So what exactly is your point here? That's what I'm trying to delve down into. As far as I know you always post AC, so you're not against people posting anonymously. Is the argument that the "pseudononymous" nickname is not anonymous? Sure, I could agree with that, you responded to one of my posts where I said as much. I login to Slashdot for the convenience of easily tracking my posts, and I'm fine with other people doing so, as you have. You can call me an easily-tracked sheep if you want, that's certainly your prerogative, but maybe I'm fine with people tracking my posting history. I'm not ashamed of my posting history on Slashdot, whether I log in as "Rakarra Williams" or decide to just post as AC. Going through the history seems to me like it would be a waste of time, but I recognize that it's there if you want it.

Do you really think that the people who disagree with you are all sockpuppets trying to pull one over on you? I suppose when you employ sockpuppet accounts yourself, you start to see everyone else as a sockpuppet of whomever you currently have a beef with.

What a shame, I don't even have a problem with host-file-based browser security.

You don't have to have a degree to know when someone is crazy.

I got sick of riding the bus the third time I had to sit next to the woman who was shouting that the jews at the bank stole all her money, and how the law gives her the right to kill anyone who "messes" with her kids.

Do you have Tourette's? Did anything you said really have anything to do with what I said, or are you throwing random insults around?

I did it not too long ago, so I could listen to an album in the car. Until... very recently the car had a sound system would could play CDs, but it had no aux jack. It did have a USB jack, but it only understood Apple iPod/iPhones (and recently, it looks like Google or Samsung or whoever disabled outputting USB audio). So... CD it was!

I've had this stupid "load all comments" problem for a year now. It used to be there was a preference that would load all comments, but that seems to have disappeared. If I'm clicking on a story, I want to read the comments. :-/

"Buying" songs in any format is an obsolete model.

Assuming your service is even legal, it won't be around much longer. The industry is aggressively moving towards pay-per-view/pay-per-listen. On the movie side, they detest Netflix and their all-you-can-eat for a low price model and have been doing everything in their power to kill them. On the music side, the royalty system is already firmly in place, but I guarantee you that every single music industry decision maker thinks that your $10/month music service is at waaaaaaay too low of a price.

Well, you have that part mostly right.

Dragon's Den is Shark Tank's parent show. Dragon's Den was based on/inspired by the Japanese show "Money Tigers."

Most of them are not, and there are enough who are completely crazy or sociopaths to make the occasional bright spot not worth it.

My favorite part is the use of the third person, as if he's trying to convince us that APK is not the author of those posts.

Because they all still suck compared to face to face communication.

This is pretty much how Russians argue, from top officials to media pundits to paid Internet trolls. Deflect the conversation away from your own corruption, however you can.

After all, if person X is indicted for corruption, but unrelated persons Y and Z aren't ALSO indicted for unrelated matters at the same time, well then it's just not fucking fair and the whole thing has to be dropped!

Rhetoric that you don't have to follow up on is very cheap.

Well that's what happens when you crack down on the media that doesn't toe your particular brand of bullshit. People tend to assume that the stuff you let through has your seal of approval. It's hardly a "Russian" problem either, it's fairly common in any country where the media is strictly controlled by the state. Plenty of people elsewhere think Fox News does Obama's bidding just because their news outlets are controlled by their government.

That never, ever stops a conspiracy theorist.