From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0VRC-0007DZ-Im for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 02:26:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j742OTnL028649; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 02:24:29 GMT Received: from tsurukikun.utopios.org (CPE-24-31-252-99.kc.res.rr.com [24.31.252.99]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j742OSu7002705 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 02:24:28 GMT Received: from ip6-localhost (ip6-localhost [IPv6:::1]) by tsurukikun.utopios.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8E8155C2E7 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 02:28:21 +0000 (UTC) From: Luke-Jr To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] hijacked! :) television (was: x86_64 optimization patches for glibc.) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 02:28:21 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.50 References: <42E258A7.5080501@telia.com> <42EFCC76.7010706@erols.com> <20050802232729.GA25019@no-eff-eks.com> In-Reply-To: <20050802232729.GA25019@no-eff-eks.com> X-Face: )ZPAj=&;{;x.^R$k6(IXcp{iV@gk&XvzUcHadPGC(PD?AW3XB[UO_"GV'k3!N:C%?o.TG3Sk.o2KCl4,M IM-Address: luke-jr@jabber.org Public-GPG-Key-URI: http://dashjr.org/~luke-jr/myself/Luke-Jr.pgp Public-GPG-Key: 0xD53E9583 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508040228.21684.luke-jr@utopios.org> X-Archives-Salt: 3487b713-6dc1-43c8-a07e-59dd2ee1a4e0 X-Archives-Hash: 8fe8eb669cbd5bcb38332032491f7053 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 ;) -- Luke-Jr Developer, Utopios http://utopios.org/ -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list