Insightfull? The horrible assumptions made here were almost beyond counting:
1)"Over the course of the past couple of years, this community has deteriorated from an intelligent online discussion forum to a veritable cornucopia of goat trolls and first posts. Common sense dictates that the majority of this crap is coming from uneducated, lower-class people at the very bottom of the wage scale."
Why do you have to be a low wage earner to be a troll? By this logic, you're a low wage earner...
2)"It bothers me to see people boast about running Linux and 'not having to pay one penny for software.'"
What's wrong with trying to save a little money? Maybe they're trying to become one of these upper-class intelligent rich people you seem to envision as the upholders of all that is good...
3)"If I could be getting 5K/sec more if it weren't for freeloaders, I consider that stolen bandwidth.. bandwidth that is being hijacked from me and from the hundreds of thousands of other legitimate Internet users that get their access through more wholesome means."
How can you consider this hijacking of your bandwidth? I'm fairly sure that these sites you visit were'nt designed for the sole puprose of serving ignorant people like yourself, so they were meant for other people to access them, no matter how much they pay for their ISP...
I could go on and on, but I'll just quickly summarize what's been said above: nothing.
While I would agree with you, isn't it interesting that the word for a person "whose sole purpose is to incite argument" is a troll? This points to the link between those in technological fields and fantasy literature, such as Tolkien's.
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Insightfull? The horrible assumptions made here were almost beyond counting: 1)"Over the course of the past couple of years, this community has deteriorated from an intelligent online discussion forum to a veritable cornucopia of goat trolls and first posts. Common sense dictates that the majority of this crap is coming from uneducated, lower-class people at the very bottom of the wage scale." Why do you have to be a low wage earner to be a troll? By this logic, you're a low wage earner... 2)"It bothers me to see people boast about running Linux and 'not having to pay one penny for software.'" What's wrong with trying to save a little money? Maybe they're trying to become one of these upper-class intelligent rich people you seem to envision as the upholders of all that is good... 3)"If I could be getting 5K/sec more if it weren't for freeloaders, I consider that stolen bandwidth .. bandwidth that is being hijacked from me and from the hundreds of thousands of other legitimate Internet users that get their access through more wholesome means."
How can you consider this hijacking of your bandwidth? I'm fairly sure that these sites you visit were'nt designed for the sole puprose of serving ignorant people like yourself, so they were meant for other people to access them, no matter how much they pay for their ISP...
I could go on and on, but I'll just quickly summarize what's been said above: nothing.
While I would agree with you, isn't it interesting that the word for a person "whose sole purpose is to incite argument" is a troll? This points to the link between those in technological fields and fantasy literature, such as Tolkien's.