sounds like he has a lot of bitcoins, so he wants to preserve their status.

Altcoins are having success, even parody ones. Why? Because *coins are a ponzi scheme. Who comes first, gets more for less.
Yeah, creators ARE premining. But nevertheless, the first users can do cheap mining as well, paid by the users who are joining later. Because of this effect you cannot tell people to boycott altcoins, when they have the opportunity to make a lot more money there than with bitcoin.

So maybe there will not be mined more and more bitcoins, but for every coin-currency which is "used up", there will come a successor, which can be mined from start. So its a meta-coin, which does not work by hashing more and more transactions, but by creating new currencies, which will replace the old ones.

People like you are the people, whose mailservers spam the rest of us.

Next time use a rickroll video without GEMA blocking ;).

Its because cracker is a stupid word. First i think of cookies, then i think of people creating keygens. No, cracker is no word for "evil hacker".

should not join discussions, online or offline.

your mailprovider does, using SPF and DKIM.

wrong. because someone is the first user. Without friends using it.

Some people do not want a discussion (about their content). Look at all this blogs with moderated comments.

On News sites with good comment systems, the comments add the real value.

Examples:
- reddit: Comments are dull, because everyone wants to be funny
- Slashdot: Comments are often better than the article, some are just funny, others insightful and interesting.
- Heise: Best* comment system, good threaded discussions, which add value even to the often very good articles.

* look at the news forums. Some other Forums, like telepolisblogs, techreview, mac&i, ... are migrated to new forums, which are worse. If they really migrate all forums, their comments will decline, too.

No, because you change the UA and it works. So why should it be a problem for them?

I guess the reason is, there are good screen records for linux, which can make lossless copies.

there was recently a posting, that skype will disable old versions (at least on linux). I guess osx will get the same problem.

The problem is, they are banning old but working skype versions from their network. When you think of the beginning, where skype was p2p ...

just send a mail. if it fails, discard the pending registration or whatever, possibly via "not confirmed" timeout some days later.

Isn't this something, which was introduced years ago?

Think of all the wasted data, greenpeace will hate you!

Seriously. If its such a small percentage, which needs huge amount of data, they can provide it to them. There are a lot of people with unlimited data, who check their mail once a day. So the money is okay on average. Thats the whole idea of flatrates.