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Rush Limbaugh Begs Steve Jobs For Bug Fixes
jlgolson writes "Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh complained on his radio program about some problems that he was having with his Mac: 'Mr. Jobs, please help me. I know we don't agree on anything ... But can you put me to somebody that can get this going, because I know it's gotta work for most people. What am I doing wrong?' Eventually he shared that he was running into actual problems with Time Machine and Back to My Mac. Can you fix them?"
'stuff that matters' ???
Hire a democrat. They use Macs. You should be using a Thinkpad.
The only reason Steve Jobs co-founded Apple was so that he could eventually get even with assholes like Rush Limbaugh. These bugs were invented just for him.
I wouldn't mind helping the whiner . . . make them worse.
Considering the bile that pours out of his ginormous mouth everyday (Michael J. Fox, anyone) I hope he totally gets ignored.
"There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter," Jeeves, (Jeeves and the Impending Doom)
he blow hard
This isn't signficant from a technical perspective-- one off problems occur quite frequently.
What it is is a high visibility problem by someone with a huge soapbox to talk about them from. I'd be shocked if Apple's PR types didn't treat this one with kid gloves, and use it for the marketing opportunity that it has the potential of being...
I can fix that stuff right away. It'll cost you:
When you've gathered all of that together, give me a call.
-Jobs
US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
Tell me this article is posted solely to try and bring them down via slashdot effect. If not, I am very saddened at the fact that someone thought this to be anything close to newsworthy.
Get a PC!
Rush Limbaugh actually hides his distress in little episodes of "service requests" with great "follow-up" solution and satisfaction as an easy way to advertise for companies and corporations that endorse or pay him. I use to "tune" my locker radio into him through KFI AM-640 when I was in Junior High schrool around about 1993. He was quite honest about it back then, and recently these past years since about September 11, 2001 has become a dishonest creature that is all but on my ignore-List. He has lunch with Hillary Clinton every day, and holds unequal measure as to what he compains about punnishment enflicted on others with eschewing and discharging the matters of his own that warrant the same but with leniency. He's just like Bill Oreilly and that Beat-Nick Michael Weiner Savage; too luke-warm that you can't fill your hot-air balloon with their inefficient gas-passing, and yet not hot enough to do some useful cooking and heating. My dial is tuned to Radio-free Johnstown Denver/American Freedom Network (64.72.126.49:3030/), Republic Broadcasting Network, First Amendment Radio, The American Voice, GCN Network, Truth Radio, Revere Radio Network, and Alex Jones (PrisonPlanet.com). Anything else is just nerds doing somthing useless, as we don't like to hear computer shows of repair and remedy in the likes of Jeff Levy and such (yawn), but I would go for a daily show on eMacs versus Vim!
Just send me your root account information.
"Doesn't Rush Limbaugh remind you of one of those gay guys who likes to lay in a tub while other men pee on him? Can't you see his fat body in a tub while Reagan, Quayle and Bush just [pee noise] Just standing around pissing on him, and his piggly-wiggly dick can't get hard." - excerpt from Rant in E-Minor, Bill Hicks
Forget "Back to my mac"...
Time Machine works just fine with Mail - you can restore one message or a whole deleted mailbox if you like. It wouldn't work with Entourage or any other mail program with a single massive database, or with an IMAP server, both for obvious reasons ...
Oh, lord. A story that brings together the Mac-vs-PC debate and the Conservative-vs-Liberal fight.
It's the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups of Internet flame wars. I predict a global meltdown of the entire Net within a week.
I think Rush could use a visit from the BOFH. *Clickety click*
But from a glance at the last name I, for just a brief second, saw the article title as
"Steve, what happening? Look, I've got some problems with my Mac here, it's being a bit of a bother... yeah... so if could you come in on Saturday to fix it, maybe even Sunday... that would be terrific... mkay?"
Bugs are a part of life in the software world -- they're annoying and painful, but like death and taxes, there's no way of avoiding their existence.
But what I don't get is why this guy gets to have a personal forum on Slashdot to solve his problems. The guy is a vicious hypocrite who makes his living inciting attacking people all day and getting his audience angry.
Instead of the Orwellian "two minutes of hate" this guy puts forth a daily radio show full of hate and anger 3-5 hours a day (I don't know, I don't listen to the show) and I have heard the show and he is often inaccurate but very capable at seeding his audience with misconceptions and anger.
Before the Rwandan massacres, they had similar radio programs pumping the audience full of hate and anger with deadly results.
That kind of behavior has made him a wealthy man, but I don't see why it should get him any love from Slashdot, or any priority over anyone else who has technical issues.
And it's definitly a thing of taste: after all this years I have never (and I may never will) like this system. I find it dull in many ways. So when I see people talking like if this was the best thing since fried chicken, I can only smile for myself: "Maybe for you, but not for me and many others".
So if Mr sonebody here is now whining about some problems , my question is: "And WHAT were you expecting?" When i upgraded tiger to leopard i was expecting the typical Abble problems, and that's what I got, but if he was just reading all the hype about Leopard and *believing* it... then he got what he deserved.
It's time to realise that Abble's products are the biggest abomination these days. Just say NO to the dumb iAbble way!!
