Evil being people who disagree with you? Also see: "not a real American"

Taking the most well known of the bunch, you seriously believe Al Franken is bought and paid for by corporations? Have you looked at any other issues he's voted or spoken out on?

Different people can have legitimate disagreements about public policy without being evil, corrupt, or ignorant. To call them such just shows your intolerance.

Single player games are still essentially always cracked, even with an online component. Developers need to add a value in connecting to the server that makes it much less entertaining to play without, otherwise you end up pissing off your customers by making it harder for them to play than the pirates.

As opposed to the employers, who want to screw employees and pay them less than they're worth?

It seems pretty high to me, but one thing you should probably include is repeated calls by the same person failing, if the problem was severe in particular areas.

Also, in case anyone's interested in what happens when Baltimore, one of the cities cited as a success story in this article, simply tries to enforce its truancy laws, you can see an article about it here. The short answer is a 27% increase in attendance, although they don't give many specifics about the increase.

Incorrect. The stats say that the tracking devices, combined with...

The students are also assigned an adult coach who calls them at least three times a week to see how they are doing and help them find effective ways to make sure they get to class on time.

get them to class more often. Mentors by themselves have been shown to dramatically decrease truancy. These tracking devices have not.

And why do you feel the need to be sarcastic? It seems to be an epidemic around here I just don't understand.

It would only reduce costs if the child complies with the terms of the tracking or it causes the child to attend school instead of skipping. I honestly can't see why it would. If the threat of going to juvie didn't stop the kid from cutting in the first place, why would it stop them from not using their tracker?

He didn't say that. He's just pointing out, correctly, that "volunteering" means there is little to no incentive to do something, but you do it anyways. Convicted criminals don't "volunteer" to accept community service or probation, they choose it as an alternative to options they consider worse. Just like I don't "volunteer" to go to work every day.

These kids are the same. To call it voluntary is a joke.

Yes and no. Yes, standard browser settings restrict a cookie to be read by a single domain. But most advertising networks put the cookie on the root domain of the network. So if EBay and Slashdot have the same advertising network, Ebay can pass what you bought to the ad network and through a hidden iframe or various other techniques load a page at the ad network. Which then sets the cookie on your computer from the ad network. Next time you visit Slashdot, it loads a hidden iframe with a page at the ad network, which loads the cookie, and passes the data on to Slashdot.

I'm sure there's probably even easier techniques than the one I came up with as a "can I do this" exercise one rainy day.

Pretty much every Western culture requires women to cover their breasts while men can leave theirs bare. I'm not sure of the anthropological history of this particular example, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had Judeo-Christian roots. All cultures have screwy social norms. Most members of that culture can't recognize them.

Do you consider drinking human blood and eating human flesh normal?

Do you seriously believe raising taxes on the wealthy is going to make them say "Well, that didn't work out. I guess I'll try being poor now?" Of course not.

You know why a graduated tax system is used just as much as I do. Because the people who need services can't afford them. They aren't being paid enough by the people you seem to admire.

Pure socialism may not work, but pure capitalism is nothing more than a pyramid scheme.

Well, I give away mine if they're still working. And "replacing" my PC generally consists of a mobo/cpu/ram upgrade. I keep the rest.

I had to double check that your username isn't in fact "vitriol8," because that's sure how you come across, Angry Internet Man.

Who said he's throwing it away? Or even that he's replacing every part of it?

Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed or something?

That's a bit different, though. You haven't agreed to the TOS, and as such Facebook hasn't agreed to provide you a license to copy the photo. I would think its either a copyright violation if they never agreed to the TOS, or a contract violation if they did.

I took it as people trying to activate their own devices are more easily suspected and caught before detonation. In cases like this, even when the carrier is caught or incapacitated, a handler can detonate before evacuation or disarming can occur.