Nicely put... "segregate on some metric"... more than just people, though, that's biology.

Finding the lowest common denominator, believers will equate everything with their belief... no different, they say. Just an opinion.
Science is not an opinion: it is a well formed conclusion based on rigorous discovery, generally demonstrated and always subject to revision but only based on rigorous discovery and inquiry.
Even to the farthest reaches of science, to string theory and worm holes and big bangs there are many hard won steps backed by much research. On the other side, there's just one step: god did it. QED.
The rationality of science under question by people who will have no truck with anything rational.
Skin heads, basically.

Dead on right. Absolutely. Apple didin't even like DRM... they had to do it.

didn't mean to be anonymous

"only" 14% ever exceed?
How about a curve? How many are "this far" from exceeding?
And how about those that transmit almost nothing at all?
This is a back door move to end network neutrality.
A simple solution: regulate the ISPs. They are a utility. They are a must have.
And regulate them now.
Regulation is the best way to control prices at the same time it reduces risk to the provider.

right on the money: we elected him, we re elected him, we didn't impeach him, (I would have thought the Impeach signs would have bloomed like poppies in the field, but no: too scared.) and the democrats didn't quite "shine"...(after they wanted to prosecute for illegal wire tapping, they added to the law so that in the future it wouldn't be!)
it's chicken to bother with him now. he's gone.

yep.
the notion that sharing everything just makes us one big village... that's a narrow view.
the sharing of information in a village where there is a good presumption of common interests, where a whole set of information is known, not just some isolated piece of it.
it is essential that those who have some interest in what we say and do have some interest, too, in who we are and especially our well being as we see fit.
and then there is the matter of law: once you forfeit the expectation of privacy, you have none in law.
this whole bit about "oh, privacy is really nothing..." is very self serving. yuck. now they maybe give you a phone, something in exchange, and it is voluntary. that quickly becomes their right to your information because, umm, you have a phone.
there is a tipping point, when a certain percent of the population is sheep, then all of the population is sheep, at least as far as the predators are concerned. then you don't have to be a sheep to get eaten.

Where have I seen that before..... hmmm. George Bush? Reading one of his speeches.
Hey, it worked, didn't it? Wasn't he just in Peru?