Posted by JEDIDIAH on 08/10/06 19:33

On 2006-07-31, Phat Bytestard <phatbytestard@getinmahharddrive.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:20:02 GMT, Jim <james@the-computer-shop.co.uk>
> Gave us:
>
>>JEDIDIAH wrote:
>>> On 2006-06-20, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Black Locust wrote:
>>>>
[deletia]
>>which half a dozen laptops and subnotes, two iPaq PDAs (one of which has
>>GPS) (which I'm looking into installing Linux on), and two or three
>>tablet PCs.
>
>
> Which begs the question of "If you have all that fucking CRAP in your
> house, why would you piss and moan about buying an HDTV display, or

Computers are CHEAP compared to conspicous consumer electronics.

> buying one of the available HD optical formats?"
>
> Oh.. that's right... you are a pirate fuck, rip off retard.


Or he just likes to trawl the bargain bin at Walmart.

Then there's the whole 'let's record a month of TV' on the
super uber-tivo loaded to the gills with 750G hard drives.

My backend box could hold about 4TB so equipped.

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