[FoRK] Kindle is kidding, right?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:19:35PM -0800, Tom Higgins wrote:

> Heck even my 13 year old has learned this. Her ipod is showing the "im
> going to die soon" icon and has expressed she never wants an ipod
> again(this is her 3rd). She is tired of having to use iTunes and has

So she paid Steve Joabs 3x already? I've never owned a proprietary
mp3 player in my life. I'm reasonably sorry I bought Apple hardware,
though Apple is not nearly as FLOSS-fascist as most other vendors.

> lost more iTune store files then she cares to recall. Smart girl,
> would that more folks wise up.
> 
> Ya know there is so much damage that can be routed around yet
> otherwise smart folks not only keep falling into the same potholes
> they are digging up new ones or redirecting others to fall into the
> same old ones. Why?

Because people are really stupid, and because stupidity is not nearly
always fatal?

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