[mythtv-users] Zap2It fiasco - what can we as users do?

Remco Treffkorn remco at rvt.com
Wed Jun 27 18:44:42 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Brian Wood wrote:
> Remco Treffkorn wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >> And, to quote Heinlein, no birth happens without a little blood and
> >> pain.
> >
> > Source please. I don't think he ever said that.
>
> As I mentioned earlier, the quote is from "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress":
>
> "Birth means blood and pain; there has been some. ... I urge you to stay
> out of the corridors, avoid incidents that might lead to unnecessary
> blood, unnecessary pain. Be Patient."
>
> The words were spoken by "Adam Selene" (the public persona of "Mike",
> aka Mycroft Holmes, the computer), in a public broadcast the morning
> after the "coup".
>
> Page 195 in one of my copies, the Tom Doherty paperback version, ORB
> edition, July 1997. ISBN 0-312-86355-1.
>
> But of course the best-known word from that book is TANSTAAFL.
>

Thanks, I remember it now.

You have to agree, the original quote pretty well butchers it :-)

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