The Spiderman "re-boot" was garbage. They're just milking the franchise with yet another back to the beginning. We barely got a glimpse of Venom in the last Spiderman movie. Obviously the next big thing that has to happen is a movie where Venom is the primary villain probably with a sequel where Venom turns temporarily "good guy" to help Spiderman defeat Carnage.
As mentioned, I'd like to see Sandman in film form. Spawn 2-5 also have some excellent material. The death and re-birth of Superman in the 1990s has potential.
Personally, I liked "Darkhawk"(early-mid 90s)... but nobody else seemed to. I think it did a superlative job in depicting the 'fledgling' super-hero and the very plausible "awkwardness" that would come with newly discovered powers.
Doubt we'll ever see it now, but I'd love to see a film version of "The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller, with Oliver Stone or Johnathan Demme directing and starring Gary Oldman as a 50-something Batman.
Your interpretation of Citizen's United v. FEC is correct.
There is indeed a history of SCOTUS decisions, dating back to the late 1800s, which have created this "corporate personhood" nonsense. However, Citizen's United was NOT one of them. As you say, that concept was just dragged into the debate by opponents.
The decision simply affirms that "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech". Making it illegal for a group of people to run ads on TV is a clear violation.
I haven't seen "100s" of instances where they use the "interference with my duties" excuse, but I've seen plenty.
www.copblock.org has some good videos.
Many instances of people getting harassed by armed thugs in blue for filming traffic stops. Including one guy standing in his own garage filming a traffic stop across the street.
The boys in blue will one day regret fomenting this adversarial relationship with law abiding citizens.
You actually think the Federal government gives a damn about a few dead Americans in CO?
When you have intelligence sources that you don't want anyone to know about, it's necessary to be extremely cautious about how and when you use the data. In WW2, the Allies "allowed" a lot of death and destruction that could have been prevented because they didn't want to tip off the Germans that their code had been broken.
There's no way the government would risk revealing any of their data gathering capabilities to prevent a mass shooting.
Yeah, that explains why the corporate-owned MSM gave him so much positive coverage and why the PAC supporting him was awash in cash from corporations and other wealthy donors. Ron Paul was THE little guy's candidate and the sworn enemy of the banking cartel and the MIC.
"your right to swing your fist stops where my nose begins".
That's why we have a TORT system. Do you think BP and Exxon were forced to pay for all of the damage they caused with their oil spills, or did the government step in as middle man, "settle" for a flat fee and then distribute the funds based on some bureaucratic application and claims process?
The government stands between you and the polluters for sure. But who's being protected from whom?
The last time I checked, The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to declare war. No war has been declared, thus your argument about the "law of war" as justification for the government's rampant abuses of civil liberties is entirely inapplicable.
Where's the Constitutional authority authority for the President to engage in warrantless surveillance? Under what Constitutional authority is the President empowered to indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen? Which part of the Constitution grants the President power to assassinate U.S. citizens without charge or trial?
It's the federal government that doesn't like the law and therefore ignores it.
The FBI warned in a 2003 report that there was an "Epidemic of Fraud" in the home mortgage market. The big banks have submitted tens of thousands of false and/or improperly notarized affidavits to courts in foreclosure cases (a felony or serious misdemeanor in most states). Companies committed securities fraud by marketing "investments" to customers while simultaneously making bets that the securities would lose value. The brokerage MF Global was caught red-handed using wealth from customer accounts on their own speculative investments. There is documented evidence that big banks have facilitated money laundering for the drug cartels. Officials in Jefferson County, AL have been prosecuted in a bribery scandal, but no bank execs have been punished. Now we have the LIBOR scandal, PFG, etc. etc. Very few of the banking and financial elites have faced punishment for their pervasive criminal activity, and when they do, it's usually a minuscule fine.
You're argument based on a few anecdotes is like finding a few alcoholics that lived long healthy lives and then concluding that alcohol doesn't cause liver damage.
I disagree with those programs. If you don't want me to use them, don't force me to pay for them. Otherwise, I'll consider the benefits a partial refund of my stolen wealth.
Actually, here's a better deal: Stop taking Medicare and SS taxes out of my paycheck NOW and I will agree to give up any claims I have to future benefits under these programs.