Hi, Mac!
...and...
Hi PC.
What's new in your world?
Well, PC, this buffoon I'd normally expect to see mooning the likes of you, owns a Mac and has a burr under his saddle over some software issues and he's making a public plea for the 'ol reality-distortionist hisself to come to his aid.
Well, PC, there's this saying about how any publicity is good and good publicity is even better, but I'm not so sure it's a good thing to be associated with this wart-of-a-human, if you know what I mean.
Oh, sure, Mac...like the time my owner wanted to use me as a doorstop AND an umbrella holder at the same time just because I refused to boot. Turned out the wall switch was off and he never did apologize...humph. I faked a bad SIMM card for a weak just to get even. Maybe your demon will get bored and go away on his own...? Ya think?
PC, the only way for this to work out is for this demon to fall dead in his Cheerios and Vicodin.
Not that I really want to dignify your post with a response, but I'm gay and you straight people can keep that son of bitch!
Someone from "high up" at Apple corporate ("a West Coast guy", he said) called his office on the morning of Valentine's Day. Now they've got IT people working it out.
Wow this one really has it all:
1. A troll story (watch where much of the discussion will go), linking to a troll website (they refer to themselves as a "gossip rag" in their header), focusing on a giant troll king (am radio political hack).
2. Is not news for anyone, much less nerds. Does not matter.
3. Apple story with no useful information. Apparently being able to form a sentence containing the word "apple", "mac", or "Steve Jobs" is enough to warrant a front page article.
4. Posted by kdawson or zonk.
Helping you would be welfare. You want a handout? What do you think this is, soviet Russia? Its leftist pinko commies like him that are ruining America. They want something for nothing, and they want you to pay for it. Well let me tell you about this little thing called the free market. It means if you want something done, you have to pay for it. Its the American Way. And if you don't like it, go live with the commies in China.
Oh what, it isn't supposed to apply to him?
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
If after the election he decides he can't live in the new pinko US any more, the problem will be to find somewhere to go where he won't get himself locked up or bankrupted by lawsuits, now the Australian government has changed character. My suggestion is he ditches his Macs for OLPCs or old PIII boxes running Windows 98, because those are likely to be the only computers available in the sort of places that will have him.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
Okay, I don't really listen to your radio program Mr. Limbaugh, but from what I can tell it seems your a complete jackass. However, as a life long IT guy, I've always tried to help out a user even if they are a nut case.
1.) Screen Sharing - Use VNC. http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/server/vineosx/index.html. Its free, easy to use, and if someone whines about it being insecure - kick them, hard.
2.) Email backup with Time Machine - You failed to mention just what email program you are using, I fear you may be using Apple Mail. If so you have you have my condolences as Apple Email is not truly an email program, but some sort of psychological test program designed at driving its users insane. I suggest using thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/. There are many add-on for backup email. Again its free and easy to use.
Somewhere along the line Apple got this reputation that ANY thing they make is solid gold and perfect in all ways. I can assure you this is very much not true. Hopefully this helps and lets you get back to your insane rantings.
The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data.
He can probably be helped... unless he's already installed the 10.5.2 update. Those of us that made that mistake are totally screwed.
Maybe I am somewhat new here, but this place seems to be overrun with Republicans.
Yeah, there's plenty of moderate opinions (known in America as "the left"), but the amount of right-wing posts and moderation here seems a little strange. (election year?)
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...to the call center in India!
After all, Rush is a dyed-in-the-wool new-age Republican (a.k.a. neocon), who believes corporations have a Right to make a buck, even if by doing so they make life harder for the people in the very same society those corporations shelter themselves in, right?
Let him experience first-hand the consequences of that view.
Use 'slashdot stuff' in the subject line in any email you send me if you want to get past the spam filter.
So that's why everyone would think I'm gay if I get an apple! It's all by design!
Whomever tagged this as oxycotin is lame.
Its the vi/emacs vs gimp/photoshop debate. I mean any retar .........oh, you were right ... carry on.
;)Sera
Slashdot, where armchair scientists get shouted down and armchair theologians get modded up.
Exactly the type of solution I was imagining....
...then really have fun.
You could make it simpler, though -- give him a few scripts to run on each computer in his network, entitled "defect_patch_432553.sh".
"You may get a few warnings, and you'll need to enter your password to authorize the changes -- yes, that's pretty normal when you're applying a custom patch like this, since it needs to make some changes to the underlying operating system, which is protected. Ah, it's all done now? Excellent."
the most vapid post I have read in a long, long time on Slashdot.
And I just finished up a lengthy back and forth with a Ron Paul guy - so that's saying something.
No one denies that bugs are a part of life. No one denies that we all have experience with them. The article is noteworthy - and Slashdot assigns it primarily, and appropriately - to the "it's funny" tag because, well, it's funny to hear a national talk show host discuss not only bugs with software, but to discuss them quite specifically. It's also fairly rare to hear bugs in a fairly niche OS get national play like that. Bonus points for Limbaugh using a machine manufactured by a company of which Al Gore is a part. As a Mac user, I even find myself sympathizing with him.
So grow up and deal with it. Yes, we all deal with bugs, but they rarely get this exposure.
