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some poor fellow is going to spend time that he could be using to cure cancer...

Wait til you hear about “forums” on the web.

People spend an incredible amount of time arguing about things in “comments”, when they could be curing cancer.

No, people don't argue about stuff on web forums. That's crazy.

I respectfully disagree, some do.

How dare you disagree? Now I will start a completely unrelated rant about how disagreement is the root cause of all evil and is indeed the real scourge on the face of the earth. (And not multiple programming languages, that some poor soul is falsely led to believe. Just think about it, we have more than one programming language because a misguided fellow disagreed that rocks and stones are the ideal way to program. So you see that disagreement is the reason why we have so many programming languages today. It's always a disagreement that brings suffering and pain.)

Wait, wait, hold on. How dare you disagree with my disagreement and deflect back to programing languages to make a point. Now I am going to read your post carefully and point out spelling and grammar mistakes - but before I do that I have to spend some extra time making sure my post is free of them.

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