Posted by NRen2k5 on 11/16/59 11:50

Charles Kooij wrote:
> NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:
>
>> Charles Kooij wrote:
>>> NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> John C. Randolph wrote:
>>>>> On 2006-06-08 09:35:05 -0700, NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> John C. Randolph wrote:
>>>>>>> If you don't like it, buy a share of Apple stock, go to the
>>>>>>> shareholder meeting, and make your proposal. I'm sure we'll all have
>>>>>>> a good laugh at you.
>>>>>> Like the moral cowards that you are.
>>>>> What's cowardly about laughing at an ignorant prat like you?
>>>> One of *you* calling *me* ignorant? Now that's fucking rich.
>>> So, is anyone who doesn't agree with you ignorant? How do you propose to
>>> prove that?
>> Why would I propose to prove your straw man?
>
>
> Fair enough. How about ignoring the second question and answering the
> first about anyone who doesn't agree with you being ignorant. Can you do
> that?

That was the straw man.

>>> Or are you just really into making sweeping generalisations?
>> Aren't we all? For example, thinking that Macs are better than PC's.
>
> And vice versa.

Show me any Mac model specs and I can build a better PC.

> You see, the minute you start believing your preference, be it for a
> Mac, a PC, an iPod, a Zen Vision:M or any number of alternate mp3
> players, is a universal thing - the minute you start evangelizing and
> assuming that it's better for everyone and not just yourself - that's
> the minute you start "losing' and looking like a slavering loony.

Exactly.

> You need to understand that there is no magic bullet. One device is
> better for some people, the other is better for other people.

Exactly.

> Some of us can use both and enjoy both, some can't stand one and love
> the other. The end result of that kind of thing is laughably pathetic
> sites such as dapreview or any number of the more rabid pro or anti-mac
> sites.

What, in your opinion, makes dapreview "laughably pathetic"?

> In the end, so long as you remember that your choice is only important
> to you and people like you, the more everyone wins and nobody loses.
> No-one is forcing you to use an iPod or ITMS, just like no-one is
> forcing you to use Creative or Sony products. You have plenty of
> choices. The fact that lots of people have bought an iPod, and lots
> continue to buy iPods is up to them.

Most people aren't properly informed, because the iPod is pushed on them
so aggressively.

> It doesn't automatically make those
> purchasers stupid or sheep, and suggesting otherwise is the height of
> arrogance and, dare I say it, ignorance. The two often go hand in hand,
> of course.

It's just a bit of exaggeration. You should know a bit about that,
coming from a group that regularly calls PC users the "WinTaliban".

>>> If the
>>> latter I am sure you realise that doing so is not usually a sign of
>>> superior intelligence. [DEEP BOOMING VOICE] OR IS IT?? [DEEP BOOMING
>>> VOICE].
>> It depends on the generalization.
>
> Sigh. Impressively content-free. It would have been useful had you
> actually posted an example of such, rather than let us guess. We are
> ignorant, after all.

Stating the obvious.

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