> Which makes the linked-in customers idiots.
They're not customers anymore than cattle are customers for the slaughterhouse. Their main customers are recruiters.
It's what happens when you copy a URL off a Google result page without visiting it - Google search results point at a tracking URL that then points you at the real thing. If you want the real URL, you need to click the link and copy the result out of the address bar.
The actual URL is http://www.thetreeofliberty.com/vb/showthread.php?t=142839
So a malum prohibitum or civil offense is enough justification to make something blockable? That's not even a slippery slope, that's halfway down the hill. Build the infrastructure and it WILL be abused, particularly if it's all behind closed doors.
> I have read there has been a dramatic increase in bed bugs over the last decade in major urban centers. There is a very good reason why it has.
Yeah, that's where the most people are and where people move around the most. If you live in the boonies you never see people in on business trips, and you're more likely to own a house with no close neighbors instead of live in an apartment with a constantly-shifting set of neighbors. Less vectors.
> People have been told to save energy (and the environment) by using cold water to wash their laundry.
And they aren't people in the country? Got news for you: When you have your own water heater instead of a coin-op laundry, you look for ways to save hot water.
> While your laundry comes out smelling and looking clean just the same, you STILL need to use high temp wash under certain situations, like washing your bed sheets.
Wow. You're an entomologist like Rosie O'Donnell is a metallurgist. First off, the bugs don't live en masse in the sheets, so that won't halt an infestation. Second, when you're trying to kill bedbugs in fabric, it's usually recommended to DRY it on high heat and not even bother tossing it in a wash cycle unless you were going to anyway.
> I mean this is why I hate stupid green alarmists because they can't apply rational common sense to anything.
Try not to look in any mirrors. Learning the concept of self-awareness might destroy you.
In the real world, paying someone to get money back (and getting nothing) is a Nigerian scam.
In the music world, paying someone to get money back (and getting nothing) is business as usual.
Anyone that doesn't want cable (I'm one) cannot watch GoT legally unless you wait until February to get season 3.
Don't worry, I'm sure the Internet will be polite enough to avoid spoilers until then.
The thing I've found is for everyone one who does know how to pirate media online, there are a number of friends and family who use some variety of sneaker net to get their shows from the person in the know.
About what I've found. External hard drives get passed around a decent amount between someone who understands where to get stuff and someone who just wants to watch movies.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky