process of making a name for himself.
Everyone complains about hotmail spam. My hotmail account is the least spammed of all my accounts. I get maybe 1 or 2 a month. Now my university account is another story. I have to get on an SSH terminal between every class and empty about 10-20. I've got so many that the text front end is the only efficient way to delete it all. I left on vacation for a single weekend (Fri AM-Sun PM) and my box was full. I ended up missing some very important notes for labs on monday because 3 days unchecked filled my 100MB quota. Thanks to that I set up a script to delete all graphics. Only Profs, teachers, assistants, freinds, and family have ever been given that address. But the address book was available online to anyone before they made it intranet (and VPN) only this year.
Thank god for PINE
Where can I find a list of as many real world home addresses of spammers, accused spammers, and telemarketers as possible? It's about time that their mailbox feels the /. effect of bulk mail and fake magazine subscriptions. Who's with me? As they say, you KNOW they want it!!
Maybe if they up the junk mail, someone at the post office will go...
POSTAL
hahahahahaha
DAMN, I'm lame.
maybe now is the time to add some Class A blocks to my router such as:
210.0.0.0/8 (Asia)
211.0.0.0/8 (more Asia)
200.0.0.0/8 (Latin America/Caribbean)
Let's face it, the whole area is 99% garbage and any legit asian company is going to have a much more local front anyway.
Funny... When I click the link, the IP it displays is a loopback (127.0.0.1). Is that also the reason most all popups (the FEW I get) as well as in-page adverts I SHOULD see are blank or 404'd?
If you don't know already and are using Windows, go to Bob's Block List and pay attention to the stuff at the very bottom. Do what it says and add the text list to yuor C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file. This should stop those shady companies like doubleclick, gain, and many others in their tracks. I'm sure adding the IP ranges to your router or firewall won't hurt either.
Next time you get a minute, jump the fence at a power stepping station and hold a florescent tube over your head. I bet you $100 that the free electrons floating around will be strong enough to light it up. I've seen it done a dozen times. Would you want to live under that, even though no harm has yet been proven?
For the longest time cigarettes were not proven to cause cancer. People now say that you should stop drinking and smoking when there is a CHANCE you might be pregnant, instead of when you ARE, which they once did. The reason is because a woman can be pregnant for some time before being aware. The point is, if there is a risk, it might be wise to assume it's true. Ask yourself: is it worth your health or the health of your family?
Go to your local over-priced electronic component monopoly and buy yourself a component fan. Cut a small hole in the case and tack a couple beads of solder on to a 6v-12v line and tape or glue the fan to the case.
I used to have a crap load of components in my entertainent center and the audio processor/Dolby amplifier would always overheat causing my speakers to produce a nice square wave. That is, until I did this. I just sat the fan down on the top since it had convinent air slits anyway.
where do you think all those dead batteries end up? That's right, in your ground and your water supply. Laptops already have the same battery life as they are promoting. The environment isn't THE reason, but it is A reason.
I don't preach to others. I'll talk with people who are curious. But its irritating to me when people make half-assed attempts to do something when it comes to not destroying the environment that sustains you. Only when the last tree is cut, the last fish dead, and the last bit of water polluted, will people realize that you cant't eat money.
Without guns, the government could make everyone into slaves.
Doubtful, slaves don't generate income. Therefore, taxes couldn't be collected and people wouldn't have money to support corporations. That would apply political pressure from 2 fronts. The political environment over the last few decades shows that money is everything. Guns did not help Gandhi or MLK Jr. Violence begets violence, and I feel sorry for those that use it as a means to and end. A gun isn't a cure, it's a cause. That, and I believe that good people with a say would not stand for it.
There's nothing to debate when its 60 million vs maybe 1 million.
That's the perfect time for a debate. 1 million people can't be completely wrong. Something should be addressed or else dissent will grow. They might be 1 million now, but there numbers won't stay there. Ignore and ignorance are the same words, just made for a different context.
That is the exact thing that happened when AIS/HIV started to become an issue in the US in the 80s. Unfortunately, the Regan administration decided to ignore it, and a problem which could have been prevented/reduced instead grew into a crisis. This stemmed from the ignorance of the masses and was a result of the opinion of the majority that only drug users and gays had to worry. Some 'christians' even hailed this as a sign from god to the wicked. We were harshly reminded that a virus knows no politics or religion. Imagine that, a simple virus reminded us that we are all human, and it was only apathy and ignorance towards a minority that endangered human society. How amny died; how many were needlessly infected because the majority was right? Only too late was the issue recognized, but the damage had been done. When you shut one person out, you shut yourself in.
