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Re: Screen-free Linux?



On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 18:09, csj wrote:
> On 16 Mar 2002 14:19:36 -0600
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 18:58, csj wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > sound-card plus speaker/headset setup". In other words: a computer
> > > whose parts you can assemble from the black market. Nothing
> > > specialist or
> > 
> > The black market?  Isn't that, like, ilegal-criminal?
> > 
> 
> In some countries it's illegal for an adult to drink alcohol. Illegal is
> simply what the government doesn't want you to do.

I don't see your point.  

The black market deals in _stolen_ goods, and property theft is 
frowned upon in cultures as disparate as Holland (legalized drug
use and prostitution) and Saudi Arabia.

"Tangible" (not Intellectual) property theft is _more_or_less_ 
defined the same everywhere, and that's what your original post
described: "a computer whose parts you can assemble from the black
market".

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