hahaha.
Since this works with all the states, the crooks need only go to a state with a broken education system and take advantage of the people to get in the system.
And as pointed out, the system is as weak as the state with the weakest system.
Ok, I admit it, I admit passing judgement against rednecks. I also did not say rednecks are bigots, I do find it interesting that you inferred this. I am sure there are ignorant people and rednecks who are definitely not bigots. I said that my definition is, "someone who takes pride in being ignorant". This is quite different from someone who just happens to be ignorant.
I don't think I ever tried to DEFEND this position as you say. I don't think I would want to.
Perhaps you confused the two words
ignorant
and
bigot
To be bigoted against them (int the denotative meaning) I would have to take a side with a group and not tolerate them because of my association. However, in the conotative meaning of the word you can definitely say I am bigoted against them. The word predjudiced doesn't really apply here because, predjudice would mean no knowledge of a person before passing judgement, and my definition requires a level of knowledge before the judgement can be passed.
Now when I put down a redneck farmer, I am not putting down farmers, one is a subset of the other. To suggest that is, to suggest that someone who doesn't like apples must hate all fruit.
I do admit that I did take a cheap shot to the farmers (regarding economics of) responding to your post. I was offtopic, and should not have added that to the discussion. I was wrong.
I guess I should qualify my stereotypes. '... the majority of their redneck fore-fathers...' JK
or my definitions.
When I use the term redneck, I'm am referring to someone who takes pride in being ignorant. Rednecks use terms like "them kids an't gonna git notin useful from an ed-jew-kay-shun" "why don them my-grants speek en-gish?"
So, in this case we have christian fundamentalist rednecks, since they want to spread a particular kind of ignorance.
I'm not taking anything out on the farmers other than their desire to keep running a business that is not economically viable. They forget than when Great-Grandpaw started the farm *it MADE money*, thats why he did it. If it would not have made money, Great-Grandpaw would have done something else. Its about common sense, not tradition.
logical argument and theory building
This is what led to years of believing that
the earth is flat
heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones
flies spontaneously exist
light travels through the ether
the earth is the center of the universe
its impossible for heavier than air craft to fly
there are only four elements
disease is caused by evil humours spirits
The problem is this statement opens the door to more junk science. The guys promoting "zero point energy" do it through "logical argument", thay are still full of BS.
We already have enough junk science, if we are to modify the definition of science, then we should be more strict, demand more experimentation, demand closer observation and measurement. We can then reduce the logical argument to a tool to develop theories. The arguments should be thrown away after a theory is developed. The theories should then be subjected to observation, measurement, and experimentation.
The place creationism has in this, is the desire of those who wish to control people by keeping them ignorant by promoting logical argument to the level of scientific theory. Lao Tzu said it best, the way to maintain control of people is to keep them ignorant and uneducated.
Since they obviously don't care about actually educating the kids, just close the damn schools. Why give the kids gives false hope with a false education? Just let the kids from Kansas be like their redneck fore-fathers and work in the fields. While we're at it, make sure we remove the sex education classes. STD's will help to keep their population under control so that civilized society will be able to keep them out of the way. This is a state that allows 12 year old girls to get married. (http://www.ageofconsent.com/kansas.htm)
How can we expect Kansas to care about educating their kids? The school system there basically serves to keep the kids occupied until they are old enough to work. Kansas has a minimum employment age of 14, EXCEPT for farm work, where younger kids are put to work. (http://www.dol.ks.gov/ES/html/childfaq_DEE.html) Notice on that page that the links to what children under 18 can and can not do return 404's.
Big surprise here, a backwards, backwater state has a backwards, backwater educational system. Why is this news? News will be when California or New York try to do this.
I think there were probably other reasons. Binaries are trivially easy to disassemble and pretty easily decompiled. Its more like that the team working on it were more experienced at C++ or Delphi and chose that route. It memory serves me correctly the Google toolbar was a Delphi project.
If someone doesnt want anyone to know what their code is doing their best option is to not distribute their app.
I thought the GPL meant they only had to give source to their customers who ask for it (many previous posts also point this out).
So my question is, have any of their customers asked?
Are we getting riled up for nothing or have they denied giving the source to their customers?
TFA doesn't really cover this point which would seem to be the most important.
So, have any of their customers *asked* them for a copy of the source?
Have they attacked any of their customers who share copies?
