I don't know a great deal about online marketing and privacy policies, if someone could please enlighten me. I assume Facebook's research eventually lead to Ad banners that cater to the type of things that I have "liked". However, I never click on Ad Banners. If they sell this information to some company, that company is losing out(because I don't click on Ad Banners). So what am I losing here?

The question is: Can people work together as a whole toward a single goal? Exhibit A: Our current government system(unadulterated pessimism) Exhibit B: The great wall of China So I think the answer is yes, if there is a Overlord with substantial credibility threatening all the subordinates with death and destruction.

Have anyone every tried to use L33T as a way to create new passwords? You take words, add L33T to them and they become an amalgamation of letters, numbers and punctuations. It's easy to remember since they are words, and L33T is a relaxed enough system so everyone's L33T is not uniform. It's like a poor man's encryption system!

That's interesting, sexual reproduction is meant to increase genetic variation within a population and adapting to evolutionary changes. An animal that forgoes this process and clones itself to reproduce must of had genetic defects already weeded out from the gene pool at large. It might have perfectly adapted to survive in its surroundings, without experiencing harsh evolutionary demands. If this lizard has been around for millions of years, it might be interesting to analyze genetic variance of individual lizards, and see how many original lines exist within the population. After all if they are clones, it's possible that the entire species is consisted of clones descended from ONE individual! That's pretty rad stuff for the animal kingdom.