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[juldea]

So here are the specs (muah):

AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz
256 megs DDR ram (woo DDR)
20 gig hard drive
guillemot/hercules 3d prophet kyro 2 4500 64mb no-tv out video card (I don't know what all those numbers are, so I figured I'd put them all for those who care)
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 (unless someone convinces me to spend more on a better one ;))

All of that (plus motherboard and fan) shipped to me for $460. All I need after that is a case (~$30-50 depending on what I want, shipping fees for cases are bad though because they're large, so I should just get one from a local place and not online), a floppy drive (so cheap that the shipping fee almost equals the cost of the drive), and necessary cables (see floppy drive). All in all I'll be getting a total badass machine for about $500.

I'll be borrowing the monitor and keyboard from the teddyville server for a while, but hey... not like they're being used. Also I need to get my ethernet card from my mom (she's got my old desktop) and I'm set.

Yum. This isn't far off.

On another note, there's a group of women (Women for Decency) in Utah who say that the first admendment "does not protect obscenity and pornography".
*shakes head sadly*
Maybe one day I will realize my fault in not taking these kinds of people seriously, but wow. Who does? Only other kooks.

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[doteatop.livejournal.com]

Although, you know what? Should have realized this earlier, but i was napping all day and just really awoke right now... "Obscene works" and "hard-core pornography" by their legal definition are even now not provided first amendment protection under the supreme court. i happen to have the rulings somewhere around here... the reason this doesn't seem to affect us, these days, is that there is no really good social definition of what these things are. So right now only those works "utterly without socially redeeming value" are even in the danger zone for prosecution - this is a more liberal age in this respect than has ever before been seen in America. However, there are a lot of good, relevant, important, and threatened aspects of the freedom of expression still.