On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 13:13:00 -0400, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "mto"
<nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> On any given day there are hundreds of thousands of new computer users
> who have never heard of spyware, have no clue where the any key is, do
> not understand the term reboot and wouldn't know ftp if it bit them on
> the nose, to say nothing of the name of a specific ftp program.
>
[snip]

Quite true. But very few of them have the unmitigated effrontery to then
turn around and hold themselves out as some sort of expert, especially to
the extent of charging *real* "poor unsuspecting newbies" money (cf.
Message-ID: <vh3064j0c5to21@corp.supernews.com>) for their ill-considered
and woefully misguided "advice".

> Your supercilious attitude towards those that you misguidely imagine do
> not know as much as you misguidely imagine yourself to know ...
[snip]

Ya' know... If you like a four-syllable word enough to (mis-)use it twice
in the same run-on sentence, it might be useful for you to learn how to
spell it. Here, let me help: "misguidedly".

As for my so-called "supercilious attitude"... My contempt is reserved for
arrogant idiots such as yourself, not genuine newbies (whom I make every
effort to supply information to in a non-judgemental manner). After all,
ignorance is curable. Stupidity isn't.

--

Jay T. Blocksom
--------------------------------
Appropriate Technology, Inc.
usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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