Re: Vista - stillborn?

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 01:29:07 -0800, C Lund wrote
(in article <clund-B953C9.10290708032006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

In article <0001HW.C032FEAF00219ADAF0488550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Donald L McDaniel <orthocross2006@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 03:09:41 -0800, C Lund wrote
(in article <clund-DE5237.12094107032006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
Note where I already addressed what they were saying: Positive things.
Yeah, positive things like "Windows r00lz mac dr00lz".
My friend,
Your friend, the "idiot"?
I regularly call my friends "idiots", especially when they act and speak
idiotically.

However, since you only know me from a few (and increasingly hostile)
usenet exchanges, I doubt you consider me a friend.

If there is any hostility, it is definitely not on my part, I assure you. I
have no feelings of hostility toward you at all.

I prefer to consider people "friends" rather than enemies, even those I don't
know very well.


If you were discussing something with a guy you've known for all of
two minutes, and you disagreed with him, would you call him an idiot?

Only if I felt he was being idiotic.


you really must be a little more realistic about this. Most
Windows posters don't use any such language.
Most windows posters aren't wintrolls. The two aren't the same.
You know, I really don't like the term "troll" in the first place.

Doesn't matter whether you like it or not. "Troll" is the common
expression for a poster who's presence is mainly to provoke reactions
in a usenet forum (and also other forums).

But you apply the term to EVERY person who says a postitive word about
Wintel.


I prefer
the terms "Mac Fanatic" or "Windows Fanatic", since they are much more
descriptive, and fit the newsgroup better.

Unfortunately, "xxx Fanatic" doesn't fit the kind of people commonly
referred to as "trolls" in here.

I certainly don't understand that at all. I went completely over my head.


Apparently, Mac Fanatics use the
word "troll" to fit anyone with whom they disagree. They surely seem to
use
it a lot in CSMA. You are one of the most prolific users of the word.

You're new in these parts, yes?

Nope, I've been coming in here for almost a year.


No, it's just an example. But if he ever said anything worth reading,
I must have missed it. There may well be a pearl at the bottom of a
septic tank, but would you sift through all that sewage with your bare
hands just to get it?
What bare hands are you referring to? One does not use his hands to
access
the Internet. He uses a computer.
I don't have to explain the meaning of the word "metaphor" to you, do
I?
Your metaphor does not fit very well. Anyone who is fairly reasonable
would
not use such a word anyway.

"Metaphor"?

He would attempt to reason.

The metaphor was an attempt at reasoning with you. Didn't work very
well though, since you seemed to think I was being literal.

I don't know many people who "reason" with others by speaking unreasonably
with them.


Using such graphic language does not give
understanding, it just furthers the ignorance of ignorant men and women.
Yet there are times when such graphic language is appropriate. For
instance when zara started a thread titled "Apple exists" with the
following text: "At Bill Gates digression. Every once an awhile, he
gives SJ a drop of sweat from his balls."

Or the time zara told somebody to stand downwind so he/she wouldn't
have to endure the smell of urine...

Sewage indeed...

No comment?

I'll have to refer you to articles written by people who do:
Imagine that...Lund has tied his opinion to that of someone else who
shares his agenda. Color me surprised!
Odd words from somebody who just accused me of thinking somebody
doesn't have anything worthwhile to say because what they say don't
fit my "agenda"...
Meanwhile... Paul Thurrott "shares my agenda"??
Who is Paul Thurrott, after all? Just a computer user who got famous by
publishing more often than others.
Paul Thurrott is a Windows shill. When even *he* feels compelled to
write something positive about Apple's products, well... scales must
have fallen from his eyes or something.
I guess you've never read a word by Paul Thurrott.

Actually, his articles get posted in here a lot.

He is just as critical of
Microsoft as he is of Apple.

Possibly, but I was commenting on his attitude towards the
*platforms*, not the companies that make them. Care to link me to a
Thurrott article that is negative to Windows? I'd like to see it.

I will ask you the same question: Care to link me to ANY article by the
majority of the Mac Fanatics in here which is NOT negative toward Windows?


Of course, you probably only read far enough into an article by him until
you
find some "ammunition" to use in another one of your bludgeonings of
Windows
you call "Mac Advocacy".

How can you go to bed at night with a clear conscience?

By having a clean conscience.


How about you?

My conscience is clean and clear because the Holy Spirit keeps it clean and
clear.


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Donald L McDaniel
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