DAMN! Apple closes above $500/share.
Now I have to throw away tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, software and education just to prove I'm a "Good Democrat." After all, we can't have anyone becoming successful around here!
I think I'll go to Wal Mart and buy one of those $300 PCs and try to learn Linux to right my moral compass.
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hell buy it in parts at Newegg and put it together yourself you corporate stooge. 
Or just go to the apple store tomorrow and pick up
I DON'T HAVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO THROW AWAY. I bought this shit, most of it back when Apple manufactured its stuff in Ireland and Malaysia. The MAC version of the Adobe Suite is bought and paid for. You fucking "anti-elitist" douche bags think I should go toss it all in the dumpster and head to the thrift shop and build my own piece of shit geek machine. You're just as stupid as those you rail against. I own this stuff...I can toss it all in the dumpster tomorrow...and Apple's stock will still be up another ten bucks by Friday.
Seriously. Deadly serious...WHAT THE FUCK do you want current owners of Apple products to do? We're in AT&T contracts, we have software and hardware investments. YOU can toss your POS computer in the dumpster any day you want, because you only paid $29 for it, and built it out of old toaster parts and Q-tips and bailing wire, and you're such a total geek that you programmed the Q-tips yourself. But what do REAL people do? What do actual owners of these products do just to pay homage to your total geekness and fake outrage (I say fake, because you hated Apple long before you found out Foxconn -- who also makes most of the cheap components in your cludge machine, plus your TV and off-brand smart phone -- manufactures iPads)?
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As the sub-line says...at least you completely don't fucking get it.
Nothing to do with what anyone thinks. It has to do with the investment in hardware, software, education and service contracts. I KNOW what people like you think. I'm just wondering why you never threw away all of your computers when Microsoft was the world's #1 evil bad guy? Because you cared what people think, or maybe because you couldn't afford to.
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I learned on an Apple 2e with Visicalc, but I thought the IBM PC was a better computer, especially when I got into Lotus 123. I pretty much stayed with that platform ever since the mid-80's.
I've seen presentations that were done on a Mac and they were very good - better than I could do with Windows products (but that isn't a very high standard).
My point is that you seem embarrassed over your use of Apple products and I think that is ridiculous. All consumer electronics are made in Asia, mostly China, so the choice is buy an Asian (Chinese) made product or do without. (I assume the build your own thing is " tongue in cheek"
. Realistically, you can't do without, so why obsess over it?
Throw away thousands of dollars worth of products because people here have a hard-on for Apple? Not me. I buy US made products when I can find them. If they're not available, I don't beat myself up over buying Chinese if that is all there is.
For those who don't know any better...
kidding, of course. High quality, granted, but there are better solutions for the buck. The new Asus Transformer Prime running ICS will stomp the iPad2 hands down.
(posted from my 27" iMac
Install Linux!
So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, that's good!
