When silence is screaming

[Autumnlicious]

And I'd have to say I am an addict, because once an addict, always an addict. I have quit using drugs as a coping mechanism, though.

The only difference between self-identified "addicts" and non-addicts is that the first recognizes the mutability of their hardware by first hand experience.

Many members of the second group consider their hardware immutable.

They are in error.