The well ingrained idea smokers generate "extra medical costs" versus non smokers is actually myth. Smokers die young. It's the non smokers who live long lives the last ten years of it in nursing homes, on dialysis, etc, that cost the system more.

The problem with pitting ISP's against the content industry is that ISP's often are the content industry. Comcast "Cable". "Time Warner Cable", AT&T sells U-Verse, etc...

Or, if 80-90% of your potential customers are willing to expend the effort of piracy rather than purchase your product, perhaps your product is overpriced. You may not feel it is. You may feel entitled to greater pay for your work. The market cares not.

I know right. These rural dwellers even demand access to public roads and electricity... The chutzpah! But seriously did it occur to you those of us residing in rural areas pay taxes also...

I'm not freaked out. My choice to avoid GMO is quite logical. You have plants engineered to resist pesticide, in the sense that they themselves are one. I'll pass on that, thanks.

That's right, ooh scary - GMO's are a bit scary. No human safety tests were done - ever. Were all just supposed to trust the warm an fuzzy Monsanto would never sell us anything bad. It's just the company who made agent orange.

Now that studies are being done, GMO's are shown to cause increased allergenicity, as well as other problems:

"Animal studies consistently indicate serious health risks associated with GM food, including infertility, immune system dysfunction, organ damage, and increased mortality. Smith warns, "The only published human GMO feeding study confirmed that genes from the genetically engineered foods transfer into intestinal bacteria of humans and that these genes continue to function."

No, farmers cross plants of the same species. Monsanto injects fish genes into tomatoes. No farmer has every done the creepy shit Monsanto does, that's just a nice sounding industry line to make folk feel safer about eating franken food.

prostate himself/herself before the high-priests of "law"

I think you meant, prostrate... prostate can mean "stand before", but prostrate works better.

Isn't that how we got in this mess?

The whole, "you mean I might have to do something? I might have to learn something? Well, that's impossible, but here's some money - you fix it for me".

There's a reverse side to that issue. If the truth about what people are like, and what people do - is known - then it becomes harder to label certian things as "deviant".

Or you could be like me, i am disabled. I will never again concern myself with an employers scouring eyes or opinions. I really do have "free speech".

Congrats - you've hit on the real issue. How about we provide %100 percent extended unemployment for all who loose thier jobs as the prisons and jails begin to empty. (It would still be cheaper for the tax payer than continuing the drug war). It won't take very long for a new economy, and new jobs, to rise around the new Hemp and marijuana industries.

He he. You got me there. Sorry. Typos happen, and often prior to morning coffee.

Everyone repeatedy votes for politicians who do not represent your values. They then complain when said politicians enact policies conflicting with their values - and blame Ralph Nader.

Seriously, shut your whole.

And no, all I drink is coffee. All day, every day. I have LOW blood sugar.

Drink soda all day every day, and count down to diabetes. It's not the real "sugar". It's the high fructose corn syrup.

Now go and study known effects for artificial sweetners. Still think it's a better choice?