The terms of service do not have the full force of civil or criminal law - despite the providing company wanting them to. You can break the ToS all you want and I promise the SWAT team won't come and break down your door. Unless of course you're breaking the law as well.

Don't have a "mobile phone". Oh the alternative is sending it to a different email address - I think that's what either gmail or hotmail does not. Since I have a few websites, creating a temporary email account is rather simple.

Facebook = real identities? Don't tell my dog, she has an account.

I happen to be a character in a book - well a series of books, actually :)

Radical religious fundies from all denominations don't sit all day in front of keyboards. They sit in churches/temples/mosques/synagogues all day, reinforcing their BS beliefs to each other and doing what the priest/pastor/rabbi/imam tells them to do. Computers are generally viewed as "bad" and a source of "sin" by all these religious types because churches have always known that if the sheep don't come into the temple enough they stop believing in all the magic, so anything that keeps them away from worship (read that as servitude to the priest class) is evil. I know this because my ex wife turned into a radical christian loonie. And now she's my ex wife.

No, there are a whole bunch of people who, when exposed to "the world" and cultures that do things differently, want to destroy them and smash them, not understand them. They are seen as an immediate threat to their way of life. You've forgotten the Buddah statue in Afghanistan? How about all the other "World Heritage" sites that have been defaced or destroyed? How long do you think it would take for the internet to be blamed as the "root of all evil" and its users persecuted and beheaded? Hell there are some fundamentalists even in the west that have that attitude towards, say, video games.

Only liberals think that some diseases can be "cured" with a healthy dose of education and horizon broadening. YOU CANNOT SURRENDER TO A CROCODILE, IT WILL EAT YOU IF IT'S HUNGRY AND GET CLOSE ENOUGH. No matter if you have a "white flag" or not. You can even ask it very nicely not to, and it doesn't care. It is fulfilling its being. And some rabid humans fulfill theirs, smashing, destroying, and infecting others. It's been that way for thousands of years.

Glad to see people are focusing on the important issues... Yes after 12 years of non stop war, I'm sure facebook is a huge priority and twitter will stop all the violence.

No, they are implying that here on earth, scales measure weight not mass, and the unit for weight and mass is one and the same on this planet. Tell me who actually uses the Newton to express their weight, outside a physics/engineering context?

I remember when 16k meant an extra $200,000 and you had to build a new annex.

If you're worried about "reliability" with SSD, you're a little behind the times. That was back then. Now they're better, as reliable or MORE reliable than platter drives.

So they only do cocaine?

The price of French wine is already skyrocketing because the Chinese are buying up all the wine. There are lots and lots of Chinese, and lots and lots of them are getting wealthy enough to afford wine...

Targeted ads on your wine glasses in the better restaurants? You know it's going to happen.

Yeah, is it really negative electrons moving around, or is it positive holes moving around in the opposite direction? Only when we manage to shrink ourselves down to subatomic size will we actually find out (the answer is probably "none of the above") lol.

Windows isn't an operating system, it's a remote login daemon.