"will" is being used as a verb here. (I will you to depart)

Rephrase: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, suggest that it should become a universal law."

1. Extremely rare with today's processor power. Really, I'm just telling it like it is.

2. Maybe. Depends on the site and the developer's skills. Ajax (which requires Javascript) can really add value by shortening load times by only loading necessary data, rather than doing entire page refreshes. Even if some of it is cached, there's still page rendering time involved, and sometimes there are network hiccups that prevent the page from coming up right away. When I talk about Javascript improving usability, 95% of the time I'm talking about Ajax. Specifically, I'm a jQuery advocate.

But let's be realistic, who would normally visit that site, throughout their usual daily routine? I've had Javascript and cookies enabled always, for my entire time of browsing the web (15+ years?), and never had a web-based attack of any kind. And I surf a lot.

From the perspective of a web designer/developer who uses Javascript to enhance and optimize the user experience: people like you drive me up a frickin' wall. There's no need to disable all that stuff, unless you have a paranoid personality disorder.

Look, it just takes some common sense. Don't surf to sites that may be malicious. 99% of the time, it's completely obvious what those sites are. Also, it helps to not use IE, which is more susceptible to attacks than Firefox and other browsers.

Someone please give me a valid reason why anyone should be blocking cookies (1st party, NOT 3rd party) and disabling Javascript, other than paranoia and/or a bad case of nerd grump.

So much ignorance in these comments. People really don't understand how ASCAP works, otherwise you'd realize it's not possible for ASCAP to collect money from people singing around a camp fire.