May questions are addressed to your statements. Am I missing the point?
I question his experience.
He would have a hard time interviewing in my shop using that code for a few reasons.
Using static variables to store global data instead of the ServletContext
Using Vector instead of ArrayList
Using a Hashtable instead of a HashMap
Magic strings
P.S. Before you mention synchonization remeber as of Java 1.2, to get a synchronized Map (in place of Hashtable) or List call Collections.synchonizedMap(map) and Collections.synchronizedList(list).
Whats even more interesting is that you are doing it the way it *should* be done in J2EE. Your application object can be equated to the application context or more correctly put the ServletContext object.
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) {
ServletContext ctx = getServletContext();
// store the data
ctx.setAttribute("dataKey", dataObject);
// retrieve the data
Object dataObj = ctx.getAttribute("dataKey");
}
Funny, I never thought I would compliment an ASP programmer.:)
I'm going to have to argue that storing data in static member variables is generally a bad idea. (Of course, so is using scriptlets in the JSP) Excessive use of static variables can lead to unpredictable behavior, and can be hard to debug. Also, syncing the data becomes more complex because of multi-threaded access to the variable.
While working on high performance web apps where we want to cache the data and prevent having it become stale we genereally to store it in the application context ( ServletContext.setAttribute(name,object) ) with date information. So, you create a class to hold a date object representing the moment the data was cahed, and the data you wish to cache. Have your servlet or action class (you do have some kind of MVC right?) check that the date is not beyond your pre-dermined max life, if it is, re-fetch the data, otherwise, continue on. Some apps would continue on if another process was busy updating. Depends on requirements and load.
This would also mean not fetching the data at application startup. Which, depending on your app, can be a good thing. If your app is deployed in a cluster, and different boxes may get different types of requests you may not actually need all of the data cached on every box.
We also have a servlet (security controlled) that can be called to flush the cache. So, when an editor is using a content management tool and hits publish, the last step and updating the DB is to flush the cache.
Of course, when I see a *java* programmer using the old *Hashtable* and Vector classes, I'm instantly prejudiced againt his code.
Teach evolutionary theory in a science class because it is a scientific theory. Science classes are where science is generally taught. Lets test whether heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones.
Teach ID in a philosophy class since its ideas are just reasoned out and have no basis on science. ID is more like the *reasoning* of the ancient philosophers. Its seems reasonable that heavier objects will fall faster than lighter ones, there's no need to test this by experimentation.
A discussion on the birth place of a famous person is a discussion of two points in the same context. Comparing evolution and ID has no place in a science class because one of them is not science. It might make a nice discussion for the philosophy or theology class. It would make an even more interesting discussion in a psychology class (why people choose to accept or reject...).
This seems more like a debate about philosophy vs science. Philosophers tried to reason out things without experimentation. This is how we ended up with flawed *facts* like heavier bodies fall faster than lighter ones. Later scientists came along and said there are no absolute facts. There are theories, and theories should be challenged by experimentation. ID looks like a lot of postulating without even coming up with "thought experiments" that could be validated by observation. Or making predictions, that could be validated by research. Evolution, on the other hand, may not be exactly what Darwin put out but, the *theory* has been rewritten when inconsistencies are found. Experiments are conducted upon the theory. Predictions based upon the theory are tested. There is some actual science being done.
ID may have a place in a philosophy class, I would have nothing against this. However, science classes should teach *science*.
As for religion's involvement. The idea that something should be blindly believed has no place in science. That is the opposite of science. Teaching the opposite of science as science is called lying. And according to the bible, liars go to hell.
Uh, no. I use firefox at home and work, both windows, and linux and have not experienced this in either environment. I always here there is a problem with the slashdot code but, your comment is the first I've seen stating what the problem is. Now I guess I should wonder why I don't get this *bug*.
Calipari, jumps the omissis of the Americans On Internet the relationship in its interezza can be read. The Power of attorney of Rome will acquire the new document like open source
INSTRUMENTS VERSION STAMPABILE The READ PIU' IT SENDES THIS ARTICLE The USA relationship with omissis (AP) ROME - They are omissis "only virtual", than they can be gone around with simple clic, those lies in wait for to the USA relationship on the dead women of Nicholas Calipari, published friday, and that they would have had to hide names, procedures and others you leave classified. Pecette black that filled up the 45 the pages of the document answered to obvious reasons of inner emergency, a way in order protect the anonymity of the marines been involved in the "tragic incident" of 4 March, when Calipari found the dead women for "fire friend" on the road for the airport of Bagdad.
