Although I hesitate to further this rather asinine discussion, I’d like to believe the behavior displayed in the above posts is not representative of many 19-year-olds, if not even atypical of an on-the-whole mature group of people. I happen to personally know many such individuals.

As original-price riocar purchaser and a long-time empeg lurker since newsletter 12 (late ‘99, I think), I’d question the idea that mildly increased software development offsets the ill effects of the price slashing on the community as a whole. Up until recently, I’d at least skimmed every post in the general, technical, programming, and (now) the off-topic forums, plus many of the interesting thread from before I started reading this board. Now I really just can’t handle the volume shear noise. Ah well. At least my favorite toy is still getting better.

John