Except that these attacks can be orchestrated by one person who gave money to some goon with a large botnet for loan, while protests are the physical presences of many people gathered at a location to fight for a cause.

Because of this these have little power. They are not personal enough to be meaningful and don't involve the movement or commitment of enough outraged individuals.

It's too bad angry sheep modded you up. The GP never said protests inspired by MLK were legal, in fact, he stated the opposite. But if you can't tell the difference between the sit-ins of the civil rights era and revenge DDOS ATTACKS I'm not sure you really are one to talk about anything, especially history.

I think the best idea for establishing a neutral body to arbitrate these sorts of things and be free of human frailties would be some kind of robots that would do everything for us and thus fully establish our future utopian society.

I hated greens as a kid. I would only eat 4-5 peas at a meal, more would make me gag. As I've gotten older they've gotten a lot more tolerable than they used to be. I'm trying my best to eat healthier but it cab be hard to undo 16 years of habits...

One interesting factoid I learned related to this is that in obscure amazonian tribes the people's immune systems are hyperactivated compared to ours. This isn't all too surprising considering how clean your average civilized household is compared to the jungle where diseases and parasites of all forms run rampant. So, like your musculature, if your body doesn't use it it won't bother spending the energy in the first place.

This seems like a good thing as it is basically the free market sorting out the educated from the ignorant.

And a generation of Texas children just get thrown on the scrapheap. Fucking brilliant.

You're just arguing semantics. The end result is still that all works created now have a copyright, whether people want them to or not. If you say that is "inherently" or "automatically", the end result is the same.

See, you -say- you're happy, but then you're not born again in Jesus... which is it?

Snarky comments aside, I don't think sex is the key to happiness. Sure, it's pleasurable, but the idea you can't be happy without it? That's quite a leap. There are many things which can make someone happy in life and many good friendships that someone can have which have nothing to do with sex at all. I know because, well, I've experienced them before.

Everyone (in the US at least) has the constitutional right to pursue happiness as they so choose. You find it hard to believe him, but then do you really know anything about him and what his life is really like?

Maybe you think you do. I, however, just don't buy that.

The thing is, even if a telephone poll can never represent the people who don't like taking telephone polls, is not taking telephone polls really correlated with other opinions, e.g. Obama approval? If it isn't than the difference between poll haters and poll participants will be insignificant. If it is, I'm no statistician, but it might be possible to measure the difference and apply it to a telephone poll.

My guess is that they probably have been doing this already for quite awhile, if it's at all possible.

Blindly accepting everything that _anyone_ says is a mistake. The Dalai Lama says you shouldn't even believe what he says, unless it makes sense to you based on your own experience. Obama is a thoughtful and articulate man, but like every man he is still capable of making mistakes. Hopefully he has enough foresight to avoid epic fuckups on the scale of his predecessor!

Seriously... about the only thing worth it's weight as a History channel show is "America: The Story of Us".
Now that's an excellent show, showing history beyond what the schools ever will teach.

Safe crossing isn't required for "some contact". Given thousands of ships lost at sea, it isn't too outrageous to expect a few might have gotten blown all the way to a new continent with enough survivors to exchange ideas -- and possibly even seeds. The ancients got around a lot more than we give them credit for. Trade goods traveled thousands of miles, passing through many hands. Although independent origination of ideas and technology is possible, it is also possible that some of these ideas were inspired by "tales from far-away lands."

I have consistently chosen ThinkPad laptops for the very reason that they had these things. But, after a long period of screen navigation, I would get this wicked blister on my fingertip. I wish they had one that, instead of being a textured nub, was more like the XBox360 analog stick (but smaller).

It can be used to defend yourself if someone attacks you with fruit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w

IT's not theft or stealing,. it IS breaking and entering.
It's aslo will full destruction or property(erasing the hard drive).

We we have actually crimes for everything you listed we don't need to use incorrect verbage in order to illicit an emotion response to understand when something is wrong.

Also, in a court of law a charge of theft wouldn't hold up in the examples you gave.

Why would you want to call breaking and entering, or even trespass, theft? it make no damn sense.