The smudge of an unlock pattern is pretty easy to spot, which is why I very quickly went back to using a pin on my Android.

If you don't believe me, start looking at other people's Androids and you'll pretty quickly find a way in.

People have been poking fun of dictators and monsters for centuries. If you think about it, there's just no good reason to even tolerate these people, but it happens. The Three Stooges poked merciless fun at Hitler.

Maybe it's a kind of healing mechanism, to make light of a truly horrible situation. Maybe it's important to belittle these people, so they will not be revered, but remembered instead as tyrants and jokes.

Please carefully read my post before fanboy kneejerk. I mentioned quite clearly that you can buy an OEM system which is easily on par with the same components in an Apple PC built by the same manufacturers like Foxconn, just like the off the shelf parts are also made by the same group of manufacturers.

The only difference is the white plastic.

If you're not sure about what you're trying to say, go research fail rates and warranty return rates on Apple stuff compared to other major OEMs. It might teach you something.

And please, don't go comparing an apple laptop to a generic desktop PC as if that's some kind of valid comparison.

And don't go suggesting that because someone doesn't want to pay twice as much as they should for a white PC with an apple logo on it, they're a computer nerd. It just digs you deeper into the apple fanboy hole you live in.

So, the basis for Christianity is not what is written in the bible, but something else entirely?

Where does the doctrine and instruction come from then?

Of course, the church?

Since Apple runs on x86/x64 hardware nowadays, it's very easy to build or buy a system which is just as reliable from off the shelf parts or from an OEM.

Both sets of hardware will run Windows or Linux, which is a good way to remove OS disparity from the equation (OSX cannot be the reason why Apple is better, that's a jokable and trollish fanboy premise).

So, thinking about two systems, x86/64, same internal components, same OS, but one is white and has fruit on the cover.

Why is one twice as good as the other, again? I'm a bit lost.

This isn't true... enthusiasts, both Apple and Android, will pay cash for a handset upgrade just because they want the latest and greatest.

People who don't care will just go on a plan with their cell provider, and upgrade either when the plan expires, or when the phone breaks or becomes so old as to be useless.

This is true, I own a Streak 5, but Dell has been absolutely terrible at providing support and Android updates to the device. They also shipped it with a completely horrendous UI called "Stage". The build quality was "OK" but not great, too. Dell just didn't properly perform in the market segment.

I will be switching to a Samsung Galaxy Note very soon, and there's quite a buzz about that tablet, and most of it seems to be simply because Samsung knows how to do Android well.

I had a Motorola e1000 way before the iphone came out. It shared many of the design elements of modern smartphones, but didn't have the available technology to make it work.

Nonetheless, Motorola can't sue Apple for that because, dum de dum, the design elements are generic and can't be patented.

Well that will mean that he met his objectives that he set for himself, and christians wasted their lives running madly after something written by deluded monks as a popular control mechanism just before the dark ages hit.

Pleased to meet you. I'm an atheist with lasting meaning in my life.

I believe that the universe is all there is. That alone has significant meaning. I realise the true nature of life as a function of biological principles, and understand the numinous nature of nature itself. To anyone scientifically literate, this also provides a very rich and comforting framework of "meaning".

The important difference, is that my meaning is based on reproducible and testable evidence.

That's precisely what the church does. Find a christian who cuts the hair at the sides of their head, and then explain to them that by their own moral standards, they are sinners and an affront to their own God.

But it's convenient to cut the hair at the sides of the head, even though it's forbidden in Leviticus, so christianity morally adjusted to ignore their own doctrine.

What you will find is that of all people, atheists are the ones who change their chosen moral codes least of all.

I disagree. I've found it quite easy. When presented with Christian values, I had a tendency to question them, and when given an unsatisfactory answer, to question further.

The failure of any religious person as I was growing up to provide answers to straightforward and reasonable questions is what put me on the path to atheism, reason, and science.

Yes it is. It's just as meaningful and valuable as teaching people how to reason, so they may put aside dangerous myths and superstitions.

This is a fallacy often used by the unenlightened religious, based on the axiom that the only morality in the world must have been given to humans by the divine. Unfortunately, before you can assert that morality only comes from God, you're going to need to provide direct and concrete evidence of his existence.

Atheist morality is just as artificial as this whole God thing that many people have been brainwashed into believing without any reasonable evidence.

At least when an atheist does something "nice", you know it's not because he's afraid he's going to hell. It's an actual genuine choice, unhindered by iron age myth.

Which, lacking any other qualification, directly asserts that the crime of worshipping any other god before the jewish god is as bad, or slightly worse (due to order of precedence) than committing murder.

Rape on the other hand isn't even on the list, but on the other hand, copyright infringement isn't on the list either.

Which is a shame because if the bible was copyrighted, the world would be a much better place.