Isn't that an awesome deal for the government? They get to keep 20+ years of contributions and have no future liabilities.
You know why the government won't take that deal? Because they are NEVER going to provide the promised benefits anyway! Thus, they'll continue to bleed us until they finally have to admit that the programs were a scam.
I'll watch the video L8R. I think #1 is half right, I think #2 is wrong, but the huge one is #3:
"- Americans saving less and using credit more"
DEBT (personal and government) is the boat anchor on the U.S. economy. What's worse is that the capacity of U.S. consumers to take on debt has basically "covered up" major structural problems in our economy. At no time in the last 30 years has GDP growth exceeded growth in the total amount of debt in our economy. Now that we've basically reached the "debt saturation point"(underwater mortgages, ridiculous student loan debt, etc.) we've got some hard decisions to make. Essentially, the "consumer spending" based economy was a gigantic lie. It's "game over" for this whole concept and no amount of government "stimulus" or "infrastructure" is going to bring it back.
Many businesses that sell police and military equipment balk at the idea of selling body armor to average janes and joes. Recent events have probably heightened their vigilance and paranoia.
One company told me that they would make exceptions in the case of special circumstances, and specifically mentioned "death threats". If you have an SMS death threat, get your body armor now while it's cheap and available to you.
Why bother to stop illegal immigration? Just adds to the labor pool to dilute wages even further.
Next, it's necessary to strip middle class people of their wealth and physical assets (a good dose of hyper-inflation). Couple this with an increasingly authoritarian government = problem solved.
China is the model that our rulers want for the USA and Europe. Enough "capitalism" to secure sufficient production, with a labor force willing to work long hours for little pay, and no individual liberty to potentially break the cycle.
Well said. The FDR "miracle" that people keep dreaming about was only made possible by the massive destruction of the industrial infrastructure of the rest of the world. Gigantic government spending under FDR merely prolonged a "recession" into what is now called "The Great Depression". Were it not for the overwhelming competitive advantage afforded to the USA by destruction of competitors, Roosevelt's "miracle" would have been a disaster and the final nail in the coffin of Keynesianism. We're seeing a a re-play right now. Maybe the US plan is to nuke China, Japan, Germany, Brazil, India and Russia and once again rid the world of the competition?
BOTH Romney and Obama supporters should be celebrating and saving their time and money. No matter which one of these clone candidates gets elected, they'll get the policies that they voted for.
"Apparently you have been asleep for a few decades. This is Hope and Change!"
No, I think you and the author of the parent post have both been asleep for a few decades and were dreaming that you were awake.
In the last few decades, BOTH Republicans and Democrats have had their opportunity to govern by simultaneously holding the Presidency and majorities in both houses of Congress. Furthermore, no other party has controlled either the legislative or executive branch in that time.
They swap power back and forth, but the real legislative agenda never changes. Bigger government, military interventionism, reckless fiscal and monetary policy, stagnant real wages, special favors for the privileged elites, fewer civil liberties, more rules and regulations, etc. etc.
Your partisan bickering is nonsense. U.S. politics is like pro wrestling. Yelling, fighting and bitter enmity in front of the cameras, then kicking back and having drinks together while they laugh at the fools who think it's "real".
The 'NSL' is simply cops writing their own search warrants. Direct violation of the 4th Amendment.
The relevant statute also violated the First Amendment because it is illegal for a 3rd party record holder (library, book store, etc,) to inform the individual that their records have been accessed.
Hopefully it gets to the SCOTUS and the whole Patriot Act is ruled un-Constitutional.
If there was any indication that Romney and his cronies were not "tyrants" who would exhibit the same degree of fiscal insanity as the current crop of politicians, I might consider voting for them.
The Geroge W. Bush era clearly demonstrated that we have two parties of big government in Washington DC. There is no longer genuine political opposition on a policy level. The two parties are just fighting over who gets to play Santa for the next few years.
Vote for Gary Johnson, Jill Stein or whomever. The only wasted vote is one cast for Democrats or Republicans.
The only way to cure the government of special interest influence is to weaken and de-centralize it. A group of 536 people who have $3.8T to spend and can exercise such vast and sweeping powers over the population will always be infected with this disease. You can't "cure" the corruption that inevitably accompanies power unless you can figure out a way to change human nature. Replace this monstrous top-down/central planning system with a bottoms-up system. Do as many government functions as possible at a local level with local control. Use the federal government only for things which make no sense at the state and local level, like bombing other countries.
