My solution was to throttle my friends port on the router down to sub 56K speeds. Even though it didn't cure him of the addiction it did get him to go to class as he magically hit a lag spike every day and blamed the ISP for it.

I would compare this to having the weapon that fired the first shot in a civil war. Though the object itself has no true value, it is a symbol of the events that are taking place. No matter how this battle turns out or who win's it is important to remember that the fight took place so we don't repeat the conflict over and over in the future.

Yes, researchers likely have caused the damage, but what people forget is that humans are part of nature.

If the frogs your researching can't handle the act of you researching them then you have just evolved yourself out of a job. These researchers like the frogs in the wild need to adapt, find new work, or perish along with there beloved research subjects.

The odds of getting 2/3'rds of the state legislatures to call for a convention to put Congressional term limits in place a pipe dream. Many of those serving in the state legislature are looking at Washington as there next promotion.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Joseph Stalin

Right now Corporations are the one's who control the counting of votes. So if Stalin had it right they essentially elect the politicians to do there bidding. Until we have a open and verifiable means of making sure that our votes are in fact counted the way we cast them. The politicians will simply be puppets of the corporations.