What's the point in joining in ? To me it's obvious you have no clue about data storage and magnetic media in general, so no matter what I say you won't agree, I only chipped in earlier because I thought your statement was so funny!

Well fingers crossed you are not the storage admin for anyone I deal with!

You were doing quite well up until you said that sentance .....

So just because you didn't see them, means they don't exist? How do you pee?

Oooh I remember that stuff in school! Fecking awful! It just moved "stuff" about on your arse, you'd have more luck (and fun) wiping clean by dragging your bum across the floor!

Ahhh .. you must be one of those "poor people" I hear so much about ? ;-)

But then you could always make use of the power saving functions computers have had for the past 15 years or so :-)

You turn off your computers ?

A teen-aged girl rubbing you into her lips ? Is this wishful thinking on your part ? ;-)

This is what NZ does to its vermin problem :

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10797453

and it REALLY sucks to be a rabbit down here :

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10797453

"Free range" pigeons are yummy! Though I'd probably not eat the scabby things flying around most cities

I've twin 4 year old boys and I'd stick a tracker to them if I could!

Bollocks to the politically correct brigade! Until they are 16 they are my property and I'm responsible for anything they do. So I'd want to be able to find them if I needed to ... and being boys, and twins, and 4 .. they have the attention span of a knat and zoom around like hamsters on crack! Keeping dibs on them in busy places is a full time job :-)

Does Saint Paul have a doctors degree ?

If Oracle get forced to support Itanium I wonder what quality software they will actually make ?

Seriously people get paid to do the "research" on this ? There are countless diseases and other problems in the world and someone gets the new crop of university brainiacs working out how hard an f'ing computer game is ?
Well that'll be such a help to civilization!

So what is your alternative then ?

I'm sure there are thousands of people world wide who would love to be able to flick a switch and just turn themselves off to escape the misery of they are in!

If you were given a choice to be stuck in a bed, being fed cocktails of drugs to keep your failing body clinging to life, all the while your family and friends get to experience watching you decay, wouldn't you want a way out ? Not just to relieve your trauma but to let your family get their lives straightened out as well ?

Or are you the sort of person who thinks that would condem you to eternal torment because you failed to endure the years of agony he/she/it/they had lined up for you ?

Everyone has a choice, let people chose their own fate. And if the person is not able to chose for themselves, then let their friends, family and loved ones chose for them.