Meh, I think you're wrong. It's not as cool to be american on /. anymore. Now whenever we mention our country, someone from across the pond says something to the effect of "Don't you realize the rest off the world does it differently" which starts some sort of culture war. It's rather annoying. Nevertheless, I do like my country even if others don't. I'm glad we all don't actually, cause then it would never change. After a while it would be a boring place to live.

My favorite quote of all time (unfortunately I can't claim credit).

Saying Java is better cause it'll run on all platforms is like saying anal sex is better because it works on all genders.

Both hillbilly's approve?

As a gun owner, and a hacker, does that mean they'll have two reasons to hate me now?

I couldn't agree with you more. the key here is whether people KNOW about it or not. If a home user called their monitor their cpu it's not a big deal. If the guy selling the computer called the monitor a cpu, you'd never buy anything from him. It's a credibility question.

I'd love to help. I assume you've got a SCSI adapter with onboard DDR in the IMAC all-in-one right?

I know it's bitchy, but it's THERE!!!

No I'm pretty sure you were right to call them gears, since you were describing the ratio of two sprockets connected via chain. Now, if we could just get you to call them stabilizers instead of training wheels!

Thought you might want to know, you're not the only one. I'm a bit older now (30, not 25), and did about the same. I went to two years of college, but didn't complete even an associates. Basically I went long enough to meet someone who could get me a job coding. From there a string of code->network->code->code jobs for eight years. The only real difference is, I built my family first. It might slow the career down a little, but it's well worth it.

If you want to do well as a developer, be the most kick ass coder you ca, and be nice to non-coders. Everything else will sort of work itself out.

He didn't say demon, he said daemon. You know, a small service that runs in the background? Although I'm puzzled as to why the poster might think that having daemons would make someone want to commit suicide. Perhaps a memory leak in one was causing little room for other things in his life? Maybe a UI nagging daemon was constantly at the front of his mind, and he couldn't concentrate on anything else?

I love the analogy of the human brain vs. the computer system. Daemons to demons etc.

On a more serious note though, I'm glad that thus far /.-ers have taken a good tone about this. There is a time to poke fun, and a time to be serious. This is someone who tried for years to fight for many things we all hold strong feelings about (internet freedom, freedom of information, etc).

Yeah. This is very telling about his fiance. Wait it IS a HIS fiance and not a HER fiance right?

Wow! I think you managed to capture all the talking points in one post! Kudos to you!

How does that work?

So this story is interesting:

1. Scientists create mutants
2. Mutants die
3. Scientists are happy about their discovery.

What about this is NEWs?

I think you mean to tase her. When you say taser her it makes me think you're going to throw it at her or something.

So remember. If you're made of meat, taste great and we'll ensure your species never dies off!

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that what the human race in general does is wrong. Christian, Athiest, Muslim, Christian Scientists, and everyone else too.