This I've never understood. What's wrong with WWW = 232323, 216 (6 X 6 X 6), or even 2 (2 X 1 X 6 = 12, 1 X 2 = 2)?
When to multiply digits and when not seems kind of arbitrary to me.

What has that to do with this thread about the number of the beast?

But I'd guess that you would get the same answer from them as other groups that have imprisoned, tortured, and murdered people for their beliefs; it is for the good of the community, or even humanity.

BTW, why single atheist communists out from other ideological or religious nut cases?

Using some force may be acceptable, like waterboarding Satya Nadella to get the data...

AARC must fear this scenario:

1. Buy a car,
2. Rip a CD to its hard drive
3. Sell the car
4. Profit!

He didn't, you are moving the goalposts.

Exactly, the euphemism "tracking" should be dropped and it should be called by its proper name: stalking.
I hope, most likely in vain, that cyberstalking laws could (one day) be used against these stalking advertisers.

According to Julian Borger, diplomatic editor of The Guardian, they destroyed the hard drives containing the files so they could keep reporting about the case.

NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files

Reality proves you wrong.

Serving your country and serving your government are not necessarily the same thing. I think Manning was serving his country but not his government.

The light bulb is probably seen as a symbol for electric lighting, which was of course much more revolutionary than the iPhone.

Right, then the offended person is no true Christian. Maybe a Scotsman?

And fuck the Americans too?

Initially the Dutch government had no problems with the scientists publishing their research.
It was the US government didn't want the paper to be published and they somehow made the Dutch government take the same stance on the issue.

(In Dutch) Article from University of Wageningen about the issue