Why are people rude and only sometimes helpful on this forum?

It might be because some people put their entire message in their post title so the post itself becomes redundant.

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> It might be because some people put their entire
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The purpose of doing this is inorder to bring clarity to thought since many posts on this forum run on and on with gramatical; punctuation, and speling errors like I am right now so the reason for having the title and the message the same is to GET THE POINT ACCROSS. (I hopes this questions your answer).

That's the cost of freedom.

Any board with no moderation and total freedom will be like this.

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thisisajokeright Wrote:
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> Hi, welcome to the internet. Are you new here?


No, I invented the Internet.

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Driver charged with $6,000 in tolls on 495 Express Lanes

Thursday - 3/13/2014, 6:15am  ET


By Ari Ashe

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MCLEAN, Va. -- A Fairfax County, Va. man who commutes on the 495 Express Lanes each day was sent a court summons and told he'd have to pay $6,000 in tolls, penalties and fees, WTOP Ticketbuster has learned.

Todd Metheny commutes from Springfield to McLean. He says the trip often took more than an hour on the Capital Beltway, but now takes less than 20 minutes on the 495 Express Lanes. But in January 2013, a problem with his E-ZPass account caused an overdraft in his account.

"I got a letter in the mail saying, 'We weren't able to charge you for the toll, shame on you. Take care of it immediately. Future violations will result in administrative penalties.' But by the time I got it, the future already happened," says Metheny.

He says he called Transurban in late January, in February and in April of 2013. Each time, he sent documents from his E-ZPass account to Transurban, the private company that operates the 495 Express Lanes in a public-private partnership with the Commonwealth of Virginia.

But in mid-April, Metheny received a collections letter from Transurban. He called Transurban again on April 24.

"When I got the collections letter, I realized that about $11 now turned into nearly $800 in fines. I came unglued. Pick a word and I probably used it," says Metheny.

Transurban agreed to research his case and call him back. But the agency never did. Metheny continued to use the 495 Express Lanes in 2013 and early 2014 without a problem. He says he didn't hear anything from Transurban and assumed the agency just took the money out of his E-ZPass account.

But two weeks ago, Metheny opened up his mailbox and found six summons to appear in Fairfax County District Court for the last week in March. Transurban was taking him to court because he went six months in collections without paying.

"My math was that I was going to pay $4,800. But I found out after speaking with a customer service representative that the total fees and penalties at court would be about $6,000. It shocked me beyond belief. That's when I was floored and besides myself. I didn't know what to do. I was scared," says Metheny.

Transurban offered him a settlement of $1,100 to avoid court, but he declined and asked to speak to a supervisor. He also contacted WTOP Ticketbuster.

"I could have just brushed it under the rug. I could have ignored their correspondence. I called, asked them what they needed, called again, gave them documents, told them how to reach me. But I heard nothing, nothing at all," he says.

Transurban spokesman Mike McGurk says Transurban dropped the ball. He denies that Metheny called before April 2013, but agrees that a customer service representative agreed to research his case and promised to call him back.

"We certainly regret the error. We've looked into our notes and it shows the supervisor agreed to follow up via email within 48 hours. Mr. Metheny requested to have someone call him, so we agreed to have someone call him. I'm not sure why the supervisor didn't make the call, but clearly we did not hold up our promise," says McGurk.

Last week, Transurban agreed to rescind the six court summons against Metheny and start over again from the point where the communication breakdown occurred.

"Recognizing that Mr. Metheny was awaiting a call back from our supervisor to close out his case - which is why he would not take action to pay the invoices, thus why the invoices continued to escalate - we will pull him out of the courts. We will also pull him from collections. In acknowledgment of our mistake in failing to follow up with a supervisor phone call to close out the issue with Mr. Metheny, we will pull him back to the fee he was facing on the second invoice," says McGurk.

Transurban called Metheny on Tuesday, apologized, and offered to settle with Metheny for $200. Metheny agreed to the deal and his case is closed.

"It was a very scary thought that I would be in court for something so convenient. All in all it has been an eye-opening experience and I am glad this has been put behind me," says Metheny.

He says he'll continue to use the 495 Express Lanes each day, but will be more careful to make sure his E-ZPass account is replenished and his credit card is updated and active.

"The vast majority of customers are using the 495 Express Lanes the right way with a properly mounted E-ZPass and enough funds in their account. But customers should be aware that those two things are necessary.

