“I still can’t find a wizard that can come up to write a program that will export my calendar from iCal so I can get into my Sidekick,” Rush Limbaugh told a caller on his radio show yesterday. “It will export it but like Thanksgiving shows up on November the 10th. Christmas shows up on March the 1st — and this is chump change! I’ve been asking somebody to write a program, because I use Apple’s iCal program, and I’ve got a Sidekick, which is the Mac version of the BlackBerry, and I keep my calendar and all the contact data on the computer. I want to I export it to my Sidekick so I can have it when I take it with me, and it just can’t be done — and a simple triple click? I’m about to the point of offering serious money for somebody could do it.”
“I’m now getting deluged with e-mail from people who have found for me a program iCal to Sidekick. I have that program, and it is a program that goes back to 2002. People are sending me the web address for VersionTracker. It’s a great website out there to get the latest version of software for the Mac OS or for anything else, and I have iCal to Sidekick. But the Mac OS has been, you know, revved and upgraded many times since iCal to Sidekick came out in December of 2002 — and the author, the lazy bum author of iCal the Sidekick, has not revved his program. It’s still a beta that came out in December 2002. Now, it did work for a while. It worked for a while, but all of a sudden the Mac OS gets updated and now dates… It’s really… I really don’t want to spend all this time talking because most people don’t know what I’m talking about here,” Limbaugh said.
“I’ll just tell you this: All-day events, whatever calendar I have — home, work, moon phase, whatever — if I list it as an all-day event like holidays or listed all day events rather than a specific start ask stop time all day events show up on totally inaccurate dates that make no sense. Christmas is on February 3rd, you know, and so I’ve been trying to get a new rev of this. There’s no new rev. There may be now that I’m publicly whining about it, but there hasn’t been up till now. So this rev hasn’t been done. I’ve been seeking programmers for a price to commission my own program. I’m just mentioned all this because this is a simple one, and look how difficult it is to make work,” Limbaugh said.
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Rush Limbaugh: Why does Apple put politics first? – June 27, 2003
Rush Limbaugh comments on Gored Apple – March 21, 2003
you guys are amazing. The LIBERALS are more hate filled? good god. that’s the entire foundation of the neo-con political principle. thrive on hate and fear, and completely ignore the evidence and reality. oh yeah, and lie constantly, with assurance, then out of the other side of your mouth, say how much more “Moral” you are.
yeah… that’s it, it’s all those evil liberals. don’t let the facts interfere, whatever you do.
PS: I agree, as much as I personally think Limbaugh is a dirt-bag hypocrite, it was wrong for whoever toslam him based on weight. I would point out, however, that the website [url=http://www.fuckthesouth.com]http://www.fuckthesouth.com[/url] is obviously intended tongue in cheek. perhaps over the top, but it was intended as humor. sorry you didn’t notice.
Joe,
You wintel using rascal. You do have one redeeming trait.
You are a conservative.
“”http://fuckthesouth.com/”
Nah, that’s not hate, that’s frustration from paying out what amounts to Red State welfare to a bunch of unnappreciative, ignorant redneck faux christians, that’s what it is.
Nice comments on “literally” chris and ly. I’m literally sick of people using “literally” incorrectly (and redundantly). I’m literally going to the bathroom to literally puke.
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p.s, I’m wanted to use “literally fed up” but I didn’t know how to finish
Urban legends sure do persist.
Al Gore did not invent the Internet, but never claimed so either. What he says he claimed, and what is reasonably true, is that he was the one most instrumental in making the Internet what it is today. As chairman of the Senate committee that handled technology (I forget its name), he pushed for legislation that expanded DARPAnet (the original Internet) way beyond its very limited university and research uses. Without him, only a few folks would be using the Internet today, the ones (like me) who used it in the late 70s and 80s. (Yes, there was E-mail, news, and FTP back then but not the world wide web.)
Gore was also responsible for getting the government (the NSF) OUT of the Internet backbone business and allowing private enterprise to expand the size and bandwidth of the current system. As a reward for his good work in this area, Gore has largely suffered, smeared with negative political charges.
Ark…
Perhaps you’re right. It just doesn’t explain what I see and what I hear. The rhetoric from the left is often extremely angry and violent, like “fuckthesouth.com.” Perhaps you think it’s tongue and cheek, like all the calls for the President to be assassinated, the name calling and so on. I live in Hollywood, my next door neighbor put a Bush/Cheny sticker on her car. I cautioned her about it. Sure enough, some loving left winger keyed her car from front to back and scratched FUCK BUSH on the hood.
This is the kind of hate I see from the left. Again, being black, I have felt respected and welcomed by the right. The left makes me feel inferior, as if I have to live in a certain box, a category. I am incapable since I am black and without the Democratic party, I can’t even find a job. It’s the most insidious kind of racism.
I’m tellin ya ark, the left needs to take a good long hard look in the mirror and get progressive on themselves.
Well, good thing they decided to avoid picking a politically-controversial figure like Al Gore who has publicly ranted “He betrayed this country! He played on our fears!” in a Howard Dean-style screaming voice. He sounded like he had lost his mind.
If Apple and Al Gore were smart, they could make a commercial playing off the whole “let’s reach across party lines” news theme. Even better, some kind of large payment to the Beatles to settle that lawsuit and get the rights to “Come Together” (which has been used by others in commercials), and do a big event where Rush Limbaugh and Al Gore meet and discover they BOTH thinks Macs are great – maybe even have Paul McCartney show up, too.
F*ck Al Gore. What a loser! As are all Democrats this election. Thank God! Al Gore did not invent the internet or even help with it. Complete BS.
