Just a few hours ago I was lurking on a telnet BBS, and I saw this message:
Subj: Re: Dovenet
| To : Gandolf
| From: Newtown #53
| Date: Tue Dec 23 2008 11:06 am EST
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Re: Re: Dovenet
By: Gandolf to Newtown on Mon Dec 22 2008 09:52 pm

> >(THIS IS MY POST) Just because there is some limit to free speech doesn't mean you hate 1st.
> > Not
> > all speech is protected by the 1st anyways. (Although I am very
> > anti-censorship). "I wanna "place immature saying here" isn't protected,
> > although serious disscussion of sexual matters is.
> >
> > And to Lightman: I'm a teen my self and it's quite hard to offend me.
>
>(THIS IS THE AGEIST'S POST) I love teenagers. They think they know everything.
> Here's a few lessons from Bill Gates.
>
> RULE 1 - Life is not fair; get used to it.
>
> RULE 2 - The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect
> you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
>
> RULE 3 - You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high
> school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.
>
> RULE 4 - If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He
> doesn't have tenure.
>
> RULE 5 - Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had
> a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
>
> RULE 6 - If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault; so don't whine about
> your mistakes, learn from them.
>
> RULE 7 - Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are
> now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and
> listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain
> forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try "delousing" the
> closet in your own room.
>
> RULE 8 - Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life
> has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give
> you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the
> slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
>
> RULE 9 - Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and
> very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on
> your own time.
> RULE 10 - Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to
> leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
>
> RULE 11 - Be nice to nerds. Chances are you could end up working for one.
>
> In essence.... your opinion doesn't count.
> Why?
> Because the vast majority of people who write on these boards have been to
> the school of hard knocks. (AKA real life.) You, on the other hand, still
> need to clean your room that your parents are paying the mortgage on.
>

My reply:
I love most adults because they are ageist crooks who dismiss a younger
person's point or opinion because of their age and "they don't know what
they're talking about". How well.

1.I know life isn't fair. I know you can't always get your way. That's why Bush
is president.

2&3. And you thought I didn't know that?

4. At least people can choose what job they want.
Abnd the rest: I'm not your "stereotypical MTV loving teen". I could give less
of a crap about TV, I have a life, and I'm proud when I'm called a geek.
And for crissake, I don't think I'm the best person in the world.