there's no ordinance saying i can't be noisy in this office. no rule in the office saying i can't.

but i have an office mate who wouldn't appreciate my loud music - so i use earbuds.

b/c it's the right thing to do and b/c it doesn't cost me much of anything to use earbuds instead of speakers. blasting music in my speakers is not so important to me that i'm willing to make a stand on it.

i guess if the publisher of the cartoons and the French ppl generally think those juvenile, puerile cartoons are so important to their way of life that they're willing to upset a disenfranchised minority population w/them just to prove a point even though it's clearly the wrong thing to do...i wish them the best of luck w/that bullshit. and i'm glad i'm not French and i'd never want to be if that's how they live.