I made a real point about a dishonest poster, and someone thought is was necessary to attempt to censor me.
Well, when he claimed that "taking someone's education away and forcing them to be blue collar" when preventing student from getting student loans, I have to say I was insulted.
And rightly so I think. My education involved no student loans. I suspect there is a significant amount of the audience that is in the same boat.
So, again, when I saw him claiming something that many of the readers know to be false, and then to see it so highly moderated when his central point is just wrong, I was again insulted.
So, I spoke, and apparently, someone thought it was a "troll". Well, my point was valid, so that's not it. Was it the language?
Well, adults speak here. Sometimes, when confronting others who are engaging in dishonesty, we say things with sharp points on them. Modding someone down for that is a misuse of your points and you should be ashamed.
In short, I said something that is 100% correct, in a tone that expressed my appropriate distaste for a case of misrepresentation, and you felt it was necessary to, what, punish me? Pretend you're my mom and chastise me for naughty language?
HOW DARE YOU?
There's a REAL point here, that your ham handed moderation ignores.
MANY MANY COLLEGE GRADUATES HAVE NEVER HAD A STUDENT LOAN, AND IT IS NEITHER IMPOSSIBLE NOR PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT TO BE ONE OF SAID GRAUDATES.
Which OP presumes is not possible when he incorrectly claims "taking someone's education away and forcing them to be blue collar" is the result of not having student loans.
He was wrong.
And so was your moderation, and your attempt to censor me.
That is certainly true, but it would be interesting to see if there is some sort of periodicity, particularly considering that there are many different annual events and cycles that could affect insurgencies and the way that they plan and carry out attacks. The 2.5 exponent may be completely unrelated to the year, but it is interesting that it does roughly correspond to an order of magnitude larger attack on roughly annual timescales.
Let us interested Americans pool resources and start a nation wide non-profit cellphone company where we can all do as we please or where we can all utilize resources according to predetermined policies.
It would not be that hard.
Or, we could take over an existing company like Metro then do as we please. We surely can raise a few billion dollars, can't we?
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.