Sin but that the USA commando had not made the accounts with the "copy and glue", that concurs to read the relationship in its interezza, without censorships. How? E' sufficient to open the document it originates them with the version reader of Acrobat, to select all the text and to make a copy and glue on Word or whichever editor. Or, easier anchor, to open rows "pdf" originates them, to cliccare on "Saves come..." and to choose a whichever various format from the "pdf" (always Word, as an example). A simplest technical operation that is in a position to executing anyone has a connected computer to Internet.
Between the parts of the relationship covered the military secret USA there is as an example the paragraph with the names of the members of the patrol who has talked nonsense against the car of Calipari, or the identity of the third man (an Italian agent) to the guide of the car with Giuliana Sgrena and Calipari, and still the understood one it with the procedures of I engage of the check point. Emergency "around to John Negroponte emerges also the operation" and the difficulties of that evening in the particular chain of commando americana.Tutti, with to many others, that they are hour becomes you of public dominion and that the power of attorney of Rome that it inquires on the Calipari homicide will acquire. It is how much is learned in atmospheres investigated you of Clodio Large square. The acquisition procedure is that one that the enquirers define of the so-called opened sources, that is news of interest for the judicial authority that but does not have some trial-like valence.
how about we just get rid of passports and embrace *freedom*. Everybody likes freedom. We always say come here because we have freedom. The president says its about "freedom and liberty" and "liberty and freedom" (as if these were two different things). Why not let citizens of the planet be free to travel their own planet in their own means. What happened to freedom of movement? What happened to criticism of how the Nazis required travel papers to go anywhere? What happened to criticism of how the Soviets required travel papers to go anywhere?
When will we realize that we are on this planet together and the best way to stop fighting and killing each other is to meet and learn from each other?
Crap, I've gone from libertarian to hippie. Lets just require retinal scans before you can get on the crosstown bus. YOur retina *will be* your passport.
...that in many states convicted felons lose their right to vote permanently. Now consider the overwhelming majority of the drug convictions are against african americans. (Last stat I heard was 1 in 3 african americans will be incarcerated in their lifetime) Sounds like a good way to keep down the black vote.
As for the economics, think how much money the drug industry would lose if folks had MJ instead of sleeping pills, anti-depressants, and pain killers. Think how much the alcohol industry would lose if people shose the safer option of using MJ instead of drinking (MJ, no sirosis, no organ damage, no permanent brain damage, you get all of those with alcohol).
I think it would be easier to turn gold into lead.
Gold having an atomic number 79 compared to 82 of lead. Isn't it easier to fuse on extra protons and neutrons with an accelerator than it is to split off just a few. With the atomic weights 197 (Gold) and 207(Lead) You'll need to hit the gold with a hydrogen, a helium, and some extra nuetrons to turn it into lead. To turn lead into gold, you need a way to strip off this little bit, or split, split, fuse, fuse, and pull out the extra in the middle step.
Just MHO.
I am not a nuclear (or nuclar for those from the red states) physicist. I will not be held responsible if you destroy the planet.
I'd say whether or not its pointless depends on your morals. For instance, I don't do business with Union Carbide or their customers because of how they treated the incident in Bhopal. They may not miss the little bit of money that didn't go their way but, I know that I'm giving them nothing. I will buy Chinese goods. This is because the Americans being put out of work are the same ones who voted for Bush, and Bush supports big Chinese imports. So, I'm supporting the political position of those factory workers.
There are many people who will not buy fuel from Exon over the oil spill in Alaska. Does Exon miss their money, maybe not. Can those people sleep better at night? Absolutely.
Of course, if you don't give a **** then it doesn't matter. The issue is not about whether you $5 makes a change, its about where *you* chose to put that $5. Its about what you think is important. If you chose not to shop with a jerk, maybe he doesn't care. You'll know that *you* chose to do business with someone else.
Slashdot Mirror
hahaha.
Since this works with all the states, the crooks need only go to a state with a broken education system and take advantage of the people to get in the system.
And as pointed out, the system is as weak as the state with the weakest system.