"Customers should also be aware that E-ZPass and the 495 Express Lanes are not the same thing. If you ever have a problem, you should call us at Transurban before it goes into collections," says McGurk.

If you think you're the victim of a bogus speed camera, red-light camera or parking ticket in D.C., Maryland or Virginia, WTOP may be able to help you cut the red tape. Email WTOP your case - along with documentation - to ticketbuster@wtop.com.

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Why are people rude Wrote:
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> Why are people rude and only sometimes helpful on
> this forum?


Because human beings are inherently sinful, and the anonymity (and accessibility) of the Internet brings this to light in ways previous not possible, since all behavioral restraints usually caused by social ostracization are chucked out the window.

"Why are people rude and only sometimes helpful on this forum?

Because the internet allows anonymity. Because I suspect many of the posters on this site are fifteen year old males suffering from a surge in testosterone.

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> "Why are people rude and only sometimes helpful on
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> Because the internet allows anonymity. Because I
> suspect many of the posters on this site are
> fifteen year old males suffering from a surge in
> testosterone.


updated 9:41 PM EDT 03.13.14
Search for plane expands to Indian Ocean
By Barbara Starr, Jim Sciutto and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
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(CNN) - It's a mystery that authorities still haven't been able to solve: Where is Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?

There were still more questions than answers Thursday as U.S. officials said investigators will start combing the Indian Ocean as they look for the missing aircraft.

Why would authorities expand their search rather than narrowing it?

New information, U.S. officials told CNN, indicates the missing airplane could have flown for several hours beyond the last transponder reading.

Malaysian authorities believe they have several "pings" from the airliner's service data system, known as ACARS, transmitted to satellites in the four to five hours after the last transponder signal, suggesting the plane flew to the Indian Ocean, a senior U.S. official told CNN. That information combined with known radar data and knowledge of fuel range leads officials to believe the plane may have made it to that ocean, which is in the opposite direction of the plane's original route.

"There is probably a significant likelihood" that the aircraft is now on the bottom of the Indian Ocean, the official said, citing information Malaysia has shared with the United States.

It's the latest twist in a case that's baffled investigators and grabbed global attention for days since the plane disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Information about the missing flight has been hard to come by, and numerous leads have been revealed by some officials only to be debunked by others hours later.

This new information led to a decision to move the USS Kidd into the Indian Ocean to begin searching that area, the official said.

The Navy destroyer is now on its way there at the request of the Malaysian government, Cmdr. William Marks of the U.S. 7th Fleet told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Thursday.

"We're not out here freelancing, and it's not just something the U.S. Navy thinks and no one else," Marks said. "So this was by request of the Malaysian government. They asked the Navy to move our ship to the west into the Strait of Malacca. ... It is coordinated, but certain ships and aircraft stay in the east, and some go to the west. And we're moving to the west."

It won't be easy to search such a wide area, he said. Moving into the Indian Ocean, Marks said, is like going "from a chess board to a football field."

"It's a completely new game. ... Now we have to come up with a new strategy, new tactics," he said.

Conflicting reports cloud investigation

There are conflicting reports about this latest lead as well.

Earlier Thursday the Malaysian government denied a Wall Street Journal report that the plane was transmitting data after the last transponder signal.

And a senior aviation source with detailed knowledge of the matter also told CNN's Richard Quest on Thursday that there was no technical data suggesting the airplane continued flying for four hours, and said specifically that the Wall Street Journal account was wrong.

But U.S. officials maintained Thursday afternoon that the information from the airplane's data system was being actively pursued in the plane investigation.

Analysts from U.S. intelligence, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have concluded that the pings likely came from the missing aircraft, the senior U.S. official said.

There is reason to believe the plane flew for four hours, officials said, but there is no specific indication where the plane actually is.

Multiple bursts of data were received indicating the plane was flying over the Indian Ocean, the senior U.S. official told CNN.

But there's another confusing twist. An emergency beacon that would have sent data upon impact apparently did not go off, the official said. The beacons, known as Emergency Locator Transmitters, activate automatically upon immersion in fresh or salt water, but must remain on the surface for a distress signal to transmit.

The failure of the beacon to activate could mean that the plane didn't crash, that the transmitter malfunctioned, or that it's underwater somewhere.

Mary Schiavo, former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation, said even though it's unclear how accurate the latest information is, authorities have no choice but to pursue it.

