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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?"
It'd be kind of nice if instead of the usual "Republicans are evil" flamefest, we could treat this as what it is-- a guy who's genuinely annoyed with a bug he can't get resolution for from Apple.
Be interesting to see how quickly Apple coughs up a fix...
- You publicly apologizing to every liberal that you've ever met.
- then the moderates
- then the republicans you've disappointed over and over again.
- A personal apology to each member of the Clinton family (including pets and household staff)
OTOH, I'd like to thank Rush for his persistent trashing of the only Republican who doesn't make me barf (J. McCain). I'm convinced his "anti-endorsement" helped McCain's image in the eyes of moderate Republicans.As for his computer problems, Rush can go frick himself. Same with Michael Moore, Bill O'Reilly, Al Franken, et. al.
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.
Techies and Trekkies (of which Slashdot is full of) in my experience tend to lean towards the right.
I'll do the obligatory "I listen to all forms of political commentary" cuz I do. I'm an avowed moderate. That being said, I listened to a lot of Limbaugh. He offended me often especially when making fun of the homeless and such. I think he has some price to pay in the afterlife for that. All of that being said, I found his detailed commentary and explanations of congressional votes very interesting. I must admit that, at times, he would show a cspan clip of a vote and explain, in layman's terms, what was happening. Amazingly, he had the ability to take boring, monotone events such as this and bring them to life. I would then go google the event and learn more.
Bottomeline: there's a bit more to him than meets the eye. Yes, he's a zealot, offensive, etc., but he is not useless. Everyone has something to offer, and we must glean what we can from all people in our lives whether we meet them in person, watch them on tv or listen to on the radio, or even read their thoughts from a book. Even Hamlet found Claudius intriguing at times.
Nietzsche had to look into the abyss to discover it looked back....
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
maybe that's why Rush has moved to Mac
Au contraire, he has been a Mac user since before being a Mac user was cool. Probably before most on slashdot. He was bleating about how great his Mac was when I first started listening to him (which, by the way, was when his show was funny) during the 1st Gulf War.
So, how's that taste?
2) Open debates.
3) Ideas founded on reality, instead of fear.
4) Although many things are, you can't pretend everything is somehow neutral. Some things are right, and some things are wrong.
Wouldn't you agree that sometimes there is a wrong way and sometimes there is a right way?
5) Your leaders. (that's enough right there)
6) Republican values tend to come from "faith based organizations," as opposed to open discussion and debate.
7) Enough homophobia to shake a stick at.
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
How do you do that? Throwing a racism-inspired term like "riced out" into an ad hominem scree about Rush Limbaugh must have required some astonishing mental gymnastics -- or maybe you just slipped?
Ummmm...so the tendancy of journalists - who graduate from liberal arts schools, and typically vote Democrat, is right-wing? Please.
Journalists are typically liberals, and newspaper owners are typically right-wing big corporation types (sans Ted Turner). Try listening to Rush when he breaks stuff down, big guy - it's pretty telling.
BTW, EVERYONE is biased in media. There has rarely - if ever - been true objectivity.
A Mac is a personal computer.
My Macbook PRO 10.5.x (now on 10.5.2) locks up a lot more often than my XP machine does. XP almost never locks up.
But my Mac works correctly when it's not locked up. My XP machine often has problems. CD lower filter driver conflicts, explorer locking up because I close Acronis True image interface, Explorer extremely slow when I right click on a folder with WinZip explorer extensions turned on....
The Mac locks up on stupid stuff - like listening to a CD/watching a DVD or using Video Chat with friends on the other side of the world. Most of the problems seem to be with Front Row, for me.