[mythtv-users] Things I've learned from mythtv-users

[Sam Logen]

--- Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:

> * Those who are unaware of the Mac mini are
> condemned to reinvent
>   it. (In an uglier and larger form that does less
> and costs twice as
>   much.)

I never thought as much about the macs when they
surrendered to the "superior" intel cpus.

> * Gmail users always have to be told that outgoing
> messages to mailing
>   lists are by default hidden by Gmail.

What's Gmail? ;-)

> * Ordinary people are so stupid and blind that if,
> one day, their
>   Blu-ray players and cable boxes started delivering
> non-HD video to
>   their HD displays, they'd never, ever notice. Or,
> if the sheeple
>   ever did, all it would take is the MPAA to tell
> them that it's being
>   done for their own good and they'd willingly
> cooperate.

<A single tear streaks down Sam's face>


> * Everyone is out to get you. "Everyone" includes
> the MPAA, Best Buy,
>   cable companies, satellite companies, Microsoft,
> and Frito-Lay.

You forgot the Dream Police, the Sand People, and
Michael Eisner.

> * That TiVo charges $15 a month is the worst crime
> of the century.

Well you're not very long into this century. :-/

> * Hollywood makes nothing but garbage.

Primo Junk, man.

> * Cable TV is a necessity of life on par with food
> and electricity,
>   even when "things are tight."

Hey, I can quit anytime I want!

> * No one knows any more why comma splices are bad.
> (This can be
>   reworded as "No one knows any more how to use
> semicolons or
>   conjunctions.")

Well I know how to use them; I use semicolons all the
time.

> * Asking a question gives me the right to "bump" it
> again within 12
>   hours, since it's obvious that the only reason I
> haven't received an
>   answer yet is that everyone else on the list
> must've had
>   catastrophic system failures that prevented them
> from seeing it the
>   first time. (Or the questioner uses Gmail.)

<bump><bump><bump>
   "Quiet down up there! I'm trying to sleep!!"

> * A message that complains that "The MPAA is evil
> for trying to
>   prevent me from making high-quality recordings.
> Doesn't Hollywood
>   know that there are many legitimate, legal uses
> for doing so?" is
>   guaranteed to occur close by another that begins
> "So I'm trying to
>   play TV episodes I downloaded with BitTorrent in
> the Internal
>   player, and . . ." (Bonus points when the
> sentences occur in the
>   same message.)

Bonus points, wow, I win!!


> And, last but not least:
> 
> * The restrictions on CableCARD devices are another
> step toward the
>   *overthrow of the government of the United
> States*.

And then Mexico annexes us . . . brilliant plan.

> 
> Yeechang, who hereby incorporates
>
<URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/249524#249524>
> by reference, including the first sentence in said
> message
> 
> -- 
> Frontend:		P4 3.0GHz, 1.5TB software RAID 5 array

Daaam what do you do on that thing besides frontending
myth?

> Backend:		Quad-core Xeon 1.6GHz, 6.6TB sw RAID 6

Can I have this when you're done with it?

> Video inputs:		Four high-definition over
> FireWire/OTA
> Accessories:		47" 1080p LCD, 5.1 digital, and MX-600

Beautiful ***** five stars.

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Yours truly,
Sam


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