Rick, I admire your taking the effort to avoid countries and hubs but "solidarity" that adversely impacts my friends and not true villains isn't on my agenda. Rather than doing something, anything, I have fallen in with several technology oriented groups who are working to have an impact. Whether they will or not, being in the future, is always uncertain. But it is more than praying (which I recommend) and being in "solidarity." Hope you are at the start of a great week! Patrick On 01/29/2017 10:20 PM, Rick Jelliffe wrote: > > Good point, but there is no way for Michael to get 'in harm's way', so > a boycott even if puny and ill-directed on a single-person level is > about the only concrete action, added to our prayers. > > Along these lines, I have long avoided going anywhere that has an > active capital punishment program or which locks up gays. I take > flights to avoid certain hubs, even. Not because of 'that will show > them' but because of solidarity. > > (By the way, any people who are thinking of adopting nominal Islam out > of solidarity (like Mde Albrecht has mooted), should be aware that > this will change the laws that apply to them in many countries, to > much stricter standards: you cannot necessarily opt out again.) > > Regards > Rick > -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau
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