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The Bible is not at all ambiguous about what qualifies as Christian behavior and belief.

I can understand taking into account the possibility of a deathbed conversion; however such events are exceedingly rare. By design it would seem.

As an aside to this, I have read her columns, and I swear I am really not trying to be mean when I say she wasn't really a very good writer. Her style had a patronizing tone and she didn't seem to have a very good grasp of organization. She used awkward segues from one topic to another and multiple split infinitives. Brevity is the soul of wit, and unfortunately her wit (if any) was sapped away by long, unnecessarily complicated sentences.

Frankly, reading her columns was a chore and not just because she was a leftist and therefore not worth listening to. Perhaps her editor was a crack addict.

My thoughts exactly.

I would pay him to keep silent. "Molly who?" After all the effort she put into her columns, all of which were about Bush, the irony would be so sweet.

Now, why would you work off that assumption? 16-year-olds don't need to earn a living.

Face it, the problem isn't what wages people are paid. This is the United States of America where LESS than 3% of the workforce makes minimum wage (John Stossel, Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity, p 63) and the "poor" in this country have color televisions and cars as a matter of course.

In this country, you have to go out of your way to be poor.

Yeah, systemic problems that may or may not have anything to do with a heroin addiction problem or the like.

Solution: Give more money to teenage employees working after school at the GAP.

No, but you can be assured that this is not something with regard to my computer that keeps me up at night.

Of course, if what you say is true, your computer is at greater risk than mine simply based on the fact that it's a greater score. Nighty night!

In return, I refer you to any thread relating to Mac computers on Fark.com for the last two weeks, including this one shooting down the silly theory of writing viruses for glory.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1846304

Depends on what you want to do with it. If "very little" describes your computing needs, you are good to go.

So you DON'T really feel attached to/and or any allegiance to your Mac, then?

Why did you buy it?

and unwilling to learn.

You didn't teach me anything I didn't already know.

Yes, a safe assumption that the victims were white. Because there are no black mormon missionaries, really. OK, maybe one or two.

Californiajones: Amen.

You seem to believe that Mac and Linux OSs must be secure because no viruses have been written for them--as if creating viruses for them is impossible.

Maybe it really isn't worth anyone's time. Occam's Razor, don't you know.

In other words, you cannot address my response because it's true. Your machine is overpriced (although if it's useful to you, more power to you).

and that I am somehow jealous because your PC will run more virus protection systems than my Mac will (or will ever have to).

It runs more in general. Face it, all your machine has going for it is that people don't care to write viruses for it. If I make a pros and cons list, having one positive attribute in the pro column doesn't exactly win me over.

I have not expressed any hatred for Bill Gates.

Many Mac people do. In fact, many Mac people base their decision to run a Mac on the fact that they hate Bill Gates because it's the only reason that actually makes sense.

I simply prefer the Mac to the PC for the kind of work I do, and that, in your mind, is apparently indicative of a huge mental deficit on my part.

It's indicative that you wasted your money. But it is your money. More power to you.

I find that insulting,

Too bad. If something I said about Mac v. my custom PC was factually incorrect, feel free to bring it.

considering the fact that I have spent more time working with PCs than you will ever dare to put in on a Mac.

Then you know that every word I said is true. End of story.

I have my preference, and that is all.

Wonderful. Just don't pretend it's based on common sense.

I think it is worth a few extra bucks

It's a lot more than "a few extra bucks."

to get the quality, reliability, and speed (yes, I said speed) that comes with a Mac.

Your Mac is not faster, higher quality, or more reliable than a PC. Sorry. They lied to you.

Your insistence on claiming that they are somehow worthless pieces of junk makes no sense,

I didn't say they were worthless pieces of junk. But you don't get very much for what you pay.

and strikes me as more of an emotional argument than one based in any reason.

I think my statements about my PC's performance, versatility, cost, and upgradeability don't exactly fall under the "emotional" category. Your failure to address these points, however, does.

You have attributed to me some level of regret over money spent on my Macs over the years.

I think anyone who spends more than $700 for a computer, ANY computer, SHOULD feel some regret since you can build a better machine for a fraction of the cost. Maybe you have money to throw away. Most of us do not.

Once again, that is one way LEO's catch perpetrators. They cannot keep their big mouths shut.

BTW, teal is also a color. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teal_(color)

Or, in the case of Mac OS, one that costs about four times more than it should and do four times more than it should.

It's quite another to have a visceral, emotional need to insult

Or in your case a visceral, emotional attachment to a hunk of silicone/hatred for Bill Gates.

And I didn't insult you. "Mac fanboy" is a general term used to refer to someone who is inordinately attached to their mac.

I have used Macs since 1986, and I have never wished I had a PC instead.

Maybe not, but I bet you wish you had some of that money back that you could have saved.

It has an elegant interface, powerful hardware, and everything I need to do my work.

I have all that AND mine also runs more software, is faster, easy and cheap to upgrade, and cost about a third as much. Don't cry.

How is that such a threat to you

Why do you think that everyone who doesn't agree with you must be "threatened?" Seems to me your failure to address my original points about your inferior machine indicate that you feel threatened and/or regretful.

that you have to refer to it as a "boat anchor"?

It IS a boat anchor.

(and by the way, they haven't been beige for years.)

I said they were teal. As if changing the color made them better or something.

The more people you brag to, the more likely you are going to jail. As any LEO will tell you.

Hm, you can't exactly brag about doing something illegal like writing viruses when the bragging will send you to jail.

Duh.

Slur? Was something I said about your seemingly inordinate attachment to an overpriced teal plastic boat anchor factually incorrect?

And I don't intend to, either. Because you see, my PC does everything your Mac does, twice as fast and at a fraction of the cost--and with the truckload of cash I saved, I can buy a plasma screen TV.

Have a nice day.