Seriously El Reg

The best you could do is "I'm fine with you setting cookies" ?

Where's the "I don't want any cookies from you thanks" option?

Cookie blocker time.

So, friends act more friendly towards friends than not-friends...

Stunning piece of research..

Maybe women take these things more seriously?

Men also tend not to get stalked to a serious [bodily-harm] degree.

Shooting the laptop makes perfect sense

If it was just locked up then he'd be in for weeks or months of whining/pouting to get it back again, now the daughter knows it isn't coming back.

I would have gone with a hammer, work off some of that anger, but each to his own.

The major problem with trying to arrange a reasoned debate is that the opposition [MPAA/Congress] don't do this.. its all sound bytes and hysteria.

If you want a decent discussion on the subject, first you need to change American politics and considering that corporate America [including the MPAA] owns the politicians except at election time, that's really not going to happen.