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I STILL Want My HDTV

jhaberman writes: "Slate.com has an opinion piece talking about the horrific mess the HDTV rollout has been. It seems everyone's been to blame from the hardware manufacturers, to the cable/satellite companies, to the producers of the actual shows. I fell into the trap a year ago buying a top of the line Sony Wega digital TV and I STILL don't have ANY HDTV! Here's why..."

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  1. firsty! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bork bork bork!!!

  2. Smurfs : The Socialist Propaganda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I like most of my generation grew up watching the Smurfs. I loved them so much that I tuned in every Saturday morning to see what crazy hijinks those lovable little blue creatures would get up to.

    It is just now that I have realized what I was really tuning into each and every Saturday morning was in actuality Socialist Propaganda!! Yes that is correct, Papa Smurf and all of his little Smurf minions are not the happy little characters Hanna Barbara would have us believe! The cartoon was really created by the Russian government in order to indoctrinate the youngest members of western society with Socialist beliefs and ideals thus destroying their resistance to the imminent Russian invasion that was to occur when this generation (my generation) grew up.

    To prove my point I submit that 1.) They live in a communal village and are discouraged to leave the village without the company of their fellow Smurfs. 2.) Every Smurf has his own specific job and does not deviate from that job. The job even becomes part of their personality and their name (Brainy Smurf, Handy Smurf, etc.) 3.) If ever a Smurf decides to strike out on his own he is cast into danger in some way of another and it is up to the collective to save him. 4.) Papa Smurf looks an awful lot like Karl Marx plus, he wears all that red.

    And let us not forget Smurfette, the lone female Smurf and the embodiment of community property.

    In the face of such convincing evidence, it is easy to mark the Smurfs as the Socialists they are, and their nemeses Gargamel (and his maladjusted cat Azrael, a not so subtle attack on ISRAEL) is the personification of Capitalism; out for himself and profit trying to destroy the peaceful commune of Smurfs.

    Thankfully our resistance was not destroyed, thanks to the determination of other cartoons such as G.I. Joe and Richie Rich who's goal it was to instill in the children of the western world the morals and values of Capitalism.

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    1. Re:Smurfs : The Socialist Propaganda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Where is the troll library? Do you have a url?

    2. Re:Smurfs : The Socialist Propaganda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The Russian government or the Soviet government?

      Those of us of Russian descent will take issue with your choice of terms. My great uncle was killed in 1917 in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) by the Bolsheviks. He was Russian. But he was NOT a Communist.

      I've got an idea - why don't you move to North Korea, Cuba, Viet Nam, or the People's Republic of China for a while, if not permanently. Imagine the Internet bandwidth and Slashdot server storage space that could be saved.

  3. Suck it down by warez_d00d · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Da man does it again!
    Propz to logged in trolls

  4. IF I AM LUCKY by trollbot · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I MAY JUST GET A FIRST POIST ON SLASHDOT!!! HURRAY FOR OPEN SOURCE POWER!!! HDTV 2DAY!!! stupid lame filter(Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the h(Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the h

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    1. Re:IF I AM LUCKY by trollbot · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Oh no, FOILED AGAIN!!

      Once again, I have been let down by free software.

      I hate my life.

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  5. Second!!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Second!!!!

    Wooooo!!!!!!

  6. Eeeeeeeeee by Orre · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hate when that happens! :-)

  7. Re:Luddites coming out of the woodwork by joss · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Heh, if I were you I would try the "if you* had a life, you wouldn't be reading /." track if I were you. Now *that* might sting a bit...

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  8. ain't it the truth by microbob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It always amazes me how idiots will blabber on about something they don't have a single clue about.

    Hehehe.

  9. Re:They have a point... by dsharp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "And ethanol combustion still produces some greenhouse gas emissions, if you believe in that sort of thing."

    The carbon in the ehtanol was pulled out of the air by the corn to begin with, so the net result is that there is no increase in the overall level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

    Fossil fuels on the other hand, represent carbon that has been lock away from the atmosphere for millenia, thus burning *them* does indeed add to greenhouse emissions.

  10. Re:I dunno... by Computer! · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah, and unless something else has changed, it's a Vega.

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