Meh, why must "vegetarian" mean only plants
It doesn't. Even vegans get fungus. If you actually know someone that falls for that though, you might try yeast instead of mushrooms. That ought to really blow their minds.
Stick to smokeless tobacco (preferably snus, not American spitting (chewing) tobacco) instead. That won't make you stink, but you'll get your nicotine fix anyway.
I'm afraid you just don't understand. The act of smoking is as addictive as the nicotine.
The most promising thing I have ever seen are personal vaporizers. Unfortunately, the FDA, as well as a few countries, are losing their minds over them. (They do need regulation. They do not need FUD.) Those of my fellow smokers interested, I recommend this forum as the definitive resource.
Using something like this also creates skill lock-in, where you only know how to do it using this instead of truly understanding the underlying logic.
For someone who just wants a simple and fast website, why exactly do they need to care about the underlying logic? Not everyone cares to tinker with every little thing for every little project and as such these frameworks are very nice to use.
Q. F. T.
Also, while I accept that this is a little reductio ad absurdum, one could also say "Learning the C STDLIB creates skill lock-in, write your own libraries." Or yet further, "Using the x86 assembler creates skill lock in, fab your own chips."
I'll also observe real quick, that one of Drupal's strengths, IMO, is how easy it is to manage content and users. Even for very large projects, it is an attractive framework from a more "company" perspective, given that you can hire someone who DOES understand the underlying logic to build modules, theme it, and set it up for X thousand dollars, and then manage it yourself from there. Or, you can put someone on a payroll for XY thousand dollars per annum to design and manage a custom built monster.
It boggles my mind how ON SLASHDOT, something as simple as a (relatively elegant!) PHP API can become "over-complicated" with too steep a learning curve.
I suggest you look at the stats about the number of people still on dial-up before you start throwing around seemingly tiny ad sizes. 24K would be almost half of the max speed of a 56K connection. Throw 3 or 4 of those banners on a site, and that's a significant delay.
Absolutely. If you're on dialup, you'd be crazy not to have AB+ for banners and NoScript to stop horribly large and generally obnoxious flash. Especially given that essentially all ad affiliate JS essentially halts loading content until the ads appear, just because of the way JS engines work with the DOM.
Furthermore, I didn't see him bitching about "static banners." Almost no one bitches about those. It's the flashing, vibrating, noisy, pop-over ads that people bitch about. You should be careful about putting words in people's mouth, too.
This is irrelevant. He said nothing with any specificity, and AB+ doesn't differentiate. Also, it is my experience that webmasters/developers/content providers/whatever you want to call them that inflict those design atrocities on their viewers are not people inclined to provide content worth a real time investment either. Therefore, I assert that the people most hurt by denying impressions are the ones that deserve to be hurt the least (obviously, the AdBlock guys agree... to some extent, at least). I fully admit that I am working under an assumption there, which may be wrong.
I may have come across as overly emotional. I assure you, I am extremely pragmatic about these things. I really, really, really don't care if people use AB+ or anything like it. I almost exclusively pirate music before I buy it. I download movies that I miss in the theater before they come out on DVD if I feel like it. I've cracked my fair share of shareware just to get rid of nag screens. I used to pirate games like it was a religion. I sometimes take extra samples at the grocery store. I do a quick ethical cost benefit analysis in my head, and then do whatever I want if I'm comfortable with it: I'm human. And as long as nobody suffers actual physical loss, I don't care if other people come up differently in their own personal ethical assessments.
I do take exception when people act like freedom fighters or something, being oppressed by the big, evil... other people... with regard to *minutia.* When I cracked WinRAR what... 12 years ago, because there was no 7zip and I had not yet heard of Linux, I did not go on diatribes about how those horrible people wanted to run their algorithms on -my- computer and show (timed!) nag screens on -my- monitor. When I pirated games, I did not feel like Robin Hood. I was just a kid with way more time than money.
tl;dr - Do what you want, but throw your sense of righteous entitlement out the window. Half baked justifications for this kind of thing are unnecessary at best.
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