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Logged In or Out, Facebook Is Watching You
kaos07 links to this ZDNet story, according to which "Researchers at software vendor CA have discovered that social networking site Facebook is able to track the buying habits of its users on affiliated third-party sites even when they are logged out of their account or have opted out of its controversial 'Beacon' tracking service. Responding to privacy concerns, Facebook has since moved to reassure users that it only tracks and publishes data about their purchases if they are both logged in to Facebook and have opted-in to having this information listed on their profile. But in 'extremely disconcerting' findings that directly contradict these assurances, researchers at CA's Security Advisory service have found that data about these transactions are sent to Facebook regardless of a user's actions."
Having said all that, you REALLY need to learn to read.
Funny, I'd suggest the same to you. Or did you conveniently ignore all the definitions? For example:
"Preoccupation in association with alcohol use indicates excessive, focused attention given to the drug alcohol, its effects, and/or its use. The relative value thus assigned to alcohol by the individual often leads to a diversion of energies away from important life concerns."
See how that *doesn't* apply to people who only drink to excess occasionally? Hey, why not continue, this is fun:
"Adverse consequences are alcohol-related problems or impairments in such areas as: physical health (e.g., alcohol withdrawal syndromes, liver disease, gastritis, anemia, neurological disorders); psychological functioning (e.g., impairments in cognition, changes in mood and behavior); interpersonal functioning (e.g., marital problems and child abuse, impaired social relationships); occupational functioning (e.g., scholastic or job problems); and legal, financial, or spiritual problems."
Another one that doesn't apply! Look at that! Want another?
"Impaired control means the inability to limit alcohol use or to consistently limit on any drinking occasion the duration of the episode, the quantity consumed, and/or the behavioral consequences of drinking."
Note the world inability? As in, incapable of *not* drinking to excess? As opposed to normal, recreational drinkers who make the choice on occasion, but otherwise can happily have a single beer with a meal?
Shall I go on? Or do I need to explain why the rest of the definition, you know, all those parts you didn't actually read, doesn't apply to recreational, as opposed to habitual, drinkers?
Then again, why bother... it's clear you're either trolling or so wrapped up in your own superiority that you can't see why you are, in fact, deeply misguided on the topic of alcohol use.