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Mac threads resemble DU.
Blue Highway ^ | 7/01/09 | Blue Highway

Posted on 07/01/2009 2:14:14 PM PDT by Blue Highway

It seems like every time I venture into an Apple thread here on FR, it's similar to venturing over into Democratic Underground territory.

Personal attacks abound especially if you start criticizing Apple products or other Apple users for being naive into thinking Apple is everything their clever marketing department represents it to be.

It seems like the Mac ping list alerts the faithful flock to defend Apple to the death and that is when the claws come out and it starts to get ugly.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; applesnobs; applesux; cult; du; flamebait; ilovebillgates; itsacultfolks; iwanthim; iwanthimbad; liberal; liberalism; maccult; maczombies; mentaldisorder; microsoftfanboys; thecoolkidsdoit; troll
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To: Admin Moderator
And you're attracting the wrong kind of attention. Members who start throwing terms like that around are usually shown the door. FR isn't your personal playground for threats - especially legal ones involving this website.

My apologies. But when someone makes claims that are not true or provable, it strikes me that would be what would expose FR to such problems. I did not make it with the intent of it being a threat. My purpose was to warn the poster that he might be exposing himself and FR to such legal exposure. I will refrain from making such warnings in the future. Thanks for the heads up.

481 posted on 07/06/2009 8:32:46 PM PDT by Swordmaker (remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

I was hoping this thread would finally die and RIP. I have to give credit to you and the other MacFaithful™ in renewing the rhetoric to “keep this thread alive”. Freddy Mercury would be proud.


482 posted on 07/06/2009 8:33:35 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway

Never been anything stopping you from uninstalling whatever apps you wanted to from a Mac. Not sure why anyone would want to specifically as they are all very good often even better than what others are putting out. But if anyone wants to they can. Sometimes they are so much better 3rd parties stop bothering to develop for the platform (ie AOL no longer develops AIM because of iChat).


483 posted on 07/06/2009 8:34:01 PM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: Blue Highway
If you can’t see the same reasoning with me agreeing with Ed Bott’s summation without saying I agree with his opinion about Apple wanting Microsoft to cut prices then you are not only an idiot, you are a troll.

You were not specific about what part you agreed with. I am not capable of reading your mind, only of reading what you write. I respond to what you write.

484 posted on 07/06/2009 8:34:44 PM PDT by Swordmaker (remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

I am not saying you need to be a mind reader, but you sure want to read into everything.


485 posted on 07/06/2009 8:38:49 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Mr. Blonde

I didn’t think anyone still used AIM. lol.


486 posted on 07/06/2009 8:39:51 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway

Be surprised. And using the screen sharing capability built into iChat, I can pretty effectively be tech support for the family and friends from afar.


487 posted on 07/06/2009 8:42:49 PM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: Blue Highway
I could care less about WIndows Office series, and if I was an Apple owner I would care less about iLife or iWork. I rarely use bundled crap that is pre-installed.

You Windows-based prejudices are showing. The though never drifted across the transom of your mind that bundled software could be the best in its class, not crap. I have yet to find the equal of iPhoto or iMovie on Windows at any price.

iWork is not pre-installed. It's a $79 office suite that blows the doors off of MS Office and doesn't have the little @#$%^ing paperclip.

488 posted on 07/06/2009 8:49:38 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: Blue Highway
I wonder how many Mac users though secretly wish there was a takeover and the day when Mac users will rule the world.

Not this one. What I would like to see -- and I see as increasingly the case -- is a world in which there is no dominant player in the operating system arena. Apple can compete quite well in that environment. That's why I'm a fan of Linux; anything that erodes Microsoft's hegemony is good for everyone else.

489 posted on 07/06/2009 9:08:39 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: Mr. Blonde

I have been using Remote Assistance since XP and pretty sure a form of it existed back in Windows 2000 Professional.


490 posted on 07/06/2009 9:12:21 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway
I was hoping this thread would finally die and RIP. I have to give credit to you and the other MacFaithful™ in renewing the rhetoric to “keep this thread alive”.

Translation: If you weren't so obsessive, you'd just walk away and let me have the last word.

491 posted on 07/06/2009 9:12:46 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError

touche.


492 posted on 07/06/2009 10:52:09 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway; Swordmaker

...493


493 posted on 07/07/2009 4:45:25 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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494 posted on 07/07/2009 4:45:53 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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495 posted on 07/07/2009 4:46:14 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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496 posted on 07/07/2009 4:46:33 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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497 posted on 07/07/2009 4:46:54 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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498 posted on 07/07/2009 4:47:13 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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499 posted on 07/07/2009 4:47:30 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: Swordmaker; Blue Highway; PA Engineer

500!!!

Told ya it’d be here before you know it!

You guys play nice.

NT


500 posted on 07/07/2009 4:48:33 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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