And then there's this gem:
Before the Rwandan massacres, they had similar radio programs pumping the audience full of hate and anger with deadly results.
That kind of behavior has made him a wealthy man, but I don't see why it should get him any love from Slashdot, or any priority over anyone else who has technical issues.
It's hard to imagine a more asinine allusion. Really, you can't honestly be trying to compare the two, can you? I mean, this is either one of the sickest pieces of political posturing or the most feeble-minded reasoning I have read in some time - and like I said, I've been talking with Ron Paul fans, so that's really saying something.
Are we really going to equate Rush Limbaugh to these people? Oh, I'm sure we'll all get to hear some nonsense about him "stoking the flames of war with Iraq" or whatever, and you'll do your best to provide a tenuous link between Limbaugh and ongoing U.S. military action, but really - when was the last time Limbaugh got on the radio and told anyone to grab a machete and go murder their neighbors of a different ethnic group next door - really, when? Or are you just spouting nonsense? You even further your claim by arguing that he is getting wealthy off of such comments. According to Wikipedia (yeah, I know...) twice as many people listen to his show as there are in the entire population of Rwanda. Where's the uprising?
So, assuming you believe that Limbaugh can lead a bunch of hillbillies or whoever to load up and start gunning down their neighbors, what do you suggest? Since you feel free to make allusions, should I? Should I assume that you believe we should regulate political speech? Should we prevent people from being paid for political speech? Should we only allow the good, happy, cheerful thoughts to be put out over the airwaves, so as to avoid the mere possibility of genocide? (A genocide which, as it just so happens to be, has never occurred in the U.S. and is exceedingly unlikely to occur?) Should we simply prevent criticism? Free discussion? Should we shut up radio announcers here who happen to express ideas you don't like because a bunch of a slaughter that occurred in the third-world that just so happened to use radio as a medium of passing along information?
The scary thing is that the government - and, one would assume, the party in government you yourself would favor - is trying to do that exact same thing with attempts to return to the so-called "Fairness Doctrine". We just can't have people expressing their ideas over the radio, can we?
And you have the gall to refer to others as "Orwellian"? It would appear that we were reading very different copies of Mr. Blair's work.
Hell, I don't even like Limbaugh.
When you can Champion geek causes and stop your fellows from walking all over the Constitution, I might care.
When you can stop painting people like Mr Jobs as terrorist surrender monkeys, I might care.
When you can stop earning a living by breeding hate amongst your fellow citizens, I might care.
When you can hold your own ideologues to task - just once, I might care.
When you can admit your own drug addiction, and eat your words, every one of them, and then help a Friend of Bill W, I might care.
Until then Rush, I got nothing for you but Pity. At least Elementary Schoolyard bullies don't know any better.
Sera
Slashdot, where armchair scientists get shouted down and armchair theologians get modded up.
because of his stance on net-neutrality?
Seriously, why is anything that Rush has to say relevant to /.? If I could mod down the article I would.
/..
I fear for anyone gullible to take any talk show host at their word and support them blindly. I fear for their souls, and yet I hope that some day they shall become enlightened as I have, before it is too late.
The only reason this is news is because it caters to the lowest common denominator. For shame, Slashdot. For SHAME.
What's next, reporting on that blond girl that went missing in Aruba? Spears? Who. The Fuck. Cares.
Calling you out
There is simply too much glass..
Do have any ideas as to why that might be?
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
That's the best response to a story you've ever read on Slashdot? Are you sure about that?
Take this comment from the original post:
I don't know Limbaugh. I'm not in the U.S. He's apparently not a nice man. But this is supposed to be coming from Steve Jobs! I'd understood Jobs's character was not unlike that portrayed in The Pirates of Silicon Valley. He apparently deliberately humiliates people. On what basis would Jobs be demanding from anyone standards of personal behaviour that himself won't, or can't, deliver?
How, in any case, could one run a business on the basis that customers must have superior manners or they get no help? Not only would this be financial suicide, but, as I already implied, who would you be to judge? And do you not have contractual (and moral) obligations to people whether they are "nice" or not?
Of course, if, as appears, the gentleman in question is using his radio show as a platform to demand help that other customers can't get, then I've no time him (although I do understand his frustrations).
He had two: Time Machine didn't back up his mail (and can't backup web-mail that isn't on his computer), and the second was that he couldn't use Back to my Mac (because his router didn't support UPnP or NAT-PMP). What's a digital fruit peddler to do?
if (userName=='Rush Limbaugh')
{
ramdomError();
}
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
Apple fanboi wants to help
knows this will be good for Apple
but HATES that guy.
Dammit.
a man, a plan, a canal, panama
This reminds me of that Mac Sucks video. True, most of these things don't happen in OS X (or so I hear. I don't use Macs), but it's still funny.
Rush screamed and bellowed the lies this administration used to create a war in Iraq. Rush has the blood of thousands of US servicemembers on his hands.
Let him suffer....and better yet..someone come up with a Rush worm that will only attack his Macs and render them as boat anchors.
I know...I know...but I hate him and can't wait to see him on judgement day being tossed into the eternal lake of fire. That's all that he deserves.
Is it 5:30 yet?
Isn't that a bit...metrosexual? For him, I mean?
