The anti-Apple crowd on Slashdot is pretty crazy too.
I hate the stupid Apple ads and I hate the iFuck hipsters I see in NYC. But I own and iPad an iPhone and a MacBook Pro as a comp sci major because all of them serve me well. Furthermore, many of our professors have encouraged us to get Macs, almost all of my classmates in compsci have macs and the one or two people with PCs are always the odd ones out. Granted, a lot of people will dual boot with Linux but the professors like Apple because it is great for development and Unix derived.
The people who piss me off are the ignorant masses on Slashdot who have absolutely nothing to say except things that will get them jerked off by other Apple haters which don't translate into the real world as meaningful in any capacity. Furthermore, it is blindingly obvious that it is derived from an inferiority complex seen often in teenagers (and man children) where anything that is popular or seen as mainstream is shunned in order to build up an image and define ones self as separate from the pack. Just like these groups in high school, however, it becomes laughable because while they may shun the Abercrombies and Hollisters they end up all shopping at Hot Topic and conforming with each other and it's really just a pot v kettle situation. The main difference is, when you grow out of it, you realize that the Abercrombie people weren't the douchebags you all thought they were just by bitching and moaning; you were the douchebags because all you did was hate shit, not enjoy things and act like everything was below you.
Speaking of which, what could be more hipstery than an iGadget? Assuming that an interest in business and finance makes you a selfish elite. Please. Who are the real hipsters here?
Oh yeah this is totally flamebait you Slashwhore cockfucks. I visit this website every day, have mod points pretty much everyday (I would have just modded this up if I hadn't already posted) and yet I hate this fucking site so much because of these types of articles and the immature "fuck society and everything accepted by it crew". They run around saying why Natalie Holloway deserved to die ("she was a white girl lol") and why Apple products are stupid ("only idiots and people with money use them").
As long as there are 20 something year olds continuing to embrace the social rejection they experienced in high school as a positive trait in order to rationalize it, there will always be Apple haters. It's the same as people who thought pop music sucked because they had VGM OSTs and music from the hit show, Naruto.
Haha this isn't offtopic. Did a fucking socially inept apple hating piece of shit find himself with some extra mod points? There are maybe 5 apple fanbois on this site. There are a million RMS cock sucking GNU/LOONIX fucksticks however
I'm the troll? Slashdot is filled with some of the stupidest fucking people these days who circlejerk over things they've decided they don't like and the minute someone tries to bring any sort of logic into the discussion they are modded down. Fine, STOKHOLM SYNDROME REALITY DISTORTION FIELD LOLLOLOLOL
Talk about a reality distortion field. For fucks sake, you Android loving fucks come here throwing around sexy SAT level words like "cognitive dissonance" and yet you can't even pick up on what it really is apparently. You didn't translate shit. You proved how fucking dumb you are.
Lol someone modded this insightful? Fucking pathetic. There are more Apple hating Slashfucks than fanbois and yeah all they do is whine about how sandy their vaginas are that people have differing opinions on things.
That's not a translation. That's a stupid spin. 80% of Android customers would not buy Android again, given the oppurtunity. 77% of iPhone users would. You fail statistics but you clearly excel at sucking slashcock
Ah forced ignorance. I'm sure you think you are clever trying to prove a point, but anyone with two braincells can tell that the only fucking idiot here is you.
(Hint: Telephones != smart phones and smart phones, like most consumer technology, becomes obsolete pretty quick. But don't let that get in the way of you and the five people who think you're method of reasoning is somehow intelligent).
I dunno though, I don't wanna pass judgement but three or fewer drinks a day is really not that little. I think if you are having more than three drinks daily, you may have a problem. Sometimes at a party I'll have more than three drinks, but I don't party every night either. I also don't drink on a daily basis.
No it really isn't, at least not significantly enough to make people question it. Weed and alcohol in moderation are both fine, unlike say crack cocaine in "moderation" (as if it won't be moderation for very long).
