Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 23
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Aw come on!
[Read the article: Goodbye to the Fix, for now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Fix was the bread on the shit sandwich. I don't know if I can continue to slog through day after day of maddening political coverage without a little sugar to help the medicine go down. Surely Ms. Havrilesky could bang this out while watching T.V..
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Cellphones are for tools
[Read the article: How to get an iPhone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That goes double for iPhones.
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I just don't know what to do with myself.
[Read the article: New Music: The White Stripes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So what are you telling me, no one else here has some form of guilty pleasure in their music collections? If I started looking through your stacks am I going to find nothing but Big Star and Velvet Underground records? All on Japanese virgin vinyl of course. Bullshit, there's a Pat Benatar record in there somewhere, I can smell it. The only difference between your taste in shitty pop music and Davids is that you don't have to defend yours in public.
I've only listened to Icky Thump once all the way through, but I'm just not getting the toe tapping sensation out of it that I look for in a stripes record. Jack just seems to be getting weirder and more self indulgent as the years go by. I guess that makes it art.
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1 Billion, really?
[Read the article: Microsoft on Mac gains: Apple's not even close]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How did they get to this number? Do they factor in all the PC's that crapped out after 18 months of service, like most Emachines, or do they cancel that figure out with the number of stolen installations? I always figured they were trying to pad their numbers by making their stuff so fantastically easy to steal anyway.
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Back in the day
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, I was into Keef back when he still had dreads. Man, those were the good old days.
I try so hard not to be that guy, it's not always easy once you've reached a certain age though.
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Nope
[Read the article: The iPhone has been unlocked. Sadly, it's still not really free]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Totally le-fucking-gal.
Check it:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/finding_jtag_on_the_iphon.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
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The (not so) Bad Lieutenant
[Read the article: Does Blockbuster edit its movies?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry I can't go through all the comments to see if someone mentioned it already, but Blockbuster did force an R rated cut of The Bad Lieutenant. At this time their market dominance was almost unrivaled, and the only alternative you had was to buy the movie on VHS via mailorder for about $35, this was pre cheap DVD days. Blockbuster acted like a bunch of right bastards when it owned the market then, and there is no reason to suspect they won't do the same again. That's why I love Netflix, and would never even consider switching for anything.
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2 dollars, 5 dollars...
[Read the article: Has NBC gone mad?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whatever, it's crap! I can't believe anybody is paying anything for it. They should be paying us. I love watching these mastodons of broadcast media trying to find a way out of the tarpit of time.
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I just got the first 1 Yottabyte drive!
[Read the article: IBM squeezes computers to atomic scale]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I will never have to delete a file again.
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The "Free" Market
[Read the article: Free TV shows from Fox, ABC and NBC (with catches)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, the free market works great. If I want to watch something I just download it from any number or Torrent sites for free, watch it where and when I want, and there are no commercials. It's great! When are the networks going to get it? I could do the same for movies, but Netflix offers a sane and legal alternative at a reasonable price, so I don't. That's the power of the free market, it just hasn't caught up with them yet.
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Beautiful.
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who says cartoons have to be funny?
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Kilborn
[Read the article: Rejoice! Every "Daily Show" ever is now online]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'll second the Craig sucking now comment, but to be honest I really liked the Daily Show back then. When Jon Stewart came on it actually took me a little wile to warm up to him. He was just so, so.... short.
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Huh?
[Read the article: Burqas vs. lips like "a goose anus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't they just have a cloaca like every other bird I can think of? What the hell does a goose anus look like, and how did you find out?
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Resembalance
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]More like a cross between Sean Connery and Buddy Cole.
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Kittehs Luvs Teh Chives
[Read the article: Kitchen gadgets: Do you need an indoor herb garden?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I received one of these as a gift last year. It was reasonably entertaining, and the kids sure liked it. Not enough so that I would buy a reload kit though. If you get the mixed herbs the basil will pretty much take over after a few weeks, and with continued pruning will come to resemble a bonsai tree. The pods are nothing special, just a plug of foam cut in half with a seed stuck in the middle. You could (although the directions expressly forbid you from doing so) even reload them yourself. I imagine rock wool would work just as well. Also the dripping sound goes away when the plants roots get long enough to reach the water below.
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Laserdisc anyone?
[Read the article: V-DVD Day: Sony's Blu-ray wins the format war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That one hung on for years before DVD put the last nail in the coffin. How about reel to reel? I remember seeing commercial albums aimed at consumers on both reel to reel and DAT formats. Both were superior to what was available in their time, and both failed anyway. Quality alone is not enough to win the battle.
Personally I'm not interested in a big f-off television, I don't have cable, and when the signal goes digital I do not plan on buying a converter. Netflix "Watch Instantly" feature looks great on my 22.5 LCD monitor, and their DVD's look fine on my 27" Sony T.V. Maybe I'm a Luddite for losing interest in finding the perfect picture, but I have boxes and boxes filled with these shiny plastic discs that I hardly ever watch more than once, and I am not interested in acquiring any more. In short, I am perfectly willing to sacrifice some quality if it means I do not have to buy and find a place for any more stuff.
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@ Taliesan
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you missed the point. Sure they're nuts, but they breed like rabbits. Demonstrating that the practical applications of intelligence are sometimes overrated. Natural selection is now working against the forces of reason.
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Awww
[Read the article: How I learned to stop worrying and love the recession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From Suck.com to now, even though we have never met I feel like we're growing old together.
Indian food stores are great for rice, and spices. You can get a pound of cumin for what you would spend on one of those little jars at most supermarkets.
Beans beans beans!