janethuggard - 3:04 am on Dec 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

It sounds like to me you are looking for a closed society.

So, make it closed, invitation only, and you have to have 2 members to sponsor you, and a group vote to confirm. Then, charge $1500 a year membership fees, payable by American Express credit card only, and proof that you are free, white, and 21. Any half wit could figure out the answers to any test, just by doing a G search.

You now have yourselves a bonified techie worldwide country club. It doesn't get any more arrogant than that.

The old 'closed membership' BBSs did this. Each one slowly died. There are apparently not enough arrogant techie type people who don't have a life, and are lacking desire to work their website(s), thereby having the time to post on a closed BBS everyday to keep it alive.

Regulation is the quickest route to stagnation, and is the ugly step-sister of the wicked queen of censorship.

Oh wicked queen, shut me up quickly, before the truth offends those much brighter than I.