"This means that more programmers are using Python and Ruby on the weekend for their personal projects, showing that these languages are more fun to use."

this is specious reasoning, just because they're using them on the weekend doesn't mean that the languages are "more fun to use". I tend to drive my car on the weekend but it's definitely not as fun as when I'm walking on the weekdays.

I'm not arguing with the conclusion I just think the presumption is bogus.

Ten times the size of Alaska???

okay, let's run the numbers.

Alaska's area is 663,268 sq mi.
10x Alaska's area would be 6,632,680 sq mi.

the USA's TOTAL area is 3,794,066 sq mi.
Russia's TOTAL area is 6,592,800 sq mi.

You're telling me that some people think there is a mass of garbage in the Pacific Ocean SLIGHTLY LARGER than Russia???

I'm not saying it's not as bad as it sounds but I really doubt the numbers are right.

They don't look much like independent thinkers when they're all lined up in their LAN parties... more like drones pressing buttons...

Because:
-you have too much time on your hands
-you live in the MIT hallway on a cot
-you put false importance in javascript
-you are obsessed with the definition of the word free and are happy to spend the rest of your life debating the minutia.

Chrome is not in beta, there has ALWAYS been beta builds around for Chromium & they are advertising those builds more since the new features are pretty solid (and the speed too) but Chrome is NOT in beta.

Fail, you CAN copy the car by building an exact copy. Sure it takes a while but so did copying megabytes 15 years ago.

I agree. I work my fucking ass off to get where I'm at today. I probably have assets worth around 1.5 million so while I'm richer than most people on the planet, I'm probably not rich by say, the rich celebrity democrats in California and NYC. Plus I give ~20k a year to charities. Not for the tax deductions (which mean squat really) but I've always gave o charities my time and money. I like to consider myself rich, I never have to want for anything but I'm certainly not greedy. I never earned a cent from any ill-gotten gains, why the fuck blame me?

Why not blame the asshole middle and lower class who live beyond their means and then expect me to fucking bail them out? At my lowest point I was living in a gutter (literally) and my bed was a gravel walkway. No one gave me a free ride, I have medical issues to this day I deal with because I didn't want to mooch off people when I had nothing and I knew other people needed it more.

So before you blame me, ask yourself, can you afford that 5$-a-day latte on your 10$/hr job? Why are your credit cards maxed out? Why don't you ever save? When you're free of your self-induced economic problems you can come knocking on my door bitching but until then keep stealing from your workplace, keep running up those credit bills, keep mooching off society with govt. healthcare, keep living beyond your means you greedy liberal fucks.