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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vraille Darkfang" data-source="post: 2486865" data-attributes="member: 16989">Ahhhh.That explains it.  He's an opinionist writing in the form or a tech advice column.  Almost every paper has a tech advice columnist, one that usually you'd read if you wanted tech advice, but would otherwise skip.Dr. Bombay is writing an advice column is response to reader's questions (I assume, he might be making the questions up, I know I'd never send something in, just to be be-littled and insulted), where he writes an opionion piece & also answers the readers question.  The tech questions are mainly of the so simple a trained monkey can do it type.  But, as I've found out, there are still people out there who lack the amount of training the monkey would have.  Dr, Bombay is just like every other insult columnist out there.  He just has an IT shtick.  So my above responses should refer more to the journalism world at large than Dr. Bombay.  He's just another pessismistic, negative, insult opionionist trying to get his column in as many papers as he can.  He uses his IT route to set him apart from the thousands of columnists he's competeing with.So, writing in condascending mail is what the paper is looking for.  Saying you hate his column & want to see it yanked (or here is why he's completly wrong) is his marketing angle.  You maybe should still send in a letter to the editor showing how wrong Dr. Bombay is, but that's about as far as it goes.Unless he writes something aobut Hitler being right or Let's bring back slavery, he'll probablly have no worries about getting pulled.  He's just one more columnist trying to get paid.  His style seems to have enough admirerers he gets in more than one paper.  He's semi-popular, almost popular enough (but not quite) to get his own reality show on expanded cable.I'd still try to send in a rebuttal to his 'scientific observations' but don't let him get your blood pressure up.  He's doing what he's getting paid to do.  You don't get ticked off if an insult comic calls you a bleeping bleep bleep who would bleep his own bleeping bleep of a bleeping mother.  He's just doing his job.  Now, if the 1st level halfling rogue says that, it's time to flip open the Epic Level Handbook for a random encounter.</blockquote>

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