replying to this to undo stupid moderation... since this is my first time with the new system and I had to experiment with turning various parts of noscript off...

Sure! I did that twice last week myself...

If you don't mind me asking, what is it that you do to generate an income? Sounds interesting from that description.

Now, I agree with you... to a degree (and I'm not here to side with the GP), but how about all the people that are "60+, with a lifetime of hard work behind you, yet still faced with a future of poverty and desperation."
Quite often life just sucks, most people don't have a Madoff to point to though.

If there were only a way to mod that to +6 funny...

Couldn't agree with most of what you said more, just wanted to add one thing:

I finally got around to using the Windows 7 upgrade I bought (on pre-order so it's been a while - it was just too cheap to pass up, but I never figured it would be much of an improvement). My formerly Vista laptop now wakes from sleep, with network connection, just as fast as my girlfriends Mac! (like 2 seconds) I am kicking myself for waiting so long...

Um, I'm pretty sure the AC meant the uncensored version.

Right. Nobody at all. Tell that to the girl I briefly dated about 20 years ago, when I was a kid. Can you please also tell it to the ER doctors that pumped her stomach and filled it with charcoal once I discovered what she had done?
Thanks so much.

I have nothing to add to the debate, but I love that you define proper SSD use as "(massive torrenting of porn and deleting it afterwards)".
Kudos, good sir.

Without disagreeing with anything you say (not necessarily agreeing either), would this same logic apply to the drone strikes in Pakistan?

Hey, I don't use them, I was merely suggesting a viable solution if you happen to be curious about what the link might be. If you have never tried it, the preview function shows you the full url of the site without taking you there. The hostility is a bit misplaced, don't you think?

Uh, calm down and turn on the 'preview' feature for tinyurl...

Your assertion is correct, but you gave a sort of bad example. If a kid signs up for a sport at school (for example), generally there is a contract signed by the kid that he or she will not do drugs or will be tossed off the team. This is above and beyond what the rest of the student body is subjected to, and the kid makes the choice to sign. If the cops report it to the school, the issue is clear cut.
But there are many other examples out there to back what you said.

Wow, one whole guy, eh? Good thing he was an elected representative for all Swedish people, sent out in the world to give others an idea of what his fellow countrymen are like. :P

Oh, come on... You're not even going to use [a href="url">Link text/a] as an example? (obviously you would need to replace [] with the proper symbols...) Correction FAIL.