It'll either be awesome or crash and burn horribly. Those are the only two options Tim gave us. =p

We donated millions to Tim Schafer because he has a rightly earned reputation for making great games. Tim is being rewarded for all the hard work he put in. Are you saying that good work and effort should go unrewarded? Is it a problem that we want to help people out who have already proven they can enrich our lives? Kickstarter has helped us get a new old-school adventure game where previously where was none.

It's Y2K all over again >.<

As someone who's worked in Alaska... where's the fishing positions? All the crabbers?

Of course it might be hard to get sleeping stats for people who spend months out at sea. As Mike Rowe was once told by a crabber regarding safety, "OSHA??? No, Ocean!"

I'm sure we can assume they missed a lot of other occupations so I'd take this list with a grain of salt.

We put a higher percentage of our population in jail than any other country, it would make sense that we're more likely to find humor in prison jokes than other cultures.

Shoes won't instantly make you stronger, or reduce your running times, or anything magical like that. Proper sports shoes are for comfort and to prevent injury.

Personal experience: I will get gnarly blisters on my feet if I try to play tennis in running shoes. Likewise, when I first started running I had problems with shin splints. Running 30 miles a week in tennis shoes *will increase* foot and leg injuries! Less injury means more time playing sports which does make a better athlete in the long run.

If they had any kind of common sense after the first 5000 fraudulent accounts...

Places like Youtube have had way more than 5000 fraudulent accounts. Jotform got hurt because they're not big enough to make GoDaddy think before pulling the DNS plug, but too large to fly under the radar. This is an example of how our legal system helps huge corporations with lots of power while growing startups get bit.

Can you tell me what nutrients are in grains that you cannot get from fruits and vegetables? I've lived off *mostly* salads and soy for a while, because it enabled me to eat an absolutely gigantic volume of food. Get 10+ servings of vegetables in a day and you get a huge amount of vitamins and minerals. This is a serious question, if I can improve my diet I want to know.

I admit that calcium is needed, but dairy is not the best source of calcium for some people.

Agree completely. A large chicken salad would completely fail this "healthy test".

65,000 fraudulent accounts and probably another 65,000 that they haven't identified yet.

You are pulling numbers out of thin air. Jotform actively pulled fraudulent accounts. They didn't turn a blind eye to it.

What is interesting to me is that large websites, such as Facebook and Youtube would probably get a second look by GoDaddy or whatever law enforcement agent dealt with this case. tiny websites with no users are not a threat to anyone and fly under the radar. The way things are set up, the companies who get hurt the most are growing companies with good products, exactly the type we want to help our economy!

A lot of people haven't heard of Slashdot. Would that make it right if it were taken offline on the arbitrary say-so of some government functionary?

I would like to add, "A lot of people haven't heard of Slashdot. Would that make it right if it were taken offline on the arbitrary say-so of some government functionary..." and based on the actions of a minority of users? Jotform actively tried to keep illegal activity away. This is no Megaupload.

You can even see this in the comments on the Jotforms blog. About a quarter of the comments are, "I paid you [Jotforms] for service. It is YOUR responsibility to keep your service up! It is not my responsibility as a customer to deal with the Feds." From a paying customer point of view, I can see where they are coming from. Though what they should really be thinking is, "The government think's I am customer using an illegal service."

This is overrating to call this SOPA-style.

I thought this was EXACTLY the worry that Facebook, Google, Wikimedia, etc. had. The worry was that a user posting "problem material" could get an entire site pulled without a court order. It looks like this is EXACTLY what happened here. (Though I am still unsure if a court order was made or not. It seems like there was no court order.)

SPECULATION: Jotform was using GoDaddy when this happened, and have decided to move every other domain they own off GoDaddy ASAP. The worry is that GoDaddy is following law enforcement requests without asking any questions. No idea if a court order or not. In either case, Jotform is having to heal with hundred thousands broken accounts because GoDaddy rolled over or because one judge somewhere saw only the law enforcement side of the case. The great majority of Jotform accounts are used for legitimate purposes. This is NOT like MegaUpload. You cannot make the argument that Jotform's goal is to break any law. They helped a great many businesses. It is pro big corporation actions like this that will hold our economy back, not the threat of a free internet as some politicians believe.