[mveety]

No, my first instinct is to give it the beans and push the nose down more because more often then not you're in a stall if that happens. Also, as a general "rule", it's pretty common for American aircraft to provide easily accessible overrides to the envelope protection stuff. I've never seen the cockpit of an Airbus, but, from what my friends have said, it's much harder to do. I don't know if Boeing is going in that direction, but I doubt they would.