It's never been a problem. Ditto for lots of other people and companies. What's the issue?

Yeah. Offering Sysop access to my dialup BBS never got me laid.

You really are not helping the cause.

Citing Wikileaks as free speech is clouding the issue. A lot of people don't consider what they're doing to be "Freedom of Speech". I'm just saying, the article poster should have put away his agenda long enough to cite an example that everybody could identify with.

If that's the best example, then maybe these new laws aren't that bad after all.

Please find another example. A lot of people don't agree with or support Wikileaks. I know Slashdot has an agenda, but please let it go for once if this issue is important enough.

Object Oriented Design isn't part of a CS program. Unfortunately.

I'm probably not going to land a job as a porn star any time soon.

As if I needed another.

What I remember most about the state are the tolls on I80. They must like their taxes!

Nearly Every? Can you cite some examples?

The kind of people who would be able to afford this type of treatment (or any fertility treatment) tend to not have very many children anyways.

Doubly so since their offspring could only ever be female.

I distinctly remember the news reports from that time. UN inspectors were being denied access to numerous facilities, or at least delayed long enough for Hussein to hide anything. If he didn't have any WMD's, he sure as hell wanted people to think he did.

Please, people, stop calling it things like "Extending a Tax Cut". Taxes either go UP or they go DOWN. What was going to happen was an automatic TAX INCREASE. Any other label is just sugar coating.

A new car will depreciate every couple of months more than the entire purchase price of my 100k mile used car. Nothing can possibly go wrong that will make it worth buying a new car instead. And it still looks and drives like new.

Also, sales tax, property tax, registration, and insurance are all a fraction of what it would cost for a new car.

I do know people who take their car to the dealer for routine repairs and maintenance. That does cost a fortune, but it's all part of the scam. When they come out and tell you that the leaky power steering pump is going to cost $3500 to fix, they want you to trade it in instead.

You could afford that much, just finance it for 5+ years. That's $921/month for 5 years. Stop saving for retirement. Put home repairs on the credit card. Give up health insurance. Etc.

People do this.

I just bought a $45,000 Hybrid SUV for $7,500 cash. All I had to do was let someone else drive it for five years. I hope the new car scent was worth the $37,500.