Spamlet wrote:
[...]
When you have an internet connection why can you not check your most
basic facts?

They do it expressly to annoy you, of course. Since you have an internet
connection, you have the opportunity to learn how people in amiable
groups like this one usually talk to one another. Check it out: the
skill is transferable, and could pay dividends in your non-Usenet life.

--
Mike.