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Re:Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? by meaty on Friday December 07, 2012 @08:58AM (#4886871)
It's actually not rhetoric - it's a play on Bradbury's comment about e-readers "smelling like burned fuel" (read Fahrenheit 451 for the background of this).

I own a Kobo, but it's been seriously hacked by myself so it doesn't call home and only talks to SD cards. It also only gets non DRM epubs on it. Anything more would be considered virtual book burning on my part as well.

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Re:Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? by astine on Friday December 07, 2012 @09:04AM (#4886890)
It's actually not rhetoric - it's a play on Bradbury's comment about e-readers "smelling like burned fuel" (read Fahrenheit 451 for the background of this).

That's almost the definition of rhetoric.

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Re:Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? by meaty on Friday December 07, 2012 @09:06AM (#4886898)
Not quite. It depends on the context. This was a pointer to issues, none of which are supporting the argument but are of secondary interest.
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