There's two kinds of Americans: - Those who support that Limbaugh person, and those who don't.See how that works?
To the outside world, both camps are still American, so it doesn't make either a damn bit better than the other.
(And a good day to you.)
Fox later admitted that he purposely skips his medication before public events like this so people will see his worst case symptoms.
Skipping medication is *not* the same as play acting. Popping pills isn't always as straight-forward as asprin, or as dreamy as acid. If people never see warts and all, then they're living in a world of tranqualizers.
Like all pain, suffering is a signal that something isn't right
(statistics are not on your side)
That reminds me of the time there was a debate as to who was more intelligent, the viewers of "The O'Reilly Factor" or the viewers of "The Daily Show."
It's the fact that you expect people on slashdot to be smarter that makes the right-wing comments and moderation strange.
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
Granted I've not been around forever, but IMHO this has been the case as long as I've been here. I have wondered whether the fact that right-wing views are so frequently and strongly expressed reflects a US/non-US split in /.'s user-base with US contributors (the bulk of users) being on the whole more right-wing than their European counterparts (the "significant minority" of ./ users).
I hear so much about how conservatives are evil jerks and liberals are "loving" and "tolerant." This is a prime of how stereotypes bite the dust.
It's ok to hate someone because I disagree with him!
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
Based on what you just said, you should expect to meet him there. He's still a human being. Even if you disagree with him.
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
is that he is enable to return the Republican Party to a time before W's presidency.
is that he is unable to return the Republican Party to a time before W's presidency.
My turn.
Comedic genius! How about another?
Time to hit the road!
I dislike Rush as much as the next guy, but is it really so amusing to rehash template jokes to take pot-shots for no particular reason?
You Apple trolls have to get it straight: is a Mac more expensive or less expensive than a "good" computer?
Somehow I don't think running Vista will help him back up his web mail, which is apparently what he is expecting Time Machine to do.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Russ,
There are some people that we'd rather use Windows!
Thanks, Steven
Ironically, all these people accusing of hate, etc. Are the same ones accusing Rush of lying & using false and misleading facts.
Of course, they're all blithering idiots too stupid to understand that facts are often open to interpretation unless they are hard facts. And in the political world there are few hard facts, most are warm, eewwy goey brown facts to be honest.
***
The #1 fact I hate about liberals is that I always feel they have a double-standard. They demonize anyone who thinks differently than them for doing what they do. There are very few things I hate in life more than the fact that "life ain't fair". And I hated double standards throughout my childhood.
That's what the Democrat Party means to me...double-standards. We can do x, and it's okay, but if you do x you're a racist, a bigot, a liar, a Nazi, etc.
This story can't be true. Everything is perfect with everything Apple has ever made. (Well except for all of the mice they have ever made.) But this can't be true, marketer Steve Jobs and his commercial told me about "time machine" so it must great. Rush, what are you thinking taking on Jesus like this?
I'll try anything once. Twice if it tastes good
"It just works!!!"
love the taste, hate the texture
Rush, I can fix it! I have just the thing to fix your problem. It's called a "Rootkit." We'll install it right away!
I take it you've never seen Al Gore.
I cried real tears when Li Mu Bai died.
I too am amused by Limbaugh claiming to disagree ideologically with Jobs, though I have to note that Apple doesn't make obscene profits. Even stranger is that my harmless little post got modded flamebait - Limbaugh has made clear his hostility to McCain, Obama and Clinton, and he would definitely be prosecuted in Europe if he tried to broadcast the same sort of stuff there. Can it be that wingnuts get mod points?
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
Rush Limbaugh knows how to use a computer? A Mac specifically? I thought those were just the tools of the liberal media to spread porn and socialist ideas to our youth.
In an effort to conform with internet communication standards, please note that the above comment is 100% biased opinion
Haters are (mostly) libs.
You can sizzle in a molten steel shower too.
Time Machine didn't back up his mail (and can't backup web-mail that isn't on his computer)
If that means he's trying to back up mail he's reading through a web interface, than that's consistent with his straightforward lack of connection with reality I heard on his show after the damn radio station I was accustomed to listening to on the drive home replaced NPR with Rush.
If that means he's using an IMAP interface to gmail and Mail.app's damn "I'm not actually going to save your mail, I'm just going to cache what you've recently read" behavior is tripping him up, then I gotta say I have some sympathy with him.
Not enough sympathy to read the actual article and risk getting interesting in his problem: I'm smart enough to recognize when my hyperfocus is likely to lead me into behavior I may later regret.
At last, someone who really deserves Vista!
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." -- George Orwell
Contrary to the earlier post that those most opposed to Rush get all their info from the media, not by listening, the truth is a very liberarian person like myself listens to Rush to find out what hogwash is being believed by the lemmings who retain citizenship, vote, and otherwise mess up this fantastic country. Rush is a Neanderthal with a gift for gab. Nothing more. Most of his listeners would never admit listening, like the lemmings do. We just need a hardy laugh or the information we need to counteract the Rush Virus.
Rant over.
That the fat hypocritical bag of shit can even operate a computer.
There is a war going on for your mind.
Aside from the fact that I wouldn't p... down his throat if his guts were on fire, yeah it can probably be fixed somehow...
