[linux-audio-user] Re: POLL: Marketing Free Music

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 15:11 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 15:59 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 12:42 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
> > > Smoking, on the other hand, produces carcinogenic compounds that
> > > others
> > > would be forced to breathe.
> > > 
> > 
> > So does car exhaust but no one seems to care about that.  The hospital
> > down the street has "Clean Air Zone" signs all over it stating that it's
> > verboten to smoke anywhere on the premises.  But people can and do sit
> > with their engine idling 10 feet from the door to the ER for hours.
> > 
> > (sorry this is one of my pet peeves - I am not pro-secondhand smoke but
> > anti-hypocrisy)
> > 
> 
>     I'm not a hypocrite.  I *have* to drive so I can go to work.  I'd
> say a good 85% of people have to drive if they work outside the home.
> No one has to smoke, period.  Trust me, I know.  I used to smoke two
> packs a day (27 years ago).  Now, if we could just get some clean fuels
> we could clear up the exhaust problem but that'll take a while I think.
> 

I wasn't calling you a hypocrite, the hypocrisy is in calling it a
"Clean Air Zone" rather than a "No Smoking Area".  The smoking issue was
a bad example as there's massive hypocrisy and doublespeak on both sides
of that debate.

Lee