I don't agree to that.

"My way or the highway does not constitute a market choice."

It does if your are Roadhouse.

ROADHOUSE.

How about how the one guy was bitten by a radioactive spider and gained spider powers?

"As the guy in TFA put it.

"Kids should learn for the love of learning,"
    "But they're not. So what shall we do?""

I dunno. Make learning something people love to do?

"No punishment is worse that that of losing a child."

Wrong. Castration with a spoon.

Something tells me they were doing it wrong.

See, here's the thing: I don't care.

Clearly you have the technology to withhold content from users running adblockers, so why don't you just do that?

Why don't we make a deal? I don't care how you run your site if you don't care how I run my browser. If that means excluding me from your content if I refuse to look at ads or run flash or scripts, then so be it. If its compelling enough content to make me turn off my ad blocker, than I will. If you're worried about losing impressions due to people not knowing why your site isn't rendering, include a message saying as much in the ad-block version.

Its time to nut up or shut up. Bitching about it in this article is a lame attempt at emotional extortion.

"Another issue with adverts that seems not to be covered here is the idea that advertisers can (and are) using internet advertisments to build profiles on users."

and YET, at least in the case of Arse Technical's ad providers, they clearly aren't using those profiles to target ads at visitors (hence the GQ and Kobe ads), which begs the question: What are they doing with the data they are collecting?

No, its a moo point. Not moot or mute. Its a point that not even a cow would care about.

"No. Amazon sells eBooks for less than $10."

Except when they are more than $10, which many are. I don't get why they would drop one publisher for wanting to sell their books for a higher price when they have plenty of books that are sold for more than $10. Something else must be going on here. My guess is MacMillan already had a deal to sell for $9.99 and tried to get out of it.