I think you're assuming (naively) that a group of revolutionaries would don uniforms identifying themselves, stand in formation and try to fight government forces in a head-to-head conflict. Of course they wouldn't! Where is the government going to drop their nukes and release their chemical weapons if a group of 10 people attacked a government building and then scattered? How would the rest of the population react if the government killed 1000s of civilians in reprisal for the actions of a few?
You're mixing the ideas of what's "good" with what's "possible".
Consider Oklahoma City where a couple of guys killed 168 people and wounded over 600. Did the feds "win" that one? Suppose there were 10.000 potential Tim McVeighs in the country. Is the government going to establish a defensive perimeter around every single federal building and guard it with military forces? Will they also build living quarters for all government employees and their families inside these "green zones"? How do they guard all of the supply lines and critical infrastructure at the same time? What about the $1.6T annual federal deficit? What would happen to the economy and the government's ability to levy taxes if they had to deal with a domestic insurgency? You don't need the American Revolution as an example when there are numerous modern examples. You think England was over-extended? What about the USA with 700 military bases in 130+ countries and demoralized military personnel? I don't think armed revolt would be a "good" thing or even a "likely" thing, but it's entirely "possible". Anyone that thinks "modern weaponry" is certain to defeat a determined insurgency fighting on its own soil is the idiot.
Obviously you need "critical mass" to have an armed insurrection. Imagine 1% of the population willing to engage in hostilities against government forces and 10% of the population sympathetic to that cause. An army of 3.3 million with a support network of 33 million. If we ever get to that point, the government is toast.
Read "The War of the Flea" by Tabor and William Lind's paper "Understanding Fourth Generation War." Look at the experience of the U.S. in Vietnam, Israel in Lebanon, Russia in Afghanistan, the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc. etc. The advanced military with the vastly superior weaponry always loses the will to fight and crawls away with its tail between its legs.
"your little pop guns aren't going to do diddly against our domestic police forces."
LOL Go fire something like a Remington 700 chambered in.300 Winchester magnum or maybe an H&K G3 in.308 and tell me they're "pop guns".
Your armed revolt obviously won't work if you all stand together in the middle of the street with a big banner which reads "We are the Rebel Forces!". You need to use guerrilla tactics (sniping, sabotage, hit and run, etc.) and then blend back into the flock as if you're a good sheep. Yeah, the government has tanks and drones and F-16s. Using them against guerrilla forces however ALWAYS inflicts civilian casualties, thus fueling the insurgency. You also have to wonder how many police, Nat. Guard and military are going to shoot and kill their fellow citizens, drop bombs in suburbia and fire artillery into U.S. cities.
Not saying "armed revolution" is "The Answer" but your argument suggesting that it's impossible because of inferiority of current civilian weapons is ridiculous.
Could someone PLEASE mod this absurd comment Troll/Flamebait?
If there was a news story about an auto accident in Kansas one of these partisan hacks would try to blame it on Romney or Obama.
There's PLENTY of that inane dialogue on Politico, HuffPo, ABC and other online news sources that have comment boards. I hope the/. crowd has more advanced critical thinking skills.
"I saw a very nice documentary the other day showing what happens to a lot of our electronic waste."
Me too. It gets shipped to Ghana and India where people burn it (or what's left over after they physically dismantle it) in open fires to reclaim the metals.
I'd love to believe that a significant amount of this stuff goes to people who can use it, but I don't. The "used merchandise" label is often just an excuse to dump trash in 3rd world landfills.
"Containers arrive in Ghana from Germany, Korea, Switzerland and the Netherlands under the false label of "second-hand goods... majority of the containers' contents end up in Ghana's scrap yards to be crushed and burned by unprotected workers."
Yeah, healthy happy people in Ghana are watching used TVs and installing Linux on our X86 hardware using 15" CRT monitors.
The Spiderman "re-boot" was garbage. They're just milking the franchise with yet another back to the beginning. We barely got a glimpse of Venom in the last Spiderman movie. Obviously the next big thing that has to happen is a movie where Venom is the primary villain probably with a sequel where Venom turns temporarily "good guy" to help Spiderman defeat Carnage.
