Because it sounds complex and not entirely legal (it might be legal but it sounds like it might be illegal).

The vast majority of users are going to be using their real credit card.

I'm not even sure every guy who knows how to use a bank account and a computer fully understands how credit cards work. I think you need to seriously recalibrate your opinion of what typical people are capable of.

10 years? You can rape and/or kill someone and not get that much time. Pure insanity.

^^^^ This times 1000.

Email has become fairly unreliable because many of the larger providers simply drop any suspect email, and they do it silently. No bounceback, no indication that it was rejected, nothing. They just drop it without any indication whatsoever. You send an email and it never arrives, never comes back as undeliverable, it just disappears.

In the last few years I've seen this happening more and more and more, to the point that I sometimes have to call the recipient to see if they got what I sent.

There is more to defensive driving than taking evasive action to avoid an imminent accident. True defensive driving is an ingrained habit of thinking and an experienced driver does it constantly with little conscious notice. It is staying out of other drivers' blind spots; it is letting up on the gas a little when it appears that a driver pulling out of a side street might not see you; it is taking a quick glance both ways when the light turns green just in case someone else is trying to beat the red light. It is not just tricky maneuvers to get out of a tight spot -- it is thinking ahead to reduce the risk of getting in a tight spot in the first place.

That even after you remove the rant and bias it's still a really stupid question.

You might as well ask why animals don't have political pundits.

Why ask why animals don't have X when you'd probably agree people didn't even have X until some time in the last few hundred years.

Your work improving slaughterhouses essentially involved empathizing with the animals and understanding the factors that were causing them excessive stress.

Why do you think most people have so much trouble doing this? Is it just experience, ie we don't realize a certain rake is making the cattle nervous because we haven't lived the life of a cow. Or do you think there's something fundamentally different about the cognition of different animals that makes them respond in ways that humans have trouble relating to?

That must have been hard to phrase your angry off-topic rant in the form of a question.

I'd also question your claim that animals don't have social justice. If we ignore your incoherent definition (ie any moral judgement you disagree with) and look at actual social justice things like concepts of fairness and policing social norms it's clear animals do have social justice.

I couldn't have said it better myself. I have been programming in Perl for 20 years and my mantra has always been "It's better to be clear than to be clever." There are two types of coder that are a curse to the Perl language: beginners who write stupid code because Perl lets them do it, and "elite" coders who delight in obscure difficult-to-read idioms (which often cover up poor basic logic). Saying that someone's Perl code looks like C is meant in a derogatory way by some Perl coders, but I think Perl would have a better reputation if more people coded in such a clear, straight-forward manner instead of trying to show everyone how clever they are.

Who does not love cats?

Me. I do not love cats. And that position comes from previously having cats for almost a decade.

I just got tired of finding hair everywhere in everything- my food, my clothes, my laundry, my furniture, books, electronics, carpeting, kitchen, tools, etc etc etc.

And no matter what you may think or what anyone tells you, if you have cats, yes, your house smells. Trust me- anyone who walks into a home with cats knows that there are cats living there.

I concede "virtually all" is an overstatement and I'm not sure how to find evidence other than anecdotes and a general impression, but I do think there is a definite pattern with people falling into extremist bubbles which is a lot easier on the internet.

As for the reporting aspect I do think I have some evidence of it being under reported. Luka Magnotta was very active on social media and extremist sites like Stormfront, posted multiple videos of himself killing animals and uploaded the video of his murder of Justin Lin to a gore website. However, the only mention of this you ever saw in the media was that he had uploaded videos of the kitten killings and murder and that the owner of the gore website was arrested.

It wasn't even made clear that Magnotta uploaded the video himself, the fact that he was extremely active in social media (and probably the gore website as well) was almost unreported in an extremely sensationalized case. It follows that there's a lot of other cases where it's likely under publicized as well.

It's an easily accessible source with biases that are relatively well understood. That doesn't mean it's where I formed my views but it has conveniently accessible information.

If I gave something you know to be inaccurate or misleading you can supply your own source rather than just writing the whole thing off.

It's ironic that you're criticizing the quality of my sources since I don't even recall you posting any.

They gave back a tiny portion they didn't want in order to cement control over the West Bank and prevent the creation of a Palestinian state, at least according to Ariel Sharon

Yet despite this the proposed partition still managed to make the regions given to the Jews 45% Arab.

I disagree.

Who cares what ethnicity they are? These are actual individuals who are having their homes taken away.

So when was this that there was no notable Muslim population?

Lets just ignore the question of whether they became anti-Semitic before or after Jewish immigrants literally decided to take over Palestine because either answer carries the implication that the Zionists shouldn't have tried to take over Palestine.

You're still ignoring the Settlements question!!! Clearly you can see why I think the Settlements are indefensible, because no one will ever defend them!

It that the case though? If the community is bad enough to get banned I don't think it's moderating people.

That's a very different topic.

Games are fundamentally escapist, GTA doesn't actually endorse violence, it just lets people enjoy some fantasies.

But communities shape people's views and what they perceive as typical or right. I don't see why making the community online would change this?

Well Elliot Rodger is one but I was mostly thinking about lone wolf terrorists or people like Luka Magnotta (though he wasn't a spree killer). However it's hard to find good sources in part because it isn't really mentioned. When people do something crazy like go on a killing spree or post a murder video people assume they'll be part of some screwy online communities and papers don't want to get flack from readers for posting the name of a really disturbing site.

But at a more abstract level no one disputes the fact that people can fall in with a bad crowd in the physical world, why would you dispute that it's possible to fall in with a bad crowd on the Internet?