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Indeed. I will rise from the ASHes.

I know. I don't have ASHread of dignity left. yah... that was bad.. I got nuthin....

And to think.. I used to feel I was the ashole

I wholeheartedly agree with and endorse this comment. aww face it, it gives you all something to do, a reason to stay online at night, a sense of community when you can team up against the new guy, even if he is a jerk in an online forum, where social rules do not apply, but people seem to think they should. in real life i think we would all be real good friends, I really don't think so. I am very anti-social. I dislike people that annoy me online. I dislike people that annoy me in the real world. Your mistake is assuming that people are different

Brilliant sir.

Are you just trying to stir up stuff? Your short term literature knowledge is ridiculously bad.

Are you completely blind? you are not making any friends here. Maybe you don't want to. Your posts are very adversarial and rude.

Yes you have comprehension problems also.

Wow.. you really are clueless and have no idea how to play nice. My only fear is that once you have been rejected from the community you will become a cache maggot. I am glad I live a long way away from you.

I donate about $50 a year to PBS... do I have to? no. Will they stop showing programs I like if I do not donate? No. Others will pick up the tab. I don't want to be one of the "others" Someone has to pay for it or it won't be there and I prefer to not to ride on other coat tails.

Harder but not impossible. I had a 120 IQ when I was in 3rd grade I was spouting off quantum theorems at 1 week! What? You find that hard to believe? I'm sure I was in some language... Hey, maybe you were but the fact of the matter is that you weren't quantifiably tested at one week. I was in the third grade. I've been a member of Mensa since I was in grade 3. They sought me out. After typing that I realize that Americans say third grade and we Canadians say grade three. odd...

He wisely summed up the last little while in the forums. Well done toz.

I guess thats where we are different. I know people who don't pay for cable. (and no, they don't steal cable either) Where I live, if you don't pay for cable you get 3 channels and all of them fuzzy and bad.

Look at the top, right of the forum page. Notice that banner? That's called "advertising" which, arguably, isn't any different than the commercials on TV. It's massively different than advertising on TV. Is your viewing this website interrupted every ten minutes for five minutes before you can continue to view it? Not even comparable. Besides. I don't know a single person who does not pay for cable and that costs at least $30 a month. And, The people that don't pay for cable don't ask why they should.

I've never paid a dime to watch a sunset or listen to the sound of the ocean waves crashing. I didn't pay any money to watch a nuclear reactor cooling tower implode. I didn't pay a dime to watch a solar eclipse. Nor did I pay to watch geese migrating. I never paid any money to smell roses in bloom. I didn't pay any money to hear a childs laughter. It cost me nothing to see a volcano erupt and it was completely free to explore a lava tube (or two). All of those things were much more enjoyable than my best day geocaching. I read what you are saying and understand but, did anyone lay money out of their pocket for you to watch a sunrise or any of the other things you mentioned? no. I may have exaggerated by saying it was the cheapest form of entertainment... but... Nature doesn't count. Lets not get too deep here.

Are these the same kind of folks who buy one and get the second free even when they did not need the first one? No. They are the people who realize what a great value they are getting for their $30. And if GS chooses to allow people to play (legally) for free/$10 and those people do not see the "great value" in the $30 because they get everything they need? Why should they pay? And again if you feel that you have to "support the site" perhaps we should be asking GS why they are giving it away for free/$10? How many of you watch and enjoy television? do you all donate $30 a year just to support it? No. Would you gladly pay your cable company twice for what you get? No. You pay the $30 PM because you get something out of it and if somebody else feels that the $30 is not worth it then it's time to get all high and mighty on them. The television and this website comparison doesn't work. TV stations make their money from advertising. Do you have to watch 5 minutes of commercials for every 10 minutes of looking at this website? no. Besides, I pay $150 a month to watch TV and still have to watch commercials.

I paid for a premium membership less than a month into registering here. I haven't even used PQs yet. I may someday but I mostly use my iPhone to find them and my legend to hide them. My premium membership expires around Christmas this year. Will I be broke then? probably. Will I renew my PM? Without a doubt. This is the cheapest entertainment I have ever used. The website is for the most part, excellent. I like the forums and I like the usability for finding and listing caches. I spend about $30 a day in gas for work. I can't understand how someone feels OK with using a service and not paying for it when you are satisfied with it. As for the OP... I think anyone that breaks the rules and then flaunts it on the very website who's rules he is breaking is...well.... Not the sharpest knife in the drawer and TPTB should do what they should do.

You see no reason to "give" money to Groundspeak? Really? Do you refuse to pay taxes because the roads are there anyway?

kids can mow lawns for the money and can ride their bicycles to the site. however they should not be taking readings with their crappy iphones. I would like to know the percentage of iPhone owners vs the percentage of people that don't have an iPhone who call them "crappy". I don't own a iPhone because I think they are crappy. I would discuss your uneducated opinion here but it would be off topic.

Haven't modified anything but I have driven small cars most of my life (aside from a muscle car phase). I recently bought a 4 wheel drive SUV and one of the reasons was because I could use it to get to some of the more off road caches. It's just a bonus that it has lots of places to store swag and a convenient place for my GPSr to rest safely on the dash without sliding around.

kids can mow lawns for the money and can ride their bicycles to the site. however they should not be taking readings with their crappy iphones. I would like to know the percentage of iPhone owners vs the percentage of people that don't have an iPhone who call them "crappy".

Alright I went back through the posts and didn't see anything like this. Give me a break. If someone even types the word "race" now we have Apartheid references?!?!? I think that White Urkels shouldn't be allowed to cache. drfred shouldn't be allowed to post until he reads all the posts and then waits and reads them again.

^ I think that's about right. Besides, Do you really want more rules (or "guidelines")? How about a rule that only certain containers can be used? etc...

You do know there is a search function right? even though it is a highly useless one. You might try browsing the forums to seek answers before posting questions. Not trying to discourage you. I consider myself a newbie to this forum myself. Your enthusiasm is refreshing.