jimzip

A year or so ago, I went into an Apple Store to get some support and giving the specialist my email address, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh! Cool, you have a mac.com address!" I'd never really thought about what a relic it was until then. I'd really like to keep the address though. It's still my main address and I was lucky enough to have created some aliases I still use, as well.

tallest skil said:
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Yikes. Ok, look I really didn't want to upset anyone this much, I'm sorry for getting you so worked up. Personally I like to think that working together will improve things. But of course I do understand that people have different viewpoints, so I'm glad you're happy with yours. You really don't have to call me a "disingenuous coward" as you don't know who I am.

I read history books as a hobby, and all I see is humanity treating each other terribly time and time over, I'm also friends with a wonderful diplomat working for the UN, and some of the stories he tells are really hopeful, and some plain chilling (he often works in the Congo and it's a nightmare there). I'm an optimist and prefer to play things the hopeful way, which explains my position. It just really freaks me out when I see things starting to go south like has happened in history so many times. If all we do with our infinitesimal time on this planet is find reasons for drama and mistreating each other, well, that's pretty lame & a waste of human potential. And of course I don't want to fight in a war - it's not about being a coward, it's that I'd be killed in the first minute and that's boring - I just want to live my own life with cool people and be safe and happy, and I feel confident saying you do too. We'll just go about it in different ways.

Bottom line, this fighting (especially online!) isn't worth it, so again, apologies. I'm sure you're actually a great person and I don't care who won your election as long as people don't get hurt afterwards, but this whole campaign seems to have brought out the extremist in everyone & it's really scary. If I don't weigh in with my opinion & stand up for what I believe that'd be cowardly, right?

Jimzip

I watched the recent Apple event with a friend and fellow Apple fan who was very disappointed with the announcements. Like me, he is always waiting for that "Oh, and one more thing..." moment we were treated to so often back in the day. But unlike me, he actually expects that to happen—as in, every time Apple holds an event. I don't and was really happy with what I saw. Sure, the iPads should have been full-screen, but I appreciate the innovation in all their products and know that it's now in the details, not on a podium rising out of the stage. My friend said an Apple watch without a round face was boring and he was done upgrading. He bought a Series 5 last week...

Serious question, do Apple protect these things? Because ... I keep seeing copycat designs from every other tech company and never a peep from Apple. I mean, this HTC Honor sitting on the table here (not mine!) runs Android & the OS looks pretty much identical to iOS in some ways, including icons, home-screen layout, folders, the blurry pull-down notification center and search. And as far as hardware goes, I see Apple copycats everywhere as well. Why doesn't Apple pull them up on all this stuff? What's the point of patents if you can't stop copying?

Jimzip

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Paradroid said:

And if Hillary had won there wouldn't have been any need for a letter to the staff because she didn't suggest that she had a problem with Mexicans, Muslims and various other minority groups.

That was one of her huge flaws, that she didn't have a problem with them, and she should have. Any reasonable, non-lobotomized person should.
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I don't need to be nice to Illegal Aliens and I don't need to be nice to Muslim terrorists. That is political correctness taken to the extreme and to dangerous levels and the American people have rejected the extremism of Hillary Clinton and her psychotic friends.

2016 is the beginning of the end for PCness, and it's about damn time. Good riddance.

I haven't logged in here for a long time to comment, but I had to now, and I don't even know where to begin with this. What sort of person are you? How can you say such things? Are you really that ignorant of history or are you just a sociopath (or both)? Why are having empathy and understanding others such foreign concepts to you?

To say (and to pick just one sentance from your painfully-irresponsible ramblings) "Hillary's plan was to import many terrorists into the USA" is just so ignorant I can't believe it. You mean refugees. They're refugees, dude. As in, people whose homes and countries have been decimated, and who are so at danger of being killed or mistreated, and are so oppressed and sick of the horror in the streets outside their homes that they flee their country in search of survival and better lives. Ah. I see. That definitely makes them terrorists. Remind me, who settled the USA? Was it people from a country whose regime they hated? Was it people who wanted a better life? If war broke out in the US, and outside your home the street was littered with corpses, both unknown people and perhaps a family member or a friend, and the apartment block across the road was a burning mass taken apart by a rocket-launcher, would you sit there in your comfy little desk-chair and write these things? Or would you get the hell out of there and find somewhere safe?

Here in the EU refugees are being welcomed, because it's the right thing to do when someone needs help. I don't see these countries here going up in flames. In fact, I've made friends with a few of them and they're amazing people who have endured terrible things. Anyone that says it's a security threat is right, sure, it is. And so is walking down an alley at night. Or carrying a gun in your glove-compartment.

Some Americans spend their whole day screaming and shouting about how great the US is and how amazing you all are and how all others are getting it wrong. No wonder people from countries worse-off are flocking there. If you were in their position you probably would, too. 

If you don't know where sentiments like yours lead, read a history book for Christ's sake, any of them from the last 100 years (or further back for that matter. Humanity is an idiotic and sorry story right from when we started talking) and stop spouting such maniacal nonsense. The only way this world goes anywhere is with understanding, empathy, and acceptance. Take a stand when it matters and for the right things, but bleating about minorities causing all your problems is absolute nonsense. If you want the US to be great again, stop complaining and go make it great by doing something inspiring. In your words: more intelligence and less emotion is needed. Take your own advice.

Jimzip