JS1138, Have I insulted YOU? Have I said that you have a "little ego"? Have I claimed you are "gay" because of your choice of computer? Have I insulted you about your choice of computer? Have I even so much as posted a "Get a Mac" comment in a Windows or PC thread? I don't think so. I have criticized the OPERATING SYSTEM... not the users.
From what I have seen, most Mac users who do comment in PC or Windows threads do not attack the users either. That seems to be a tool of the people who attack Mac users. At most, they make a recommendation on how to end the problems the Windows users are having.
And what is so confusing about that sentence? "They (referring to the 240 members of the FreeRepublic Mac Ping list) did not ask to be members of the Ping list to be insulted about their choices of computers." Looks exceedingly clear to me.
I have no idea how you justify your existence in your own mind. . .
And finally, we have another ad hominem attack, implying that my existence is somehow offensive.
Well you are still a boring old fart. Who gives a hoot what you think of Windows? You obsess over it. It isn't healthy and it isn't very interesting.
Maybe an update once a month, or even better, once a quarter, but more than once a week? Get a life.
I have recently acquired several Apple products and actually like them, but you piss me off so much with your superior attitude that I would walk over broken glass before buying a Mac.
I've used MS operating systems since 1982. I neither love nor hate them. I learn how to make them work; I learn how to avoid malware, and I generally have a good time. I support a couple of corporate networks and have never been hacked. I'm not even particularly great at what I do. I just browse the internet for potential problems and take preventive action when needed. In the last year that's hardly been necessary, above and beyond installing updates.
I find your rants against Microsoft to be hysterical and unfounded.