As mentioned, I'd like to see Sandman in film form. Spawn 2-5 also have some excellent material. The death and re-birth of Superman in the 1990s has potential.
Personally, I liked "Darkhawk"(early-mid 90s) ... but nobody else seemed to. I think it did a superlative job in depicting the 'fledgling' super-hero and the very plausible "awkwardness" that would come with newly discovered powers.
Doubt we'll ever see it now, but I'd love to see a film version of "The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller, with Oliver Stone or Johnathan Demme directing and starring Gary Oldman as a 50-something Batman.
My 2c.
Your interpretation of Citizen's United v. FEC is correct.
There is indeed a history of SCOTUS decisions, dating back to the late 1800s, which have created this "corporate personhood" nonsense. However, Citizen's United was NOT one of them. As you say, that concept was just dragged into the debate by opponents.
The decision simply affirms that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech". Making it illegal for a group of people to run ads on TV is a clear violation.
I haven't seen "100s" of instances where they use the "interference with my duties" excuse, but I've seen plenty.
www.copblock.org has some good videos.
Many instances of people getting harassed by armed thugs in blue for filming traffic stops. Including one guy standing in his own garage filming a traffic stop across the street.
The boys in blue will one day regret fomenting this adversarial relationship with law abiding citizens.
You actually think the Federal government gives a damn about a few dead Americans in CO?
When you have intelligence sources that you don't want anyone to know about, it's necessary to be extremely cautious about how and when you use the data. In WW2, the Allies "allowed" a lot of death and destruction that could have been prevented because they didn't want to tip off the Germans that their code had been broken.
There's no way the government would risk revealing any of their data gathering capabilities to prevent a mass shooting.
Ron Paul is a corporate tool?
Yeah, that explains why the corporate-owned MSM gave him so much positive coverage and why the PAC supporting him was awash in cash from corporations and other wealthy donors. Ron Paul was THE little guy's candidate and the sworn enemy of the banking cartel and the MIC.
"your right to swing your fist stops where my nose begins".
That's why we have a TORT system. Do you think BP and Exxon were forced to pay for all of the damage they caused with their oil spills, or did the government step in as middle man, "settle" for a flat fee and then distribute the funds based on some bureaucratic application and claims process?
The government stands between you and the polluters for sure. But who's being protected from whom?
The last time I checked, The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to declare war. No war has been declared, thus your argument about the "law of war" as justification for the government's rampant abuses of civil liberties is entirely inapplicable.
Where's the Constitutional authority authority for the President to engage in warrantless surveillance? Under what Constitutional authority is the President empowered to indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen? Which part of the Constitution grants the President power to assassinate U.S. citizens without charge or trial?
It's the federal government that doesn't like the law and therefore ignores it.
The FBI warned in a 2003 report that there was an "Epidemic of Fraud" in the home mortgage market. The big banks have submitted tens of thousands of false and/or improperly notarized affidavits to courts in foreclosure cases (a felony or serious misdemeanor in most states). Companies committed securities fraud by marketing "investments" to customers while simultaneously making bets that the securities would lose value. The brokerage MF Global was caught red-handed using wealth from customer accounts on their own speculative investments. There is documented evidence that big banks have facilitated money laundering for the drug cartels. Officials in Jefferson County, AL have been prosecuted in a bribery scandal, but no bank execs have been punished. Now we have the LIBOR scandal, PFG, etc. etc.
Very few of the banking and financial elites have faced punishment for their pervasive criminal activity, and when they do, it's usually a minuscule fine.
You're argument based on a few anecdotes is like finding a few alcoholics that lived long healthy lives and then concluding that alcohol doesn't cause liver damage.
What's the book damnit?
Are there people other than Christians who believe violence is bad, even in self defense?
Good analogy. We're careening toward the cliff. and our elections are a debate about whether to turn 5 degrees right or left.
I disagree with those programs. If you don't want me to use them, don't force me to pay for them. Otherwise, I'll consider the benefits a partial refund of my stolen wealth.
Actually, here's a better deal: Stop taking Medicare and SS taxes out of my paycheck NOW and I will agree to give up any claims I have to future benefits under these programs.
Isn't that an awesome deal for the government? They get to keep 20+ years of contributions and have no future liabilities.
