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So you've bought your Apple Macintosh.. why not switch to a better nation too?

I can hear the flames starting to crackle already. I love it.

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[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

"I'll never go bock."

[gusmacroy.livejournal.com]

What an interesting parallel...Apple and Canada. Hmmm...

[mathan.livejournal.com]

Apple Canada offers free wireless networking from their parking lot which is about 20 minutes away from me. ;)

And they still have a rainbow coloured Apple logo for a sign. :D

[loganbeary.livejournal.com]

Or maybe we should just switch governments?

[oakthorne.livejournal.com]

You genuinely have no idea how I've been tempted, in particular within the last year.

Gods.

Joe

[kj.livejournal.com]

That is just beautiful.

Crackle

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

OK, personally? The "Apple=Canada" makes me feel dirty. I mean really, really unclean, in that oozing-syphilis-pustule-posing-as-a-beauty-mark-on-the-cheek-of-a-geriatric-twelve-dollar-hooker kind of way.

Ewww.

Re: Crackle

[ranger1.livejournal.com]

Apple love you long time. Only twenty dollar.

Re: Crackle

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Cleeeeeek!

[plaidninja.livejournal.com]

You know now that I think about it, that guy's right, American money does smell kind of strange. It's that undescribable American money odor.

[five0xpres.livejournal.com]

Priceless....absolutely priceless.

How strange!

[larrycub.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I did!!! In August 2001 I bought my iBook, and then in November 2001 I moved to Toronto from Philadelphia. Life is better north of the border, and the Canadaian money is real purty. :)

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

You know, having been a cashier for years, he's SO right about that money. I mean, Jesus, how many days worth of sweat were IN that $20 bill?!

[danlmarmot.livejournal.com]

why not switch to a better nation too?

Because, I'd like to, have to learn, French?!?

[ducks]

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Tête moi le dard, enculé!

[mathan.livejournal.com]

Baissez-vous! :D

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

Je suis une pamplemousse gigantesque!

Où est le poisson de mon harmonica?

[danlmarmot.livejournal.com]

You've gotta be kidding. Spend a good dozen hours figuring out Mom's iMac. Does it have the latest system software update? Is the firmware updated? What about the modem firmware?

And with such helpful Apple support like this (http://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/kbase.woa/wa/query?dialogID=&val=imac+firmware+update&type=smartSearch&nodes=&dateModified=&wosid=a2jN8AUoYwRn2cJ4w364jG6lxol), you've gotta wonder how parents around the world are maintaining their iMacs.

[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU.

Macs are NOT the easiest machines to administer. If I had a nickel for every phantom OS 9 and OSX problem I've ever had to deal with...

[mathan.livejournal.com]

I don't know. The admin at work is finding her G4 Cube absolutely fine and she's only been using it a week and has no idea what she's doing. :)

The internet-based software update utility works beautifully for those kinds of issues.

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[danlmarmot.livejournal.com]

uh. ugh. maybe. My parents had it on, but it didn't help their nasty 'The Network Time server could not update the time error message'.

It may work for a newer product like the cube (which I lust for), but older, three year old products like the Bondi iMac seem to be left on the side of the road... and Apple's so confused right now that it seems like the best option it seems is to buy a new Dell than a new iMac.

DUDE!

[bigmacbear]

... you're gettin' a Dell? ;-)

[bigmacbear]

The admin at work is finding her G4 Cube absolutely fine and she's only been using it a week and has no idea what she's doing. :)
I guess in this case "admin" means "administrative assistant" as opposed to "system administrator". ;-)

[mathan.livejournal.com]

HEHE, yeah. Admin assistant. Mind you our Sys admin doesn't know what he's doing with the Mac either. :)

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

Or maybe even switch to the Dark Side (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/content.php?id=68643&date=1037163600). (:

[gmjambear]

Well, I don't know about Apple but I do know about Canada.

Bwaaahhh!!! As good as the Moulson Canadian's The Rant ad.

Also, the only thing I can contribute to the "learning French" response from a previous poster:

AU SECOURS! AU SECOURS!
AU VOLEUR!
Appeez la police!

[barak.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Maybe I SHOULD move to be with my own kind. ;)

[theotherqpc.livejournal.com]

is it bad form to reply late to an LJ entry?

oh well...hopefully, i'll have a success story like john soon, tho. anybody out there live in Alberta?