Comments on: Stop freaking out over the TV-B-Gone prank at CES http://www.eddie.com/2008/01/11/stop-freaking-out-over-the-tv-b-gone-prank-at-ces/ word from the eddie underworld Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:38:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Larry Edelstein http://www.eddie.com/2008/01/11/stop-freaking-out-over-the-tv-b-gone-prank-at-ces/#comment-383262 Larry Edelstein Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:29:47 +0000 http://www.eddie.com/2008/01/11/stop-freaking-out-over-the-tv-b-gone-prank-at-ces/#comment-383262 The guy did it and the conf reacted by banning him, and I don't have much of a problem with it. I don't see the specific hyperventilating you're talking about, but assuming it's out there, OK, perhaps I agree to a degree. But it sounds like posturing, and your post here is posturing, and that's fine, but I want to note it to justify my own posturing, which is coming up in the next paragraph. When I hear about TV-B-Gone and people who use it, I usually think: fuck you, busybody! Probably because I hate when people get up on their high horse about other people's personal preferences. Usually the complainer is making a tacit assumption that they're smarter than all those other people out there. Naturally I would never try to use the coercive power of the law to try to stop someone from expressing their viewpoint, but I might kick someone in the shins if I caught them fucking with my TV. The guy did it and the conf reacted by banning him, and I don’t have much of a problem with it. I don’t see the specific hyperventilating you’re talking about, but assuming it’s out there, OK, perhaps I agree to a degree.

But it sounds like posturing, and your post here is posturing, and that’s fine, but I want to note it to justify my own posturing, which is coming up in the next paragraph.

When I hear about TV-B-Gone and people who use it, I usually think: fuck you, busybody! Probably because I hate when people get up on their high horse about other people’s personal preferences. Usually the complainer is making a tacit assumption that they’re smarter than all those other people out there.

Naturally I would never try to use the coercive power of the law to try to stop someone from expressing their viewpoint, but I might kick someone in the shins if I caught them fucking with my TV.

]]> By: Nicole Lee http://www.eddie.com/2008/01/11/stop-freaking-out-over-the-tv-b-gone-prank-at-ces/#comment-382426 Nicole Lee Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:35:49 +0000 http://www.eddie.com/2008/01/11/stop-freaking-out-over-the-tv-b-gone-prank-at-ces/#comment-382426 Not to mention it's giving a ton of press to Gizmodo right now. Not to mention it’s giving a ton of press to Gizmodo right now.

]]> By: Gizmodo Pranks CES By Turning Off Displays Using TV-B-Gone | Laughing Squid http://www.eddie.com/2008/01/11/stop-freaking-out-over-the-tv-b-gone-prank-at-ces/#comment-382412 Gizmodo Pranks CES By Turning Off Displays Using TV-B-Gone | Laughing Squid Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:21:48 +0000 http://www.eddie.com/2008/01/11/stop-freaking-out-over-the-tv-b-gone-prank-at-ces/#comment-382412 [...] Blakeley, ended up getting him banned from the conference. Eddie Codel suggests that everyone stop freaking out about it. CES has no shortage of displays. And when MAKE offered us some TV-B-Gone clickers to bring to the [...] [...] Blakeley, ended up getting him banned from the conference. Eddie Codel suggests that everyone stop freaking out about it. CES has no shortage of displays. And when MAKE offered us some TV-B-Gone clickers to bring to the [...]

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