Or given modpoints the ability to moderate without turning javascript on.

I'd agree, however Intel really seems to win when you consider power consumption, at least in the latest generations. A i7 desktop can be built almost fanless, since in daily use except for some broken javascript pages you'll never hit 100% cpu for a prolonged timespan and the idle consumption is really low. I'd rather pay much more for less noise (and over the long run lower electricity cost, but that's secondary for me). And it's still cheapter than a water cooling solution.

However, being an AMD-Fanboy, I just wait until they ship the next low power cpu to replace my 5050e. ;)

I agree. Most of my techie friends run their own e-mail services, mostly only for themselves and sometimes for their families, and I never heard them complaining about their mailservers. Well, they still have google or something similar (especially the android-users for obvious reasons), but most private e-mail is handled on their private servers. One thing I really like about this is that one has almost unlimited e-mail adresses for signing up on different services, so if you get spam, you know where it comes from. Of course google offers yourmail+facebook@gmail.com or similar, but I don't think this is a viable option in the long run, because one can easily cut off the part after the +.

But even more important I think it's beneficial if services like e-mail or webhosting are as distributed as possible, such that the internet reduces the single points of failure to a minimum. In the end that's what everything is about. If you think almighty and benevolent corporate gods like google will keep the internet running for you, it would be the most wise choice for you to use their services. But if you don't believe these or value your privacy, you're probably better of running your own mail-server or share one with some friends.

And well, the first two years of American college are more or less what central europeans call secondary education.

Actually you can have a torrent of torrents; at least rtorrent has the ability to scan specified directories for new .torrent-files, and automatically add them to your queue (and move them to destination folders if finishied, so you can download your torrent-torrent to that directory and automatically add them to your conventional torrent-dir. However, I'd go for a simple zip-file and a web-interface where you can check the torrents you want to download, and then download and unpack the zip file with all the selected torrents to a scanned directory.

At least in Germany there is the so called "Atomausstieg", which means that governmant (after democratic pressure) wants to ensure that we are nuclear free in the near future. However, in reality we only extend the lifetime of the old, insecure and ineffecient reactors, while the developement of newer reactors has virtually stopped. The growing demand of energy forces us to buy our electricity from France, where as far as I know the most reactors in Europe are running and I guess they also have the biggest growth rate. However, they build cheap and old reactor types, so we not only inhibit our development, but also miss the main goal of a more secure environment.

The children are old enough.

And that's why the criticism is not really massive and there are many supporters.

In German "fucker" translates to "Ficker".

Thermite would probably be the better and easier choice, because as far as I know, the magnetic fields you'd need to wipe out a disk are very strong (guess some T). Furthermore, it's much easier to set off a fuse without external power than a electricity powered coil.
However, it's not guranteed, that they x-ray your case before they open it, so some additional security layers would be needed.