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It's not just Facebook. In fact, it's not even Facebook. Usually social networking is included separately as part of the plans. It's all the other apps that can push notifications and location services, etc. I don't think it's overly difficult to go over that 1Gb, but I'm not too sure. That's why I don't want to risk getting into a contract and going over. Nevertheless, the prices that I mentioned are only for 500Mb of data in NB. I think we have the highest rates in the country.

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The argument could be made, though, that Masco would drop or sell off Delta if it was no longer profitable as a division of their company. In that case, boycottin gthe individual brands does hurt the parent company in some way and may make them consider restructuring or eliminating that brand. Ultimately, however, the parent companies diversify themselves so well that it's nearly impossibe to target them. And besides direct ownership, many companies own shares in their competitors as an "insurance" of sorts. If their stocks start dropping, but their competitors' stocks increase, it creates a sort of buffer. The telecommunications companies in Canada do this.

True, but the subsidiary company IS responsible for its own profit and loss! Surely no matter who owns them at higher levels they would react to a consumer boycott of THEIR products or service!

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

-- George Bernard Shaw

"There is no point in being difficult when, with a little extra effort, you can be completely impossible."

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I'm breaking my boycott for a brief moment. Do you own or aspire to own an Apple Computer, or any Apple related products?

haha! Point welll taken. I have bought a product from China (Ipod Touch)!

I should have said, wherever possible I avoid products from China. And it is true, I didn't check to see where my Ipod was made before I bought it.... my bad! :blink:

My original post should not have been so bold as to say that I haven't bought anything from China in years.... as others have stated, it is very difficult to avoid Chinese crap if you need nails, screws, etc, etc, etc, etc....

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haha! Point welll taken. I have bought a product from China (Ipod Touch)!

I should have said, wherever possible I avoid products from China. And it is true, I didn't check to see where my Ipod was made before I bought it.... my bad! :blink:

My original post should not have been so bold as to say that I haven't bought anything from China in years.... as others have stated, it is very difficult to avoid Chinese crap if you need nails, screws, etc, etc, etc, etc....

Well it's just to prove that saying everything made in China is poorly made is of folly. For all you know the people making your iPod are next door and making the same wage as someone making shoes from Wal-Mart.

And what does it say about a company like Apple that has a militant following that they don't employ Americans to make their over-priced products.

At least a company like Wal-Mart passes on the savings of having product made in China on to the consumer.

Two big purchases were made at my home in the last month. Our first Christmas Tree. Cost about $400 at Canadian Tire and a Liqour/Wine Cabinet $250 at Home Outfitters.

Both were good quality products and both were made in China.

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Why only China? There are many developing countries providing us with goods/labour that have poor practices.

Do they murder people for body parts? Do they use slave labour (illegally) to make the products they send abroad?

It is an inverted moral calculus that tries to persuade the world to demonize one state that tries its civilized best to abide in a difficult time and place, and rides merrily by the examples and practices of dozens of states and leaderships that drop into brutality every day without a twinge of regret or a whisper of condemnation. - Rex Murphy

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Wal-Mart is probably the greatest deflationary force in America and Canada today, and its held that position for many years now. On balance, it's probably impossible to advance an argument that Wal-Mart has had a negative impact on America and Canada beyond the benefits it's delivered

And yet, many people seem to have no difficulty whatsoever in doing so.

You seem to be inching close to typical leftist anti-Wal-Mart ("we hate greedy corporations!") rhetoric, invoking "business policies" that you disagree with and implying (incorrectly) that Wal-Mart systematically mistreats its employees - which is a particularly strange assertion when it's been demonstrated time and again that when compared with similar positions at comparable companies, like Target, Wal-Mart pays higher salaries and provides more value through benefits packages, as well as having higher rates of employee retention. Methinks you should stop watching Robert Greenwald videos.

Spare me. I've known people who have worked at Wal-Mart, so my familiarity is not strictly through documentaries and on-line information about their predatory behaviour and crappy products. They are a miserable place to work, and only the desperate do so for long. It is their good fortune that there are many desperate people. But then again, they've helped make them desperate by eliminating so much of the competition and forcing much of what's left into the same sorts of cutthroat behaviour towards employees they themselves engage in.

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It is an inverted moral calculus that tries to persuade the world to demonize one state that tries its civilized best to abide in a difficult time and place, and rides merrily by the examples and practices of dozens of states and leaderships that drop into brutality every day without a twinge of regret or a whisper of condemnation. - Rex Murphy

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I'm breaking my boycott for a brief moment. Do you own or aspire to own an Apple Computer, or any Apple related products?

Speaking for myself, I boycott Apple. It's interesting that I never really considered the origin of their products as part of the reasons. I simply detested their big brother attitude of controlling what you can see, hear and do with the products you buy.

It is an inverted moral calculus that tries to persuade the world to demonize one state that tries its civilized best to abide in a difficult time and place, and rides merrily by the examples and practices of dozens of states and leaderships that drop into brutality every day without a twinge of regret or a whisper of condemnation. - Rex Murphy

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