It's about 3 football fields of uninhabitability

How the hell is this not modded up when the parent of it is? The gp is rationalizing offensive maneuvers as passive protesting akin to peaceful civil rights rallies. The parent meanwhile shoots holes through this.

FYI, it's fer yer intertainment

Distributed denial of service is a TOOL people
its NOT inherently "bad"

How can't you turn off an iPhone? Did you lose your fingers or something?

Too bad no one is offering it to you for free and the people selling games for $1 are likely struggling indie devs so you can't even use the "faceless corporation" argument :)

That's funny. In the article I read, Assange's counsel was quoted saying their client did indeed rape some women and furthermore, he was being quite uncooperative with authorities.

Could you and the GP explain what it is about Facebook that makes you so angry when others use it? Do you think that given an opportunity, you would bar citizens from accessing Facebook, possibly because you look down on them or think it is for their own good? Keep in mind no one is making YOU use Facebook; I am inquiring about your anger at others' usage.

He put $1,000,000 which in the 90s was already wearing thin as a big number to anyone except a child and the bank owner was involved in shady dealings and thought that the kid was sent there by a gang to pick up the cash when he brought the check so he happily gave him the million in cash which obviously would normally not have been so easy.

100 pushups? Tai chi?? Go on about athletic you guys all are; I'm truly amazed. Nothing like someone who is no doubt skinnyfat posting about how to be "lean" on the Internet :)

I agree with you in principle but in NYC and other cities like Philadelphia, we can pay for cabs with credit/debit now :) however I also think that cash has it's purposes.

Because powerful politician buying CEOs are driving themselves, right ? :)

You've obviously never experienced the effects first hand then because I can tell you, if you go through too much Trident with xylitol gum, you will feel like absolute crap. The sugar alcohol content is high enough they print warnings on the label about it. I don't think it's far fetched to assume some people's sensitivity and the unknown actual amount in these tooth brushing MRE chewing gum supplements (which was probably pretty high since it was made to clean teeth) would lead to the gum acting as a laxative.

Almost all our chewing gum has xylitol these days (or some sugar alcohol or something like xylitol).

Bubble gum is different, but chewing gum (like "adult" gum) is all marketed as being good for teeth and stuff

If it contains xylitol, then it IS a laxative (as a side effect)