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Matthew Teets wrote:
> I agree, I'm getting tired of a certain amount of the population spewing off
> whenever they get an unwanted request. I can only imagine that these peoples
> neighbors must go nuts listening to these people checking their mailboxes each
> night and going into a screaming tantrum because of the junk mail they have
> received. Of course there is also the variation of "I got on the highway and
> EVERYONE ELSE was clogging it up" or "I went to MY favorite store and EVERYONE
> ELSE bought all the new sets."
I'm getting tired of a certain amount of the population endorsing an entirely
wasteful and abusive business tactic for their own petty and selfish goals. I
don't care for your attitude, nor for your "gimme" mentality.
Your argument amuses me, Teets, since I haven't had any complaints from my
neighbors as I go into a nightly tantrum over spam or clogged roads. In fact,
this is the first time I've heard of such tantrums. Or perhaps you dare to
discern the nature of my motives prior to discussing them. Please elaborate
-- or get off my back.
> I've been guilty of this myself before and
> have repented. This is the cost of living in civilization folks, people who
> refuse this price have a name: hermits. Choose your camp then get into it.
Hey, name-calling. How original. :-(
I have chosen my "camp", and I have very good and logical reasons for doing
so. The main reason is cost-shifting; I personally pay, in cash, for
spammers' advertisments, while the spammers get all the moentary rewards. The
market implications from this precedent are staggering -- how's that for a
"cost of living in civilization" for you?
I could go into greater depths, but I fear that rational discussion of the
effects of abusive enterprise and clogging up of the Internet would be lost on
the likes of you.
In fact, it is because of the likes of you that I can understand why some have
already left LUGNET. Which is sad, since I feel that I have contributed much
to this online society.
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Never leave a ferret to do a bunny's job.
- Bun Bun
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