Ducks as a group exist prior to the existence of a duck that claims to be a cat. The basis on which one determines whether a duck is a duck is not based on what the duck claims to be, but rather aspects of phenotype or genotype. The adherence to, or confirmation of, political disposition does not have externally verifiable truths, and thus can't be assessed on the same basis. I do agree with you though: Anonymous does have tendencies. They are very broad, and they emerge out of the tendency to associate in such a group structure. Allegiance to a prior power is one thing that seems to exclude individuals from being able to legitimately claim to be a part of Anonymous (see the Phelps family 'false flag' instigation event - probably on wikipedia). I think that finding some conceptual structure within Anon won't emerge from their conversations, but by examining their behavior over time - something Slashdot thankfully helps us to do.

I think that process is unofficially in practice (at least where I'm from) due to the fact that the amount of paperwork that the police have to go through when dealing with a charge, they're not about to bust a person smoking weed in their own home, or with a small amount of weed on their person, but if they suspect that they've found a dealer then its more worth their while.

Aside from the fact that OP seems to support decriminalization, by saying:

what I can and cannot put in my body. It's not your fucking business, or anybody else's.

what you're forgetting is that whoever this erroneous concept would apply to wouldn't have a choice in having it in their body, because their genome would be modified before their birth.

F5, F5, F5, F5!

I just come here and hit F5 as fast as I can, just in case I miss something.

I once worked for a shitty sysadmin who had a ringtone of the sound of his children crying. He once also castigated an intern for downloading "over 50 terabytes this morning!" on a 256kbps connection. Needless to say, he was a worthless human being.

But even I know that you'll get better Internet access to porn by not using a terrible provider like Optus.

Arts have been profitable for centuries - in early forms it was often through commission, later it was through "traditional" production, and recently it has been through mass media and new media industrial production levels. If the costs of producing art were less than the return, then we'd either have a lot of artists starve to death, or no art. Clearly not the case.

Certainly, a financial component doesn't assess the success of art qua art, but it does have some indication of how distributed an artwork may be, which may be an indication of some degree of comparitive success within a particular media format.

Given that,

The fraud fighter said he plans to spend his upcoming free time finishing a house he started building in 1999, and spending more time with his wife and family, which includes two cats and three geese.

he seems to be doing pretty well for a man that has been living in a half complete house for over a decade, especially considering he must spend a fair amount of time separating the constant warner-bros-esque geese/cat fights that must constantly break out.

I think you're confusing it with Thighland. One's a nation, the other's a fantasy in your head.

What haven't you given to the world??

A freely communicating populace, with the right to self-determination.

I love that your rhetorical question poses the question that maybe - just maybe - there is actually someone out there who is so hot that they're worth contracting HIV from.

In this case, I would've tried the magic spell option. I roll natural 20s, see.

Yeah, and they'd pilot a vehicle called the Australian National Uranus Spacecraft. It's practically recursive.

Given the topic of the article, the obligatory position would be 20th post.