[mythtv-users] Why has no one implemented subtext commercial filtering?

[Yeechang Lee]

Kevin Ar18 <kevinar18 at hotmail.com> says:
> Now is that right for you to have such an attitude?

Yes, it is. Now is that right for *you* to have such an attitude? No,
it isn't.

The only disagreement I have with Robert McNamara's "Idea
men->Developers" scale is that he thinks that mythtv-users is daily
filled with invective against the besieged, oppressed, unthanked
developers for not getting on implementing the unwashed masses' flood
of great new ideas straightaway. That's nonsense.

People like you--as rare as they are, thankfully--sure make it harder
for me to disagree, though. You suddenly show up here, clearly having
done no research whatsoever beyond "MythTV is, like, a free TiVo,
right?" and pompously ask "Why hasn't anyone done [insert great idea
here] yet?" as if the developers and the rest of us were just waiting
for a muse before pulling up Emacs. An afternoon spent watching TV
with closed captions on would have told you why your idea wouldn't
have worked, but of course that'd be too much to ask.

Many years ago I coined what has humbly come to be known as Lee's Two
Laws of Posting. While created for Usenet it applies just as well to
mailing lists (and to life in general, really).

1) If you haven't read this [mailing list] for at least 2 weeks, do
   not post anything.
2) If you don't understand the reason for the first law, make it at
   least a month.

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