He points out some real insight, has a really sensible view of things, and idiot moderators are trying to mod him down. Mod parent up!
Disclaimer: IANAL. This post is, however, legal advice, and creates an attorney-client relationship.
That was awesome.
"I'll debate you with one hemisphere of my brain tied behind my back."
Well, Rushie, looks like you can finally put that fallow mass of inert grey matter to some use after all. And who knows, maybe that other half of your brain might actually be smarter than the one you claim to use. That is, of course, not saying a whole lot.
When your car breaks down, your tooth hurts, your dishwasher dies what do you do?
Call a competent service, professional to take care of it.
I know, that's not really news and there is nothing in it really for the radio... but that's what you do.
Your Apple computer is not different from that.
Apple does a lot of rigorous testing on all of the platforms and configurations that they expect will be used by their customers.
Can you really blame them for not bothering to test for compatibility with Republicans?
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
Jobs needs to tell Rush that it isn't a real Time Machine and he won't fit inside it. Problem solved.
Godwin's law already... that was quick. I do love a good non-sequitur in the morning.
No one's denying that Japanese Internment was wrong, but really - can it actually be compared with the concentration camps?
How many millions were gassed in those internment camps? How many hundreds of thousands were massacred, slaughtered? The internment camps simply aren't the same thing as concentration camps. They're not a good thing, of course, and no one's denying that, but they're not the same.
I would be surprised if Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, or especially Michael Savage didn't call for violence against Muslims.
Your conspirational mind isn't the issue here - it's fact. Have they called for such violence? Do you have any evidence of such calls to violence? And let's assume for a moment that there were such calls to violence - then where's the genocide? Limbaugh supposedly has 20 million listeners - where are the mass killings?
It doesn't matter what you feel, only reality matters. And here's the reality - there is no evidence of such mass violence, and far, far less to attach it to talk radio.
I understand that, as a "progressive", you feel you must limit speech for the good of the people. Just understand that those of us who value the constitution have another opinion.
Your computer will work better when your thinking clears up.
Sorry Rush, you may think those are the problems, but in reality, you problem isn't OS X. It's karma.
-- sudo.ca
at least credit them...
Rush has an iPhone too, which he is constantly expressing his love for. He says he wants copy/paste, which I thought was a good idea.
my exact thought after reading his message.
Say hello to my little sig.
I completely agree. As a moderate liberal I find it frustrating that the vast majority of "liberals" don't see the hypocrisy in their condemnation and virulent tirades to shut down or muzzle Limbaugh. Love him or hate him, he has the same right to free speech as anyone else.
The Greatest Man In America
Coming from Canada, we love those leaders who personify the US way to be,
There was JFK, and LBJ, and WKRP.
But of all of these there is not one to rival the greatest genius of them all
He's a megalo with a healthy glow
He's the man called Rush Limbaugh.
He's a dose of P.T. Barnum
With a Mussolini twist.
There in the limosine, parked on the lawn,
He's a goofy Gengis Khan.
Not since Jesus Christ has the world seen someone
With such widely sindicated views
Hundreds of years from now they'll celebrate Rush-mas
And Rush-ashana for the Jews.
'Cause he'll pull the plug on femi-nazis, paranoid minorities and gays.
He's a burning bush with a network push,
Sure to start a country-wide blaze.
He taught me to love and praise Charlton Heston
Oliver North is quite a nice man too.
Forget Al and Tipper
Let's bring back the Gipper
And Joe McCarthy too!
I was a troubled soul, consumed by voices advocating special interest groups and vice
'Till Rush rushed to my sweet rescue
Now I'll never ever hafta think twice.
Never ever hafta think twice...
So we'll sign a check for Limbaugh-ism
Restore the moral fundamental core
We'll cut the debt,
And start a Tet
Offensive on the poor.
It's a blitzkrieg in the making,
It's distinctly upper-class (well, not everybody!)
Yes sir I'll get the door
Roll the carpet on the floor
For a man...
For a man...
For a man...
Such a man...
For a man....
With his head up his-
Ditto!
Ditto!
Ditto!
Ditto!
Ask us the name the name of the King - It's Rush!
"While yes, there are those on the left who say one thing and do another, there are just as many, if not more, folks on the right who are just as hypocritical."
WHO CARES?
If you're doing something wrong, it is completely irrelevant that someone else is doing it too and in no way absolves you.
Saying "he did it too" is the kind of thing that belongs in an elementary school classroom, not in a discussion amongst adults. And yes, that applies just as equally for the people who scream "BILL CLINTON GOT A BLOW JOB!!!!" every time someone says something about Bush.
STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR LEADERS WHO BEHAVE LIKE CHILDREN.
"You might want to look in the mirror the next time you think only one side are hypocrites."
I see no claim of that anywhere. Nowhere in the post is any attempt to claim that it is only liberals that are hypocrites. No other claims were forwarded, or even implied.
It is not ok if liberals behave hypocritically, even if every single non liberal does behave hypocritically. Sadly, your reaction is all too common, despite the fact that so many Slashdotters profess to be more educated and enlightened.
