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Also stop referring to an OS upgrade as a service pack. Because it isn't.

Well, that convinced me!

Thras, I'll ask you this completely sincerely, because I don't and never have understood this. Why do you, and people like you, get off from reading a lengthy debate on a topic online, and ignoring every point except the one that's not a point, then snarking about it? It's not just you: A lot of people do it, and it baffles me. I always really enjoy being told why my opinion on something is wrong, and these snarky responses don't seem to prove anything.

You more or less said that the grandparent was wrong "just because." You were telling someone that he was wrong without any argument. Exactly what you complained about with me, btw.

The only possible response to that sort of thing is snark.

> The only possible response to that sort of thing is snark.

Uh.. no it's not. You could respond like you just did now and explain that they "were telling someone that he was wrong without any argument."

Yeah. But that's slumming it when I explain things for the dimwits. I felt dirty afterward.

you my friend, are a mac troll which likes to pay money for service packs (which you get for free when you would be using windows).

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