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<br><font size=2><tt>mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org wrote on 09/06/2007
01:50:51 PM:<br>
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> On 9/6/07, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:<br>
> > David Brodbeck [gull@gull.us] wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > On Sep 6, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote:<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > My opinion is if they didn't want people scraping,
they should have<br>
> > > > kept DD open.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > "But officer, if he didn't want his car window broken,
he should have<br>
> > > left the doors unlocked."<br>
> > ><br>
> ><br>
> > Oh, boy! I hadn't realized that it was rotten analogy time
already!<br>
> > First one to Godwin's Law wins! (or is it looses...?)<br>
> ><br>
> > Anyway, how about this one:<br>
> ><br>
> > "If the armored car company didn't want to give away their<br>
> > money, they should have remembered to close the back door before<br>
> > getting on the road and having their 20 dollar bills blow<br>
> > onto my lawn"<br>
> ><br>
> <br>
> Obviously, what you're saying here is that screen scraping is a "push"<br>
> technology, kind of like the wind that blows those $20 bills (the<br>
> listings data) to your lawn (MythTV box).<br>
> <br>
> I guess it takes a bad analogy to know one.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>How about...</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>If the Wizard didn't want Toto poop on the palace
floor, then he shouldn't have built an off-ramp into the Emerald City from
the Yellow Brick Road.</tt></font>
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