No plugins at all. It's the release that FireFox pushes through.

No, it doesn't contribute to global warming, the carbon released came from the atmosphere a short few months earlier. Global warming comes from carbon that was sequestered for millions of years being released.

As to pollution, you've got to be joking. One revolution of an internal combustion engine releases more pollution than you could generate smoking pot all month.

Bitcoin, the first world digital currency exists.

So do paper checks (cheques for you Brits), envelopes, postage stamps, and physical addresses. Back when I had web sites, I paid my Canadian registrar and web host that way. And there's electronic banking as well.

This is just an inconvenience, not a catastrophe. That said, it's one more thing our corporo-governmental overlords have done lately to piss everyone off.

Having both Visa & Mastercard not accept either the wikileaks donations or VPN payments at the same time seams suspicious.

Yep, it seems they sewed the suspicions together tightly.

Yes. We can't have a single discussion without someone mentioning the NSA.

And you find that surprising, considering the recent revelations?

LOL! Hope you get 4 more "underrated" mods, you'll have the coveted "+5 flamebait"

You dare impugn Isaac Asimov? CRUCIFY HIM!!

Why not? Despite the patent system's brokeness, you don't think short copyrights and cheap patents, neither of which we now have, would incite people to create?

I wonder if Isaac Asimov is turning in his grave? Boston University is where he taught and did cancer research in the 1950s.

Air polluted with pot smoke?? What? Can you expound on this?

I vote for Elijah Baily. He never even existed!

Anthony Hopkins isn't eligible, but I'd choose him, Hopper and Nicholson are crazy. Hopkins is just an actor.

Hopkins has offered his support to various charities and appeals, notably becoming President of the National Trust's Snowdonia Appeal, raising funds for the preservation of the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales, which in 1998 he donated £1million towards, and to aid the Trust's efforts to purchase parts of Snowdon.[16][28] Prior to the campaign, Hopkins authored Anthony Hopkins' Snowdonia, which was published in 1995.[29] Hopkins has been a patron of the YMCA centre in his hometown of Port Talbot, South Wales for more than 20 years, having first joined the YMCA in the 1950s.[30] Hopkins also takes time to support other various philanthropic groups. He was a Guest of Honour at a Gala Fundraiser for Women in Recovery, Inc., a Venice, California-based non-profit organisation offering rehabilitation assistance to women in recovery from substance abuse. Although he resides in Malibu, California he is also a volunteer teacher at the Ruskin School of Acting in Santa Monica, California.

Better than Obama and certainly better than Romney.