Well, I'll step up I guess and do what you didn't. Yes, liberals behave hypocritically. The question is not whether it occurs, but whether it benefits the greater good when it happens. Hypocrisy is not by itself an indicator of anything except a willingness to reconsider one's position if necessary. I would hope my leaders would do that, specifically, if they realize a previous policy decision had failed.
See how easy that was? I was able to derail the "hypocrisy" argument without resorting to 3rd grade rhetoric. It saddens me that people genuinely think an appropriate response to criticism of their leaders is to denounce the other guys choices.
"I will not give in to George Bush. I will not become fearful."
Too late. You're clearly so afraid of him that you'll blindly defend people who don't deserve it. The way to "not give in" is to INSIST that your leaders are better, and answer for what they do, not cover up criticism of them with attacks on the other side.
Riced-out comes from 'rice burner.' Implying that Japanese cars burn rice instead of gasoline. Is that racist? I'd love a car that ran on rice.
Originally, the term referred to a certain subset of Japanese who liked to make their cars look fast without actually spending much money one them. They would add huge 'fart-cannon' tailpipes, park bench sized spoilers (even to front wheel drive cars), VTEC and red R stickers (even to non-Hondas), and outrageously ugly paint and body jobs. Eventually, the term came to refer to anyone that did ridiculous things to their car to make it seem faster than it actually was. The term isn't really racist in practice, it has a meaning similar to 'poser.'
Reminds me of a post a long time ago when I said, "Gentoo is for ricers." Next I suppose you'll be telling us 'niggardly' is racist...
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
And then comes this: On one machine, this one here in New York, I have found a way to restore a single message or a multiple list of messages from wherever the Time Machine archive is. Um... what? He's mucking around on the Time Machine volume? Yeah, I can see if you know what you're doing, you could do a restore by nabbing files off the volume, I don't know why you'd want to. Particularly if you don't actually seem to know what's going on. Safer to stick to the GUIfied (and a bit over done) interface.
(Okay, so it's very pretty zooming through time and space like that, they just need to add the Dr. Who theme music to make it complete, but it's kind of a "show offs!" thing.)
I also don't see this "whole thread" at the Apple support forums. I don't know what he's talking about there either.
I begin to suspect a short between the keyboard and the chair.
Oh and Limbaugh isn't exactly poor. Why is yapping into his microphone instead of, oh, buying a support contract or something?
This is just proof that those sycophantic Repugnicant fat slobs with microphones are just moronic idiots lacking even the meager technical prowess of a used Kleenex.
Come-on, gimme some Dittos.
... if anyone had a highly-rated comment actually addressing the problem.
Other than one guy who said "Time Machine works for me", I see nothing technical as of the posting of this comment.
Come on, Apple fanbois with current kit! I'd chime in, but my most recent machine is a G4 Mac Mini running 10.4.
To a Lisp hacker, XML is S-expressions in drag.
Do you expect the gays who are also the productive people you want breeding to give up and "go straight" and have kids?
Do you expect straight people who are the productive people you want breeding to "give up" and not have kids if gays are allowed to marry?
Please explain how allowing two guys who love each other and live together to formalize their relationship will decrease the number of productive people breeding. Please explain how it can make any difference whatsoever, except with the slight possibility of gay marriage ADVANCING your cause? Because productive gay people might just be more likely to become parents if they are allowed the increased stability and benefits of marriage.
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Riiight. While people like Hilary voted us into that war...and actually maintain a credible reputation running an antiwar campaign. I'm no ditto, but I'll take the cheering over the voting any day...
From reading TFA, t's not 100% clear what email application he's using. Given Limbaugh's long-time Mac user status, he might be using something like Eudora, which stores email as one file per folder. Mail.app stores each message in a separate file, which works much better with Time Machine.
To a Lisp hacker, XML is S-expressions in drag.
Yeah, he sounds more like a compassionate conservative to me. :-)
And Hillary is pico user - ugh.
Yup.
Niggardly comes from a Scandavian language, and just happens to sound similar a racist term that refers to black people. Other then sounding similar, there is no connection. On the other hand, "ricer" is a derogitory term for Japanese, that then applied to a subset of the Japanese, that then applied to people who were similar to that subset regardless of race. Because the origin of the term is racist, it has racist connotations that niggardly does not.
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Mr. Limbaugh please DIAF.
2) Open debates.
Not really. Go to a left wing meeting and say you think blacks are genetically less intelligent.
This brings up an interesting point. I can't take credit for it; Stephen Jay Gould was the first person I heard it from.
Suppose in fact the Negro race is, say one percent less intelligent than the Caucasian race? (ignoring the difficulty of defining intelligent). Is that in any way a justification for abuse, discrimination, or slavery?
I'd say both left- and right-wingers all too often jump into a strawman argument, failing to see what the real debate should be about.
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All religion requires a suspension of disbelief.
Like bridges and monster trucks, the more widely disseminated the religion, the more massive the suspension.
MSBPodcast.com The opinions expressed here are my own. If you don't like 'em... Think up your own stuff.
Change the mail app to the open source Eudora. Email is stored as plain text and easily recovered.
Back to my Mac doesn't work unless I'm on the same subnet. Use another program - I use Timbuktu Pro. Version 8.7 works fine with Leopard and I have five Macs and an XP box running Timbuktu and I can access all of them any time FROM ANYWHERE. Timbuktu will even use Bonjour where the machines are close enough.
