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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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