You could, but that's too simple. The point of that post wasn't to provide the simplest means of accomplishing the goal. It was to let the poster try to impress other people with his/her superiority. For that, a simple solution won't do and a complex, difficult to implement solution has to be presented.

My programming is usually just XXX.

Translation: The status quo doesn't stay the status quo for long, but here's all the reasons why I think it should!

Let's look at a recent survey:

* More than half of girls (53 percent) ages 16 to 24 feel they lacked the confidence to do whatever they wanted to do after puberty.
* Almost all girls (89 percent) feel there is pressure to conform to the way they're supposed to feel and act.
* Sixty percent of girls believe that society's expectations have a negative impact on their life.
* Girls are almost twice as likely as boys to say they did not feel comfortable doing an activity in school because of their gender.

Why can't she decide for herself? Because society is filled with arrogant assholes who insist that women must conform to the traditional roles that women have always been confined to. Any woman who dares to stand up and make a different choice is harassed, abused, derided and shoved back down.

This is about trying to remove the social pressures that force women to conform to traditional roles, not forcing them to become engineers. You don't like that idea, so you're trying very hard to make a straw man work, but it's just making you sound like an arrogant asshole who wants to keep the status quo in place.

Pursuing a career in a field that has high demand and better than average pay is neither risky nor outrageous.

When your 'facts'* have nothing to do with what you're arguing for, you should probably step back and reconsider whether your position makes any sense or not.

*scare quotes because the so-called facts presented are gender stereotypes enforced by society which are being held up as evidence that those stereotypes must be natural.

Almost everything.

Sure! Who wouldn't stick with an internet provider whose service is disrupted every time a storm with high winds blows through the area? This idea can't possibly go wrong!

A year from now, nobody will remember or care when this was added to the app store. I've ripped farts that people have remembered for longer.

There's the evil empire I grew up with! I was wondering where they'd gotten off to.

I know that was a joke, but juniper trees can easily live over 500 years and 1,000 year old trees have been found. It's easy to find 200 year old juniper trees.

A theory that's been around since the 1800s is still around!

A quick look at Wikipedia says Tesla had 10,000 employees in November of 2014 and SpaceX had 3,500 employees in April of 2015.

You didn't even bother with that much fact checking about what you 'know', though, did you. Your entire post is a demonstration of idiocy in action.

They don't. A single person making $30,000 with no deductions beyond the standard deduction would pay $2,520 for 2014. That's $210 a month, not $1,000.

But hey... don't let facts get in the way of your ideology, right?

Most 11 year olds lack the cognitive functions to write novels, too, but that doesn't mean we don't teach them to write.

The point of teaching computer programming is not to make every child a computer programmer any more than the point of a biology class is to make every child into a biologist.