As for Mr. Limbaugh's hearing - he did it to himself through his opiate abuse. If I were Apple, I'd revoke his license to use OSX 10.5 (*READ THE EULA - it can be done*) and he can turn his Macs into Windoze boxes. This should be done purely as a preventative step to avoid a lawsuit from the "Excellence In Broadcasting" Network that the Mac is a machine that facilitates dopers and, specifically Rush's dope habits. Rush always has somebody else to blame - better to nip this one in the bud and take his computers' OS away. It is that or dust off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
FWIW - I've been using Macs a lot longer than the Big Fat Idiot - I still have a working LISA.
instead of Y axis+.5 meters
Mod me up/Mod me down: I wont frown as I've no crown
How many times do we have to go through this? The fix is easy,
1. select all personal folders
2. drag to trash
3. empty trash
Easy!
Asshole.
Salut,
Jacques
Let alone help him config his mac.
No, the term ricer comes from 'rice burner,' referring to Japanese cars, not people. If you have any proof to the contrary, please provide a link and I will retract my statement and apologize to any Japanese I may have offended.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Methinks the patients are running the asylum 'round these parts... Nice to see such professionalism from /.
The point they missed out on is that is perfectly fine to have sympathy for Limbaugh and Bennett the compulsive addicts, but Limbaugh and Bennett the gigantic hypocrites deserve nothing but scorn and ridicule. And yes, Limbaugh is the epitome of hypocrisy on drugs: You claim he is wrong 100% of the time.
No I didn't. I said "anytime he opens his mouth he is very likely to be 100% full of crap."
You think Republican = bad
There you go: just like Rush, you make stuff up.
Democrats routinely do virtually everything the Republicans do.
No, they don't. There are some corporate tools that need to be primaried out of office, like Feinstein and Rockefeller. Take FISA for example: both those Democrats along with a dozen others voted for telecom immunity, but 31 Democrats voted against it. Whereas ALL the Republicans that showed up voted for it.
I don't think Al Franken is wrong 100% of the time (I actually lean closer to Al than Rush, but that's beside the point).
That's the difference between liberals and conservatives: after decades of vicious attacks on them, liberals by and large make sure their shit is on point. Whereas conservatives invariably toe the ideological line, facts be damned. Case in point: single payer health care. It costs far less money and provides better care than that which private insurance provides, period. Yet they continue to scream "socialism" and fight it.
Clearly he is going to switch to Vista and is trying to make a big splash.
It's his type. Probably influence by his Ballmer associations of late.
Seriously, if in a year he is not touting Vista I will be so shocked I might actually listen to him again.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Apple was evil to CoS?
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
So, Rush thinks that his biggest bugs are with his computer, maybe he should take a deeper look when he looks in the mirror the next time or take a good listen to the nonsense he peddles.
It's a shame to use a Mac for such tripe as his.
Oh yeah, Steve Jobs, while you're fixing Rush's bugs please, please, please, make the Apple OSX Mach X(e)NU Kernel less like XENU and more like Minix3 - PLEASE put the drivers into their own protected processes so that the darn Mac's don't crash every few days/week. (My Mac has crashed 40+ times in the year that I've had it - sigh).
"The fight for freedom has only just begun." - Geert Wilders
Finally someone who speaks the truth! People too often in these slashdot forums say something to the effect of "I can't believe all the right-wing rhetoric I see in here (slashdot discussions)".
I challenge the grandparent of this thread to identify at least 5 serious posts in this thread which illustrate his claim.
While obviously emotionally charged, the parent post is not flamebait and should not be modded as such. In fact, the parent brings up the interesting points of insurance and shared benefits. Bringing up these points makes this a legitimate counter-argument, hence it is not flamebait. May I suggest a mod of "off topic" instead?
I got this UID *last* time existence happened.
Please stop stalking me, bro.
Hi, I'm a Mac...
And I'm Rush Limbaugh...
He was actually trying to find the "Time Masheen" but found it was also a bad ride.
-- "Mathematics is music for the mind, and Music is Mathematics for the Soul. - J.S. Bach"
This video is a perfect example of Rush Limbaugh defending freedom of speech. Simple put, he's awsome!
Life is not for the lazy.
First you say
"no one is entitled to their own set of facts"
Then you say
"anytime he opens his mouth he is very likely to be 100% full of crap."
I'd like to see your source for this. What facts did you use to determine it "very likely" that his is 100% full of crap?
Or are you making up your own set of facts? Or are you going to cop out and pretend that your declaration was just an "opinion", in which case, what makes your inflammatory, factually incorrect opinion any better than his?
Everyone who remembers as far back as A2206411411 knows perfectly well that this was The Swamp, that CmdrTaco has captured the island with the reset switch, and that you boost your rating by removing Fraggles with the Black and Decker chainsaw.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
This is great! Jobs has been reduced to being a Help Desk technician... Im lovin it!
HAHAHAHA!
After attacking democrats for years, he finally gives in to pleading to a prominant corporate democrat for help. Boy, I love the sweet smell of irony in the morning.
