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Originally Posted by
YearOfTheNick http:///forum/thread/382728/exploit-gift-card-loophole/60#post_3343651
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Originally Posted by stdreb27 http:///forum/thread/382728/exploit-gift-card-loophole/60#post_3343602
That is because the minimalist is a mac fan boy. Which means I can make fun of him for 2 reasons, calling himself a minimalist 1, owning a fishtank 2, owning a mac 3, and living in Cali 4. (none of that is minimalist)
2 he owns a mac.
3 he spend what kind of time and money trying to get out of shopping at Macy's because of money.
There is just soo much to make fun of here...
Minimalist DEOS NOT mean cheap. In fact, if you actually googled minimalism before you came out guns blazing, you'd find that it's kind of an expensive lifestyle to live. Minimalist really just means taking away the non-essentials and focusing on functionality. For example, I don't need 4 TV's in the house. I have one TV... BUT it's a Samsung internet-enabled TV with lots of bells and whistles... a very nice TV. We don't have cable because we don't need it (internet tv = hulu and netflix). We don't have all kinds of knick-knack crap in our house because it's meaningless. We have a lot of books and much of our furniture is functional, symmetrical and modern. You won't find any big, gawdy, ornate victorian furniture here, or 80's oak furniture. Been inside a Mac store? Of course not, you would have melted like the witch in the Wizard of Oz. Well, they adopt a minimalist design. Simple tables, beautiful clean designs. I would say minimalism lends itself BETTER to someone with a mac, if you were to focus solely on aesthetics.
As for making fun of me for owning a fish tank, I don't even know where to begin. The fact that you'd bring that up means you're just desperate to poke fun. This is a saltwater fish site. Almost everyone on here has a fish tank. I only have a 10g right now and I'm trying to get rid of it.
As for the mac vs PC game you like to play, we have differing opinions. Not sure why you like to play that game... don't you own an iPhone? I have a DroidX because I don't like playing in Apple's mobile "walled garden." I like the mac because I don't have to worry about the countless PC-based viruses that exist out there with new ones created every day. 10% market share means no one's interested in messing with you and I'm ok with that.
Yes, I live in Cali, but that may soon change. I'm hoping to get a job in San Antonio, TX.
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stdreb27 https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/forum/thread/382728/exploit-gift-card-loophole/60#post_3343602
You know that Macy's is an authorised retailer of Macintosh...
They sell iPods. In vending machines. Not computers.
(really? I was just teasing you, I had no idea Macy's sold anything electronic? not that I've been in a Macy's in years lol ) (oh and I know what the "minimalist" style is.) However, I strongly think it is a misnomer... IMO a minimalist should be the country folk in east texas that do everything cash still own their first car, couch, bed, and rifle... And never bought a second... But that is just me...
They have iPod vending machines? (you can tell I'm almost never in major shopping areas. I literally buy all my clothes at the local sporting good store and the westen wear store. (much to my wife's chagrine.) And I'm still impressed by the ice cream vending machines they have at the mall. Where the little arm opens a freezer and suctions out a drumstick. It is like always winning at the claw game....
But keep in mind, I was just teasing you. Because well, (see previous post)...
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Originally Posted by bionicarm http:///forum/thread/382728/exploit-gift-card-loophole/60#post_3343670
Move to San Antonio, and you can live in a mansion compared to a small 2 bedroom house in Cali. I watch these 'Flip My House' shows, and I see these people in the LA area by these crackerbox outdated pieces of junk for $350,000. Fot that kind of money you could by a 3000 sq. ft, 4 bedroom, 2 bath on a 1/2 acre of land in a gated community in San Antonio.
Don't rely on your statistics about viruses on Mac's. We've recently seen a variety of attacks on Mac's where I work. The virus-makers are realizing the new popularity of the Mac, specifically the notebooks, so they're are starting to target those devices.
Yeah dude, the difference in real estate is rediculous.
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Also, I don't listen to stdreb27 about his "experience" with mac's either. He thinks because he had an issue with ONE old plastic entry-level fisher-price macbook, that he has all the know-how he needs to be a scholar at this stuff. I have taken apart about a dozen mac's over the last 5 years. I've been the go-to guy for mac questions amongst my whole family and many of my friends, not to mention that I also manage all the mac's where I work. They're JUST easier.
(hey I thought all macs were perfect.) I also thought an alarm clock was relatively simple code.
(btw in a moment of honesty) My main problem with macs isn't nessessarily the product, because it is an average product in the computer world. The problem is that they tout it as god's gift to man. And it is misleading. Second, I don't like their historic stranglehold on software. (that has significantly loosened although the remnants of that logic remains.) I also malign them because their the hipster thing to own... And third, and probably most significantly I HATE the Mac's are more secure argument. They aren't, just no one thinks they're worth writing virus's for...
