RE: Off Topic? I'll give you Off Topic!!

[<spaceranger@rpgmax.com>]

Puritan decadents?  I'm mulling that one ...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Sottilaro [mailto:sine@zerocrossing.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 9:02 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: Off Topic? I'll give you Off Topic!!
> 
> 
> Starbucks is a big company.  Obviously the person who wrote 
> the article  
> about the 9/11 incident has it out for Starbucks.  DO you 
> really think  
> if Starbucks management knew what it's employee did they'd 
> condone it?   
> Of course not, for negative publicity alone.  Some dorky 
> employee did  
> this.  Big surprise they're upper management is hard to get to.  All  
> you people who love PCs, try calling Bill Gates when your 
> copy of Word  
> isn't working.
> 
> Anyway, I have no real love for big companies or Starbucks.  
> However,  
> they employed an ex girlfriend at a time she really needed a job and  
> gave her health insurance and a bit more dollars per hour than most  
> service industry jobs.  It's not the best coffee in the 
> world, but it's  
> decent, especially when on the road traveling through the 
> midwest where  
> coffee isn't widely understood.  I'm happy they opened up a 
> second near  
> my house, as the "mom and pop" coffee place (JavaRama) has shitty  
> coffee.  Do I go to Starbucks instead?  No, my wife roasts our own  
> coffee, but we will go to the Peets (a smaller Starbucks like 
> CA chain)  
> that took Starbuck's lead and opened a cafe across the street from  
> them.
> 
> I am surprised they won the logo lawsuit.  Doesn't that fall under  
> parody?  Blame our conservative country's anti free speech judicial  
> system.  What can you expect from the decedents of puritans?
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Aug 6, 2004, at 2:48 AM, Stephen Goodman wrote:
> 
> >> OK, here's one--
> >> Why is Starbucks evil?  Or rather, how?
> >
> > Why?  Only they can answer.  How?
> >
> > Here are two examples:
> >
> > 1. No sense of humor and a litigious tendency:
> > http://www.illegal-art.org/print/popups/consumer.html
> >
> > Covered also at:
> > http://dir.salon.com/business/feature/2000/06/01/starbuckssuit/ 
> > index.html
> >
> > 2. Starbucks tried to charge paramedics for water while they were  
> > attempting
> > to help victims on Sept. 11:
> > http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/40164_robert25.shtml
> >
> > Normally I give everyone three chances.  In this case I made an  
> > exception -
> > #2 almost counts for two items on its own.
> >
> > That said, one should wear a Consumer Whore t-shirt 
> whenever possible,  
> > and
> > into a Starbucks as many times as possible.
> >
> > Stephen Goodman
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> >
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