Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] consumer info website

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Still great goals, but if you do indeed create the website that 
associates businesses with their country of origin (have I misread your 
first post), it would still serve as a quick reference for those buying 
instruments to see that:

o Their Scottish Bagpipes were made in Pakistan, not by a skilled 
reputable Scottish maker.

o Their Irish lap harp, flute, uilleann pipes were made in Pa..............

o Their shakuhachi or Koto or Samisen were made in Pa.....

o etc.

I see that as a collateral benefit even if not the primary goals, and I 
thank you for it.

The law of unintentional (good) consequences.

Scott Hussey wrote:
> On 12/1/05, Christian M. Cepel <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> > I would absolutely love a website that clearly stated the national
> > origins of all the CRAP musical instruments that glut our market and
> > ebay from Pakistan, North Africa, etc.
>
>
> Actually, I don't want to track quality of their products. I want to talk
> about the fact they dumped 7000 gallons of mercury in a city reservoir
> making them, or they paid 7 year old children 4 cents a day to build them,
> or they gave Donald Rumsfeld's son-in-law $500,000 for his state rep
> election campaign so they would be allowed to import them.
>
> I don't want to start a political argument, but I'm against government
> regulating everything to the point that you have to ask the local mayor when
> your employees are allowed to go to the bathroom. I'm a proponent of
> consumers identifying companies that do nasty things to the environment,
> society, etc... and boycotts them or writes letters or whatever. The problem
> is finding info on these issues. So when I want to buy a new television, I'd
> like to easily see if Sanyo, Sony, or RCA have done anything to make me
> think twice about buying their products.
>
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