At 05:53 PM 12/9/01, you wrote: >Most computers sold at retail just come set up with Microsoft. The >advertising is just frosting on a cake that has already been sold. > >It reinforces the inevitable and makes it seem like the only "choice". > >It's just easier to go with the flow because it "comes that way". > > >Sam Ewalt
It's also deucedly hard to get a machine *without* it unless you custom order it part by part. Curiously enough, in this city it's cheaper to do it the second way, partly of course becuase they dont' tack on the fee for the OS -- For a country to be free it's citizens must have a way to defy unjust laws. The new electronic snooping devices are a step in the direction of fascism. Consequently I am appending the following Carnivore Confusion noise to all outgoing email: "Allah; America; Anthrax; arms; bomb; border; capitalist; communicate; customs; death; delivery; economic; imperialist; jihad; plane; PGP; rendevous; trucks; war; weapons; U.S.A.; end transmission