I totally hear what you are saying; you sound like me in high school. But like, alcohol shouldn't be banned because some people can't use it properly and marijuana shouldn't be put on a pedestal because after spending years thinking it was harmless, I finally realized why it really isn't. NOT NOT NOT always, some people can use it in moderation, but I learned that some people also can't and their marijuana "addiction" is as bad as someone's alcohol addiction. I remember buying into the bullshit that marijuana wasn't addictive for so long, this came as a shock. (And before someone says it, marijuana is not particularly physically addictive like some harder drugs, but just like with alcoholics, there are people predisposed to addiction and marijuana can become a problem for them because of their addictive personality).
You can't overdose on weed but you don't have to overdose on alcohol. You can throw your life away always smoking or subscribe to the universally accepted stoner belief that "I drive better when I'm high" and you can drink alcohol occasionally in social situations and understand that driving while intoxicated from anything is wrong. See where your argument falls apart?
Alright but now you are pretty saying heroin is better for you than alcohol. Anyone with half a brain knows that this is not true (unless of course the person consuming the alcohol has an alcohol problem, a separate issue).
It really kills me when someone is all for marijuana being legalized but thinks that banning alcohol is the second greatest idea in their head. I know frustrated potheads love to feed the whole "alcohol is more dangerous than weed" line over and over, but not everyone who drinks alcohol does so in a way that threatens their health. Someone who smokes weed everyday and turns every conversation into a "weed should be legalized" conversation is a lot more unhealthy than someone who drinks alcohol in moderation.
Not true. First of all, bullies have insults referring to everything. They will call someone out on their most obvious trait, good or bad, just because it is obvious and can be spun into an insult.
Also, missing the boat for normal social interaction isn't true. If it was then where does nerdy guy in high school becomes super sociable college guy/20 something year old cliche come from?
However strong someone may have the potential to be, they are bullied until they demonstrate this strength whether it is mental or physical. People aren't bullied when they don't give into bullying; if you stand up for yourself without an ounce of doubt, it will tend to make people leave you alone. If you try and do shit like hurl half-assed insults back, you will probably just get laughed at more (someone calls you gay and you say "no you're gay!" with a nervous crack in your voice doesn't cut it).
The advantage is if you drop your card and a crackhead steals it. It's not security.. it's more just a roadblock for very basic theft. Fraud and more complicated stuff isn't actually prevented by it.
Let me put it this way. In college I chose to do things that I enjoyed. Far to often in high school and the like, I found myself doing stuff that other people in HS _thought_ I should enjoy. I was stereotyped as a nerd and so instead of fighting it, I embraced it; everything that came with it. Then in college I realized I was forcing myself to not have fun because I thought it had some sort of higher meaning to it; like I was somehow being noble by staying true to my nerd self.
Then I realized I didn't have to be scrawny, I didn't have to dress like shit and I didn't have to avoid hanging out with people who like doing things that aren't dorky. I didn't constantly play up a stupid cliche to hide behind so that I could get some cheap attention, instead I gave in and did things that were inline with society because I wanted to do them. Before that, what I was doing was inline with what bullies always wanted; like a pussy I just did the things they made me feel like I was supposed to do in a twisted attempt at "rolling with it".
No longer do I feel like shopping at A&F is selling out, or drinking or going to parties is selling out. Selling out would be wanting to do those things, but not doing them for fear of what people would say and for fear of it being contrary to my personal interests. Maybe you are different then, but all my point is is that it is very easy to fall into the trap of doing only what is expected of you simply because it is easier and there is a bullied in fear of trying to break out of your established role from middle school or some other time in your life that is so completely irrelevant it should have no bearing on your life today.
Too bad Eric and Dylan weren't nerds or goth kids or any of the other stupid stereotypes the media tried to paint them as in an attempt to turn a good old fashioned psychopathic killing spree into an emotional portrait of teenage angst.
Doom and Marilyn Manson weren't relevant either, btw
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The anti-Apple crowd on Slashdot is pretty crazy too.
