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John Dvorak has had plenty of stupid things to say before, and he stays true to form here - he's off on a rant about how useless chat (AIM, IRC, etc) is. Oh? Sure, there's wasted time involved (just as there is in ad-hoc "water cooler" meetings in an office - but it's like any other conversation mechanism - it's as useful or as useless as the people involved care to make it.