Just rural Ohio.

Sounds like our lives were pretty different, huh?

Unfortunately just because that's something you were able to do doesn't mean it is something that was an option for everyone else.

That doesn't really tell much. I didn't get into programming until college because I was never introduced to the idea that it was something I could just sit down and do until then. While I'm willing to admit that there are differences between the world now and the world of 15-20 years ago that I grew up in, I think the government should be in the business of making sure all kids have the opportunity to be introduced to programming, rather than catering to different subsets of people.

Really seems like the kind of thing that would have been a cool induction to programming for my young self.

*Looks between legs*

Shit, nevermind.

I'm compiling one right now!

Wait, it just finished. Shit, someone give me something else to compile!

Or she just watched "House of Cards" and thinks her Benghazi reporting was just so super important and groundbreaking that the big bad gubbmint had to step in and infect her computer with the same kind of spyware that's bundled with Banzai Buddy. Only time will tell.

Sounds like someone needs to explain to her what the "Insert" key does.

Do you know what the *best* part is?

The current system does nothing to prevent people from creating their own stuff and releasing it under whatever asinine license they want. So not only are people insisting that their open method of production/distribution is better than a proprietary one, but they seem to feel that we're beholden to play by their rules, simply because there's no physical limitation preventing them from copying/cloning whatever they want.

If FOS hardware/software were the amazing, best-for-humanity method for driving technology forward that all its proponents seem to think, why the hell is proprietary hardware/software so successful in the market?

Dollars to donuts that by the start of the 2015 season we'll have the Washington Warriors. Same logo, same colors, just a different name.

The hard part is getting everyone to agree on a standard.

I don't know about you, but my car can hold more people than just the driver. If this was vigilantism, it certainly was shortsighted.

Maybe I'm odd, but when people ask to have a technical discussion about something I do for a living, I'm usually pretty happy to oblige.

Taking it to your metaphor, all I'm seeing here are people engaging in a mutually self-gratifying conversation about how there's heaps of data and evidence that shows Sasquatch isn't real, but once I ask to see that data, suddenly I'm the asshole.

I agree with you, but if someone says "I can see the moons of Saturn during the day with my naked eye," I can't really do much about it. If that same person said they had mathematical evidence that proved he could see Saturn with his naked eye, I don't think I'm out of line for asking to see that data. That's my beef here: people are ragging on audiophiles and the like for believing in black magic without any data to back it up, but many of the people here who complain about those audiophiles clearly don't know what they're talking about, either. I just find it odd that someone who says, "you can use math to prove that there's no perceivable difference in a 128kb MP3 and a 320kb MP3" is considered insightful, but when a guy who has a genuine interest in home audio asks to see that math, he's a troll.