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Apparently you don't get a lot.
So how would this record eraser work? Is it general or just Bonds only? Is it okay if a person uses but doesn't win or break a record? Should Troy Glaus give back his World Series MVP or should they dig up Ken Camminitti(sp?) and take his NL MVP award? Are steroids the only "unnatural and deplorable" (lol) way to cheat?
It really is amazing that the guy who caught the now sainted Hank Aaron's 715HR, his teammate Tom House, stated in an interview that he used steroids in the 70s and that he thinks that ""six or seven" pitchers on every major league staff in the 1970s were "fiddling" with steroids or human growth hormone" and some people still want to pretend like this is something new and let's not even get into the reality that players took speed like candy for decades. So, I hope you workout because your record erasing is going to be quite a chore.
Also, speaking of a moronic, while baseball is a big business it is also just entertainment regardless of whether a person is tragically killed while participating in it. Coach Coolbaugh died doing something he probably loved. That you are using his death to castigate others who, correctly, stated that baseball is just entertainment probably makes you the stupid fucker.
"Instead of comparing the quality of Apple computers to an elitist BMW, maybe we should use Harley Davidson instead. Imagine a class of people who dare to be different, and stand apart from the crowd, but still are part of a deep-rooted culture of like-minded people and American values. Okay, not so much anymore since Apple has become the new in-thing and a little too popular for my liking, but you catch my drift."
I get your drift but what!? You're kidding, right? "Imagine a class of people who dare to be different, and stand apart from the crowd, but still are part of a deep-rooted culture of like-minded people and American values." Some consumers are imbued with all that extra "specialness" simply because they bought Mac computers and/or Harley Davidson motorcycles? You can't be serious. If so, wow, I thought the "personal bond" guy a few pages back was going overboard but now....
"I work in a computer lab so I am finding these replies amusing. Everyone who uses a Mac is capable of using a PC. Not everyone who is uses a PC is capable of using a Mac.
"Oh no! I can't use a Mac!"
I think that says a lot."
That does say a lot. About you. You work in a computer lab and actually believe that remarkably smug nonsense? Astounding...
"Dirty little secret - people who service and maintain computer systems are naturally prejudiced towards a computer systems that will give them job security, increased budgets and mystify their users with problems best solved by a Microsoft Certified Technician or a fully equipped Help Desk Team."
Well, maybe all that comes because there are probably hundreds of millions more PCs than Macs being used and they dominate the worldwide personal and business computer markets? That's neither dirty nor little nor a secret. It's simple economy of scale.
"The second big reason Macs cost less is that you don't have to buy anti-virus software (much less waste hours running them)."
How many times have people pointed out that you can get plenty of anti-malware, spyware and other anti-virus stuff for FREE and that even if you buy it, it's not expensive, it's easy to use, it doesn't waste hours of your time running stuff and the cost certainly doesn't even make a dent in the sizable difference between similarly equipped MACs and PCs. But, I guess the strategy is that if you repeat it enough it becomes true.
"I don't have anything against Macs. You prefer Macs, that's fine, you'll get no static from me, they are good computers. But what's with this parallel fantasy land where Macheads seem to live? It's a Mac Utopia where PC's crash twice a day, are constantly jammed with viruses and spyware, and annoy their users with an interface that is terribly counterintuitive and difficult to use. This puzzles me, because I use PC's for many hours every day, and I can testify that they rarely crash, can be kept clean of malware with a few basic precautions, and that Windows is simple to use, provided you know how to look at things and click on them."
Indeed. It is very strange but it seems to be an extension of the "Macs just work" propaganda which implies that PCs don't "just work" but, in reality, PCs "just work" fine. Of course they probably realize this so they add on the crazed nonsense like implying that one has to be smarter to use a Mac or that if you don't use one you are losing out on an opportunity for self improvement or that you haven't joined the 21st century or some other such foolishness.
The one that really got me was the guy/gal who wrote awhile back that he/she had drifted away from a friend because the friend used a PC and that he/she had started to judge people and potential friends based on which computer they own/ue. The person admitted that he/she is a Mac Kool-aid drinker but...wow!...I mean that's Jim Jones level of Kool-aid drinking.
Like they needed the help! The rats and the cockroaches are going to survive longer than us anyway.