You're a dime a dozen

what some huge tittied beautiful blonde airforce tech Sargent or some shit told me...

Ummmm.... no I'm not. I'm a nerd, a black nerd. We don't come in abundance. I think my way through things, utilize knowledge before taking action, plan ahead etc...

As evinced by my recent run-in with some low-life idiots who wanted to steal my bike and threatened to kick my ass over it, good luck finding males who give a fuck about anything intelligent.

which brings me to geohot's point, that you may hate him and his hacking hobby, but yes, he's going to change the world or someone like him will, not the common everyday dummy.

That's no excuse for breaking laws and stuff, no, but he's right to feel a sense of being above certain levels of persecution because he's earned it. There REALLY are not that many people who can bust ass at coding computers like he can, and businesses are struggling to find them, no doubt. They're like musicians or any highly skilled people. Probably similarly trained since childhood to hone their craft until they became experts, and when the time comes, who ya gonna call to do the job? HIM. And he knows that...

Working at low level jobs at delta, swissport, etc... you see people on the last rung of the ladder before poverty, struggling to make ends meet. Tech ops guys etc, they're the rare ones you don't see much off, not as much as the bone-heads who lift luggage all day. Do the math, which ones are going to be easily replaceable?

As for his thoughts on the ps3 itself being created by former-hackers, again, he's right about that no doubt. I see kids all the time, who doesn't... but yeah, when I see a kid playing with his toys, you know what I really see? A video-game programmer, a movie director, a writer, a potential toy-maker, so many possibilities... because I did that, and i think it's so vital to explore one's imagination and dream as a child before deciding upon a career, which may very well be something you've always had a passion for anyway. However, the school system wishes to suppress these kinds of supposedly frivolous activities in exchange for droning repetitive school work since they're scared of the next generation being mentally weak. Yeah, as if having an imaginative mind isn't exercising your brain... Truth is, schools are just places to keep kids busy, while they go home and do what they really want to do, and I'd bet that a lot of very successful people were developing the skills they'd use to become successful while in their bedroom or in their backyard.

Like I said, "geniuses are people who are exceptionally gifted in some intellectual capabilities. Art, Music, poetry, math, whoever can do it better than the rest, rather easily, is considered genius." and I doubt joe janitor is going to be the one at the helm of our society.