Not sure about your first question. As to the second: yes. Anonymous regularly break many federal laws.

As far a social mobility? Finland and Sweden. Quality of Life is a bit vaguer, because you probably wouldn't recognize a lot of the metrics as valid, but you could certainly include every Scandinavian country, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and Canada without much argument.

Yes. America is AWESOME because Jesus prefers us (and certain football teams)!

What about the fact that the nations with the greatest social mobility are all socialist states in Northern Europe? The US, with its ever growing gap between rich and poor, has fallen down the social mobility ladder, to say nothing of life expectancy, education, or quality of life when compared to those nations.

Except that history says otherwise. What may be a core value to one civilization is less important to another. Your "founding fathers" tolerated slavery, even if some were opposed to it. Women were not considered valuable enough to be awarded the right to vote in the US for almost 140 years. The ancient greeks…

No, I'm not worried. I was just amused at the notion of how promoted comments might skew a singleton's visibility within a matchmaking context.

And let the starred commenters get all the romantic action, I suppose?

It makes no sense to put the political leaders of a pre-industrial, largely rural nation on scale of modern political orientation. It's very easy to pick out certain beliefs as progressive or conservative by modern standards, but the entire fabric of their worldview was based on a radically different world that no…

Everyone should have good counsel because it is all too easy for innocent people to be charged and convicted of crimes they are innocent of. Deciding someone did something that makes them unworthy of representation misses the whole point of a trial and a fair justice system. There are enough innocent people in…

If this is the first Anon op you disapprove of, then you just haven't read deeply enough about them. I support many, but not all, of their goals, but that's a far cry from supporting their ops. Anonymous is purely vigilante justice and they don't bother looking deeply into the context of anything they attack. They…

1. Jesus Diaz is a Spaniard, so I'm pretty sure he's familiar with SI measurements. My guess is that he's following editorial guidelines set by his publisher, Gawker Media.

A friend of mine is in marketing a Zynga. A couple years back during E3 I texted him to see where he was - he'd been there with Zynga the year before. He wasn't there because Zynga didn't want to be at E3 any more. They had decided "Zynga isn't a gaming company. We are a social app company that has some game…

I agree with you broadly about the value of whistleblowers and exposing government crimes, but time and again Anon has shown that they believe neither in democracy nor the rule of law. They simply make a habit of attacking outcomes they disagree with. They decry their targets for committing crimes and will happily…

You might want to throw an extra comma in there. Unless you really meant your advice for shits like you.

Beat me to the punch.

This song always makes me want to eat at Zankou Chicken.

The "new" editions are over 20 years old and were to rectify what the director saw as problems with the cut as released by the studio. I believe that the "final cut" was just an very inclusive version of the director's cut that included material lengthening it to a point impractical for any kind of theatrical…

Take solace in your 6 year run of absolutely no Mike-had-to-leave-unexpectedly posts.

I thought every phone had a 2 year contract cycle for subsidized upgrades.

Having pull handles on the end of those harness straps would have helped. Otherwise the puller's grip will give out before the driver (rider?) is properly racecar tight.