"Well I think basically given that there is some information -- how reliable or not -- we have to respond," she said. "There is no way we cannot follow up on this lead. It would be inhumane. And it might turn out to be just the lead we need. ... There isn't much, but I think we have to do it."

So are we any closer to knowing whether a mechanical problem, terrorism or hijacking could be tied to the plane's disappearance?

Not really, said Evy Poumpouras, a former Secret Service agent.

"The sad thing here is, we don't have enough information to say, 'It's not this, it's not that,'" she told CNN's Don Lemon. "We're still at the point, six days later, it could be anything, and that's the frustrating thing."

Analyst: 'Deliberate act' shut down communication

An ABC News report added another twist to the mystery Thursday evening. Citing two unnamed U.S. officials, the network said two separate communications systems on the missing aircraft were shut down separately, 14 minutes apart.

The officials told ABC they believe the plane's data reporting system was shut down at 1:07 a.m. Saturday, while the transponder transmitting location and altitude was shut down at 1:21 a.m.

"This is beginning to come together to say that ...this had to have been some sort of deliberate act," ABC aviation analyst John Nance told CNN's Erin Burnett.

White House spokesman Jay Carney didn't go into details when he discussed the search for the plane Thursday, but he said "some new information that's not necessarily conclusive" could lead U.S. searchers to the Indian Ocean.

"We are looking at information, pursuing possible leads, working within the investigation being led by the Malaysian government, and it is my understanding that one possible piece of information or collection of pieces of information has led to the possibility that a new search area may be opened," Carney said.

Originally, a report from The Wall Street Journal said data from the plane's Rolls-Royce engine had raised questions among some U.S. officials about whether the plane had been steered off course "with the intention of using it later for another purpose," the newspaper reported, citing a "person familiar with the matter."

The newspaper later corrected its story, saying that data leading investigators to believe the plane had flown for up to five hours came from the plane's satellite-communication link, which the newspaper said is "designed to automatically transmit the status of certain onboard systems to the ground."

Malaysia's acting Transportation Minister Hishammuddin Hussein rejected the Wall Street Journal report at a news conference Thursday, reiterating that the plane sent its last transmissions at 1:07 a.m. Saturday.

And Malaysia Airlines Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said that Rolls-Royce and Boeing have reported that they didn't receive transmissions of any kind after 1:07 a.m. Saturday. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane shortly afterward, around 1:30 a.m.

Erin Atan, a spokeswoman for Rolls-Royce in Asia, declined to comment on the matter, telling CNN it was "an official air accident investigation."

Authorities have not ruled out the possibility the plane continued to fly, however. And given the lack of evidence, all options remain on the table.

Four more hours in the air could have put the plane many hundreds of miles beyond the area currently being searched.

But one aviation industry observer expressed skepticism about the report even before the denials by officials.

"I find this very, very difficult to believe," Tom Ballantyne, chief correspondent for the magazine Orient Aviation, told CNN. "That this aircraft could have flown on for four hours after it disappeared and not have been picked up by someone's radar and not have been seen by anyone, it's almost unbelievable."

See more of our coverage on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Search getting harder

The mystery over the fate of the passenger jet, a Boeing 777-200, and the 239 people it was carrying has so far left government officials and aviation experts flummoxed.

"With every passing day the task becomes more difficult," Hishammuddin said.

Searchers have already been combing a vast area of sea and land for traces of the plane. But so far, after six days of searching, their efforts have been fruitless.

The news came after Vietnamese and Chinese search crews found nothing where Chinese satellite photographs released Wednesday showed large floating objects in the South China Sea.

Chinese officials originally described the images as showing "a suspected crash site" between Malaysia and Vietnam, not far from the plane's expected flight path.

But Hishammuddin later said the images didn't actually show any debris relating to the plane.

Malaysian officials say they are still trying to determine if a radar blip detected heading west soon after the plane lost contact was in fact the missing jet.

If it was, the plane would have been hundreds of miles off its original flight path and headed in the wrong direction. Malaysian officials say they have asked U.S. experts to help them analyze the radar data.

Meanwhile, India is joining the multinational search, dispatching two of its naval ships off the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, a military spokesman told CNN.

Last known words

Also on Thursday, a Malaysian aviation official told CNN that the last known words from the flight crew of the missing plane were "All right, good night."

