re: anti-zealot campaign
every now and then, i have to state the origins of the campaign since it goes back into early 2001
an anti-zealot is someone who likes to promote macs for the virtue of the machine...not to make macs look better by flaming pcs with statements like "all pcs are ugly because they are beige", "all pcs are slow", or the famous "all pcs suck because they are not macs"
dogging pcs and pc users in this simplistic manner makes mac users look uneducated and ignorant
so to counteract the simplistic ignorance, spikey said he hated zealots and from then on, the movement, of trying to promote macs and not bash pcs simplistically, came about
after a time, i joined spikey, and then came mischief, and then about a half a dozen other people...but by then the original meaning may have been lost
i believe one of the administrators, mentioned they did not like one sentence posts like "pcs suck" and i agree
now if someone says most pcs are ugly or most pcs are inferior to macs, then that is ok since it is true...but in no case do all pcs suck...it really depends what you are using the machine for
if i was stuck on a desert island with a dial up connection and an electrical outlet...what computer would i like to be with...a mac, of course
or better yet, if i was only able to afford one machine, and this is the case of many citizens of the wired world, what would it be?...macintosh
as far as being flamed by spikey, i was, and by other mac users since i used to have "baiting" signatures or bios such as pc techie, pc repairman, pc network engineer, pc fix it guy, or something in that manner with the word "pc"...my business i have with my wife does fix macs, but we are certified in pc networking, windows, and ms office in the "pc world" and get most of our business on the pc side of the computing world...not to mention, pcs are 95 percent of the market and on an individual basis, a pc takes more, much more, maintenance than a mac
so since this is a mac only site, i now just state in my signature my belonging to the anti-zealot campaign
jef
pc fixer dude and anti-zealot
