Nah, eating junk food is enjoyable.

Digg has tech news? I thought it was all libertarianism and marijuana.

Because Wikipedia is a bastion of excellent writing, right?

What makes Apple special is that they made normal people actually want to buy MP3 players, not that they invented them. http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2008/03/10th-anniversay-of-the-mp3-player.php Look that those things, dammit.

Why is sticking to your beliefs a positive thing?

And they were all killed for being atheists, right? Right?

True, but that's not what I'm referring to.

Or you can make a good video game based on religious themes, mythology, and history, rather than one with religious messages. A lot of religious mythology would make pretty awesome settings for games.

If he wasn't drunk, he probably would have been much more likely to avoid the collision.

It's not the U.S. government doing this, it's huge-ass American corporations.

The scarcity of mod points helps a lot with the type of posts that get upvoted. I mean, I just saw a Digg article (well, picture) where the most dugg comment was "Ha Ha! That was pretty hilarious...and true.", in response to some 4chan meme image. The good thing about limited upvoting is that people will usually only upvote comments that are either particularly witty or of substance, not thoughtless drivel that inspires no conversation at all.

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I know the government is responsible for the drug issue, and I didn't make any comment on whether porn is harmless or not. My point was that government regulations designed to protect people from themselves tend to either be ineffective or infringing on rights. The middle ground is apparently very difficult to achieve. I mean, any high school student knows where they could get drugs or who they could ask if they wanted to know where to get them. Doesn't seem like those drug laws are working too well. Feel free to point out an example of government success in this area, but to my knowledge, government regulation of personal activities is basically ineffective.

Sure, if the parenting help from the government actually worked. Kids can still get a hold of drugs and they can still watch porn.

That's a messed up attitude to have. In my eyes, it amounts to "You should be willing to do everything publicly and personal privacy is completely worthless."