Your reasons for boycotting Microsoft don't make any sense.

Boycott something that matters, like Apple or Monsanto.

You don't see what you see. You see what you believe you see.

Now go buy some gold audio cables because they "sound better".

Ahh. Well, that's a ridiculously high number. Might want to rethink that.

Perhaps there was a miscommunication. The site having mainly torrents of pirated stuff does not mean the torrent index site is geared towards piracy, i.e. advocating it.

That just says they are maybe corrupt. Not illegal or illegitimate.

What was it before it was Slashdot? Just curious.

Subway is not a particularly American term (several cities here say Metro) just as Metro is not particularly universal/European.

FYI.

I used to believe that, because I wanted to. Unfortunate the world is not that simply, and rationality is compartmentalized.

There are far more religious scientists than you would probably believe. They just don't happen to be fanatics.

How are they not real police? They have been given police powers.

Show your math, please.

Can you prove that? The site is geared towards torrents, but it doesn't imply the legality of those torrents.

If the site happens to have mainly illegal torrents, that is not a fault of the site.

Google sells far more than just adspace. Google sells information.

The others being performance and functionality related. I don't like ad's due to the security risk, and they can slow down my machine and make it very fucking hard to see the article.

If your site has harmless ad's, that is one thing.

On the other hand, if your site can only survive by being paid for with ads, you need a new business model.

Yeah. I mean Star Trek get's a pass because all the aliens share our DNA....but the fact the most aliens in Sci-Fi are basically human is pretty sad.

What a lack of imagination.

For example, female aliens shouldn't have breasts. Human breasts are an anomaly in the animal kingdom...why would that be a common feature among aliens?

Luckily it's on the internet, and they can skirt around it.

Nothing stopping from Europeans paying money in SUD to Google USA, and Google's services will reach Europeans just fine from outside of Europe.