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• Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence?
  There's one marked "Brightness," but it doesn't work....
• I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence.
  The one marked Brightness doesn't seem to work....
• knobs pl.n. Configurable options, even in software and even those you can't adjust in real time.
  Anything you can twiddle is a knob. "Has this PNG viewer got an alpha knob?...
• The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system.
  If you must. -- Edward Abbey...
• It might be worth reflecting that this group was originally created back in September of 1987 and has exchanged over 1200 messages.
  The original announcement for the group called for an all inclusive discussion ranging from the writings of Gibson and Vinge and movies like Bladerunner to real world things like Brands' description of the work being done at the MIT Media Lab....
• I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris .
  . . it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and 1914 and 1942 and 1945 -- even 1968!...
• Python's Principle of TV Morality: There is nothing wrong with sex on television, just as long as you don't fall off.
• There is nothing wrong with sex on television, just as long as you don't fall off.
  -- Python's Principle of TV Morality...
• I've learned from watching ads on television that if you are an insecure cretin who has smelly parts that leak offensive fluids or secret things that are just short of obscene
  being idle, unwanted and underprivileged, driven by a craze for sex and seeking status in some neurotic manner more befitting a sub-normal moron, with piles and lose dentures, lacking money, brains, muscles, figure and self-confidence (not necessarily in that order), advertizers are after you....