Comment by pyeri
3 years ago
>> So the temp files are still identified, but anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart enough to know that calling the developer will not help get rid of the file.
Building illuminati lairs now, are we!
It's called barrier to entry. The world was better when there was a higher barrier to do things like, e.g., buying a plane ticket or getting on the internet. The word for how people who had the means and/or knowledge to do these things and comport themselves appropriately under the circumstances they encountered was "class".
Right, it was better when only those who deserved it could fly or get on the internet.
And the definition of “deserved it” is “having more money than everyone else”.
Who cares if that money was made by exploiting people or selling shonky goods or breaking promises or tricking people or otherwise being an asshole?
Go on, take that flight. Buy that shiny thing. You worked hard for that money. You’re better than they are. You deserve it.
/S
I disagree. What made eternal september so painful was lack of intelligence, not lack of money. It is only a correlation that poor people also tend to be less educated. I don't care if my chatroom is flooded by people with just a little money, but I feel it very much if average IQ drops by 40 points, suddenly.
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Oh, /s indeed.
No, no. Getting on the internet wasn't based on having money for it. It was based on figuring out how to wire a 300 bps modem to a phone receiver. And to do that you needed a bit of a brain. And you likely weren't going to use it to share photos of your boo and shop for your next sugar-whatever, or share your dumb recipes. If you were capable of doing it, you might have valid opinions about what was going on in the world that would be worth debating or comparing with others... and anyway, there wasn't enough bandwidth for you to be both a blank, ignorant serf and to have your brain hijacked by masses of political operatives. No, the economy of scale just hadn't developed yet to deem the opinions of each individual member of the uneducated mass to be worth the effort of advertising to [each one] separately at the time.
[edit] Also, I'm assuming you can afford now to be on the internet and to take flights, so why can't you simply show the same amount of class that people showed when it was more difficult for them and they had to act a bit better to do so? Would that be too much to ask? Or is being a slob and intellectual degenerate some sort of proof that you're morally superior by way of being poor and not needing material things? You do realize that no matter what era we live in, the rich have nicer, shinier toys, right? What I meant by "class" was, as I said, the way you choose to comport yourself; it has nothing whatsoever to do with money.
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