the left won the popular vote. moron gw bush who got us in a stupid war gore would not have won with florida cheats and the electoral college bullshit that should be abolished

you do realize that while yes, one party is deep throating plutocrat cock, the other is taking it in all 3 holes

you vote strategically, not idealistically

which means you steer your country in the better direction. not stand there like an air head and refuse to participate until the entire political establishment matches your ideology perfectly

or vote for the party that has no chance and only serves to rob votes from the party closer to you ideologically that actually has a chance, thereby making sure the even worse party wins. see: nader, bush, and gore in 2000

we all can have our buttons pushed and sent over the edge. it doesn't matter how frail or unstable aaron was, the morally corrupt legal system that serves the bottom line of some fossilized ignorant corporate counsel and some asshole DA with something to prove: their moral bankruptcy, is the culprit that pushed him over the edge

if you're on the edge of a cliff and a guy pushes you slightly and you fall, is he somehow less culpable than a guy who has to pick you up and drag you kicking and screaming and throw you over the cliff? the malice is the same in both cases, even if the effort is less in one

it's like the death of aaaron swartz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

these fucking companies have a business model which depends upon an outdated understanding of how information is shared, then they utterly destroy the financial lives, or actually jail, young entrepreneurs who see the future. they could make deals with these guys and take over their companies for their "crimes", and benefit thataways

instead we have these pigheaded, shortsighted, cruel "punishments" for the crime of showing ignorant old fossils that their business models suck in the internet age

this is the worst of lawyers, corporations, and the legal status quo, and i hope these judges, lawyers, and corporate sycophants can sleep at night, because blood is on their hands

what you describe means you treat your significant other like a parent or a cop or a prison warden

which is an incompatible with true love

the feeling you call "true love" about the person you sneak around on is on the level of the shallow infatuations of an immature teenage douchebag. you've never actually known true love because true love is only possible straight and honest. what you have isn't just different, it's shallow and inferior as compared to the genuine article. you lead an incomplete life which is to be pitied

> If you do this stuff as a hobby, have fun with it. The rest of us don't have the time or the inclination to consider upgrading the OS to be a hobby.

Let me translate that for you: Some of us are hackers. The rest of us are not.

You're welcome.

much of the problems in this world are rooted in human weakness

and i'm not going to be all holier-than-thou: i have weaknesses too. we all do

it's just nice not to have a mediocre garden variety weakness like being fearful of appearances or inability to say "fuck you, i'm out of here" when appropriate. the sunk cost fallacy

http://skepdic.com/sunkcost.ht...

i didn't know any of that

then again, i really don't give a shit what people think i do

which could mean i do boring things, or it could mean i have enough integrity to say "this is what i'm doing, fuck you if you don't like it"

a lot of this sneaking around with ashley madison is people who just need to grow a backbone and say "fuck you, i'm out of here"

if you have kids or you fear a large alimony:

well you can arrange to see the kids legally, and what are you teaching your kids when you live a quasi half life as an unhappy person? the kids probably already think it's better, for you, for them, if you leave. unhappiness is not hidden from you kids

and exactly how much are you paying now to be chained in quasi half life where you don't get to be the person you are? in that case, the alimony is actually cheaper

life is short. happiness is more important than money or shallow appareances

your problem seems to be garden variety drama queen

i was actually referring to the wackjobs who are borderline paranoid schizophrenics

I grew up way before the Internet became a reality to the wide world. Scams are scams. "On the internet" is not enough to garner a patent, it is not enough to garner a new name for an old art: Scam.

If you can fall for a scam on the Internet, you can fall for one through plain old snail mail. The Internet just makes communications quicker and exposure more likely.

Fuck you. Prove it. I am sick of this shit. When I went to school way way way back in the mists of time, girls were encouraged over boys. My own son dealt with this shit too... and yet girls are STILL not at the top of the heap.

Stop abusing boys. You can not force girls to be on top of the heap... and this is nature: There will be a heap. Deal with it asshole. All you are doing is creating misogyny.

On one hand, I acknowledge that a website owner may run the site as he sees fit. Which includes ads to earn some money

On the other hand, I don't feel obliged to pay attention to the ads or even let them onto my computer. So I don't have any qualms about using software like NoScript.

In everyday use, I tend to allow non-obtrusive ads that don't bog down my computer too much. The bogging down is noticeable at times BTW. I'm sometimes on a measly 2MBit/s connection with an older PC, and then the bandwidth and CPU demands of ads can be significant.
At other times, loading websites goes slooowly because some ad server cannot keep up with the load (often ad.doubleclick.net. I've blocked that site specifically since).

well sort of
#123# or some sort ussd code. might change from network to network.

however, one thing is certain, it's only going to show that you're a cheapskate(because of using prepaid)!

also, even if you're not a cheapskate, you're not really going to have more than ten bucks loaded into your prepaid anyways likely.

so.. the whole concept of using your prepaid balance to decide which adverts to show for you seems rather dull.

there's gullibility, where someone trusts people they shouldn't

there's shrewdness, where someone will intelligently verify someone before gradually trusting them

then there's a sort of toxic level of distrust which is not intelligent and is just as hobbling to your life as gullibility. even though those with toxic levels of distrust see themselves as somehow more intelligent than the cluelessly naive and gullible, they aren't really, they are the same level of foolishness which is unintelligent and ruins your life

whether or not it works is if people consume the resource despite the advertising

there are other models to pay for a resource. if they do better than an advertising model in terms of raising cash to support the resource that's great. it is just a matter of what works

of course advertising sucks. so avoid it if you want to. and if a resource you want uses advertising, you have to go to alternative products of similar quality that don't use advertising, or you'll have to suck it up and deal with the advertising

but whining about the existence of advertising is just immature and useless. just avoid resources that advertise

no one is forcing you to see advertising. just avoid it if you don't like it. no big deal