Rush Limbaugh is AWESOME!!!!!!! We need more people he and Sean Hannity! They expose these left wing liberals for the lying scum that they are. No wonder the left hates these guys so much.
Ned..you are welcome:)
“All glory and paise to Allah”
Cleric jim
“Thank God! Al Gore did not invent the internet or even help with it. Complete BS.”
Ned is DEAD wrong.
How about some facts?
On CNN’s Wolf Blitzer show (March 9, 1999) Gore said, ” During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet” meaning the new expanded Internet.
AP, on March 11, 1999, had the item that Gore “was the leader in Congress on the connections between data transmission and computing power, what we call information technology. And those efforts helped to create the Internet that we know today.”
Almost always, Gore is today quoted WITHOUT the context and the introductory prefix about service in congress, just as Bush is widely quoted as saying he’s not worried about Osama or that we’ll never win the war on terrorism. Context is everything, Ned.
Get a grip, OK?
FACE IT: The nation is bitterly divided by hate ON BOTH SIDES. How did this happen on GW’s watch? Should he be held accountable for such a huge shift in the nations pysche? Accountable, George Bush? That would be something new…
“A house divided against itself cannot stand”
– Abraham Lincoln
“A house divided against itself will help me win the election”
– George Bush
…F*ck Al Gore. What a loser! As are all Democrats this election…
What a loving comment from the Compassionate Conservative right.
Kimmy…You mean by telling it like it is oh say the whole “�ll junkies are garbage” type stuff? Followed by the “Oops well not ALL junkies are garbage” follow up?
Sort of like the Fat/Skinny Oprah shows when she is fat she does a hey fat is cool show and when she is skinny she does a skinny is cool show.
“All glory and praise to Allah”
Cleric jim
Rush could help sell alot of apple products to the red states!! Both right & left can agree that apple has the best products.
To G-Spank and all other liberals:
Here’s a link for ya:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15923
P.S. Conservatives and Republicans can read the link, too.
from the article:
Leftists should feel right at home in our socialistic, gun-banning, gay-marrying, speech-suppressing, multicultural-worshiping neighbor to the north. If we could exchange our liberals for their conservatives, it would be perfect.
Nice source there moosemeat. Keep on reading those “news” sources and you’ll be sure to not learn a thing…
Hey meat!
I read some of that, but lost interest not long into it. I’m curious just what is an eBrigade?
I’ll give you fanatics one thing you are well organized and do tend to walk in step very well. Me I’m not a team player in the least. If we ever do come under attack and I am forced to defend myself and my family…I would not choose to join in any miltary (cause I can’t take orders worth a blank) but I’d pick one of my many long range weapons and simply go out and shoot those who treaten me..I like working alone anyway.
However I will admit there is something to be said for this ant conlony mentality. Everyone jumping into work for a common cause. Still being an ant is not all that apealing too me.
Call me crazy (It won’t be the first nor the last time) but I need no bible, nor god, nor preacher, or leader to tell me how I should think or what is right and wrong. I already know these things…and I much prefer to think for myself.
“Every single day I wake asking and expecting NOTHING from life, and each day I am pleasantly surprised by what I get”
Pagan jim
G spank, how silly to cherry pick quotes. Very Olbermanish of you.
Being a conservative from a blue county in a blue state, I know a lot about the hate that liberals feel for those that don’t agree with them. Owning a TV only reinforces my knowledge. I was very happy to see the election pass, and was almost hoping that Kerry would win, since the whining resultant after Bush’s win is predictable and wearing, and, indeed, there isn’t that much difference to be had no matter who is president. However, it is worth bearing the whining to put off the success of Rather, Springsteen, Kennedy, Moore et. al. for another four years.
Al, I can hit a curve ball too!
we [in the blue states] have a right to be bitter…i live in nyc, we faced the most horrible terror attack and who did we vote for? it wasn.t W. why should a bunch of wing-nut, red-necks get to decide my future? the re-election of W makes a terror attack more likely…ask anyone who lives here. i.m pissed now, but when the next tower comes down, i.ll lead the charge for nyc sucession…i wish the south would.ve won the f’ing civil war.
Thanks for the cool example!
this too: http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/11375003p-12289516c.html
I like this one a lot, even JFK gets hammered by this guy: http://www.progressive.org/webex04/wx1103a04.html
i cant find the link to a little test done by some conservative who wore a Kerry/Edwards t shirt around a red county and a Bush/Cheney tee around downtown NY. His unscientific results were A) disinterest concerning the former and B) 120 octane vitriol concerning the later, including spitting, threats, uncountable middle fingers etc. Of course NYers are known to be up front about stuff, but even my stoned out neighbors got quite excercised about displays of Repubicanism. (Not mine btw, I fly under the radar).
Joe, I didn’t “cherry pick”, the quote reflected quite accurately the tone of the entire article. The fact that you want to defend a “news” source like this says something about your convictions. If you want to use logic (and I think you do), don’t choose that source as your battleground.
As for your perception about liberals “whining”, well what can I say. I mean, the conservatives know that 98% of the media is made of a liberal elite, and hey all they can do is WHINE WHINE WHINE about it. But that’s my perception of the whiny conservatives.
No matter who was elected, the other side would whine. The fact is, your Georgie boy has won the election, and now let’s see how great a job he continues to do running this country. He’s your man, and you have the credit if he does great things for the country, or the disgrace if he runs it into the ground. Let’s see what Health Care looks like in 4 years, what our Deficit is in 4 years, what our Foreign Policy will have accomplished/wrecked in 4 years, and what our Economy is doing in 4 years.
Good luck…
Rush should just be a little patient. The Sync Services that are coming with Tiger (10.4) should make this sort of thing easier. Tiger should give the any programmer the ability to add devices to sync.