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The first few sentences were okay-ish, but the more I read,the more it sounded just plain absurd,border line controlling behaviour+ lots of silly assumptions. Going back to the topic itself, the vast majority of parents wouldn't even know where to start, not even mentioning if a kid has really became a haxor of sorts. Taking away computers, sending them out to the church,or doing others 'let's fix this quickly the ad…
"If your son is using Quake, you should make hime understand that this is not acceptable to you. You should ensure all the firearms in your house are carefully locked away, and have trigger locks installed. You should also bring your concerns to the attention of his school." Holy moly!
I remember (vaguely) pinging AOL's irc servers with hays cmdset commands and as a result my parents getting a letter to the effect that I was a computer criminal and we were on some 'blacklist' forever, fortunately this apparently blacklist didn't seem to be shared between ISPs so I was back causing chaos within days >_And now here I am, mid thirties, children, and I wonder if I would let my kid play DOOM when he is 8 or 9.. I think I'll let him play the original ones, but the newer games seem to be much more intense (maybe that's just down to the graphics/music?)..
Or I just let him play everything.. I dunno, grand theft auto (granted, the top down one) did me no harm when I was around puberty heh...
"If your son is using Quake, you should make hime understand that this is not acceptable to you. You should ensure all the firearms in your house are carefully locked away, and have trigger locks installed. You should also bring your concerns to the attention of his school." Holy moly!
Even better - you can now troll Bill Gates by reminding him that Linux was both more successful than and outlasted his marriage:)
Hahaha. 2001 was pretty good.
Who is this guy?
Even better - you can now troll Bill Gates by reminding him that Linux was both more successful than and outlasted his marriage:)
You would be an asshole though.
If you are going to be a billionaire, you surrender your life to being on the front page of the tabloids.
In my mind the only reason to continue working after making around $10 million is greed. Bill Gates himself cites his busy schedule as a detriment to the marriage. A guy that didn't need to work another day in his life if he didn’t want to since 20+ years ago!
Hot take: philanthropy is a tax avoidance scheme, even if it is helpful to the world. Billionaires and millionaires improve their image by getting to choose where their wealth goes, instead of being required to surrender wealth and have it be used the way that the people want through representative government.
In reality, you don’t become a billionaire without being ruthless, cut-throat, and a very big asshole.
Remember all the stories about Bill Gates yelling at engineers in the 90’s?
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_850292
Bill Gates is just another boss who demanded his employees sacrifice their hours for his wealth.