January's Toast to Tech Evil

comforteagle writes "In this month's mocking toast To Evil! Danny O'Brien laments the holiday habit of trying to hide one's evilness from Father Christmas, but finds those evil tech companies can't help being who they are. 'I'm really hoping that in their next batch of cinema adverts, the MPAA addresses this, and shows a grumbling adware developer instead of a Hollywood set-painter. The piracy issue, it affects us all: the construction guy, the lighting guy. And me, the guy who installed all that crap on your mum's computer. And also an awful lot of Los Angeles-based cocaine dealers. Why doesn't anyone think of them?'"

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[tomstdenis]

You can just not reply to my posts if they bother you. /. gave me an account here therefore I assume I'm welcomed to post as I see fit. If some admin told me "shut up and get lost" I'd do just that.

Just because you want so desperately to be a cool hacker l33t defcon fanboi extraordinaire doesn't mean that every time someone bitches about "the man" it's a valid bitch.

Personally I still maintain that 99% of the crap the MPAA/RIAA puts out isn't worthy of disk space. That's why I store gigs and gigs of techno/eurodance. At least it's spaces my mind ON PURPOSE and not just by the fact the "artists" are 16 yr old little kids without much life experience or brains to share between themselves.

But of course, you must both hate the industry than crave all it produces. That makes you l33t and worthy of flaming other people.

Tom