Well Swordmaker YOU, yes YOU were the very first to post a snarky remark in that thread post #4 and was your first post in there.
Thanks to Blue Highway for the post... in spite of his FUD rant.
To address your statement: "In spite of his FUD rant"
There is no fear, uncertainty or doubt in my rant. You got the "rant" part correct as I did have a legitimate rant.
Since I didn't have to venture far to find the first attack which was low and behold by you yourself Mr. Swordmaker, I don't want to spend hours trying to compile a list through the 168 posts, of attacks that you claim there are none made towards me.
Let's leave it with the fact that I found one where you claimed there wasn't one in the entire thread, and it was made by you of all people. How shocking, right?
If you weren’t spreading FUD where is the research to back up your claims? Your one claim that could be verified, that Li-Po batteries would be more expensive than traditional batteries, was repeatedly proven false. I have yet to see you admit to either myself, Swordmaker or ReignOfError that you were wrong about the cost of a replacement battery.
Everything else about the batteries was only posted to generate fear, uncertainty and doubt about the batteries. They could very well last as long as Apple claims but we won’t know for sometime as they have been out closer to five weeks than five years.
Then you have problems about what is an industry standard warranty. What part of your rant is based in verifiable fact?
Blue, that was not a personal attack. That was a comment on your remarks. I did not attack YOU personally, I made a value judgement on your comments. My reference to your "rant" was my opinion of its quality, validity and purpose. FUD describes it quite well.
A personal attack would be:
"That cowardly Blue Highway is back again, mouthing off his stupid opinions. With his lack of personal hygiene, his unkempt appearance, and his uncertain parentage, as well as his proclivity to sexual perversions, he will be again spouting off his slavish adherence to the Microsoft gospel as he swallows, hook, line and sinker, the rotten, untruthful claims fed to him by his masters in Redmond whom he loves so much. Oh, and he is an evil, slack-jawed Liberal to boot."Another example would be:
"Why should anyone listen to you? You are a Windows using idiot—and everyone knows Windows users are stupid, knuckle dragging cretins stuck with an antiquated computer environment. Brilliant people like us Mac users got rid of that Edsel of an OS years ago and moved up to computing Nirvana. Since you haven't, what does that say about your intelligence?"
Or:
"Why should the opinions you spout have any validity since you write like a 14 year old, hairy handed, geek, living in your mother's basement, myopically typing on a computer put together from old discards because you can't earn enough money with your part-time, hamburger flipping job to buy a real computer, and secretly hoping, in your heart of hearts, to someday have enough courage to talk to a real, live female— other than your mother and your pet rat (Who, if truth be told, really doesn't like you that much)—in something more coherent than mono-syllabic grunts."
(Previous exaggerated example quotations are NOT the opinion of this writer about Blue Highway and are only intended to illustrate personal ad hominem attacks. Hey! Maybe I should submit that last one to the annual Bulwer-Litton Literary Contest... could be a winner!)
Do you see the difference, Blue?
Your comments, opinions, and claimed facts are fair game. Your person is not.
By the way, I've been meaning to ask: Why the red? What part of post #1 was NOT your comments? If the non-red parts weren't your comments, what is there source?