Teens will always be teens, and unfortunately, some of them don't grow up, especially when addicted to childish things. Where you have immaturity, lawlessness abounds.
As one of the moderators pointed out earlier, it is indeed a waste of talents and resources. And I'd like to alarm a small bell that probably rang elsewhere already, that is, if you combine the time that youngsters and young adults are spending on games, and other unproductive activities of modern era, it comes out to be not mere centuries, but millennia. I'm not suggesting that we go back to pre-TV or pre-Internet days, but we're, in effect, experiencing a true brain-drain in an unprecedented scale, and for that fact alone, as a concerned parent, I'd be willing to take my family a boat ride back to agricultural society with its labor-intensive, family-oriented settings.
Thirdly, and lastly, a more pointed comment for a person of devotion and intellect, namely, PCWiz. I had a friend like him once back in Virginia. He was simply a genius. Back in those days, 300 BPS modem was the fastest connection you had, and this friend, with a BBS alias of Fenris Wolf, hacked into DoD, AT&T and hosts of other government private networks, and private PBX systems. He's probably one of the earliest pioneers of phreaking, cracking, and hacking. I met him through a local BBS meeting once (a group of nerds really), and a year later, he was jailed in a federal prison. It's already a common knowledge why hackers or other intellectuals do this, and I also happen to think that this honorable young man is spending copious amount of time helping others for a similar reason, when he has so much to learn and experience for himself. I'd be forever grateful to PCWiz for all that he has accomplished so far, but if I were his father, I'd even be more grateful if his real life matches the dignity and the legacy he has already imprinted in this community. Sorry for this type of post on a tech board, but having been a witness to the demise of InsanelyMac, I felt compelled to share my thoughts with you. Good day.
