Make a special version of your software that is loaded with the nastiest viruses available and seed it onto pirate boards. On your website warn people to only use software downloaded directly from you. Give away a limited free version so people can give it a test drive.

If you don't like it run NoScript and blacklist Google Analytics. Easy.

Fuck all of them. Homeschooling for the win.

*this* of course is the real answer in every sense.

The Adam and Eve story is an allegory based on our own universal experience of being born innocent and eventually growing up - In the process often learning knowledge of good and evil and also disobeying our parents.

> Also worth answering with more than, "Maybe He had a plan."

It was a good enough explanation for Battlestar Galactica.

Because it "feels good?"!

Next thing you know you're going to say people should enjoy sex for non-procreative purposes!

So, in essence, none of the "immortals" was immortal. All but one would be killed by "the one" and "the one" would lose his immortality.

> he traded immortality for the knowledge of good and evil. Essentially for a loss of innocence. Pretty crappy trade if you ask me.

You think that's bad? The Highlander fought and beat every other immortal to gain "the prize". What was "the prize" you ask? He lost his immortality and gained mind-reading. That's like picking the goat behind door number 3.

This is like arguing if Superman can beat Spiderman.
Yeah, accepting that superheros are real and superpowers are real and the Marvel universe is real and the D.C. universe is real... ok Superman can beat Spiderman.

I want to love emacs org-mode. It does everything I want. It should be my complete ultimate environment that satisfies all of my organizations needs. Every time I start building an organizational system with tool 'x' I always end up implementing org-mode, badly.

But I hate it. I find it unusable.
I really wish I could use it. It sounds so perfect on paper.