America In A Nutshell (or, at least, in the Apple store)
TODAY I went to the Apple Store...
Yes, I went to the Apple Store. Think what you want of me. I'm not exactly a stereotypical Mac user. In fact, I've got a PC too. But the point is not that I was looking at replacing my current clunker of a PC. So I happened to be at the Apple store. Perhaps not the wisest decision in the world, given the famous lack of realistic customer support and inventory, but I guess I was feeling optimistic. You've gotta be optimistic when you're in my shoes.
So I walk into the store, and I begin looking at inventory. While I'm standing in front of something that the store is calling "New" (despite having less than one gig of processing power), I notice that there's a family standing in front of the 24" I-Mac next to me. It's a father and his kids, and they're toying with the net. The father has pulled up Fox news and is reading it intently. One of the kids is reading over his shoulder. The other two are waiting patiently.
After he's done reading the news, the father gives a satisfied nod and expands the window to "full-screen" size, walking away from the system with his children in tow.
There, on a 24" screen, is the Fox news website. It's been set as the homepage on that particular system, and is filled with all sorts of "fair and balanced information". In the middle of a store where most of the "customers" are prostitots updating their MySpace webpages, some assinine git has topped the stupidity by setting 'Fox News' as the webpage, blowing it up to full size on the largest screen possible, and continuing his shopping experience.
Quick as a flash, I travel to the computer, shut down the Fox window, and add a different website. Crooksandliars.com, and set the homepage to a nice, generic, Google.com... Satisfied at my work, I walk away, and continue in my own shopping. But Mr. Rumsfeld Jr. is not pleased with my handywork when he notices it.
He walks over, indignant, to a store clerk, and makes a fuss. He points at the computer screen.
The notion of left wing propaganda offends him mightily. And he wants truth told.
The clerk apologizes profusely and shuts down the web-browser.
Later, I see Daddy Dearest there again. He's set the homepage to Fox news once more. And looking very satisfied with himself. What is more, he is standing defensively next to the I-Mac as if to say, "See? I'm right. And there's not a damned thing anyone can do about that."
America. Gotta love it.
Yes, I went to the Apple Store. Think what you want of me. I'm not exactly a stereotypical Mac user. In fact, I've got a PC too. But the point is not that I was looking at replacing my current clunker of a PC. So I happened to be at the Apple store. Perhaps not the wisest decision in the world, given the famous lack of realistic customer support and inventory, but I guess I was feeling optimistic. You've gotta be optimistic when you're in my shoes.
So I walk into the store, and I begin looking at inventory. While I'm standing in front of something that the store is calling "New" (despite having less than one gig of processing power), I notice that there's a family standing in front of the 24" I-Mac next to me. It's a father and his kids, and they're toying with the net. The father has pulled up Fox news and is reading it intently. One of the kids is reading over his shoulder. The other two are waiting patiently.
After he's done reading the news, the father gives a satisfied nod and expands the window to "full-screen" size, walking away from the system with his children in tow.
There, on a 24" screen, is the Fox news website. It's been set as the homepage on that particular system, and is filled with all sorts of "fair and balanced information". In the middle of a store where most of the "customers" are prostitots updating their MySpace webpages, some assinine git has topped the stupidity by setting 'Fox News' as the webpage, blowing it up to full size on the largest screen possible, and continuing his shopping experience.
Quick as a flash, I travel to the computer, shut down the Fox window, and add a different website. Crooksandliars.com, and set the homepage to a nice, generic, Google.com... Satisfied at my work, I walk away, and continue in my own shopping. But Mr. Rumsfeld Jr. is not pleased with my handywork when he notices it.
He walks over, indignant, to a store clerk, and makes a fuss. He points at the computer screen.
The notion of left wing propaganda offends him mightily. And he wants truth told.
The clerk apologizes profusely and shuts down the web-browser.
Later, I see Daddy Dearest there again. He's set the homepage to Fox news once more. And looking very satisfied with himself. What is more, he is standing defensively next to the I-Mac as if to say, "See? I'm right. And there's not a damned thing anyone can do about that."
America. Gotta love it.
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