Stop feeding the trolls.

Your data protection thing can't possibly work. Your country's laws do not apply to me any more than Sharia law does.

There is no more of a way for your government to make me take something down than I could issue a meaningful DMCA takedown to you.

The internet is international. Your laws are meaningless there, as are mine.

True, but it was trivial to take, say, Sinclair BASIC and convert it to Apple II's BASIC. If you knew one dialect, all the rest were easy to write in.

Effective visual editing of templates; HTML template editing but much more like a good UI editor

I've always used a text editor for HTML since automation always seemed to produce bloated, unreadable (if not edited by hand) garbage, whether AOL's, Netscape's, Front Page, Word Perfect, or Word.

However, I discovered recently that you can get very good HTML from Open Office, but the way to go about it is really convoluted thanks to Oo's retarded menu structure. Under "file" towards the bottom of the list, nowhere near "export" where it should be, is "view in browser". Saving the web page from FoxPro produces excellent, readable HTML. However, I didn't run it through the WC3's HTML validator.

Professionals with years or even decades of experience have enough trouble writing secure software.

And just where do these "professionals" who can't write secure software get these years or decades of experience??

It's even worse when they use "beginner-friendly" languages like PHP, Ruby (with Ruby on Rails), and JavaScript. These languages are totally shit, and end up promoting buggy, insecure code.

I don't know PHP or Ruby, but javascript is in no way "beginner-friendly". I'd been coding in BASIC, assembly, xBase (various dialects), NOMAD, and a couple I can't remember (I'm getting old) for well over a decade when I needed javascript.

Javascript is crap. Often useful and necessary crap, but still crap.

When these amateurs try to write code in any sort of a business or professional setting, it usually ends up being the IT department or professional software developers who get to maintain the crap code in the end.

It's true that someone who thinks he knows what he's doing but doesn't can really screw a project up, an idiot I worked with who thought he knew dBase almost cost us a ten million dollar Federal grant by removing some columns in some tables in an application I wrote. I was able to make it work anyway.

Asimov got it right in Foundation; those who know little and are aware of their ignorance aren't dangerous, it's those who think they know but don't that are.

But I was mostly self-taught, only taking classes after I'd been programming for years, and few of the classes taught me anything I hadn't already learned from reading hundreds of books on the subject and practicing.

And we can't forget how these half-assed amateurs often start "contributing to" (a.k.a. destroying) open source projects. Thanks to them, we have disasters like GNOME 3, where instead of trying to make efficient, effective software, they just ended up trying to make a shitty, half-assed copy of their warped understanding of OS X.

It's not that they're shitty programmers, it's that they're shitty designers, and the professionals at Microsoft are no better; Windows 8, anyone? And whose code is the least secure? Yep, your fellow professionals at Microsoft with their warped "understanding" of UI, just like the GNOME devs.

We shouldn't promote the idea of them getting involved with software development. We should discourage it!

No, we should develop easier to use tools. The languages and compilers you professionals are writing suck donkey ass.

Even if Macs weren't so expensive, something cross-platform, like BASIC, would be better. I learned BASIC on a TS-1000, and after BASIC, learning assembly wasn't that hard; I was hand-assembling machine code for that TS-1000. I had to since BASIC on a 1 mHz Z-80 that powered the entire machine was just too slow for games.

Oddly, the company that brought BASIC to most was Microsoft; they didn't write Sinclair BASIC but they wrote the BASIC for most other computers of the time. GW BASIC on the IBM PC was still good. They have a bad habit of taking an okay or even excellent program like BASIC, FoxPro, or Windows 7 and trashing it completely.

Visual Basic is a convoluted joke.

And you hit the nail on the head with syntax. Shit like curly braces are IMO incredibly counterproductive and stupid.

What would cause a person to make an insane choice?

"Supernatural" is not a synonym for "magic."

People really did turn into pillars of salt?

People can be perceived to have been. Witnesses see what they see, never the entirety of what happens.

People can actually die for several days and then be reborn?

The raised dead weren't reborn, they woke up from a coma so deep that nobody at the time could tell it from death.

Virgin's [sic] can actually give birth?

It was thought that parthenogenesis was impossible in sharks, too, but a virgin shark gave birth a couple of years ago. BTW, are you a greengrocer?

No human is infallible.

Because nobody can understand something they don't want to understand.

We have not reached "fulfilment", or indeed any kind of end point to the journey.

And who is saying we have, except your burning straw man?

...the Big Bang theory was was proposed by a Catholic Priest.

I hadn't heard that before, can you link a source? I do know that atheists vehemently opposed that theory, because until then the accepted theory was the "solid state universe" that always existed and exists forever, and the big bang theory postulated that it had a beginning and will have an end.

The only magic that exists is David Copperfield trickery, and I say that as a Christian. Miracles aren't magic, they are occurrences with incredibly low probabilities (like several that have happened to me, including my surviving an "unsurvivable" auto wreck).

The bible doesn't contradict science, although many religious people unfortunately do.

Is there a difference between trolling and insanity? The guy's off his rocker, he might be this guy. I parodied those people in Nobots.