In fact, the final couple of seasons had Alan Alda portraying a Republican who had more integrity than most of the Democrats vying for the primaries.

One of my favorite jokes was when Donna was starting to date someone who turned out to be a Republican. She asked him why he was one, and he said, “Because I hate poor people. They’re just so…poor.” For the record, this was a tongue-in-cheek answer, and it was very clearly not meant to portray Republicans in a bad light.

As far as I know, a number of conservatives actually found the show admirable, even if it was left-leaning.

As for the “every PC is going to have these problems” line, I agree that Apple is scripting it and biasing the speech, but the argument that you can put a bandage (anti-virus) on a system that allows viruses in through cracks in the armor doesn’t inspire confidence. Why not just fix the armor?

Another absurd thing is how a Mac vs PC commercial was all about the cord popping out if you trip on it. WOW! I’m going out to buy a Mac laptop right now!

I’ve had a Dell desktop replacement for over three years, and it still works like a champ. I was sure that the cat hairs getting in would cause problems, but I hope when I finally do replace it that the next machine is also this reliable.

Oh, and no viruses. I use Ubuntu. B-)

Mac: “Hi, I’m Mac, and I have to compete against retards”
Pc: (*crash*), “explorer is retarded, I mean restarted!”
Mac: “See, I’m better than that peice of trash over there !”
Linux: “You both peices of trash can shut yo holes over there…”
Linux: “I am the best and I don’t cost lots of money”

Seriously, I was previewing thumbnails in Explorer, now the thumbnails were already created and then suddenly for no reason they dissapeared and had to be recreated. And the bad thing is that the thumbnails wasn’t retrieved from meta data but by reading the whole image and then scaling. That’s just one of many retarded Microsoft moments, now I don’t hate Microsoft because everyone who played Warlords 1 should know that I loathe Microsoft. I will send my hero with the Staff of Ruling against them! No, seriously, the only reason I have a retarded Microsoft catastrophe computer is to play Doom 3! I have just arrived at the Delta Labs! “Marine you need to pick up some pace!” Ah, wacking a zoombie with a flash light is about the only productive work you can perform on a crap computer, that’s why I’m typing this in Mozilla Firefox on linux. IE is the worst web browser ever. And my language is Java, so it’s not exactly like it matters where I’m sitting. Well, gota get working!

Btw, I’m glad you started posting more often, nice staying up on what’s happening over there in Texas!

I can play everything on my apple in windows. In fact, my computer kicks Ryan’s thinkpad’s butt when it comes to games. They run far more smoothly and my computer does not get nearly as hot.

And actually, I feel that the hardware and OS are worth the price markup. Apples are just made a lot better than most PC computers and come with great service.

Every port on Ryan’s Dell broke within 2 years. The keyboard was floppy and hard to type on and we had to replace it because it stopped working. And it was always hard to get parts, because Dell contracted out many different manufacturers for things. The only PC that we have that stood Ryan’s abuse was the toughbook and that is advertised to take damage.

Plus, whenever I have had an adapter fray (that is what seems to die on our Apples), we can go to the mall and get a new one right away. I do not have to have any computer separation anxiety.

Wow, really? My absolute bar-none favorite character on that show was Ainslee Hayes. I thought she was stupendous.

Even though I didn’t always agree with her, which is kind of the point.

I’m pretty happy with my Macbook Pro. When I want to play L4D, I reboot it. I’d rather that Valve do a Steam client for Mac, but considering they’re joined at the hip to Microsoft I don’t see that happening.

But WoW works just fine. : )

I’m a competent computer operator, but I still don’t like how much time and effort it takes to troubleshoot Windows problems, and in my fifteen years of using Macs (whoa, that’s a scary number), they have been much less troublesome.

Your mileage may vary.

And, re: advertising, it’s all lies. That’s why they call it advertising.