Ok, I admit it, I admit passing judgement against rednecks. I also did not say rednecks are bigots, I do find it interesting that you inferred this. I am sure there are ignorant people and rednecks who are definitely not bigots. I said that my definition is, "someone who takes pride in being ignorant". This is quite different from someone who just happens to be ignorant.
I don't think I ever tried to DEFEND this position as you say. I don't think I would want to.
Perhaps you confused the two words
ignorant and bigot
To be bigoted against them (int the denotative meaning) I would have to take a side with a group and not tolerate them because of my association. However, in the conotative meaning of the word you can definitely say I am bigoted against them. The word predjudiced doesn't really apply here because, predjudice would mean no knowledge of a person before passing judgement, and my definition requires a level of knowledge before the judgement can be passed.
Now when I put down a redneck farmer, I am not putting down farmers, one is a subset of the other. To suggest that is, to suggest that someone who doesn't like apples must hate all fruit.
I do admit that I did take a cheap shot to the farmers (regarding economics of) responding to your post. I was offtopic, and should not have added that to the discussion. I was wrong.
I guess I should qualify my stereotypes.
'... the majority of their redneck fore-fathers...'
JK
or my definitions.
When I use the term redneck, I'm am referring to someone who takes pride in being ignorant.
Rednecks use terms like
"them kids an't gonna git notin useful from an ed-jew-kay-shun"
"why don them my-grants speek en-gish?"
So, in this case we have christian fundamentalist rednecks, since they want to spread a particular kind of ignorance.
I'm not taking anything out on the farmers other than their desire to keep running a business that is not economically viable. They forget than when Great-Grandpaw started the farm *it MADE money*, thats why he did it. If it would not have made money, Great-Grandpaw would have done something else. Its about common sense, not tradition.
This is what led to years of believing that
- the earth is flat
- heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones
- flies spontaneously exist
- light travels through the ether
- the earth is the center of the universe
- its impossible for heavier than air craft to fly
- there are only four elements
- disease is caused by evil humours spirits
The problem is this statement opens the door to more junk science. The guys promoting "zero point energy" do it through "logical argument", thay are still full of BS.We already have enough junk science, if we are to modify the definition of science, then we should be more strict, demand more experimentation, demand closer observation and measurement. We can then reduce the logical argument to a tool to develop theories. The arguments should be thrown away after a theory is developed. The theories should then be subjected to observation, measurement, and experimentation.
The place creationism has in this, is the desire of those who wish to control people by keeping them ignorant by promoting logical argument to the level of scientific theory. Lao Tzu said it best, the way to maintain control of people is to keep them ignorant and uneducated.
Since they obviously don't care about actually educating the kids, just close the damn schools.
Why give the kids gives false hope with a false education?
Just let the kids from Kansas be like their redneck fore-fathers and work in the fields.
While we're at it, make sure we remove the sex education classes. STD's will help to keep their population under control so that civilized society will be able to keep them out of the way.
This is a state that allows 12 year old girls to get married. (http://www.ageofconsent.com/kansas.htm)
How can we expect Kansas to care about educating their kids? The school system there basically serves to keep the kids occupied until they are old enough to work. Kansas has a minimum employment age of 14, EXCEPT for farm work, where younger kids are put to work. (http://www.dol.ks.gov/ES/html/childfaq_DEE.html) Notice on that page that the links to what children under 18 can and can not do return 404's.
Big surprise here, a backwards, backwater state has a backwards, backwater educational system.
Why is this news?
News will be when California or New York try to do this.
I think there were probably other reasons.
Binaries are trivially easy to disassemble and pretty easily decompiled.
Its more like that the team working on it were more experienced at C++ or Delphi and chose that route. It memory serves me correctly the Google toolbar was a Delphi project.
If someone doesnt want anyone to know what their code is doing their best option is to not distribute their app.
have we heard from any customers?
"customer" seems to be the keyword in this debate. I haven't seen any statements from any.
Actually, I did not see one comment stating that they refused to share the source with a customer.
I am not defending the actions of the company, I just don't want to jump to conclussions as I am not fully informed.
I thought the GPL meant they only had to give source to their customers who ask for it (many previous posts also point this out). So my question is, have any of their customers asked? Are we getting riled up for nothing or have they denied giving the source to their customers? TFA doesn't really cover this point which would seem to be the most important.
So, have any of their customers *asked* them for a copy of the source? Have they attacked any of their customers who share copies? May questions are addressed to your statements. Am I missing the point?
