> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Julia Thompson
... > > at #3. Unless I am mistaken, csi, is not a drama or fictional, > but shows > > professionals in action. Apparently anything that teaches people how to > > think logically, using the scientific method, is baa-ad. Must protect > > the children from concepts like a spherical earth, and evolution. > > It *is* a drama. Fictional. With writers and such. > > http://us.imdb.com/Title?0247082 for more about it. It's fiction, but aims to be based on reality, as I understand. I've never seen the show, I'm afraid, but my cousin is a writer for it. What disturbs me most about The Fool's writings in this thread is the assumption that religion == fanaticism, therefore all Christians are fanatics. They aren't, and the most visible ones often seem to behave in ways that are difficult to reconcile with Christian doctine. Nor are all capitalists greed-heads. I disagree strongly with the notion that boycotting advertisers is blackmail. If the product were really the television show in question, then that argument might hold water. But the product is most assuredly the delivery of viewer's attention to the advertisers. A boycott of the advertisers puts pressure in the right spot -- they're paying the bills. The hypocrisy of the whole structure is that the media companies pretend (and too many of us go along with the pretense) that they only deliver what the public wants. And for what it's worth, I won't touch Windows XP, for the very reasons stated. I'll fight any closed standards for intellual property rights "management." I think the worst sin a technology company can commit these days is to try to corrupt an open standard to make it proprietary... Those are all poison to free speech and free markets. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
