Pay no attention to Firefox's built-in cookie-handling interface; it's designed for Joe Kegger — not computer nerds and/or privacy control-freaks. Get whatever cookie-handling plugin(s) that'll give you the level of control you need.

I use CookieSafe v3.0.5*, which I have set to block by default, and then "allow" and "allow for session" sites I want to white-list. Also provided: "allow temporarily" (for current session, then block), which is handy for determining if a site requires cookies to function, and "remove" (to get rid of domains' cookies that I used to allow).

Another cookie plugin I like is Self-Destructing Cookies, which provides "delete-on-tab-close;" "delete-on-browser-close;" and "never delete." Unlike CookieSafe, however, it lacks a function for viewing the complete rule-set — only the rule in use for the currently-selected tab's domain.

* If I remember correctly, there's a different version or branch of CookieSafe that's incompatible with recent versions of Firefox, plus a "Lite" version that's little better than Firefox's built-in level of control.

"[Telling] everyone else how to live" is authoritarianism, not liberalism. Authoritarianism comes in both left and right flavors — neither palatable, in my opinion.

I'm with you. Some people seem to have had it drilled into their heads that they've got some moral duty to download and expose themselves to corporate propaganda ((i.e., advertizements) and the malware* that frequently accompanies it), lest the Internet shrivel up and die. They forget that aside from spam, the Internet started out nearly ad-free, and that ads were scarce for a while in the beginning of the 1990s web-boom.

I don't think it'd necessarily be a bad thing if ad-dependent content disappeared; what would remain would be material that's important enough that someone's willing to ask for donations, pay out of their own pocket — or both — in order to make it freely available. Wikipedia (for instance) seems to work fine using this model, and is better for it, I think, than if it kowtowed to corporate-huckster "benefactors."

* I consider the ads themselves a form of malware — mental malware meant to manipulate peoples' purchase decisions (as manipulation is the intent behind propaganda of any type).

To clarify, you contend that "bitches can't think straight," because Tuidjy's wife used to work with Professor Gur, who was transferred from UPenn to UPhil... Can you please connect the dots?

Well, your sig told me to "trust the Computer," and that "the Computer is [my] friend." Sorry to say, but it appears that the Computer isn't even your friend, despite your going out on a limb to vouch for it. After seeing how it treated you, I'm thinking "fuck the Computer; the Computer is a jerk."

Quite a compelling argument you've made there. I think you've won me over: I'm convinced that you state opinion as fact.

Post the torrent hashes someplace where people can find them, and they'll remain accessible for as long as online stewardship of the torrents' data are maintained. For greater user convenience, magnet links can be created using the torrent hashes (on properly-constructed/maintained, standards-compliant web sites (e.g., not Slashdot)).

PARIS — In a bizarre victory for the French imaginary property industry, a French court has ruled that the deck chairs on the RMS Titanic are to be rearranged, effective immediately. In an effort to comply with the court's order, French and US authorities are negotiating the extradition of director/enthusiast James Cameron and his personal submarine — capable of both reaching the Titanic and rearranging her deckchairs via robotic claw — to the icy North Atlantic, where the ill-fated symbol of man's hubris sunk nearly one US-copyright-term-length ago.

No way, god damn it. I think "The Catcher in the goddamn Rye" is one of the best goddamn books there is. Hell, I think it even won a few o' them fancy goddamn awards, but I can't remember their goddamn names.

https://kickass.to/three-stories-j-d-salinger-pdf-t8257205.html

https://torcache.net/torrent/ED8F9DE4B9151B3B0E5B998CAF7A124E9E7B0E17.torrent?title=%5Bkickass.to%5Dthree.stories.j.d.salinger.pdf

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ED8F9DE4B9151B3B0E5B998CAF7A124E9E7B0E17&dn=three+stories+j+d+salinger+pdf&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337

Slashdot fucks up magnet links, but the hash is right there: ED8F9DE4B9151B3B0E5B998CAF7A124E9E7B0E17

Thank you, buddy. :o)

Thank you, and I agree with you succinct addendum.

If you (or someone you know might) want help overcoming intimidation by cops, I recommend Flex Your Rights and especially their online video series (produced in conjunction with ACLU) — their video scenarios use pretty realistic (albeit non-violent) cops that try to be belligerent, verbally coercive, and using threatening body language (at least, as realistic as you'd expect from low-budget actors). I think their videos have more practical/frequent daily utility than the "Don't Talk to Cops" video we've all seen.

Me too — I suspect that either the link I posted drew too much attention, or widespread deployment of wget (in order to copy the site for posterity) is provoked AOL/NS into locking down the site. (Web directory listings are nearly always 403/401 in my experience.)

That link worked for years, and I checked it mere seconds before I posted it. I wish I had copied that directory and put it up as a torrent. I guess I may have thought NS was being "cool" by allowing dir/list access there to those who found it.

I'm really sorry to anyone who didn't get there in time, and for not having created a torrent. :o(