I'm confused.
This seems more like they *stole* a TV from a pile of TV's that had a sign reading "Free TV's" in front.
As for the GPL violations, I can't really make a comment because the vagaries of licenses are not my expertise.
P.S. Before you mention synchonization remeber as of Java 1.2, to get a synchronized Map (in place of Hashtable) or List call Collections.synchonizedMap(map) and Collections.synchronizedList(list).
Whats even more interesting is that you are doing it the way it *should* be done in J2EE. Your application object can be equated to the application context or more correctly put the ServletContext object.
// store the data
// retrieve the data
:)
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) {
ServletContext ctx = getServletContext();
ctx.setAttribute("dataKey", dataObject);
Object dataObj = ctx.getAttribute("dataKey");
}
Funny, I never thought I would compliment an ASP programmer.
I'm going to have to argue that storing data in static member variables is generally a bad idea. (Of course, so is using scriptlets in the JSP) Excessive use of static variables can lead to unpredictable behavior, and can be hard to debug. Also, syncing the data becomes more complex because of multi-threaded access to the variable.
While working on high performance web apps where we want to cache the data and prevent having it become stale we genereally to store it in the application context ( ServletContext.setAttribute(name,object) ) with date information.
So, you create a class to hold a date object representing the moment the data was cahed, and the data you wish to cache. Have your servlet or action class (you do have some kind of MVC right?) check that the date is not beyond your pre-dermined max life, if it is, re-fetch the data, otherwise, continue on. Some apps would continue on if another process was busy updating. Depends on requirements and load.
This would also mean not fetching the data at application startup. Which, depending on your app, can be a good thing. If your app is deployed in a cluster, and different boxes may get different types of requests you may not actually need all of the data cached on every box.
We also have a servlet (security controlled) that can be called to flush the cache. So, when an editor is using a content management tool and hits publish, the last step and updating the DB is to flush the cache.
Of course, when I see a *java* programmer using the old *Hashtable* and Vector classes, I'm instantly prejudiced againt his code.
Well, I would say teach in context.
Teach evolutionary theory in a science class because it is a scientific theory. Science classes are where science is generally taught. Lets test whether heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones.
Teach ID in a philosophy class since its ideas are just reasoned out and have no basis on science. ID is more like the *reasoning* of the ancient philosophers. Its seems reasonable that heavier objects will fall faster than lighter ones, there's no need to test this by experimentation.
A discussion on the birth place of a famous person is a discussion of two points in the same context. Comparing evolution and ID has no place in a science class because one of them is not science. It might make a nice discussion for the philosophy or theology class. It would make an even more interesting discussion in a psychology class (why people choose to accept or reject...).
This seems more like a debate about philosophy vs science.
Philosophers tried to reason out things without experimentation. This is how we ended up with flawed *facts* like heavier bodies fall faster than lighter ones.
Later scientists came along and said there are no absolute facts. There are theories, and theories should be challenged by experimentation.
ID looks like a lot of postulating without even coming up with "thought experiments" that could be validated by observation. Or making predictions, that could be validated by research.
Evolution, on the other hand, may not be exactly what Darwin put out but, the *theory* has been rewritten when inconsistencies are found. Experiments are conducted upon the theory. Predictions based upon the theory are tested. There is some actual science being done.
ID may have a place in a philosophy class, I would have nothing against this. However, science classes should teach *science*.
As for religion's involvement. The idea that something should be blindly believed has no place in science. That is the opposite of science. Teaching the opposite of science as science is called lying. And according to the bible, liars go to hell.
Uh, no.
I use firefox at home and work, both windows, and linux and have not experienced this in either environment.
I always here there is a problem with the slashdot code but, your comment is the first I've seen stating what the problem is. Now I guess I should wonder why I don't get this *bug*.
about: (at home) gives me:
Firefox 1.0.3
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Can anyone tell me how I can get the rendering bug?
Its also a good way to keep them working instead of looking at pr0n all day.
Calipari, jumps the omissis of the Americans
On Internet the relationship in its interezza can be read. The Power of attorney of Rome will acquire the new document like open source
INSTRUMENTS
VERSION STAMPABILE
The READ PIU'
IT SENDES THIS ARTICLE
The USA relationship with omissis (AP)
ROME - They are omissis "only virtual", than they can be gone around with simple clic, those lies in wait for to the USA relationship on the dead women of Nicholas Calipari, published friday, and that they would have had to hide names, procedures and others you leave classified. Pecette black that filled up the 45 the pages of the document answered to obvious reasons of inner emergency, a way in order protect the anonymity of the marines been involved in the "tragic incident" of 4 March, when Calipari found the dead women for "fire friend" on the road for the airport of Bagdad.
