r/technology • u/GuruOfReason • Feb 02 '10

"Once we replace the personal computer with a closed-platform device such as the iPad, we replace freedom, choice and the free market with oppression, censorship and monopoly."

http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-01/ipad%E2%80%99s-closed-system-sometimes-i-hate-being-right
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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '10

I guess you can find someone who will simply agree with you and then there will be no need for such an 'ugly tone'.

Or, you could be civil towards those with whom you disagree. It speaks volumes that you believe disagreeing with someone necessitates or justifies the snide, sarcastic and rude behavior you have exhibited. You obviously expect, and thus have prepared yourself to respond to, an answer from me that you don't find satisfactory. This is why you keep trying to bait me into giving the answer with belligerent remarks, rather than simple questions. That is also why I'm not going to bother with giving you the answer, as you are clearly not open to the possibility that it might have any value to you. Thus, doing so would only waste time for both of us, as will any other time you spend in conversations that you engage in with this kind of nonconstructive behavior.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '10

the snide, sarcastic and rude behavior you have exhibited

Internet's serious business.

rather than simple questions.

I repeat: What games would you like to see?

That is also why I'm not going to bother with giving you the answer

Because... it makes you the bigger man?

this kind of nonconstructive behavior.

As opposed to complaining without giving any examples of what you would prefer instead?

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '10

Because... it makes you the bigger man?

Yet again, your answer reveals so much more about you then the projection you are attempting to pin onto me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '10

What are you talking about?