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Thursday, December 18, 2003

Hypocrite

John Gruber's Daring Fireball is occassionally interesting, but more often than not he lapses into the all-so-typical defensive "if you criticize the Mac, you suck" sort of paranoia that dominates the Web. It's distressing. Anyway, today, John actually spelled out how he reacts when he reads something on the Web he doesn't like, and I can't help but think that he just doesn't see the hypocrisy in this. Here's what he does, in his words: "1. Some jackass writes something really dumb. 2. They get a lot of attention. 3. I politely retort." See, John doesn't get that calling the guy he's "politely retorting to" a "jackass" makes his argument completely bogus. But what's really sad is that John wrote this because he totally disagrees with Lance Ulanoff's dead-on PC World article about Mac OS X and security problems. See, Ulanoff just must be one of those bizarre PC guys that hates Macs (and you know how many of those guys there are), and he just needs to be put in his place. Sadly, I must spin this around on John, however. So, as politely as I can retort, John, sorry, but you're being a jackass.

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