I hate the stupid Apple ads and I hate the iFuck hipsters I see in NYC. But I own and iPad an iPhone and a MacBook Pro as a comp sci major because all of them serve me well. Furthermore, many of our professors have encouraged us to get Macs, almost all of my classmates in compsci have macs and the one or two people with PCs are always the odd ones out. Granted, a lot of people will dual boot with Linux but the professors like Apple because it is great for development and Unix derived.
The people who piss me off are the ignorant masses on Slashdot who have absolutely nothing to say except things that will get them jerked off by other Apple haters which don't translate into the real world as meaningful in any capacity. Furthermore, it is blindingly obvious that it is derived from an inferiority complex seen often in teenagers (and man children) where anything that is popular or seen as mainstream is shunned in order to build up an image and define ones self as separate from the pack. Just like these groups in high school, however, it becomes laughable because while they may shun the Abercrombies and Hollisters they end up all shopping at Hot Topic and conforming with each other and it's really just a pot v kettle situation. The main difference is, when you grow out of it, you realize that the Abercrombie people weren't the douchebags you all thought they were just by bitching and moaning; you were the douchebags because all you did was hate shit, not enjoy things and act like everything was below you.
Speaking of which, what could be more hipstery than an iGadget? Assuming that an interest in business and finance makes you a selfish elite. Please. Who are the real hipsters here?
Oh yeah this is totally flamebait you Slashwhore cockfucks. I visit this website every day, have mod points pretty much everyday (I would have just modded this up if I hadn't already posted) and yet I hate this fucking site so much because of these types of articles and the immature "fuck society and everything accepted by it crew". They run around saying why Natalie Holloway deserved to die ("she was a white girl lol") and why Apple products are stupid ("only idiots and people with money use them").
As long as there are 20 something year olds continuing to embrace the social rejection they experienced in high school as a positive trait in order to rationalize it, there will always be Apple haters. It's the same as people who thought pop music sucked because they had VGM OSTs and music from the hit show, Naruto.
Haha this isn't offtopic. Did a fucking socially inept apple hating piece of shit find himself with some extra mod points? There are maybe 5 apple fanbois on this site. There are a million RMS cock sucking GNU/LOONIX fucksticks however
I'm the troll? Slashdot is filled with some of the stupidest fucking people these days who circlejerk over things they've decided they don't like and the minute someone tries to bring any sort of logic into the discussion they are modded down. Fine, STOKHOLM SYNDROME REALITY DISTORTION FIELD LOLLOLOLOL
Go back to fucking 4chan you fucking idiots
Do you know what that means? Or do you just like saying it because it makes you feel like a big boy.
Talk about a reality distortion field. For fucks sake, you Android loving fucks come here throwing around sexy SAT level words like "cognitive dissonance" and yet you can't even pick up on what it really is apparently. You didn't translate shit. You proved how fucking dumb you are.
Lol someone modded this insightful? Fucking pathetic. There are more Apple hating Slashfucks than fanbois and yeah all they do is whine about how sandy their vaginas are that people have differing opinions on things.
That's not a translation. That's a stupid spin. 80% of Android customers would not buy Android again, given the oppurtunity. 77% of iPhone users would. You fail statistics but you clearly excel at sucking slashcock
Ah forced ignorance. I'm sure you think you are clever trying to prove a point, but anyone with two braincells can tell that the only fucking idiot here is you.
(Hint: Telephones != smart phones and smart phones, like most consumer technology, becomes obsolete pretty quick. But don't let that get in the way of you and the five people who think you're method of reasoning is somehow intelligent).
I dunno though, I don't wanna pass judgement but three or fewer drinks a day is really not that little. I think if you are having more than three drinks daily, you may have a problem. Sometimes at a party I'll have more than three drinks, but I don't party every night either. I also don't drink on a daily basis.
No it really isn't, at least not significantly enough to make people question it. Weed and alcohol in moderation are both fine, unlike say crack cocaine in "moderation" (as if it won't be moderation for very long).
