| TimJim |
09-02-2009 09:52 AM |
guys satan loves Apple:
http://www.churchofsatan.com/home.html
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=4][B][SIZE=7]S[/SIZE][/B][SIZE=4]oon after the birth of this website in January 1999 c.e., we decided to make a tribute to the company that manufactures the computers and the operating system which we love—[B]Apple Computer (http://www.apple.com/)[/B].[/SIZE][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=4]So, to this end we were inspired by Apple’s advertising campaign which featured images of famous individuals, all of whom had a hand in changing the direction of the thoughts of their contemporaries. Specifically, each image was a black and white photograph of one such personage. Over that backgound was superimposed one of the “rainbow” Apple logos, along with the ungrammatical, but catchy, phrase, “Think different.” Therefore, since the Church of Satan is an organization which was founded on the premise of supporting thought that moves beyond herd strictures, and as the man who founded the organization and its philosophy of creative iconoclasm, Anton Szandor LaVey, was an ardent supporter and exclusive user of Apple Computer’s products and services — he owned a classic Mac, a Performa, a desktop Power Macintosh, and several PowerBooks — we thought that it would be more than appropriate to make a gentle parody of Apple’s ad campaign. By using an image of LaVey and super-imposing the logo and “Think Different” phrase, we arrived at a perfect tribute to Apple Computer’s products and their alleged support of iconoclasm.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=4]Additionally, we came across a web site, [B]Made With Macintosh[/B] (http://www-tech.mit.edu/Macmade/), that encouraged support of Apple Computer by offering “ web badges” which contained the phrase “Made with Macintosh,” as well as one of Apple’s logos. Their site instructed those who had made sites on an Apple computer, particularly those with outstanding content, to prominently display any of the badges which they offer, as well as the option of creating one[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=4]s own badge, so long as the badge was linked back to their site. We felt that our participation in this program was certainly appropriate, as www.churchofsatan.com was generated entirely on a Macintosh computer, and it had been recognized with an award by [B]AvatarSearch[/B] (http://www.avatarsearch.com/index.html). We proudly included, beneath our tribute/parody — which was linked to Apple Computer’s official website — a “Made with Macintosh” web badge. And so these remained until today, 6 February, 2001.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=4]During the two years that these items were on our site, we received no complaints from anyone who stopped by to take a look. In fact, visitors asked if there might be a poster available of our parody (we answered in the negative) and some even expressed to us that they thought it a pity that Apple Computer itself had not had the “testicular fortitude” to have used the image of American religious pioneer Anton Szandor LaVey in their actual campaign.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=4]We did receive one note of complaint, not from a visitor to our site but from a law firm representing Apple computer, claiming trademark infringement. We replied in detail, explaining the above, and we did not hear back from them for over a year. We recently received an e-mail, a more complete fax transmission, as well as a hard copy via snail-mail from the law firm Arent Fox with a new complaint, not quite identical to the earlier mail received from a different law firm. We have below reproduced our reply that was sent as a faxed document and it quotes the pertinent text from their complaint.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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