But hey, if I was brooklynguy, I would have suggested banishment for such an offense, so just a little ALL-CAPS shouting is letting him off easy.
Banishment is the appropriate punishment for linking to an
identical source. For merely linking to an
inferior source, I'd say a tarring-and-feathering would be in order.
And really, I just want to pimp out seattlecyclone's superior summary
In all seriousness, I really can't get over how great this community is. We all basically get to crowdsource our own early retirements, and collectively create and fine-tune our own custom-tailored resources for doing so. We're building our own GPS-enabled navigation systems to traverse the road to early retirement, unlike the early-retirement pioneers of yesteryear (before, like, 2007?) who not only had to build from scratch the roadway infrastructure we're now using but also had to self-navigate with the kind of uncooperative folding paper maps our grandparents used to have to force into submission over their laps while trying to keep one eye on the road (except, in this case, they were building the road underneath them as they drove over it).
Ok, I lost control of the reins on that metaphor, but anyway, thanks to everyone here for your contributions, and thanks to the giants who came before us on whose shoulders we now stand!