so you're saying you don't have any fetishes (even as simple as saying you're an "ass-", "tit-" or "leg-man"? you've never looked at free porn? you've never downloaded a file from a file-sharing program? you've never defended something you support, or don't support via an email or a message board (well, you just did...)

i sense jealousy- you're not capable of writing code. you don't have the body to make money in the internet porn biz.

here's what i think:
12 year olds download free shit because, well, they don't have the means to buy anything. i mean, i mowed lawns when i was a kid. but i couldn't by a few cds a week on it, that's for sure.

people have fetishes. all kinds. and if they're not projecting them onto you, then leave them alone.

everybody has their "thing". i ride bikes. i play guitar. some kid has his computer and that's what he does. most of them do not write viruses. there are a few, sure, but it's rare.

if i knew i could make good money on the internet by posing for a few pics, i'd consider it! it's better than what i do now!

people buy into products, ideologies, politicians, businessmen, etc. all the time- again, most don't go around spewing their mouths about it. and if you believed in something, and had a strong opinion about something, you'd spread the word, too. or maybe you're not educated enough to know any better.

sadly, you're right about the illiterate youth. it's depressing. but i have a fair amount of friends who are teachers, and a lot of the blame can be placed on apathetic parents. even some teachers don't give a shit about the students. they're there for their summers off.

i'm not attacking you for anything you wrote- you're entitled to your opinion (and you're entitled to post it on the internet, too!) but it's not the internet's fault (or Al Gore's, since we know he invented it wink ) that people have decided to make use of it however they feel like. it's an open forum for information, whether it be good or bad. whatever you don't like, don't visit. i'm making a lot of generalizations, but then, so did you.

and the costs are actually coming down, considering web hosts used to start in the $15-20 range. i know of a web host offering $7-9 reliable service. you must use AOhelL- they're still outrageously overpriced.