And that's how we get nice gank targets

Just saying

Mining is actually more fun and less repetitive than missions

Mining is in fact one of the worst sources of ISK for your time in all of EVE. I don't know who told you it was necessary or even a good way to make a living, but they deserve to be shot. If the ISK you make mining is enough to sustain you, virtually any other ISK-positive activity will give you more ISK than you need.

I've made more money doing missions than mining.

Also remember AFK play is against the EULA so if you're going to do it I wouldn't post it in the forms LOL. If I happen to be bored and warp to your belt while you're AFK it can get you suicide ganked too

I do missions and mining.

When I do a mission I salvage the crap out of everything. When I'm done I keep/sell the Meta4s and ammo, then reprocess the rest of the garbage into minerals. When I go to build something later I check the BPO and go out and mine the difference. Mining for profit is meh, but mining for production can make you very good money. So if you want to take mining I'd say use it as a launchpad to going into industry.

If you're doing missions you'll find that the loot is usually worth x2 to x5 what the mission itself pays out. If you're not looting/salvaging then you're throwing away at least half your profit right there. And once you're done salvaging grab some rig BPOs - they usually pay for themselves when you've sold one item, and since you're doing missions all those rig parts are effectively free.

Pure profit.

How is being afk while your ship fills its ore hold or your drones finish killing al the npcs left in a pocket against the eula if both scenarios place you at risk of being suicide ganked, bumped away from your objective(s), having mission objective(s) stolen, your profit marings in loot/salvage undermined or the rock(s) you were on being mined out by someone else?

If you play 'afk' you place yourself at immense risk and are likely to end up making little to nothing compared to being attentive of your client(s).

Please point out where in the EULA it's said that 'afk play' is disallowed.

In the EULA it states,
"You may not use your own or any third-party software, macros or other stored rapid keystrokes or other patterns of play that facilitate acquisition of items, currency, objects, character attributes, rank or status at an accelerated rate when compared with ordinary Game play.

Now you can interpret this different ways and we can argue back and forth who's interpretation is correct. Both of our interpretations are meaningless since it's CCP that will determine if what someone does violates the EULA. I don't think CCP has made a public comment as to this.

In reality will CCP hunt you down in game if you're AFK mining?... Probably not. My reference is just to people saying they AFK mine in the forms that CCP occasionally reads. It's like the police aren't going to break down your door for a minor law infraction but if you openly post about it they just might.

Drake -> Gila -> Rattlesnake.

Mission heaven.

How cute. You bolded the parts to make your interpretation correct. Read the full rule in it's entiretiy. That rule is specifically against botting, and botting is basically playing AFK using a script, macro, or 3rd party program. That specific type of AFK play is bannable, but mining AFK without using those is not.

However, it isn't really smart to mine that way as people may come along and gank you.

And once you can afford it --> Golem