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Is There An OS On My Hard Drive?

Posted by timothy on from the pt-barnum-meets-computers dept.

stm2 writes "Thanks to an agreement between Lindows and Seagate, from October you will be able to choose a hard drive with or without Lindows. Michael Robertson, in his usual marketing speak, compares this to adding "Fluoride in the water", because now you get for free something you used to need to go after (people used to go to dentist to get their Fluoride). According to the PR, the OS can autodetect and configure itself on the host machine."

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

    firstus postus!!!!!!!

  2. Fluoride kills by Kizzle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I find it funny that he compares Lindows to a chemical that is used in rat poison and nerve gas. It was also used in nazi prison camps to sterilize and stop people from questioning authority.

    http://www.davidicke.net/medicalarchives/badmed/ st upidflouride.html

    http://www.greaterthings.com/Lexicon/F/Fluoride. ht m

    http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/health/fluorid ef ile.htm

    http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/fluoride.html

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  3. Re:Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please die, thx.

  4. What the hell do the /. editors DO!?!! (nt) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (nt)

  5. In Soviet Russia... by Gwala · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In soviet russia, hard disk pre-installs you! :P

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    1. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yes. Truly hysterical. Where did you come up with this, oh wise oracle of humour?

      Fucking idiot.

  6. Don't want this by gtog · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I want no fluoride added to my water.

  7. Fluoride up yours, not in my water... by ihatesco · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    If Lindows is like fluoride in the water, then Lindows makes you stupid.

    Sources at:

    Indymedia: Rather sarcastic and somehow a flamebait, but still worth a read.

    David Ickle's website: Independent scientific evidence repeatedly showing up over the past 50 years reveals that fluoride allegedly shortens our life span, promotes cancer and various mental disturbances, accelerates osteoporosis and broken hips in old folks, and makes us stupid, docile, and subservient, all in one package.

    Another piece: Fluoride is intoxicating. Another here: Do I need to quote some more stuff?

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    1. Re:Fluoride up yours, not in my water... by ihatesco · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Jesus H. Christ man, you've just tried to back up your argument by using David 'I am the Second Coming, and will defect the 7ft Lizards who have taken over the world' Icke as a source. Are you completely insane?

      Whoops... well, besides David Icke, also my dentist tells me to stay away from fluoride for the same reasons. And she also saved my father's life (literally... he had a bad bad bad case of dental abscess, which caused him to have liquid matter all behind his palate-bone...).

      Ok, Ok, I am using my life experience which cannot count a damn in an objective discussion... I cannot convince you, but I am convinced :).

      I'm against flouride in the water too, as some people are clearly allergic to it, but bringing the mentally unstable Icke into it is a very bad idea.

      Ok, so let's ask the association ofParent of Fluoride-Poisoned Children which kind of research papers they foundscientific papers on the National Center of Biotechnology Information...

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  8. My city doesn't fluoridate, you insensitive clod! by Anonymous+Freak · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For some unknown reason, Portland, Oregon still doesn't fluoridate our water. Then again, we have pretty much the purest 'natural' drinking water in the country. (Pretty much all they do to it is chlorinate and then remove the chlorine, to kill any possible microbes.)

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  9. Re:My city doesn't fluoridate, you insensitive clo by randyest · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So, if the previously posted assertions about the harms of fluoride are true, why don't residents of Portland exhibit lower rates of supidity, cancer, docility, senility, malleability, etc.? And don't try to tell me they do -- I've been there.

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  10. Re:What? by valkoinen · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Oh, and don't forget:

    Does it come with pr0n pre-installed too?

  11. Re:Fluoride... by Arker · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Flouride rinses and toothpastes that are not meant to be swallowed are preventative measures.

    Flouride in the water supply, where people do swallow it, is an entirely different matter.

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  12. Re:What?=Shit in my French Fries by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But sir,I only wanted French Fries

  13. Re:What? by RmB303 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was gonna say that one.
    Until I saw that you had.
    At least I wasn't trying for 1st post.

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  14. Re:What? by glassesmonkey · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The genius of this last comment is that each comment alone is at best (-1, Troll) but all of them together is almost a guaranteed (+5, Funny)...

    /must remember secret power of SuperClicheFriends (maybe this is a real example of synergy)

  15. Re:Formatting by Apiakun · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Have you considered Viagra ?