The only banks I deal with pay me to have access to my money, not the other way around.

You should think a bit more about what the phrase "your own money" means before you get all up in arms. Free access to that which is yours is a right, not a convenience.

The only fair price to enable spending your own money is zero.

Does this mean that Microsoft will assume responsibility for creating unresponsible persons?

This really moves SpaceX up in my estimation as well. Until now, I pictured private space flight as focusing only on making profits, not sacrificing dollars in order to protect people around them. Maybe the privatization of space flight has a future after all!

Good on them for making the self-destruct such a high priority!

That is what Scottish independence would mean. But WTF, break what is left of the Kingdom up if you must.

Life is created under ideal conditions then it evolves to survive in harsh environments. Certainly I would prefer to believe that the opposite is true, but the evidence presented so far does not support that.

Proving I'm human just subjects me to more ads I don't want to see.

Sure, and I'll bet there are many people who are willing to pay to not have their world views challenged too. I'm just not one of them.

To be honest though, I've not seen a single thing on the internet that I would be willing to pay for just to see. Yeah, I know there are many who are...but I've never been able to get my head around the idea that subscription based sites are of any real value. Add to that already cynical view of paying for any information being a stupid propisition the thought of paying to hide thoughts that you find offensive then you've really entered negative territory for the cost of wasting time on trivial matters.

...is nothing but a great waste of resources. If only all the energy devoted to such trivalities as sports were dedicated to science.

Intelligent people realize they are immature, and strive to gain more experience and insight before they act.

...before you are ready signifies immaturity, not intelligence.