If WE exchange Ferrarichat with democracy we may smile ourselves silly. I think Rob's concern is funnier still. As Greenspan would say, thou must have faith in the free market!! The most significant attribute of any product, inclusive Art and therefore to some extent Ferrari, is not its usefulness, rather its uselesness. After all, if it was all about usefulness, sexual reproduction would not even exist -> 0 sports cars. In other words, without pleasure life isn't worth living. If Ferrarichat has become an addiction it is a distinction, very much indicative of its importance. One should not run away, but rather kneel before and make great sacrifices to this new and improved god. as Wilde wrote - I can resist anything but my temptations. To attempt to conquer one's temptations leads to great great illness - witness the 70%+ obesity epidemic in the US, where practically every woman and girl is on a diet, and even 'manly' men have grown afraid of food, and very possibly themselves. >I don't at all think it a virtue for someone to have thousands of posts in his/her post count. What you say? McDonalds no good? >The most significant reason: there are too many posts; there are too many threads. >I myself don't find the site as informative, useful, or enjoyable as it once was. Globalization is progress. Progress makes you happy and free and improves the coordination and standardizati aaa I mean, peace iniative. If one doubts that, one is a bad machine. Bad machines don't have ps, abs, fi, tc, nav, nor even cats. Bad machine smokes. Bad machine not useful. Bad machine terrorist.