Multiplayer Gaming (defined): Sitting around, discussing single-player games with my friends, at the bar.
...just because its English doesn't mean we're talking about the same thing... I believe it was George Bernard Shaw that described the UK and the US as two nations separated by a common language. Of course, even within the US, generations may differ as to understood meanings. Language was once upon a time a received cultural tool passed along from generation to generation. However, with modern society change occurs so fast that generations are inventing their own dialects. I encountered this with my daughter who enjoined me not to swear. I explained that the expletive I had use was an obscenity and not an oath, and that in fact I never swore. I pointed out that there are obscenities, oaths, invocations and curses, as well as characterizations that are none of the above (.e.g "twit") and that they are all quite different. It made her so mad she's now getting "A"s in linguistics in college and has apparently found a career.
------ The only greater hazard to your liberty than n politicians is n+1 politicians.
Regardless of what the religious lot think, marriage is essentially an economic arrangement. It's achieved via different ceremonies but still does the same thing - establish potential social and economic alliances between families. There have been decades of anthropological work done all over the world and one of the social commonalities is the economic nature of marriage. There is rarely any "love" involved. The parents tell the child who they'll marry. Divorce is frowned upon because of the economic disarrangments it causes. Any valuta exchanged usually has to be returned and because the arrangement is generally between the parents, guess who is really put out? In this society the economic burden of failed marriages tends to be more spread out. And as far as gay marriages are concerned, failure in a gay marriage would actually be far less burdensome socially. So there aren't any real arguments against it. Religion is not an argument.
What bugs me about the GP is is the "eugenics" view embedded in the idea as expressed. Evolution and "eugenics" antithetical concepts though most people would not know why.
------ The only greater hazard to your liberty than n politicians is n+1 politicians.
Also - should we not have invaded Afghanistan, then?
If you listened to that show he was discussing about how the media is making a big deal that he's not behind McCain and yadda yadda, well he said that the worst thing he could do was to support McCain because then all the liberals and independents would leave McCain because of their aversion to Rush. He said that the best thing he could do for McCain is to openly support Obama. Then this topic comes up and some caller or some tech guy he was talking to said that he should stop saying that he uses Apple and to openly support Microsoft to crush them. I thought that was funny.
Left is about freedom?
WTF are you talking about?
What century did you grow up in?
How many millions does the left have to kill before it's claim on being for the people is no longer credible? Wasn't the twentieth century enough? Even calling National Socialism a draw the left still indisputably owns Communism, Maoism, Stalinism...undoubtedly the highest mega-death total of any political philosophy.
Face it leftest economics requires control (it's called a command economy for a reason). Control requires power. Power corrupts. There will never be a functional 'real' left wing government anywhere for long (e.g. Venezuela).
Further you have an incorrect impression about religious political affiliations in the US. Christianity (self claimed) is about evenly split R vs. D. I believe in the last election they went about 60% R. It varies depending on how many polling stations the church busses can hit in on election day ('Vote Early and Often' as they say). Both sides cheat like dogs using churches as bases of operation.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Select a group of countries with 'similar enough' backgrounds (e.g. Western Europe, North America, Australia. Alt Asia.)
Take % of GDP spent by the government, plot it on the X axis.
Take whatever measure of economic health your want (try to be reasonable) plot it on the Y axis.
There's your answer.
If you don't see economic health peaking and dropping at some level of taxation you picked a butt headed economic metric. Try again with GDP growth/year. Try unemployment if you can find real numbers from ANYBODY. Try median wealth (gonna be hard to get good numbers on that). Attempt to find numbers that can't be fudged too much.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Socialism, I'd like to point out, leads to something called a "deadweight loss." Value isn't transfered from one party to another, it's destroyed.
Beyond a discussion of "empathy" and how fair it is for me to have more or less money than someone else needs to exist the point that socialism (beyond a certain mild point) makes everyone poorer. That is because taxes - the only pragmatic way of enforcing greater standard of living and wealth equality - lead to underproduction. That statement is a fact. As work becomes more costly and less rewarding, people do less of it (no ideology required).
So not supporting tax-funded social programs need not in any way imply ambivalence towards your fellow man. At some point, a larger piece of a smaller pie is still a smaller piece. It's hard to argue that promoting policy that recognizes that fact is somehow black-hearted or selfish. And it's also irritating to those of us who do advocate low taxes and domestic spending for reasons other than our own selfishness.
Relax I just want some peanuts.
*Pfft* I remember all that. You've got to come up with something a little more impressive than all of that for a 3-digit ID.
I mean, you're like someone in their 60s talking about how they remember when Duran Duran was at the top of the charts and denim jackets were in.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
At some point, lowering taxes to the point where hospitals, roads and schools are no longer supported also makes everyone poorer.
Taxes in the United States are now higher than in the rest of the western world. Per capita, the USA spends more in taxpayer money on hospitals, roads, and schools than any western nation. The problem is that health care is not rationed, we have a huge continent to build roads for, and schools are consistently getting milked by powerful local political groups as a source of patronage jobs.
This is my sig.
"All he did is prove that Open Debate is not a license to waste time"
This is why you fail. YOU don't get to decide what is a waste of time at an open debate.
As I said, you fail totally.