Laws should protect the rights of the majority. Why the hell else allow guns to be sold? Alot of individuals dont need the right to bare arms, but the majority do.
You just say that because you want to keep your slaves and your witch trials. Guns are sold because we need to keep the king of england off our backs, and overthrow our government. Oh, yea, also so citizens can kill citizens with extreme efficiency and speed.
What about freedom of speech? This helps the majority but it certainly doesnt help the individual who you may curse at. Freedom of speech protects the individual more so than the majority. Freedom to peaceably to assemble and freedom of the press protect the majority. It also protects the individual, because it will be the individual on trial for their life, not a group.
The majority demanded freedom, thats why they came to this country...
Sort of. People first came to this country because they were religous prudes and zealots. You must be VERY stuck up for the Britts to think you are stuck up. From time-to-time the rights of the individual intersects with with the rights of the majority, but I'd say less than 50% of the time. Lets not forget that the majority is made up of individuals.
Better question: What about hydrogen cells? I'd like the idea of using electricty to split water at home than paying some unseen body for ethenol. It might also be cheaper too.
That just sounds wrong. You try to help save the environment by saving energy, but you drink over-priced products from a company that levels thousands of acres of rain forrest to grow coffee. Lets not forget that they fund intertribal warfare to help remove any people living there.
Thats like WalMart fighting sweat shops by only selling clothing "Made in the USA". Yea, some small Pacific islands are US holdings, even though sweat shops run amok there. But who cares as long as the gas your SUV sucks down isn't shown by popular media to fund terrorism. "Your Hummer helped kill over 3000 people."
Yes, and of most of those, the artist will be lucky to see 20%.. tops. Besides, I'd like you to find a service that doesn't use proprietary or crippled formats. I'm not going to sink another $200 into a car stereo and another $100 into a portable that supports MP3/WMA and whatever new format they force me to.
Don't you see? There is rarely ever a 'right' and 'wrong'. For the longest itme it has been 'th lesser of the 2 evils'. Besides, law should be used to protect the rights of the individual, not the rights of the majority. Morals are relative to your religion. In many societys stoning an adulterer is morally required by religion. Other socitys Don't you see? There is rarely ever a 'right' and 'wrong'. For the longest time it has been the lesser of the 2 evils'. Besides, law should be used to protect the rights of the individual, not the rights of the majority. Morals are relative to your religion. In many societies stoning an adulterer is morally required by religion. Other societies require a government presence in a person's bedroom so that they may forbid certain types of love
You should read up on anarchy before you throw it around to describe chaos. More people have died under a governemnt or between waring governemnts than anarchy could have ever killed. It takes a large organized body to be that systematically evil.
So what is easier, throwing all of those people in jail and taking their money; or revising copyright law and creating a method for atrists to be paid for P2P?
If enough people did this then somebody would notice.
Yes, maybe so, but not the people who matter and not fast enough. Why give 50 people a hard time over the course of months when giving that 1 'right' person a hard time for a few minutes does the same thing? It would serve no purpose other than self gratification. Don't expect others to do your job. You want you opinion to go to the top? Then take it there yourself, make sure it get's done. There isn't a manager alive who will listen to an employee before they listen to a [would be] paying customer.
Write letters to politicians, record executives, VPs and presidents of music retailers. It's OK to protest and voice your opinions, just don't waste air by griping to someone who might just have the same opinion as you. If you write a politician about the DMCA, don't write to a city council member, write to a senator. And if you don't like protected CDs in your favorite store, then talk to or write the guys at the top of the ladder instead of giving some poor teenager the 3rd degreee. Don't you think they buy CDs too? I bet the person at the register has the same opinion and has already voiced it to their manager. It means more when 100 differnt people say it than one person saying it 100 times. If you wnt to win a war, then fight it, don't just go through the motions.
Ahh, but youmiss my point. Cashiers must ring up sales and restock returned items. That's it, no more, no less. Unless they make commission (very doubtful) they don't care if you spend your money. They don't want your money, the store wants your money. They still get paid anyway.
I'm glad some people on here got the point. If you want to make a statement, unless you want it falling on deaf ears, find a manager. I bet the cashier would be more than happy to get one for you.
And if you want to know the honest truth, 9 times out of 10 they will probably side with you; but thae the downside to being powerless, disposable labor is they can't do a thing for you. The only thing that giving them a hard time will do, is make them stop listening.