"Dee Flint" wrote:

They [B&N] are not a library but a business.

B&N is a very successful business. When they think the 'library'
chairs are losing them money, the chairs will be removed.

The chairs and atmosphere are so you can SAMPLE the reading
material not spend the day reading.

I *sampled* QST and *bought* another magazine or book. The bottom line
$$ for B&N was the same or more. Your tears are for the wrong entity.
B&N made money because I was drawn to their 'free sample' QST
magazine. QST is the one who lost money, but then that's what voting
with your wallet is all about...

They [B&N] are not a library but a business.

B&N is a very successful business. When they think the 'library'
chairs are losing them money, the chairs will be removed.

The chairs and atmosphere are so you can SAMPLE the reading
material not spend the day reading.

I *sampled* QST and *bought* another magazine or book. The bottom line
$$ for B&N was the same or more. Your tears are for the wrong entity.
B&N made money because I was drawn to their 'free sample' QST
magazine. QST is the one who lost money, but then that's what voting
with your wallet is all about...

Perhaps it is your hope that Amateur Radio not be represented or supported?
Perhaps only by the FCC?

I support ARRL because without them we would have been squeezed off the air
a long time ago. The ARRL is full of imperfect people though, and we need
to help out rather than throw monkey wrenches. I don't base my support on
freebies. Germany went fascist for the perks and went to hell over it.

"JB" wrote:

Perhaps it is your hope that Amateur Radio not be represented or supported?

ARRL is just one ham organization that tries to influence the FCC.
There are others. I'm sure that they would be happy to step in should
my personal boycott of ARRL become successful...

"AJ Lake" wrote in message
...
"JB" wrote:

Perhaps it is your hope that Amateur Radio not be represented or
supported?

ARRL is just one ham organization that tries to influence the FCC.
There are others. I'm sure that they would be happy to step in should
my personal boycott of ARRL become successful...

I'm sure there are plenty of organizations besides ham radio that would be
happy to step into the power vacuum. Look at Iraq. I'm sure ARRL is not
nearly as bad as Sadaam to warrant a scorched earth solution.

On Sep 26, 12:49*pm, AJ Lake wrote:
"JB" wrote:
Perhaps it is your hope that Amateur Radio not be represented or supported?

ARRL is just one ham organization that tries to influence the FCC.

It's the biggest and oldest one in the USA.

There are others.

Such as?

I'm sure that they would be happy to step in should
my personal boycott of ARRL become successful...

I don't think so. Without ARRL there'd soon be no amateur radio. Not
as we know it, anyway.

What would happen is that there would be a little change here and a
little change there until there was essentially nothing left.

73 de Jim, N2EY

"AJ Lake" wrote in message
...
"JB" wrote:

Perhaps it is your hope that Amateur Radio not be represented or
supported?

ARRL is just one ham organization that tries to influence the FCC.
There are others. I'm sure that they would be happy to step in should
my personal boycott of ARRL become successful...

Why haven't they already stepped and displaced the ARRL then. They should
already be working to take their place so that more people will boycott the
ARRL.

Perhaps because they simply can't handle more than a single issue at a time
(NCI comes to mind).

"Dee Flint" wrote:

Why haven't they already stepped and displaced the ARRL then.

I don't know of any ham organization that wants kill the ARRL. My
supposition is that if there had been no ARRL, another group or groups
would have been lobbying in it's place.

They should already be working to take their place so that
more people will boycott the ARRL.

Let me try one more time (3rd try). My boycott is purely a *personal*
one to make *me* feel better. I really am not trying to get converts.

"AJ Lake" wrote in message
...
"Dee Flint" wrote:

They [B&N] are not a library but a business.

B&N is a very successful business. When they think the 'library'
chairs are losing them money, the chairs will be removed.

The chairs and atmosphere are so you can SAMPLE the reading
material not spend the day reading.

I *sampled* QST and *bought* another magazine or book. The bottom line
$$ for B&N was the same or more. Your tears are for the wrong entity.
B&N made money because I was drawn to their 'free sample' QST
magazine. QST is the one who lost money, but then that's what voting
with your wallet is all about...

Reading QST at B&N is not "sampling". It is hypocritical. Since you are
boycotting the ARRL by not being a member, your "sampling" of the magazine
in the book store is absolute hypocrisy. You want the benefits of the
organization without paying for them. If you are going to boycott the ARRL,
do it right. Don't read their magazine.

magazine. QST is the one who lost money, but then that's what voting
with your wallet is all about...

Reading QST at B&N is not "sampling". It is hypocritical. Since you are
boycotting the ARRL by not being a member, your "sampling" of the magazine
in the book store is absolute hypocrisy. You want the benefits of the
organization without paying for them. If you are going to boycott the
ARRL,
do it right. Don't read their magazine.

-- And stop using the frequencies they fought to protect without your help.

It is a Psychological defense mechanism to go to great extremes to construct
a justification for doing something we deep down feel is wrong. We lie to
convince ourselves they have done some great wrong, and we lie to ourselves
that we never do wrong to anyone else.

Somehow this has become the norm, but that doesn't mean it isn't anti-social
or even destructive behavior.

"Do unto others as you would have them do to you" (and don't fool yourself
into believing you really are).

Of course I would prefer no one used ME as a training example, so perhaps I
am guilty too. Perhaps if I don't give the person's name I can forgive
myself?