Public Domain from Outer Space

Black_by_Pubic_Deman writes "It is a work of art that truly represents the nadir of film making; a movie so bad that it's good. It has been labelled 'The Worst Movie Ever' by the Golden Turkey Awards and is also the winner of two notable Razzies. Ed Wood's classic and every Slashdot reader's favorite movie Plan 9 from Outer Space is now in the Public Domain and available as a free download thanks to the fine folks over at Archive.org."

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What makes for a Mac bigot

[SuperKendall]

It burns my ass that people automatically assume that I'm some sort of zealot because I use a Mac.

I have to say that I try to be even handed, but I know I swing more than towards Mac advocacy (just suggesting it once if someone asks me about PC's, not the constant chatter kind).

However what makes me a Mac advocate is not owning and using a Mac, but having to use a Windows box every day at work (developer). I tell you now that using both every day is the quickest path towards Mac support of the frothing kind.

Also, I have to say that the metaphor you used is both confusing and a bit icky:

Absolutely. Like him? I wouldn't piss in his mouth if his teeth were on fire.

The confusing part for me comes in that if you didn't like someone, it seems to me yoou'd be happy to piss in thier mouth and perhaps even happier if that mouth were on fire. So in a wierd way it makes it seem like you sort of like him - no offense.

Anyway, for (I think) a balanced view of Jobs (good and bad) the book iCon is worth a read if nothing else for the interesting background on Pixar and NeXT that a lot of people probably do not know well (I didn't and I used NeXT stations in school). I still think Jobs was quite petty to ban it even if parts do not cast him in a favorable light at all.