A hangover is caused by dehydration.

No it's not. A hangover is caused by ethanal poisoning. Ethanal (archaic name: acetaldehyde) is what your liver converts ethanol into - it converts that to ethanoic acid (archaic name: acetic acid, aka vinegar) before it excretes it. Ethanal has an apple smell and even inhaling its fumes can give you a mild hangover. Water helps dilute it and helps your body excrete it, but dehydration only exacerbates a hangover, it doesn't cause it.

What gives you the idea that I'm not already older? :)

Hint: I was in my late 20s when I registered on /. You have my UID number, work it out.

You're not very old then.

When i was in my early 20s i was programming computers that loaded their stage 2 boot loaders off paper tape and their operating systems from punched cards. Slashdot was nearly 20 years away in those days.

There is no causation between beer consumption and a "beer gut".

Citation please!

I think you're almost certainly wrong (no citation, this is just informed opinion) - particularly when it comes to people who drink home brew or other beers that have a fair amount of live yeast in them. Part of a beer gut is intestinal irritation causing swelling - and that can be caused by yeast. Part of it is a swollen liver - caused by the alcohol. Probably only a relatively small proportion is fat.

I doubt it. I'd say the original purpose of faith was to allow people to overcome their terror of dying and to pretend that they weren't just going to cease to exist one day.

A secondary purpose of faith was to give a small elite power and wealth.

Nah, you'd have to be pretty delusional to believe that god cares. Just look at the horror and misery going on around the world all the time - if there was a god that cared, it wouldn't be like that. And the old bullshit line that it's all part of god's mysterious plan, is nothing but desperate rationalization.

The point of faith is to quell your terror of dying.and the fact that one day you just won't exist.

The problem is that we created god - and we obviously weren't very good engineers because the god we created seems to be a bit of an arsehole.

And Rupert Murdoch owns a very high proportion of the media in Australia - where i am. And we extradited him to you in the first place.

This is an article about Afghanistan. Get used to it. Sorry.

I can imagine people there have things more important to worry about.

Like not being able to read or write, for a start. Nearly 90% of women and well over 50% of men can't read or write. The internet's not going to be much use to them!

(Watch your language, sir... ) Anti-trust laws in America are over 100 years old.

Incredible as it may seem, the USA is only a tiny fraction of the world!

Sorry to disillusion you, but i started using Facebook while i was living in Kabul in 06!

... is considered to be a true eutroglobiont ...

That's tautology - "eutroglobiont" means "true cave dwelling organism" - the "eu" prefix means "true".

It matters to the snail!

The days when desktop environments improved as time went by seem to have gone. Now they just get more and more annoying with every iteration. Unfortunately that's the way of the world and there's nothing to be done but to grit your teeth and put up with it. Hopefully things will change again before too long.