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It should definitely be banned because sitting on your laptop in public is for D-Bags who need attention. The world doesn't owe you and no one thinks your clever just because you own a laptop and know how to use it. People need to get over themselves, take their coffee home and sit in their room on there laptop alone and deal with it. Even if no one is there to see you on your laptop, it still counts and you are still significant. Time to stop making yourself a victim every time you cant get your way. You don’t own the establishment, it doesn’t exist just for you, and your $2.25 café latte isn’t a major contribution to the heating and lighting bill. Same goes for readers. How engrossed in the story can you get in a busy noisy restaurant? You would read Penthouse or the latest issue of Juggs in public because you wouldn’t want to be seen reading it, so why the need to be seen reading anything?