The internet is NOT a well oiled machine.
I wish people would get this, just because you have a fast modem does not mean the internet will work perfectly. Sometimes pages just load slow, and it has nothing to with the fancy shmancy cable modems. We all seemed to live with it just fine when we had 56k modems and whatnot, why can't we deal with it now? Because we're a bunch of whiney babies, that's why, and I'm just as guilty as the rest. Sure it's annoying, but not annoying enough to make someone mad enough to call someone else an idiot for no reason for goodness sakes! However, the things I just mentioned are only the tip of the iceberg my friends. The worst thing of all is when you're trying to enjoy a nice game of Counter Strike, and some guy in dorm somewhere is playing on his precious T3, and all of a sudden his ping skyrockets all the way up to 80, and he procedes to yell at anyone with a ping over 100 for ruining his playing experience, and just when you think it can't get any worse, he gets shot in the head, and then starts yelling that the he either died because of some magical lag, or whoever killed him is a cheater, even though the server has like 2 different cheat protection programs, or maybe even both. People like these need to be screened out of on-line games completely. Maybe we can use some sort of personality test, or have them play a trial game, and hit them with occasional lag spikes, or head shots, and if they throw a fit, the game automatically uninstalls itself or something like that. They need to be stopped.