Malaysian civil aviation officer Zulazri Mohd Ahnuar said he couldn't confirm which member of the flight crew sent the message, which was transmitted from the plane back to Malaysian flight controllers as the aircraft transferred into Vietnamese airspace early Saturday.

For the families of those on board the missing plane, the wait for news is torturous.

Danica Weeks is trying to keep it together for her two young sons, though the possibility of life without husband Paul, who was on the plane, is sometimes overwhelming. She's clinging to hope even though, as Weeks told CNN's Piers Morgan, it's "not looking good."

"Every day, it just seems like it's an eternity, it's an absolute eternity," Weeks said from Australia. "We can only go minute by minute ... and hope something comes soon."

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Why are people rude Wrote:
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> Why are people rude and only sometimes helpful on
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I'm usually snarky because the people who tend to post here are dumbasses who don't pay attention to anything. Like the student doing porn at Duke University...That thread just came up a few days ago but that story's old and new information that has been talked to death on the appropriate subreddits isn't even present in the thread. This is just as barren as Fairfax County which despite all its money and diversity hasn't managed to produce any great musicians, artists, breweries, creators of anything.

Also most of the people who post here are high schoolers and people who think they're on the cutting edge because they visited 4Chan one time in 2009.

Shut the fuck up faggot before I fuck your mom on Call of Duty, im a real soldier boy bitch!

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> Shut the fuck up faggot before I fuck your mom on
> Call of Duty, im a real soldier boy bitch!


Guys, guys, it's 1998! Jesus! Help!

Because the internet allows anonymity. Because I suspect many of the posters on this site are fifteen year old males suffering from a surge in testosterone.

"Shut the fuck up faggot before I fuck your mom on Call of Duty, im a real soldier boy bitch"!

I rest my case . . .

kgjhg Wrote:
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> Because the internet allows anonymity. Because I
> suspect many of the posters on this site are
> fifteen year old males suffering from a surge in
> testosterone.
>
> "Shut the fuck up faggot before I fuck your mom on
> Call of Duty, im a real soldier boy bitch"!
>
> I rest my case . . .


Did u mean 2 say that?

Did u mean 2 say that? Wrote:
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> > Because the internet allows anonymity. Because
> I
> > suspect many of the posters on this site are
> > fifteen year old males suffering from a surge
> in
> > testosterone.
> >
> > "Shut the fuck up faggot before I fuck your mom
> on
> > Call of Duty, im a real soldier boy bitch"!
> >
> > I rest my case . . .
>
>
> Did u mean 2 say that?


Read the thread moron

Because it's full of high school students and TROLLZ. And racists, lots and lots of racists. This is basically a free-speech zone, and attracts lots of miscreants and ne'er-so-wells spouting off between bong hits in mom's basement.

It's a shame as this could be a valuable resource.

But it's not.

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> Because it's full of high school students and
> TROLLZ. And racists, lots and lots of racists.
> This is basically a free-speech zone, and attracts
> lots of miscreants and ne'er-so-wells spouting off
> between bong hits in mom's basement.
>
> It's a shame as this could be a valuable
> resource.
>
> But it's not.

This site makes me laugh on a daily basis. I need it.

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By the neo-nazi likes of Stabitha and Yucky24 and Trayvon stupid ass and Republican logic 101.

This site is as gay as they come now, no one fuckin cares anymore except the cops that routinely scan it for the kind of delinquents who commit most of the crime in NOVA. Not to fucking mention most of hillbillies who post are from prince william and only come to Fairfax to "work" as they complain about how much people from Fairfax county suck and how gubment employees are socialist parasites who slack off, even though GSA IT and County IT have blocked this site long ago

People in Northern Virginia are so rude.
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This is just as barren as Fairfax County which despite all its money and diversity hasn't managed to produce any great musicians, artists, breweries, creators of anything.

"breweries" - Now that is rich!

Why are people rude Wrote:
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> Why are people rude and only sometimes helpful on
> this forum?

Because that's how it is in real life.

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> > > Because the internet allows anonymity.
> Because
> > I
> > > suspect many of the posters on this site are
> > > fifteen year old males suffering from a surge
> > in
> > > testosterone.
> > >
> > > "Shut the fuck up faggot before I fuck your
> mom
> > on
> > > Call of Duty, im a real soldier boy bitch"!
> > >
> > > I rest my case . . .
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> > Did u mean 2 say that?
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> Read the thread moron


Did u mean to say that?