It was burning man... I thought they would... but in that instance, censorship was a no-no. At the time, I didn't think of it as censorship — I thought it was helpful =/ As for TV, Hulu.com offers most shows with far fewer commercials than TV, oddly even many premium channel's shows.
Thanks :) I was deeply surprised, almost disturbed, that word-wise, I'm as ______ (annoying?!) as ESR. Ben On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Allen Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/<http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/%7Eabrown/> > 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/> > <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 >
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