I like how a forum, for a small community, has better password requirements than my bank does.

I understand that disk drives are VERY expensive, and they can only store 8-12 characters.
But I don't understand the excuse for NOT allowing non alphanumeric characters. Sure maybe they are afraid of SQL injection, but why not accept things like, oh say a period.
Makes me wonder how poor the rest of their code is

I think the best thing a kid can do, before going to college, is be a kid. Let him enjoy the summer, it might be his last chance to have a few months with almost no responsibilities. Spending some time over the summer picking up some skills may make his first semester easier. But it won't make him more money when he graduates.
Let him go have fun.

If you are trying to get a head start on your schooling, and maybe making your first semester in school easier, you should absolutely leave it to the school you are attending. He'll have 4 more years to learn other languages, if the school isn't teaching the "right" languages.

Where is my hoverboard?

VERY few business have successfully started without begging for money.

The point behind kickstarter isn't necessarily to start a business. It is to crowd fund a project. You know the kind, "Hey if we get 10 people to go in together, we can get this done." I'm not saying people aren't using it to start a business, but I would claim that most aren't.

Why the hate for kickstarter? Some projects succeed, some projects fail. Whether or not they are funded by kickstarter.

Why? Who can advertise the product then? Only users? Only people who created the products? Dogs? Or maybe a pet sock?
Do you know what models do? Their main job? THEY ADVERTISE PRODUCTS. Some of those products are for the tech industry, some of those products are for other industries.

Probably more than you think. While they may not choose "booth babes," it isn't for the reason you would think. Booth babes is a long boring job, standing on your feet all day. Many girls probably wouldn't choose to do that, but would still choose to do something similar, for a shorter amount of time. Some girls like to show off their body.

You know, some women enjoying doing just that.

What braindead users are praising Google over the "intuitivness" of the idiotic new image design? It is awful. I have to click multiple times now to get to the website. First click brings me to some other google page, with one small url that links to the site. How is this intuitive at all?
When I click on the photo I expect to get taken to the website, much like when I click on the search result in the text searches.

Copyright works the other way around. Copyright is not an opt in, it is an opt out. So if you really want to implement the way you are suggesting google needs to see if it has a "public domain flag" And if its there link to the photo

Apparently a LOT of people cared enough about the webmasters "shitty" website, to want the photo the webmaster was offering. It wasn't free for the webmaster to offer the photo.

You forgot the more common scenario 3, a page with a thumbnail. Google used to link to the page, user goes to the page, click on thumbnail, see high res image. Now users go to google, see high res image.

Not everyone views the high res photo, they might just look at the thumbnail.
Now the site gets almost no traffic, but to just the photo itself. Which doesn't really do the site much good.