I just happened to read the following quote from another recent thread on the board and I felt a need to comment on this situation.
"I ordered over $30 worth of genuine *ag*ite replacement parts from this site."
You know, I'm probably going to offend about half of you out there with this post but, what the heck, you can't have everyone in the world like you at the same time, so who cares.
I just want to say that you guys really crack me up by protesting Mag-Lite by purposely misspelling their name with ** and such, but then you turn RIGHT around and spend a big wad of cash on their products which goes directly to helping fuel them and their army of lawyers. Do you guys really think that the people at Mag-Lite are going to care one whit that you are misspelling their name out of protest on CPF? I would be a bit surprised if they even know that Candlepower Forums even exist. They are such a huge corporation that they could probably care less what we think. If Mag-Lite is really worth protesting, as so many have claimed of late, you have to hit them in the ONLY place that they will feel it and that is in their bottom line.
I'll use this as an example to prove my point. I personally feel as strongly (if not much more strongly) against Microsoft as many of you do against Mag-Lite (for many of the same reasons) and I have to admit that I do purposely misspell their name as Micro$oft just as many of you misspell Mag-Lite as *ag-*ite. The big difference here lies in that I not only protest Microsoft in words only (which they could really care less about), but I also protest them by NOT BUYING THEIR PRODUCTS!!! When it comes right down to it, that is the ONLY thing that a huge corporation can understand is when their bottom line is affected. You can speak against them all day long till you are blue in the face but so long as you are still spending loads of $$ on their products and encouraging others to do so, they could really care less how you FEEL about them. Most large corporations are nothing but greed incarnate and so long as you fuel that greed with your hard earned $$, they could care less about what you think of them.
Now that I've got that out of my system, I would like to apologize if I've offended anyone by posting this, but the irony of this situation has been building up in me for quite some time with so many people misspelling Mag-Lite and bad-mouthing them while STILL PURCHASING THEIR PRODUCTS!!! Finally the philosopher in me just snapped and this posting was the result.
"I ordered over $30 worth of genuine *ag*ite replacement parts from this site."
You know, I'm probably going to offend about half of you out there with this post but, what the heck, you can't have everyone in the world like you at the same time, so who cares.
I just want to say that you guys really crack me up by protesting Mag-Lite by purposely misspelling their name with ** and such, but then you turn RIGHT around and spend a big wad of cash on their products which goes directly to helping fuel them and their army of lawyers. Do you guys really think that the people at Mag-Lite are going to care one whit that you are misspelling their name out of protest on CPF? I would be a bit surprised if they even know that Candlepower Forums even exist. They are such a huge corporation that they could probably care less what we think. If Mag-Lite is really worth protesting, as so many have claimed of late, you have to hit them in the ONLY place that they will feel it and that is in their bottom line.
I'll use this as an example to prove my point. I personally feel as strongly (if not much more strongly) against Microsoft as many of you do against Mag-Lite (for many of the same reasons) and I have to admit that I do purposely misspell their name as Micro$oft just as many of you misspell Mag-Lite as *ag-*ite. The big difference here lies in that I not only protest Microsoft in words only (which they could really care less about), but I also protest them by NOT BUYING THEIR PRODUCTS!!! When it comes right down to it, that is the ONLY thing that a huge corporation can understand is when their bottom line is affected. You can speak against them all day long till you are blue in the face but so long as you are still spending loads of $$ on their products and encouraging others to do so, they could really care less how you FEEL about them. Most large corporations are nothing but greed incarnate and so long as you fuel that greed with your hard earned $$, they could care less about what you think of them.
Now that I've got that out of my system, I would like to apologize if I've offended anyone by posting this, but the irony of this situation has been building up in me for quite some time with so many people misspelling Mag-Lite and bad-mouthing them while STILL PURCHASING THEIR PRODUCTS!!! Finally the philosopher in me just snapped and this posting was the result.