Here's what he wrote, according to the Daily Mail: âoeLOL, **** Muamba. Heâ(TM)s dead.â (I assume he actually wrote "fuck", there.)

You'd think, but it doesn't seem to cause any issues around here. Shouldn't leave it lying around in your fridge for day(s), though.

Well, the raw onions are optional. People eat it with just salt and pepper, too. I like the raw onions, initially, but I grow tired of everything still seeming to taste like raw onions four hours and two toothbrushings later. ;)

Raw minced pork is also moderately popular in Germany, served on bread rolls with hardly any seasoning other than raw onions and salt and pepper.

I deliberately don't buy power from one of the biggest energy producers, and I'm pretty confident that they don't participate in green-washing in the manner you describe.

We pay extra to get power from renewable sources. The money goes directly to a company which only operates and builds up renewable energy sources. Of course we actually get power from our local utility, but each kWh we use is actually delivered into the German/European power grid somewhere from regenerative power sources.

Of course, since the plants (wind, mostly) are already built, their power would end up in the network anyway. But this way, the huge and pretty horrible ex-state monopolies don't get any of our money (the local utility company is publicly owned), and instead a company which invests into renewables gets most of it.

Language and meanings is malleable, and much of if it is metaphorical at heart (sic!). Words (phrases, all utterances, really) have a central meaning and a multitude of non-central meanings. I would argue with great confidence that your sentences rely on non-central meanings of the word, which are nonetheless easily derived from the central meaning because people are very good at it.

In the end, whether or not copyright infringement "is" stealing depends on your definition of the word -- obviously! Whether it "is" stealing is also irrelevant: in the end, copyright infringement is copyright infringement, and our treatment of it should be based on its characteristics, not on some kind of analogy or categorization.

Could be interesting to compare it to the previous poll "Distance from birthplace? ". http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1260&aid=-1

That's great. Meanwhile, those of us with more interesting hobbies use a computer or buy a map.

You forgot the Xenophobic-Egalitarian distinction, and/or the Nationalist-Internationalist one. Otherweise, I'm not sure how you're going to represent the extreme-right (in old-fashioned terms) PVV, who after all got 15.5% of the votes the last time around.

We have very strict social rules about sexual behavior and we still end up with carelessly conceived children. We have extremely harsh rules about drug use, and drug-related crime and addiction are still a problem.

That said I see where you are coming from and it's something to keep in mind: what are the externalities of freedom X in comparison with strict regulation of X?

Don't you usually feel it when an elevator goes up or down?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population%20density%20of%20UK%2C%20Japan%2C%20US

You can keep talking about "act of war" as if that meant anything, but the legality of the situation remains as I described it. I made no comment about the economic sanctions imposed by the British.

So you think unless the US has signed a bilateral treaty with another nation, it's free to violate that nation's sovereignty? And vice versa? That's not how things work.