You can resell the game.

No, you cannot. To activate the game, you must associate it with a Battle.net account, and when you do, it permanently locks the activation key. You may re-sell the physical disc, perhaps, but whoever buys it will also need to buy a new key at full retail price. The disc is meaningless.

Sure, you can play offline without logging into Battle.net, but that's not what I'm talking about.

Can I install the game without creating a Battle.net account? Can I re-sell the game after I'm done with it?

Like I said, a fundamental design choice.

I'm a man in my mid-30s, and all of my friends are men even older than me. (I always was the precocious one...) Some of us have been friends for almost 20 years, since long before Facebook was created, so how would joining Facebook now improve our lives?

I have no problem with using the Internet to meet new people and discover new things, but from what I've seen of Twitter and Facebook, the learning curve (or the signal-to-noise ratio, if you prefer) simply isn't worth it. It would just take too much time and effort to build a useful network from scratch, within the rather arcane rules of those sites.

I'm sure it would be different if I was drawn into an existing network, but that's not going to happen for the reasons given in paragraph #1.

The protestors are all Muslims, therefore they are Muslim protests.

If you're inflating that to mean all Muslims are protestors, that's your problem. I said no such thing.

Step back and take a breath. Look at the sequence of events. Think. This is about provocation, retaliation, and the nature of tolerance. One man threatens to do something but has not actually done anything yet, thousands "respond" by actually doing that thing first.

The parent asked how this can be satire, so...

Islamists in other countries do stuff like that all the time; it's so commonplace that it doesn't even make the news anymore.

In fact, have you seen the videos of this week's protests? They're burning all sorts of things in response to just the announcement of this Koran burning.

If you can explain to me how burning someone else's holy book qualifies as satire or parody then I'll accept the equivalence with Westergaard's case.

Have you seen the videos of the Muslim protests against this? They're burning all sorts of things in response to just the announcement of the Koran burning.