Ah, a Luddite!

Ah, yes! The only text printer I ever ran that you had to wear PPE (personal protection equipment) to operate! It was like a chainsaw with type instead of cutting teeth...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueprint

Yes, McDonalds is so crafty. They will be defunding the class that most often frequents their restaurants. Brilliant economics; destroy the economic base of those who buy your product... What could possibly go wrong?

In the 1990's, at Ohio State University's Department of Photography and Cinema, there was a 35/16mm Oxberry Animation "clone" stand that was operated by a PDP 9 with moves entered via punched paper tapes. Each paper tape of a fixed duration move was neatly rolled up into little cubby-holes in a tray. It worked fine.

Sexual Assault has a science problem...

* Drink heavily and often.
* Shove a raw potato up his tailpipe. (do the car first)
* Begin implementing endless "for->next" loops in random code sections.
* See who can bounce random objects into a wastebasket at the far hall; style counts.
* Wear warpaint made from broken dry erase markers and ambush a co-worker while they are changing the water bottle in the office water dispenser.

Hell, man, you are in the same boat as the rest of us. Get creative.elsewhere and let old fussy pants stew in his own juices.

Give him all the rope he wants...

Nine.

"This isn't about learning photography, for kids it's about being retro/hip/individual."

This is always the bash that insecure digital mavens throw out when trying to justify their insecurity over analog photography.

If film is so dead, why are you so incredibly insecure about it?

"Once you've got that down, then you can fool around with old analog photography."

Yeah then "old analog photography" will eat your short-attention span, "put it on auto" ass, because it takes dedication, a tiny bit of patience and a bit of determination.

Anyone can bang away thousands of times and luck into a good image.

Good luck on your road to mediocre images...

It's much faster than making them look like crap in photoshop. Face it, digicrap is digicrap; a disposable medium for the terminally lazy. Just put it on auto, hose down the scenery and spend 10 hours torturing a medicre shot into a weird by product of CGI. Instagram pisses so many self styled artists off because it accomplishes the same relative effect in a few clicks. Ha!

And, I think I'll just wade through all the speculation and theories to decide for myself, rather than allow opinions like your to take away that option.

Your stance is just as rote and predictable as those you oppose.

For me, I prefer tin hat and all, rather than a outright dismissal of things that are improbable or even impossible.

Wow. A double, super whammy, reverse psychology AC posting on Slashdot! Can someone cast a bronze plaque real quick?

I highly doubt it has EVER happened before!

Like an old Cajun I used to work for would say. when faced with an obvious denial of reality, " ... And then a bear jumped out of my ass..."
I deleted 500+ photos and am staying off until I am sure they have really recanted their rights-grab TOS. If not, away goes my account on the 15th of January. Place ads, use my images *with* permission or lose a ton of accounts. Simple.