Lame 1: New LAME posts, why the internet sometimes sucks, and other great designs...

I have decided that I can no longer sit by quietly with such wonderful gems of lameness on the web, so I've decided to rant about these in a series of what I will call LAME posts (I hope this is not copyrighted somewhere!)

Without further ado, lame # 1:

This is a strange idea, since I had to already login with my Live ID, and then had to create a new password and account (with a random number as my username) for the newsgroup, and then I still have to wait up to 4 hours in this age of high speed digital technology?  Lame. Lame.

PS: I know I could use Internet Explorer and connect to the integrated newgroups, but that's also lame (since I don't use Internet Explorer).

PPS: Opera can circumvent this by chaging the site settings to "Masquerade as Internet Explorer".  Why web developers insist on assuming that their browsers are the only ones that will render a page is beyond me. Also Lame.