Sorry I did not study your links very closely but I believe that yes you are on a right path, anybody with a strong statesmanship competencies would certainly qualify as a "smart" person.
I think the mods have better things to do than waste bandwidth on non-Apple bickering from tinfoil hat types.
They certainly do. You have other forums to discuss political things. This forum is mainly a technology forum, not a political one.
It‘s the same way I feel about the Star Trek convention. Everyone is happy to be there. I’ve never seen someone judge another because they aren’t an expert or because they haven’t seen a series. It’s just a bunch of people with common interests. Coincidentally, many people there like video games too. 🤓
One day I'd love to go to a Trek/Comic book/MCU convention on the west coast one day. Get to meet and have a paid photo/autograph with any of the Trek cast.
I went to The Experience the month it closed — and loved it. It’s what convinced me to give the Las Vegas convention a try. I’ve gone every year since 2011 and look forward to the next one all year.
My ability to enter a comic book shop and drop $100 for whatever I wanted became curtailed shortly after getting married. That's not a dig against marriage (my wife and I have been married over 25 years now), just an acknowledgement of reality. It's not a lot of fun trying to read stuff when the lights have been shut off, etc.
I love them, but my wife and I want our lives before kids back!I was there in April 2008. Was unaware that it was closing months later. :-(
In my case comic books stopped when the Internet appeared. Shifting interest of my circle of friends.My ability to enter a comic book shop and drop $100 for whatever I wanted became curtailed shortly after getting married. That's not a dig against marriage (my wife and I have been married over 25 years now), just an acknowledgement of reality. It's not a lot of fun trying to read stuff when the lights have been shut off, etc.
I just abandoned most of that simply because I cannot spend all that I want when I want. That isn't to say I haven't picked some stuff up over time, but if you look at all the stuff I have in my garage it all predates 1997.
One of the reasons I look forward to our kids finally moving out.
Technically, it'd be a FireWire-to-Thunderbolt adapter. Then you can daisy-chain it to the Thunderbolt 2-to-3 adapter. I've also done that with my M1 MacBook Air and it gets the job done...Believe it or not, you can still connect a Digital8 camcorder to a modern Mac and digitize those old tapes. I do it with my M1 MBA and it works great. Just need a Firewire to DisplayPort adapter.
I honestly loved reading this. Currently not seeing anyone, but I am really hoping to find that special someone. Only time will tell! Thanks for the thoughtful reply! Happy to hear that you are 11 years in! That’s amazing!
I started dating my wife when I was 24. That was 1995. We got married in 1997 and in November 2023 it will be 26 years together.
How did that happen? It's been about 20 years since I joined MacRumors.My first was a 2002 iBook, which happened to arrive on Valentine's Day 2003. The honeymoon is well and truly over at this point!
I'm 40 now
It's always better to be safe, online or in person.
I'd go into a thread and post in large letters "Knock it off!" or something like that, which wasn't the right thing to do, but it worked for a few minutes. 😁
I was 13 during the summer of 1984. That was a great summer, spent playing games on my Commodore 64. Later that year my mom got the idea to start visiting a local user group for the Commodore. That's when I discovered that the UG had a BBS (Bulletin Board System). I managed to get a 300bps modem for a C64 somehow and got online to the BBS.
