Windows v. Mac = Conservative v. Liberal

here, have some kool-aid

Published on February 27, 2005 By Gene Nash In Personal Computing

Over on an article by JesseJ, I dared say the Macintosh was better at something than Windows was. It's a good thing I remembered to slip on my asbestos long-johns this morning. Get this highly literate response from one of the WinHeads:

"Your entire post #35, has got to be the most ignorant and complete bunch of idiotic drivel that I have read in a long long time. I could make quite the page about it but why waste the space.
I wasn't even going to waste the time of day by posting in this ridiculous thread as a lot of it is plainly littered with typical MS slamming from a bunch of over egotistical, uninformed Mac users which really give Mac a bad name. However, some things are simply too stupid to let pass by without having to comment on that stupidity."

The funny thing is, I was being similarly flamed a couple of months ago on one of Brad's articles... by Apple Fanatics! Yes, I had dared to criticize Steve Jobs and Apple. Suddenly, I was the false prophet to Bill Gates' Antichrist.

It's the computer version of what Angloesque just blogged about. If you say anything remotely conservative twinged some foul-mouthed cretin with an I.Q. roughly equal his age will start blasting you as being some Jesus-Luvin', War-Making, Neo-Con, Redneck-Freak. Say something remotely sympathetic about the less fortunate (for example) and you'll be tarred and feathered as a Left-Leaning Liberal Loony.

If you think political forums are bad, try speaking honestly about computer OS's sometime.

People aren't reading the articles and comments. They're scanning them for a buzzword that will set them off. They can't respond reasonably because Reason's a town they long ago left in their rearview mirror.

Why have evidence when a chip on the shoulder and a ravening mouth will do?

I feel sorry for people so sold out to a cause that they have a hair trigger ready to blow-off the second their antennas brush something counter to their dogma. These type of people have very poor psychological boundaries. The product or philosophy they've decided to back has bled into their identity. The mere hint it isn't a perfect gift from God sent from on high for the betterment of all is taken as a personal affront against their own worth as individuals.

That's really sad.

I guess they think they are doing some good in a "shout them down" sort of way. Actually, they are just harming their own position. They think dropping ten tons of manure on an ounce of caviar proves manure is a superior delicacy.

I don't know about the manure, but I hope the Kool-Aid was yummy.

Comments (Page 2)

Corky_O

on Aug 18, 2006

There is an old idiom (at least I believe it is considered an 'idiom'):

"There is no accounting for taste".

Trying to force someone to have a specific viewpoint on a piece of art, a sunset, or an operating system seems a bit silly.

We all have to live with and use the system we choose, and we all have the right to use the one(s) that we like. I for one would love to know all the platforms, but I simply do not have the extra money to go around purchasing a bunch of machines to learn them.

I use a PC because that is what I have at the moment, and for which I have purchased software (not a modest sum for that, either). Taking personal offense to someones viewpoint on art, a sunset, or an operating system (as long as they are not forcing the issue on you) is silly.

I have to agree that the personal attack quoted in the opening statement seems out of order.

As long as we are enjoying ourselves, why bicker over which operating system the other guy is using or believes in?

starkers

on Aug 19, 2006

Well I hate MS and Apple...Linux too (they continue or will continue to cost me money) but I really love my PC with XP Pro on it, the PC I'd dearly love to be able to run OS-X on ...and a Linux distro if I ever get around to it.

And when I get all three up and running, I'm gonna go out of my way to shoot 'em all down in flames when I see forum posts praising any of them....why should the zealots have all the fun of being obnoxious and get all the attention.

Fuzzy Logic

on Aug 19, 2006

Why can't people use what they want to use, vote how they want to vote, and leave everyone else alone?

Guess the folks who need to 'have a go' must have some kind of deep psychological inferiority complex. Probably the result of having a small penis...

starkers

on Aug 21, 2006

Probably the result of having a small penis...

Now who can I pick on Next!!!!!

Jafo

on Aug 21, 2006

Er...guys....my #15 was about #14...check the date of #13...

starkers

on Aug 22, 2006

Er...guys....my #15 was about #14...check the date of #13...

Thanks for pointing that out, Jafo....clearing up that feeling of de-ja-vu all over again has made me a happy man - and now the time warp issue has been resolved I'll take back my inferiority complex comment cos I don't have one in 2006

*****note to self - check the dates, check the dates*****

Gene Nash

on Aug 22, 2006

Now who can I pick on Next!!!!!

I'd suggest picking on NExt, but at this point that's kinda like picking on OS X's grandpa, isn't it?

The final conclusion has to be that whatever we are currently using is the most fantabulus technology ever, gives us a better sex life, the mate of our dreams, and cures cancer, while whatever that other guy is using is "just a toy."

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Posted: Friday, August 18, 2006

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I've been botted!

*****note to self - check the dates, check the dates*****

Feel free to go to town, starkers. I haven't been around much lately; I could use the points.

(Just a few thousand more and grandma can get that artificial hip.)

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