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Hi Matthew,
I was just wondering about the meaning of a sentence in your sig, "Every
time you buy a CD, a programmer is kicked in the teeth."

What do you mean by this?  Cheers,  D



"Matthew Russotto" <russotto@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote in message
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> In article <3CBC9C0B.58F3E8DB@attglobal.net>,
> John W. Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote:
> >Matthew Russotto wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <a9fgmm$8f5$1@news.tamu.edu>,
> >> Keith A. Marrocco <keith@lt.tamu.edu> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >If memory serves, rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated manages this via
> >> >a file of "good authors", such that anybody who has never strayed from
> >> >the rules of the forum is free to post.  Those who have or who do are
> >> >removed from or never added to the file.  And I think new posts to the
> >> >group have to be approved by a human moderator.
> >> >
> >> >Worked good enough for JMS to rejoin after the trolls drove him off...
> >>
> >> Ahh, but we don't have any high stature prima donnas to placate.
> >
> >Since you obviously don't know what the hell you're talking about,
> >suppose you just shut up.
>
> ROTFL, JMS fans are funny when they're irritated.
> --
> Matthew T. Russotto                                mrussotto@speakeasy.net
> =====
> Every time you buy a CD, a programmer is kicked in the teeth.
> Every time you buy or rent a DVD, a programmer is kicked where it counts.
> Every time they kick a programmer, 1000 users are kicked too, and harder.
> A proposed US law called the CBDTPA would ban the PC as we know it.
> This is not a joke, not an exaggeration.  This is real.
> http://www.cryptome.org/broadbandits.htm


