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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5609386" data-attributes="member: 8158">I respect your desire for civlity, but you are directing your finger-waggling in the wrong direction.My minor musing about "magical" technology triggered a rather testy barb from Fast Learner, as if he had been personally provoked. Which he wasn't. The response was totally disproportionate and is certainly where the "loyalist embargo" was violated, not my use of the word "loyalist" which came later. Moreover, his most-recent follow-up has been as unabashedly partisan as it gets, full of gushing about the wonderfulness of Apple and some MS-bashing thrown in at the end for good mearsure. All of which I note you have chosen to let go unchided, which strikes me as peculiar. If you're going to act as arbiter in a discussion, allow me to offer some advice as I have to engage in this kind of social engineering frequently. A pretty basic rule of the game is to avoid singling out one side of a disagreement for rebuke, because it creates the appearance that you're vindicating the other side. Just tell all sides to chill out and make them feel a little silly for getting all worked up. It takes two to tango.As I said, I actually do avail myself of both Apple and MS products and judge each product on its own merits rather than sweeping generalizations that evidence an overall bias. If it makes you feel better, I've nary an intention of rebutting FL's last point. If he wants to drop it, I'm fine with that. The entire gist of my posts have been that everything is a trade-off, there is no magical perfection, everybody has weaknesses, and we'd all be better off if everyone could accept that rather than attempt to impose topic embargos.</blockquote>

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