How does it feel and impact your daily life to be, in some quarters, respected with almost demi-god like reverence, as someone who helped create the whole IT world we see around us?

Some of the comments depend upon where you are

Libraries are not free. They are, at best, pre-paid by local taxes. The build, maintenance and staff yes. In some countries publishers have to give free (yes 100% free, no cost etc..) copies of books to libraries.

You could start by not saying that public libraries are free.

may want to check my comments. I NEVER mentioned "public libraries" - there are many types of libraries (company, private, academic,etc..) as well as public.

...we cannot have people reading copyrighted material for free!

Seriously where is this sort of BS going to stop?

Apparently missing this question

Q) If you have a website, and have a Geek test, and this gets slashdotted, what sort of increase in traffic would you expect, and how would you cope.

I cannot get to the quiz!

Ah but were you wearing gloves????

If not expect them to trace you

:-D

Here's hoping I am joking