[SGVLUG] any android tablet made in a democratic country

[qun li]

In the US democracy you can say all you want but you can't easily get to work in Wall Street. That is reserved for those from the Ivy League and MIT etc.

--- On Wed, 3/2/11, John Wang <red744t at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: John Wang <red744t at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] any android tablet made in a democratic country
> To: "SGVLUG Discussion List." <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 12:26 AM
> 
> Churchill can put it more elegantly than I can,
> 
> "Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried
> in this world of sin 
> and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or
> all-wise. Indeed, it has 
> been said that democracy is the worst form of government
> except all those other 
> forms that have been tried from time to time."   
> 
> http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
> 
> I am more of libertarian these days. . . though I am
> rethinking the wisdom of an 
> unregulated market. . . , so I feel the political squeeze
> from both the left and 
> the right, aka tyranny of the majority.
> 
> I think that if democracy is freedom, equality, and justice
> under the law, then 
> it should be consider ethical.  
> 
> 
> Relating it to OS choices, I think of Linux as a
> democracy.  It's not perfect, 
> sometimes painful, but we pursue it at all cost. 
>    I think of Mac as a form of 
> authoritarian capitalism, sort of like happy serfdom, it
> looks pretty, works 
> great, just don't ask any questions. 
>    MS is a form of totalitarianism, an 
> unhappy serfdom, doesn't matter how it looks or works,
> don't even think about 
> asking questions, 
> 
> 
> I use all three.  MS at work, Mac at home, Linux on my
> personal laptop. . . . 
> 
> John
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: John E. Kreznar <jek at ininx.com>
> To: SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> Sent: Tue, March 1, 2011 4:49:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] any android tablet made in a
> democratic country
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> Hats off to all who weigh the moral implications of their
> decisions!
> 
> Question, please, whether political "democracy" (aka
> tyranny of the
> majority) can be considered "moral".
> 
> (But we veer off topic.)
> 
> - -- 
> John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com
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>              A
> secret ballot knows no shame.
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