By your body going into starvation mode. C'mon, it's not that hard to look up how to lose weight sensibly, it's all over the web. Some of those tips are even good. Hint: It's the ones that don't want to sell you their miracle cure crap.

Bar? If your chocolate is solid enough not to require a spoon because that's how it crumbles, it's not pure enough!

Mostly it exposes that people love to believe stories they like. And of course journalists love to publish stories that their readers like.

I just don't think that qualifies as news, though.

All I can see is that I should expand my business to include pitchforks and rope.

But isn't that their argument? That they will have to die if they cannot force their junk on us.

In other words, screw art, content or "message", money is what matters.

Ok, not really a surprise.

So that's what we need TTIP for? To finally get the same shady practices that undermine laws over here too?

The US court system already rivals that of the average banana republic. But hey, if their movies are anything to go by it's the best in the world, what could possibly go wrong?

If that's recovery, I don't want to see what your economy would look like if it was in the dump. Your "recovery" is yet another bubble, with the printing press pretty much propping you up and the fact that you can, by holding the de facto international currency in your hands, essentially tax the world by forcing them to keep your inflation artificially low so they don't sit on worthless toilet paper (aka dollar reserves).

Seriously, if the US was any other country, their rating would have bombed by now due to an economy that can not support the amount of money being pumped out aimlessly.

Ok, not true, it ain't aimlessly. But aimed at the by some margin wrongest targets. Instead of trying to use that money to help your economy recover, you prop up failed banks and failing businesses that are deemed "too big to fail". Mostly because a government take over is anathema to your economical dogma, so you pump money into corporations which is not used to create jobs or spur the economy but is siphoned away by those that actually caused all this. And these people are still not held accountable for it, quite the opposite. They're pretty much assured that no matter how much they damage the economy and abuse it for their personal gains, we'll bail them out.

That's hard to trump. I'm not convinced that it can't be done worse, I'm actually pretty sure a Republican could come up with some ways to fuck this up even worse. But I hope we can agree on this being kinda far away from any sensible solution to the problem at hand.

Why? Since when is it a court's business to protect some business model that doesn't work out?

Sooo... our browsers will honor the ADS_NOT_TO_BE_REMOVED flag as much as they honor our browser's DO_NOT_TRACK flag and we call it even?

We will win this battle.

I can live without their content.
Can they live without my money, or the revenue from ads?

You mean that's different from TV networks cutting movies left and right to make NC17 movies suitable for broadcast or "trimming" them down so they can squeeze in another ad break? Oddly, this seems to be a-ok with the studios.

I don't mind the bandwidth. What I do mind, though, is that they don't even bother checking who's advertising with them and whether they use this vehicle to spread malware. As long as they pay, who gives a shit about the visitors of their pages?

Showing ads to me is a privilege. Earn it!

Courts are not here to protect your failing business model. But it sure shows a certain kind of feeling of entitlement that you think they are.

You mean it could have been worse? There could have been any less accountability for those that drove and continue to drive our economy head first into the ground? It's possible to go below zero on this one?