Paul Eres ([info]rinku) wrote,
@ 2007-10-21 17:04:00
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This guy continues to impress me. When I first heard about him about 20 years ago he was the world chess champion, which he achieved at the age of 22, the youngest to do so. Now he's a political activist, hated by Putin (arrested occasionally), fighting for democracy in Russia, and recently announced that he's running for president of Russia. I hope he wins, but he probably has even less of a chance of winning than Ron Paul does here.


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[info]haggard
2007-10-21 11:57 pm UTC (link)
Already knew about this from The Colbert Report! You should watch it (and The Daily Show). Also, on the topic of politics, I heard Giuliani (?) say something profoundly stupid while talking to an evangelical crowd: "Freedom of religion does not mean freedom FROM religion." x( x( x( x( x(

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[info]rinku
2007-10-22 08:34 am UTC (link)
He also said that freedom means authority, that freedom comes only from the ability to listen to authority.

I would watch them if my TV worked, but I'd have to pay for another cable box etc.

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[info]novahero
2007-10-24 02:23 pm UTC (link)
Maybe you should considering buying a computer TV tuner! I bought one for 40 dollars when living in Florida and since then it has survived everything, including Hurricane Katrina. It's a little rusty now, but it works fine and has not given me a problem since owning it. Besides watching television (when I had it), I also use it for playing consoles through my computer. You can put the signal into a desktop window or maximize it, record video, etc etc.

However, it's important to note that I use a tuner that doesn't have a integrated processor; it relies on my computing power to decode incoming signals, which is actually a good thing since it means latency is minimized/nonexistent, making it a realistic solution for bypassing a need for a television unit to watch stuff and play video games.

This is the one that I own:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814122180

It's awesome.

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[info]rinku
2007-10-24 04:41 pm UTC (link)
You misread. The problem isn't that I don't have a working TV. The problem is that I have no cable to connect to that TV without a cable box.

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[info]novahero
2007-10-24 04:46 pm UTC (link)
you don't need a cable box to watch cable... that is, if you have cable already. At least I didn't need one to watch mine, it was just there to allow an easier method of switching through all the channels and displaying information about them and such, etc etc

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[info]rinku
2007-10-24 04:49 pm UTC (link)
You do in NJ.

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[info]novahero
2007-10-24 04:51 pm UTC (link)
oh.

cased closed, then!

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