You know why the government won't take that deal? Because they are NEVER going to provide the promised benefits anyway! Thus, they'll continue to bleed us until they finally have to admit that the programs were a scam.
I'll watch the video L8R. I think #1 is half right, I think #2 is wrong, but the huge one is #3:
"- Americans saving less and using credit more"
DEBT (personal and government) is the boat anchor on the U.S. economy. What's worse is that the capacity of U.S. consumers to take on debt has basically "covered up" major structural problems in our economy. At no time in the last 30 years has GDP growth exceeded growth in the total amount of debt in our economy. Now that we've basically reached the "debt saturation point"(underwater mortgages, ridiculous student loan debt, etc.) we've got some hard decisions to make.
Essentially, the "consumer spending" based economy was a gigantic lie. It's "game over" for this whole concept and no amount of government "stimulus" or "infrastructure" is going to bring it back.
Many businesses that sell police and military equipment balk at the idea of selling body armor to average janes and joes. Recent events have probably heightened their vigilance and paranoia.
One company told me that they would make exceptions in the case of special circumstances, and specifically mentioned "death threats". If you have an SMS death threat, get your body armor now while it's cheap and available to you.
"Whitey never thinks he's an immigrant, though"
Yeah, it's a little hard to consider yourself an "immigrant" in a land where you, your parents and seven generations of ancestors were born.
Is the White "homeland" really somewhere in Africa where the early humans evolved?
Why bother to stop illegal immigration? Just adds to the labor pool to dilute wages even further.
Next, it's necessary to strip middle class people of their wealth and physical assets (a good dose of hyper-inflation). Couple this with an increasingly authoritarian government = problem solved.
China is the model that our rulers want for the USA and Europe. Enough "capitalism" to secure sufficient production, with a labor force willing to work long hours for little pay, and no individual liberty to potentially break the cycle.
Well said. The FDR "miracle" that people keep dreaming about was only made possible by the massive destruction of the industrial infrastructure of the rest of the world.
Gigantic government spending under FDR merely prolonged a "recession" into what is now called "The Great Depression". Were it not for the overwhelming competitive advantage afforded to the USA by destruction of competitors, Roosevelt's "miracle" would have been a disaster and the final nail in the coffin of Keynesianism.
We're seeing a a re-play right now. Maybe the US plan is to nuke China, Japan, Germany, Brazil, India and Russia and once again rid the world of the competition?
BOTH Romney and Obama supporters should be celebrating and saving their time and money. No matter which one of these clone candidates gets elected, they'll get the policies that they voted for.
"Apparently you have been asleep for a few decades. This is Hope and Change!"
No, I think you and the author of the parent post have both been asleep for a few decades and were dreaming that you were awake.
In the last few decades, BOTH Republicans and Democrats have had their opportunity to govern by simultaneously holding the Presidency and majorities in both houses of Congress.
Furthermore, no other party has controlled either the legislative or executive branch in that time.
They swap power back and forth, but the real legislative agenda never changes. Bigger government, military interventionism, reckless fiscal and monetary policy, stagnant real wages, special favors for the privileged elites, fewer civil liberties, more rules and regulations, etc. etc.
Your partisan bickering is nonsense. U.S. politics is like pro wrestling. Yelling, fighting and bitter enmity in front of the cameras, then kicking back and having drinks together while they laugh at the fools who think it's "real".
The 'NSL' is simply cops writing their own search warrants. Direct violation of the 4th Amendment.
The relevant statute also violated the First Amendment because it is illegal for a 3rd party record holder (library, book store, etc,) to inform the individual that their records have been accessed.
Hopefully it gets to the SCOTUS and the whole Patriot Act is ruled un-Constitutional.
If there was any indication that Romney and his cronies were not "tyrants" who would exhibit the same degree of fiscal insanity as the current crop of politicians, I might consider voting for them.
The Geroge W. Bush era clearly demonstrated that we have two parties of big government in Washington DC. There is no longer genuine political opposition on a policy level. The two parties are just fighting over who gets to play Santa for the next few years.
Vote for Gary Johnson, Jill Stein or whomever. The only wasted vote is one cast for Democrats or Republicans.
The only way to cure the government of special interest influence is to weaken and de-centralize it.
