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Where do you get this stuff? I haven't had a computer crash this millennium and I've got 7 of them of every shape and size. Haven't seen a virus in a decade and they are all network and on the net full time. Malware has never made it to any of my Win 7 machines and really hasn't been a problem since XP rolled out..



There're literally tens of thousands of people making a very good living fixing what goes wrong with computers. Debugging them, replacing the hopelessly corrupted hard drive etc. I use XP on my point of sale computers, last year one of my guys used one of them to help a customer find an address by going to a companies website. We got a hostage ware that would not allow us to use the computer. After two attempts to fix it my computer guys punted and we needed to get a new hard drive and load the saved data.

I have two customers who make a living getting people's computers running again. Any guesses as to what percentage are PC's?

The point I made comparing PC/Mac and Ural/Triumph was aimed at those who act as if they are somehow more "computer literate" because they use Windows. Hey guys. you're using WINDOWS! That is Microsoft's copy of the Mac OS! I use both, they're not that different from each other. They were not meant to be, that's why Bill Gates copied the Mac OS in the first place. The idea that Windows users are somehow more advanced than Mac users is simply a baseless conceit similar to those Harley riders who look down their noses at everyone else. If you're serious about being a computer geek you'd be using DOS instead of Windows.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.