I'll be ready with waves and waves of my own men!

So we, as a species, should stop looking towards the stars and keep our noses to the ground and dig, dig until we build utopia on planet Earth? Somehow I do not think that is a long-term survival prospect for our species.

[insert link to graph showing NASA's budget as compared to DoD budget and other government agencies' budgets].

I think the Gnutella network (Limewire), Kazaa, or Skype are more appropriate. They're more decentralized than BitTorrent (though BitTorrent has some redundancy).

I vote to put a bell on him! Who's with me?!

Lucifer, the Light-Bringer, the Morning Star, also known as The Fallen One, Satan, and the Devil.

"The unexamined life is not worth living", so I'm going to thoroughly examine every aspect of my own life! How much time can one really spend on things like this? I've tried keeping calorie counts every day, but now I just weigh myself every morning and approximate calories on every new meal I add to the repertoire. If I spend too much time trying to optimize everything in my life, what time do I have left to live it?

No, the only reason I believe that patents and copyrights are "immoral" is because I've never had an idea worth stealing.

This is the best comparison I have ever read between the two philosophies. Invisible mod points to you, sir!

Because it increases the number of support requests dramatically.

I don't know that it actually functions, like you I am not going to give them a real e-mail address just to test it. The link goes to a web page though, where as the person I was replying to had a bad URL. As mentioned, I'd rather light my torch and raise my pitchfork for a reasoned argument, and not a knee-jerk reaction based on a misspelling from - to _.

The opt-out link I found was https://www.rapleaf.com/opt-out and it seems to work fine. Disclaimer: I hold no opinion on this site and what it does, I am interested only in well-reasoned arguments based on facts.

They may be listening. They just don't care.

And what happened last time we used a pretext to launch a preemptive attack on an oppressive government? How did that go, both at home and abroad? We don't know, because it isn't done yet...

Why does the site need to be able to decrypt the e-mail address for any other reason than marketing or opt-in notifications? A salted/hashed e-mail address could be used just fine for logging in and sending password reset e-mails (in fact, I plan to do exactly that to avoid exactly this from happening).

Yes, though they prefer to be called "Our Benefactors". Now pick up that can.