A group of 536 people who have $3.8T to spend and can exercise such vast and sweeping powers over the population will always be infected with this disease. You can't "cure" the corruption that inevitably accompanies power unless you can figure out a way to change human nature.
Replace this monstrous top-down/central planning system with a bottoms-up system. Do as many government functions as possible at a local level with local control. Use the federal government only for things which make no sense at the state and local level, like bombing other countries.
I think you're assuming (naively) that a group of revolutionaries would don uniforms identifying themselves, stand in formation and try to fight government forces in a head-to-head conflict. Of course they wouldn't!
Where is the government going to drop their nukes and release their chemical weapons if a group of 10 people attacked a government building and then scattered? How would the rest of the population react if the government killed 1000s of civilians in reprisal for the actions of a few?
You're mixing the ideas of what's "good" with what's "possible".
Consider Oklahoma City where a couple of guys killed 168 people and wounded over 600. Did the feds "win" that one? Suppose there were 10.000 potential Tim McVeighs in the country. Is the government going to establish a defensive perimeter around every single federal building and guard it with military forces? Will they also build living quarters for all government employees and their families inside these "green zones"? How do they guard all of the supply lines and critical infrastructure at the same time? What about the $1.6T annual federal deficit? What would happen to the economy and the government's ability to levy taxes if they had to deal with a domestic insurgency?
You don't need the American Revolution as an example when there are numerous modern examples.
You think England was over-extended? What about the USA with 700 military bases in 130+ countries and demoralized military personnel?
I don't think armed revolt would be a "good" thing or even a "likely" thing, but it's entirely "possible". Anyone that thinks "modern weaponry" is certain to defeat a determined insurgency fighting on its own soil is the idiot.
I disagree.
Obviously you need "critical mass" to have an armed insurrection. Imagine 1% of the population willing to engage in hostilities against government forces and 10% of the population sympathetic to that cause. An army of 3.3 million with a support network of 33 million. If we ever get to that point, the government is toast.
Read "The War of the Flea" by Tabor and William Lind's paper "Understanding Fourth Generation War." Look at the experience of the U.S. in Vietnam, Israel in Lebanon, Russia in Afghanistan, the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc. etc. The advanced military with the vastly superior weaponry always loses the will to fight and crawls away with its tail between its legs.
"your little pop guns aren't going to do diddly against our domestic police forces."
LOL Go fire something like a Remington 700 chambered in .300 Winchester magnum or maybe an H&K G3 in .308 and tell me they're "pop guns".
Your armed revolt obviously won't work if you all stand together in the middle of the street with a big banner which reads "We are the Rebel Forces!". You need to use guerrilla tactics (sniping, sabotage, hit and run, etc.) and then blend back into the flock as if you're a good sheep.
Yeah, the government has tanks and drones and F-16s. Using them against guerrilla forces however ALWAYS inflicts civilian casualties, thus fueling the insurgency.
You also have to wonder how many police, Nat. Guard and military are going to shoot and kill their fellow citizens, drop bombs in suburbia and fire artillery into U.S. cities.
Not saying "armed revolution" is "The Answer" but your argument suggesting that it's impossible because of inferiority of current civilian weapons is ridiculous.
Could someone PLEASE mod this absurd comment Troll/Flamebait?
If there was a news story about an auto accident in Kansas one of these partisan hacks would try to blame it on Romney or Obama.
There's PLENTY of that inane dialogue on Politico, HuffPo, ABC and other online news sources that have comment boards. I hope the /. crowd has more advanced critical thinking skills.
"I saw a very nice documentary the other day showing what happens to a lot of our electronic waste."
Me too. It gets shipped to Ghana and India where people burn it (or what's left over after they physically dismantle it) in open fires to reclaim the metals.
I'd love to believe that a significant amount of this stuff goes to people who can use it, but I don't. The "used merchandise" label is often just an excuse to dump trash in 3rd world landfills.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/poisoning-the-poor-electroni
"Containers arrive in Ghana from Germany, Korea, Switzerland and the Netherlands under the false label of "second-hand goods... majority of the containers' contents end up in Ghana's scrap yards to be crushed and burned by unprotected workers."
Yeah, healthy happy people in Ghana are watching used TVs and installing Linux on our X86 hardware using 15" CRT monitors.