Are you bragging or complaining?
and proud of it....
Cheers! CC :)
Posted on 04/23/2002 7:45:18 PM PDT by ppaul
Repent, sinners. Your Macintosh is a tool to promote Godless Communism and anti-Creationist "propaganda", according to an article at OBJECTIVE: Christian Ministries. Dr. Richard Paley, apparently "a teacher of Divinity and Theobiology at Fellowship University," starts out with discussions of the PBS series Evolution and Pokemon, and goes on to say:
However, these propagandists aren't just targeting the young. Take for example Apple Computers, makers of the popular Macintosh line of computers. The real operating system hiding under the newest version of the Macintosh operating system (MacOS X) is called... Darwin! That's right, new Macs are based on Darwinism! While they currently don't advertise this fact to consumers, it is well known among the computer elite, who are mostly Atheists and Pagans. Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an "Open Source" license, which is just another name for Communism. They try to hide all of this under a facade of shiny, "lickable" buttons, but the truth has finally come out: Apple Computers promote Godless Darwinism and Communism.
Later additions to this article say:
It has been brought to my attention that the Darwin OS mentioned above now has a cartoon mascot (no doubt to influence children) named Hexley (pictured above) -- a platypus dressed as a devil who performs occult magic, i.e. hexes. They're not doing a very good job keeping their ties to the forces of darkness a secret, are they? (snip)
More clues have come in showing the dark nature of Apple Computers. According to one of our readers, the new MacOS X contains another Satanic holdover from the "BSD Unix" OS mentioned above; to open up certain locked files one has to run a program much like the DOS prompt in Microsoft Windows and type in a secret code: "chmod 666". What other horrors lurk in this thing?
Check out the full article for yourself.
[Editor's Note: The article and the Web site hosting the article were both inaccessible as of 12:46 PM CST to TMO staff (Observer Whit noted that the site was down as of 12:30 PM CST). Other Observers report being able to pull up the site, but that it is very slow.]
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Alas, yes.
However, your post did not have the title which brought inflamed MAC users out of the woodwork!
Only among pencil-necked geeks.
Actually, there IS a MAC distribution: Yellow Dog. However, Red Hat doesn't have one, so it doesn't suprise me that they wouldn't know of one... Interestingly enough, there is a Red Hat distribution out for IBM Mainframes now!
Mark
Mac is the homosexual's computer of choice!
This may be the dumbest thing that I've seen or heard this week, and I've been dealing with some pretty stupid people!
"Win emulation?" This allows Macs to run Windows programs, something that's an afterthought. An add-on that allows to user to run some software that isn't available for the Mac. It's not meant to be used all the time. The fact that it runs at all is something.
A computer is a tool. Nothing more, nothing less. In the business world, you use what ever tool it is that gets the job done, at the lowest cost, and with the greatest productivity. That being said, the vast majority of graphic arts businesses historically used Macs. They still do. While Hallmark (you know, the card company) has many thousands of PCs that they use for business purposes, they do much of their graphics work on Macs, or on high end graphics workstations, like SGI systems. Go to any litho shop and see what they use for their art work... It'll probably be a Mac. Print shops? Macs. Kinkos? Macs and PCs, but they prefer Macs for their high volume stuff.
All that being said, I have never used a Mac. However, I've set up lots of networks that needed to have Mac access to the network resources. That's a nice thing about the new Novell NetWare 6 OS. It allows native Mac access to the server and other resources.
Mark
Only among pencil-necked geeks.
Amongst the world's poor as well. That includes entire nations like India and Russia with huge pools of programming talent who simply cannot afford to be sending Gates and Co. an extra two hundred dollars every time they turn around.
Also amongst people who require robust and reliable software. LINUX can run for years without crashing; Win 2000 appears to be able to go for more than a few days without the blue screen, but it's a case of too little, too late. Moreover I actually do hear of cases of people replacing Solaris machines with LINUX machines simply for the greater reliability.
Sounds like the info I had on LINUX and the Mac was a bit dated; I'd assumed the situation would not change. I'd be curious to hear how they deal with all the LINUX software which uses three mouse buttons...
The more homosexual guys there are, the more single women are left for the rest of us. Seems to me the ideal situation would be if all men but you and I were homosexual.
Encourage homosexuality - it's the best way for us to compete!
Macs are identified with creativity, not one sexual preference or another. And quite honestly, you don't sound like a creative guy, so I hope you enjoy your PC.
D
Time to re-read your Bible. The "fruit" is never described as an apple, and --since apples are not native to the Middle East-- it is very unlikely that it was an apple. The myth that the fruit was an apple comes from northern European painters of the Renaissance.
OK - that is the dumbest thing I've read today!
It's still early
LOL. It's too late. HELP! - I'm in a Mac trance and I can't get out!!
Cheers, CC :)
Are you bragging or complaining?
and proud of it....
Cheers! CC :)
They buy a new mouse.
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