Sin but that the USA commando had not made the accounts with the "copy and glue", that concurs to read the relationship in its interezza, without censorships. How? E' sufficient to open the document it originates them with the version reader of Acrobat, to select all the text and to make a copy and glue on Word or whichever editor. Or, easier anchor, to open rows "pdf" originates them, to cliccare on "Saves come..." and to choose a whichever various format from the "pdf" (always Word, as an example). A simplest technical operation that is in a position to executing anyone has a connected computer to Internet.
Between the parts of the relationship covered the military secret USA there is as an example the paragraph with the names of the members of the patrol who has talked nonsense against the car of Calipari, or the identity of the third man (an Italian agent) to the guide of the car with Giuliana Sgrena and Calipari, and still the understood one it with the procedures of I engage of the check point. Emergency "around to John Negroponte emerges also the operation" and the difficulties of that evening in the particular chain of commando americana.Tutti, with to many others, that they are hour becomes you of public dominion and that the power of attorney of Rome that it inquires on the Calipari homicide will acquire. It is how much is learned in atmospheres investigated you of Clodio Large square. The acquisition procedure is that one that the enquirers define of the so-called opened sources, that is news of interest for the judicial authority that but does not have some trial-like valence.
how about we just get rid of passports and embrace *freedom*. Everybody likes freedom. We always say come here because we have freedom. The president says its about "freedom and liberty" and "liberty and freedom" (as if these were two different things).
Why not let citizens of the planet be free to travel their own planet in their own means.
What happened to freedom of movement?
What happened to criticism of how the Nazis required travel papers to go anywhere?
What happened to criticism of how the Soviets required travel papers to go anywhere?
When will we realize that we are on this planet together and the best way to stop fighting and killing each other is to meet and learn from each other?
Crap, I've gone from libertarian to hippie.
Lets just require retinal scans before you can get on the crosstown bus. YOur retina *will be* your passport.
...that in many states convicted felons lose their right to vote permanently. Now consider the overwhelming majority of the drug convictions are against african americans. (Last stat I heard was 1 in 3 african americans will be incarcerated in their lifetime) Sounds like a good way to keep down the black vote.
As for the economics, think how much money the drug industry would lose if folks had MJ instead of sleeping pills, anti-depressants, and pain killers. Think how much the alcohol industry would lose if people shose the safer option of using MJ instead of drinking (MJ, no sirosis, no organ damage, no permanent brain damage, you get all of those with alcohol).
I think it would be easier to turn gold into lead.
Gold having an atomic number 79 compared to 82 of lead. Isn't it easier to fuse on extra protons and neutrons with an accelerator than it is to split off just a few. With the atomic weights 197 (Gold) and 207(Lead) You'll need to hit the gold with a hydrogen, a helium, and some extra nuetrons to turn it into lead.
To turn lead into gold, you need a way to strip off this little bit, or split, split, fuse, fuse, and pull out the extra in the middle step.
Just MHO.
I am not a nuclear (or nuclar for those from the red states) physicist. I will not be held responsible if you destroy the planet.
The nice thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.
And if that doesn't make you happy, you can always create some new ones.
I'd say whether or not its pointless depends on your morals.
For instance, I don't do business with Union Carbide or their customers because of how they treated the incident in Bhopal. They may not miss the little bit of money that didn't go their way but, I know that I'm giving them nothing.
I will buy Chinese goods. This is because the Americans being put out of work are the same ones who voted for Bush, and Bush supports big Chinese imports. So, I'm supporting the political position of those factory workers.
There are many people who will not buy fuel from Exon over the oil spill in Alaska. Does Exon miss their money, maybe not. Can those people sleep better at night? Absolutely.
Of course, if you don't give a **** then it doesn't matter. The issue is not about whether you $5 makes a change, its about where *you* chose to put that $5. Its about what you think is important. If you chose not to shop with a jerk, maybe he doesn't care. You'll know that *you* chose to do business with someone else.
Why not just change the server name in the http response header.