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Post #289,255 by mmoffitt 7/17/07 2:44:11 PM Reply	Well, as long as you're not trying to ... make the world a better place or anything. bcnu, Mikem Microsoft Vista. The best reason ever to buy a Mac.
Post #289,258 by bepatient 7/17/07 3:12:18 PM Reply	Making it "better" tm One, "better" according to whom? And two, base assumption of your statement is that I'm not an advocate of change. I don't like income taxes in current form and support flat tax. Should I assume that the IRS will just giggle and play along when I file according to my >belief< or should I follow the procedures set forth and work through other venues to make my belief the rule? Should I ignore the current process and all the available deductions and loopholes because I don't >like< the system in place? In your view, that would make me "good". In my view, that is simply unwise. Its not an either/or. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #289,259 by mmoffitt 7/17/07 3:24:31 PM Reply	My point is your position == Complicity. And if your values are not exemplified by the status quo, why defend those values? Each of us has "played the game" to some extent. It's just that some of us have a bad taste in our mouths after doing so. And we only do so to the extent necessary and we rarely (if ever) expound upon the virtues of our efforts in playing the game. That's what I take issue with. Your almost knee-jerk reaction to defend any atrocity committed by big bizness with your rationale typically being the insufficient, "I live in the real world." Just by saying that you are not an advocate for change. On the contrary, you are defender of the corporate muck. bcnu, Mikem Microsoft Vista. The best reason ever to buy a Mac.
Post #289,261 by bepatient 7/17/07 3:42:43 PM Reply	Keep jumping...maybe one day your conclusion will be right. The knee-jerking is certainly not mine. Your knee-jerking has me defending insurance companies when I've directly stated they are a problem. You knee-jerked a conversation about Moore being a whiner into defense of the US healthcare industry. The fact that I don't blindly adhere to handing the system over to the government that can't get ANYTHING right somehow makes me a defender of the status quo. Please, tell me what my next position is because you and other seem more than happy to invent them for me. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}

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