“Hi, I’m a Mac.” “And I’m a PC…”
“So, hey PC, whatcha doing?”
“Oh, just showing a little love for Mother Earth. I am, after all, socially and environmentally conscious. What do you think of that?”
“Pfff. Environmentally conscious? Screw that.”
Headline: Apple shareholders reject environmental measures
Apple Inc. shareholders have rejected two proposals that sought to force the computer company to do more to analyze its impact on the environment.
One proposal would have asked Apple to produce a detailed environmental sustainability report. The other called for a board committee focused on sustainability. Apple had opposed the measures and said Thursday at its annual shareholder meeting that investors had rejected the proposals. It did not give voting percentages.
Apple, Inc.: screw the Earth!
Aren’t most Mac users artsy-fartsy liberal types? I wonder what they’ll think about this.
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I have never understood the Mac/PC rancor. My wife and I bought our first computer back in the 80s. I taught engineering and needed to typeset and print equations, and she taught foreign languages and needed European fonts. Both of these could be done on the Mac Plus; neither could be done on any PC at any price. So we bought the Mac. At school, I used PCs. Remember the ROM Advanced Basic?
Over the years, PCs have evolved towards Macs and v. v. Windows 7 has a good interface, and Macs have become difficult to network. (It used to be easy. All you needed was a piece of telephone cable.) Both will let the stupid geeks do command line stuff (Unix in Mac) to their furry little hearts’ content. Give them a box of Oreos and a case of Jolt and put them in the back room, unheard and out of sight.
We’re still Mac people because of our large inventory of old files. But a student just starting out will not notice any great difference, except Apple avoids the cheap low end commodity PC market and only makes expensive high end computers. Also, the file management system is still easier to use on the Mac than the PC. On the other hand, the PC world has many more and better games and much more science/engineering software. For literary types like my wife, it is a toss up.
Although I taught environmental engineering and science for 37 years, I learned long ago that environmentalism was just camouflaged Naziism, and I have long denounced it to my students. Climategate is just the most recent example, although it is the most egregious. So I don’t think I classify as a tree-hugger. I more like the poor PC sap in the ads.
Apple can do no wrong. Note this was the greedy shareholders, not the messiahs in Cupertino.