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I'm not sure if I should be offended or proud or sick to my stomach for all of this posting.

Here is the text of my 1000th post.
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This is my 1000th post on /. After 1000 posts I've learned that language is quite possibly the most horrible invention known to man. It can be used for good... but mostly, as demonstrated here, it's a microscope into the human mind... the self-absorbed, illogical, ignorant, dumb, arrogant, fragile, and generally horrifying human mind. Read posts here long enough and you think... what a bunch of dumb asses. Yeah, there are a few smart ones or people with strong opinions and the intelect and facts to back those opinions up... but the vast majority of the public (here and elsewhere) can be safely classified as "the unwashed masses". Couple language with a communication tool like the Internet that allows these unwashed morons to meet likeminded idiots and spew their ill concieved and self-indulgent opinions upon the rest of the unwashed hordes and you have a recipe for... well whatever it's a recipe for it makes me ill.

So after 1000 posts I give you this bit of wisdom... shut up, it is statisically likely that you will save yourself from looking like a complete ass.

Until /. has electrolytes it's not safe for your consumption.

Slashdotters have earned their reputation as biased arrogant idiots (not me, see wikipedia). It's predictable. Post a Microsoft story... foaming a the mouth, "MS is evil", "MS sucks", "Bloatware", "OO is better", "I like the command line way of doing it better because it's like really open source, dude!". Lame, just plane lame.

5/23 - I've now learned that Ticketmaster will ellict a response of "Pearl Jam", "Evil", "Monopoly" and other ignorant responses from the unwashed illeterate masses.

Seriously... wouldn't it have been awesome if in feudal Japan they would have had airships, and the ninjas would quitely drop down from those airships onto their unsuspecting enemies below using a myriad of long ropes? And if they could make the airships out of kevlar I think that would stop the shurikens.

Calling out ad hominem attacks on /. is all the rage these days... well maybe not, maybe I'm just noticing it more or maybe it's gotten so bad people are growing tired of it and calling out the morons who rely on it.

Anyways... /. is a veritable petri dish of logical fallacies. Logic professor's should send their students here for class assignments... see how many logical fallacies you can identify in their natural habitat.

I'm not perfectly logical myself... I try to be... or at least try to be reasonable and understand when I've made an argument that isn't defensible. Anyways, if you're interested in learning more about logical fallacies and improving your arguments check out this website.