I totally hear what you are saying; you sound like me in high school. But like, alcohol shouldn't be banned because some people can't use it properly and marijuana shouldn't be put on a pedestal because after spending years thinking it was harmless, I finally realized why it really isn't. NOT NOT NOT always, some people can use it in moderation, but I learned that some people also can't and their marijuana "addiction" is as bad as someone's alcohol addiction. I remember buying into the bullshit that marijuana wasn't addictive for so long, this came as a shock. (And before someone says it, marijuana is not particularly physically addictive like some harder drugs, but just like with alcoholics, there are people predisposed to addiction and marijuana can become a problem for them because of their addictive personality).
Hahah holy shit fucking owned dude. This is great. If I hadn't started this thread I would mod you up to oblivion.
You can't overdose on weed but you don't have to overdose on alcohol. You can throw your life away always smoking or subscribe to the universally accepted stoner belief that "I drive better when I'm high" and you can drink alcohol occasionally in social situations and understand that driving while intoxicated from anything is wrong. See where your argument falls apart?
Alright but now you are pretty saying heroin is better for you than alcohol. Anyone with half a brain knows that this is not true (unless of course the person consuming the alcohol has an alcohol problem, a separate issue).
It really kills me when someone is all for marijuana being legalized but thinks that banning alcohol is the second greatest idea in their head. I know frustrated potheads love to feed the whole "alcohol is more dangerous than weed" line over and over, but not everyone who drinks alcohol does so in a way that threatens their health. Someone who smokes weed everyday and turns every conversation into a "weed should be legalized" conversation is a lot more unhealthy than someone who drinks alcohol in moderation.
Glossy is actually less accurate with color than matte. Matte is what people get for accurate colors, glossy is what people get for vivid colors.
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Not true. First of all, bullies have insults referring to everything. They will call someone out on their most obvious trait, good or bad, just because it is obvious and can be spun into an insult.
Also, missing the boat for normal social interaction isn't true. If it was then where does nerdy guy in high school becomes super sociable college guy/20 something year old cliche come from?
However strong someone may have the potential to be, they are bullied until they demonstrate this strength whether it is mental or physical. People aren't bullied when they don't give into bullying; if you stand up for yourself without an ounce of doubt, it will tend to make people leave you alone. If you try and do shit like hurl half-assed insults back, you will probably just get laughed at more (someone calls you gay and you say "no you're gay!" with a nervous crack in your voice doesn't cut it).
The advantage is if you drop your card and a crackhead steals it. It's not security.. it's more just a roadblock for very basic theft. Fraud and more complicated stuff isn't actually prevented by it.
Let me put it this way. In college I chose to do things that I enjoyed. Far to often in high school and the like, I found myself doing stuff that other people in HS _thought_ I should enjoy. I was stereotyped as a nerd and so instead of fighting it, I embraced it; everything that came with it. Then in college I realized I was forcing myself to not have fun because I thought it had some sort of higher meaning to it; like I was somehow being noble by staying true to my nerd self.
Then I realized I didn't have to be scrawny, I didn't have to dress like shit and I didn't have to avoid hanging out with people who like doing things that aren't dorky. I didn't constantly play up a stupid cliche to hide behind so that I could get some cheap attention, instead I gave in and did things that were inline with society because I wanted to do them. Before that, what I was doing was inline with what bullies always wanted; like a pussy I just did the things they made me feel like I was supposed to do in a twisted attempt at "rolling with it".
No longer do I feel like shopping at A&F is selling out, or drinking or going to parties is selling out. Selling out would be wanting to do those things, but not doing them for fear of what people would say and for fear of it being contrary to my personal interests. Maybe you are different then, but all my point is is that it is very easy to fall into the trap of doing only what is expected of you simply because it is easier and there is a bullied in fear of trying to break out of your established role from middle school or some other time in your life that is so completely irrelevant it should have no bearing on your life today.
Too bad Eric and Dylan weren't nerds or goth kids or any of the other stupid stereotypes the media tried to paint them as in an attempt to turn a good old fashioned psychopathic killing spree into an emotional portrait of teenage angst.
Doom and Marilyn Manson weren't relevant either, btw