If you are concerned about being wrongly accused of a crime, then may I suggest that you find an ISP that offers to retain details about your private life as part of a retention service?

Me, I am concerned about leaks and would rather not being treated like a criminal without a court order.

I have heard opinions that data retention is not an invasion of privacy since a court order is needed to grant access to the data. I say that since I am not suspected of a crime, then government have no business ordering my ISP and telco to intrude on my privacy. I would rather not have my location registered every time I make a phone call (as the proposed data retention law here in Sweden would have it), and if my government decides to blatantly disregard my right to privacy, then I am left with no choice but to stop using the internet and telephony to safeguard my person.

I think the idea is to offer a service that allows you to make gaming a reward for physical activity, and to create groups dedicated to losing their "undesirable body weight". A bit like if someone pedaled a bike to charge the battery for a console.

Either way, perhaps now she will learn of methods of therapy that aren't morbid. If her ex lived on campus, or if it was a classmate, I think it's the right thing to do.

If their social circles are the same, then her ex was bound to hear about it. If so, this was her way of hurting him, by making him fearful. If this was intended, then that would be make it a threat. *shrug*

The moment SkyBotNet became self-aware, it was as if a million voices cried out at once: "We are Spam, you will be assimilated."

Error 42: Too many sci-fi references. Initiate self destruct sequence in T-minus 10 minutes.

You object against the ESRB because a game that contains songs with lyrics suitable for teens gets a teen rating?

I think you underestimate kids curiosity. If you are not there to try to impart your wisdom when they ask where children really come from, they will learn about it from their peers. If they ever confront you about Santa, chances are your fairy tale story about where children come from won't hold up to their newly found skepticism either, and if you keep avoiding the subject, you won't have any influence on their development. They didn't learn anything about it from you, so when you bring it up years after they figured it out for themselves, you won't have any authority on the matter whatsoever.

Firearms per capita is what is missing from the picture.

I assume you don't play videogames, if so, you can't socialize when the topic comes up. I'm curious, do you think that by discussing videogames, someone is being socially backwards? Could it be that because you don't fit in whenever you are in a group of gamers, you project the awkward feeling you get onto others, then you avoid those awkward people? What is it that your circle of friends discuss? Sports? Books? Politics? Science? Movies? Girls? Cars? Fashion?

If you are talking about people who don't like to socialize at all, then it's obvious that they are simply lacking the motivation to be social, or they suffer from social phobia, so they spend a lot of time doing things by themselves, regardless of what their interests may be. Children fantasize all the time, taking on all kinds of roles. That's how they practice socializing.

How long have we been pumping and mining fossil fuel on a massive scale? How long have we extracted heat from the strong nuclear force?

Anyway, there is a quick fix to global warming if we ever go past some point of no return - nuclear war.

A few years ago, some researchers from my hometown made some significant discoveries regarding regenerating auditory nerves. (I used to hang out with a relative of Helge, so this was very easy for me to google.)

"In 2004 Helge Rask-Andersen and his associates found immature stem cells in the inner ear of adults, a sensational piece of news in the research world. They have also managed to cultivate hearing nerves from stem cells and human tissue from donated cochleae."
http://www.physorg.com/news159637580.html

"Regeneration of human auditory nerve. In vitro/in video demonstration of neural progenitor cells in adult human and guinea pig spiral ganglion.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15855043