Did the largish private party want this? I certainly would! I stopped watching TV because of too many ads... in the 60s! It's gotten hugely worse since then from what I've heard.
BTW the quote you provided I would never complain about. It is the sort of quote which has probably been invented afresh thousands of times. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. --- John Steinbeck > No offense, Alan, of course this was between the lines of your question :) > Sigh, in this age of remixing/freemixing... change a few words, add a > break > beat, and voilà! > What do you think about some sort of hyper-intelligent copy-paste code > which acts like big brother for this issue? > My hardest censorship lesson was to leave ads in place when I had the > option > to filter them out for a largish private party... well the bandwidth was > provided by an EFF founder, I got the smack-down and learned an important > lesson! =O > "You might just get what you ask for, but you may have to ask for it." > -B. > Barrett, 2009 > (oddly, when I google that to make sure no-one else had the same words, I > get an Eric Raymond doc, lol) > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Allen Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, I figured I could track it down with google. But I would >> never quote something like that without giving attribution. >> Everybody should be giving credit when "borrowing" somebody's >> lines. This is not the responsibility of the reader. >> Think copyright. >> -- >> Allen Brown abrown at peak.org >> http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/<http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/%7Eabrown/> >> If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, >> I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. --- Bill Watterson >> >> > [OT oops :] >> > Google it, http://webspace.webring.com/people/gj/jlinwood/quaterma.htm >> > only one hit on the quoted quote... you'll get lucky. ;) >> > >> > Does this pertain to Avatar??? (the new movie) >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Harald Sundt <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> On 12/21/09 5:06 PM, Allen Brown wrote: >> >> >> >>> Now hold on there a second. You can't drop a quote like that into >> >>> your sig without saying who the quote comes from! >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> quote: Dr. Bernard Quatermass of the The British Experimental Rocket >> >> Group >> >> The BBC TV serial miniseries version of "Quatermass and the Pit" >> 1957. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> the ancient destructive urges in, us, that grow more deadly as our >> >> populations approach in size and complexity those of ancient Mars. >> Every >> >> war >> >> crisis, witch-hunt, race riot and purge is a reminder and warning. We >> >> are >> >> the Martians. If we cannot control the inheritance within us this >> will >> >> be >> >> their second dead planet! >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> EUGLUG mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > EUGLUG mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> > >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
