It says 2,167,942 users here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ Now obviously I don't know how they arrive at that metric, and what influence the direct download from noscript.net has.

I wouldn't want to browse with anything but NoScript, CS Lite, RefControl, Adblock Plus and Ghostery. If your site doesn't work, too bad for you. I'm not the person who makes a living selling stuff on the interwebs.

The "Gawker Experience" (white page, nothing of value is lost) is quite common, and I like it.

There are useful applications of Javascript, but they are rare. You have to show me that it's useful to me, and I will then give you my CPU time. Not the other way round.