Re: Are computer icons on-topic?

--- Nicholas Bodley <nbodley@...> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:59:50 -0800, i18n@...
> <i18n@...> wrote:
>
> > Wasn't there a Japanese animation TV program that
> > caused simultaneous seizures all over the country?
>
> I remember that. Not an urban legend, afaik.

I just checked Snopes.com (supposedly the best source
on urban legends). It says it is just an urban legend
but in the commentary it makes it sound like it was
true, if exaggerated. It was a Pokemon episode, by the
way: http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/seizure.htm

> > The idea of who owns the real estate on the screen
> > - and who has the right to change it - is a very
> > undecided idea legally.
>
> So far, the user has that right.
>
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> Freedom from hypocrisy is a very good idea.
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