Joel Hainley : San Francisco Bay Area Software Consultant

I found the posting below on slashdot. It is specific to slashdot, but it sums up my conclusions on the state of all online forums. Link To Original Post On Slashdot Posted below for your convenience.

Doug,

If you weren’t aware of it before, you probably know it by now. Anything interesting or useful that rears its head on Slashdot will likely be ripped to shreds by what has quickly become the nets most vicious and petty peanut gallery.

Slashdottians know nothing, they accomplish nothing, and their opinions are worth nothing. They are uniformly bitter, small-minded geeks who overestimate their own importance and their own skillz. They are, for the most part, losers. Their biggest accomplishment is in insulting others’ spelling and grammar, attacking the GPL license despite their grade level understanding of it, and tricking people into clicking on goatse.cx links. They are know-it-all blowhards who use their computers primarily for Pornography and online gaming, at which they cheat regularly to offset their complete lack of motor skills.

Despite touting the wonderous greatness of linux and open source, they all use Windows and Internet Explorer. They like Macs because of OSX, but want it to run on X86 so they can steal a copy and give nothing back. They will eventually buy a Mac due to their inability to run Windows without crashing it constantly by their own stupidity, and become raving unbalanced lunatics who do more harm than good for the Mac community by claiming that the G4 is quadruple the speed of a dual 3Ghz Xeon box.

They lie about their own experience to make their case, and when you win an argument with them, they post anonymously in order to tell you they’ve had sex with your mother.

Don’t become a regular here, you will become retarded.

Signed,
Yoda the Retard

I was in a liquor store this morning on my way to work. ( getting a water..it was damned hot this morning ), and got into line behind a woman/girl and her ~ 18 month old son. She was buying a small gatorade ( a lot of HFCS in that crap ), and a small bottle of water, and she asked for a lottery scratch off ticket, whatever those are called. ( i’ve bought six of them in my lifetime, the sixth one resulted in $100 payout, so i quit playing while I was ahead )

Anyways, she’s got her gatorade, water, scratcher thing. The cashier gives her the total somewhere under $4. She hands him an American Express card, he runs the card. Declined. She says ok i’ll be right back, and grabs the kid and leaves. Apoo and I make our exchange for the water and I hit the door to get to work, and air conditioning, as i’m walking across the parking lot, I see our friend from inside the door digging under her floor mats in her car counting change. GEEZUS!

If you can’t put $4 on you AMEX you need to stop and think about what that means, not go digging under your floor mats.