Here we go, another FSF goon so socially inept that he assumes the rest of the population gives a damn about his autism enhanced pet peeve. Go back to your oscilloscopes and hipster slide rules. The rest of us have a life to live and enjoy.

Yes, it's unoriginal and probably a piss poor idea, but it's hardly because the $99 you pay will put her in the poor house or that you chose an iDevice as the target of your idiotic anger instead of the roughly 10 BILLION other devices that are the same way.

Is that the same thing as a complete moron who doesn't understand anything about the tool he is accusing others of not understanding?

Yeah, pretty much. e.g. I own Diablo II. A few weeks ago I looked around for my CDs, but was having trouble finding them. My only options were to pay for it twice, pirate it or to give up. I picked pirate... you tell me why that's morally wrong.

Hint: because the government said so isn't a real answer

I have no idea who you are talking to, but if you are complaining about luther349's pathetic example of the written English language, /AGREED.

This is +11 insightful.

"Also, avoid the motherfucking frameworks. You don't need them, at all."

I couldn't agree more. Frameworks in a web development environment, especially PHP are crutches for the ignorant.

I'm sure there will be a mountain of Jeremiah's and MVC/Framework prophets proselytizing and predicting my doom for this.

This is completely true, but very unimportant. PHP under Apache (And really what serious professional would use anything else?) as a module and needs no threads; that's the job of the httpd daemon itself.

If you need threads; if your Java indoctrination only allows you to solve problems by creating huge monolithic applications, ignoring excellent work by engineers who are much, much smarter than you, then yeah... PHP won't cut it for you. You'll need a language that will be better suited to reinventing the wheel. That is definitely not PHP's strength.

(Ah, I love it when a good straw man argument comes together.)

Don't you mean "Soap Box"?

Jane Q. Public, I think this dude is trolling you. You can't get more obtuse than this.

I'm pretty sure I'm GOING to get marked as a troll, but I found it ODD that you used caps a lot to emphasize your sentences. Do you realize how MUCH you actually do this?

You do realize that "writing off" doesn't mean for free, right? At most, corporations in the US pay about a 15-35% tax rate. So, they saved at most 35% of the fine, the witness fee and other administrative costs.

I know it's en vogue to say that evil corporations can write things off like some magical free money printer, but educate yourself a little...

What in the holy hell are you talking about? When did I say sex was evil? Did you read my comment? The entire point, other than telling you to fuck off, was that you and the rest of the ignorant yuppies that make these tired, worn out arguments about violence vs. sex have absolutely no understanding about what you are talking about. The moment you sniff a parent who would like to exercise their prerogative and right to decide when is the right time to teach their children about sex, you start yammering about violence on TV and decrying people who want to shield their young children from age inappropriate subject matter.

Your comment: "but Gawd forbid he should via the intertubings see a human or vulva or penis, or one sliding into the other"

What is wrong with you that you are so keen on introducing sex to young children? No one is talking about the "birds and the bees" conversation here, we are talking about age inappropriate material. You like showing porn to kids?

For fucks sake, every single time on of these types of stories are posted, cretins like you come out of the sewer to bitch and moan about how people who want to shield their young elementary school children from the complex issue involving sexual relationships are idiots who think sex is evil and the devil's tool.

Fuck. You.

You may be one of those dick heads who think it's entirely appropriate to watch porn on a plane, but personally, I'd rather be the one to teach my children about sex instead of being confused by what you and the rest of the internet superheroes think it actually is.

LOL, prepare to be modded to troll here on slashdot. It's perfectly acceptable to make fun of the idiot hicks who believe in some space alien who created the universe, and just as equally acceptable that an exploding rock magically turned into a sentient species and a perfect ecosystem surrounding it.

You are assuming that Amazon does a better job than the OP. Money/size/fame doesn't make something reliable. Not saying that it's necessarily one way or another, but only morons assume things.

Everyone knows that American scientists "invented it" after an alien space craft crashed in the desert.