[mythtv-users] Things I've learned from mythtv-users
Yeechang Lee
ylee at pobox.com
Mon Mar 3 06:56:46 UTC 2008
I've been reading mythtv-users for more than two years now. In those
two years I've learned tons about how to improve my MythTV
setup. However, along the way I've also received an education in so,
so much more. Highlights include:
* 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.)
* The MPAA is the most-powerful lobby in Washington DC, with even more
reach than the NRA, trade unions, or trial lawyers. Every single
institution is controlled behind closed doors by it, including the
White House, Congress, the FCC, and the Forest Service.
* Gmail users always have to be told that outgoing messages to mailing
lists are by default hidden by 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.
* Everyone is out to get you. "Everyone" includes the MPAA, Best Buy,
cable companies, satellite companies, Microsoft, and Frito-Lay.
* That TiVo charges $15 a month is the worst crime of the century.
* That Schedules Direct initially wanted to charge $60 a year was the
worst crime of the millennium.
* Hollywood makes nothing but garbage.
* Hollywood unfairly keeps me from recording that garbage in the way I
want.
* Cable TV is a necessity of life on par with food and electricity,
even when "things are tight."
* 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.")
* 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.)
* The sentence "I've Googled the Internet for hours about this
question" usually uses a definition of "Internet" that excludes
<URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/>.
* 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.)
And, last but not least:
* The restrictions on CableCARD devices are another step toward the
*overthrow of the government of the United States*.
Yeechang, who hereby incorporates
<URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/249524#249524>
by reference, including the first sentence in said message
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