Back before AdBlock was prevalent I redirected all ad websites to a local server on my network that served up a random image from a large pool of images. Websites went from ad-infested crap to astronomy, video game, superhero, and geek images. It was pretty cool.

Then I found AdBlock and never looked back.

I surf on a cell phone for a large portion of the day. If I go over my limit, I have to pay them more. I'm not about to do so just so some website that I'll probably never visit again (because their content was spread over 12 pages to increase page views to an article with marginal interest to me in the first place) can make a tenth of a penny off of my eyeballs.

You forgot the most important part (to me). Games on Steam are CHEAP if you are patient enough to not buy them the second they become available. I'm pretty sure every game that's been on Steam for more than a month or two has been involved in one sale or another. I frequently pick up games for 75-90% off retail price, after the game has been out 6 months or so. For those prices, I have no problem with not "actually" owning the game. I only play a couple of them at a time anyway and then they sit in my library for the rest of eternity.

Also, I have had 0 problems playing in offline mode. I don't know what problems others have, but they don't seem to surface for me. I played a LOT of Saints Row 3 in offline mode, and it worked like a charm.

Actually yes, but in pretty much every single case ever the massive corporation submitting the takedown notice will sue Google for a lot more money than the 13 year old dancing to their favorite song would ever earn.

And we're not talking hit-by-a-tire damages here. Monetary damages. REAL damages.

So Germans are better at that, too?

Yes. And that's exactly how I pronounce "Fox News."

Do your Redboxes have damn near every single DVD ever made? Mine don't.

I use Netflix for hard-to-get stuff, and Redbox for new stuff. Come August, I may be dropping my DVD plan from Netflix though because it's only marginally worth it now.

It takes me about 10 seconds a day (6 days a week, soon 5) to sort through my junk mail. That's probably rounding up. Most of the time I do it while walking back from the mailbox so it's time I'd have "wasted" anyway, but let's assume I devote 10 entire seconds every single day to sorting mail. At 4 weeks a month, 6 days a week, that's 240 seconds or 4 minutes of my precious, precious time wasted a month. I don't pay for my garbage (It's in my rent) and when I had a house I don't recall paying by the pound, so I'll ignore that cost.

To make it worth spending $5/month to pay someone else to sort my junk mail, I'd have to make about $80 an hour after taxes. I guess if I was pulling in that kind of cash, I wouldn't balk at paying someone else to do this simple, simple task. Assuming I never doubted that they screwed up.

And when something comes along and starts replacing cars, you bet your ass the car companies are going to tighten their belts and parts shops will probably be among the first to go.
If your business relies 100% on another company to provide you with something, you are at their mercy. Either rework your business or get a new business. Nikon has no moral or legal requirement to sell anybody anything.

So what you're saying is that no person on Earth has formed a 100% informed opinion about every single issue, idea, or viewpoint known to man?

I agree.

Star Trek alone has kept me watching for over a year. I've burned through TOS, Next Gen, and am almost done with DS9 and am about halfway through Voyager. I expect I've got another 9 months to a year of it before I need to find something else.

Why not just say they'll answer the top X% of petitions? Or even better, handle the single highest petition one at a time? Just take whatever's on top, address it, and then move to the next highest petition?

Or if they have a group doing it, each takes one of the top 10 petitions.

While we're being pedantic, America is not a continent.

Hear, hear. The best relationship I've ever been in (the one I'm in right now, and have been for going on 5 years) was from a free online dating site. After several relationship bombs, I decided that I wasn't going to settle for someone who was cute, or liked a TV show I liked, or had a passing interest in something I liked.

I set my bar at 95% compatibility, as denoted by the site. I filled out my profile honestly and figured I'd never actually find someone. The best matches were all in the 80%s for a couple months, and then suddenly there she was: Miss 98%.

And we've been happily dating ever since.