Re: [gentoo-amd64] hijacked! :) television (was: x86_64 optimization patches for glibc.)

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@utopios.org>]

On Tuesday 02 August 2005 23:27, Sami Samhuri wrote:
> * On Tue Aug-02-2005 at 03:41:42 PM -0400, Matt Randolph said:
> > You may be missing out on those few shows that are actually well
> > written.  On the other hand, it is probably better for your health to
> > simply do without TV altogether.
> >
> > I find it extremely entertaining that you (apparently) have Cox cable
> > internet, and yet you have no TV to speak of.  More power to you.
>
> I haven't had cable TV in years. I too despise advertisements. Most of
> them are insulting at best. My ISP is the local cable provider, Shaw,
> and they called me up to offer me $10/month cable television service.
> The lady was shocked I didn't have cable, and even more shocked when I
> asked why I would want to pay for commercials. (radio is free is it
> not? greedy cable companies!) If I had the money for a nice HTPC and
> a fine selection of channels then I would probably get cable. However, I
> have no desire to sit and channel surf through piles of ads. As you
> said, we are missing out on the _few_ shows that are well written. Not
> to mention movies.

Can always download them... (assuming they're legally downloadable, if you 
prefer the assumption ;)
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