We will stop acting like the having the ability to say no to a court order demanding decryption is different from using encryption when politicians do.

It's a good thing computers are magic boxes that can do anything you want, otherwise this plan would look dumb.

When traveling to foreign places, especially developing ones, it is unwise to put your name on the outside of your luggage in an easily readable way.

Government is limited in how it is allowed to gather evidence, that’s the issue they are discussing, whether it’s legal for the Fbi to install malware on someone’s computer in order to track them. The details are in the world, I don't think you have tried to understand.

The UK outlaws hate speech, the US expressly allows it, was my point.

Finally.

The best way I can explain it is with a comparison. In the US we take all rights to ludicrous levels.

The reason is Jim crow, no really.

Cool, now do the same for journalists.

What war was the Constitution written during? Because it sure wasn’t the American Revolution. Further, the bill of rights was added by Congress in its first session, we have records of their discussions, showing their intent. Maybe you should research their stated intent and the history of the nation at the time…

All construction has secondary costs. Green energy facilities are larger and, as of now, wear out faster, thus will produce more, which might offset the reduction caused by using green energy.

You are hyping the secondary costs of fossil fuels while ignoring the possibility of secondary costs of renewables, as if people won’t suffer lung disease from the chemicals they are exposed to mfg and maintaining green energy facilities, as if vast wind farms won’t leave behind harmful issues like old mines.

While I don’t disagree, there are two huge flaws in your “cleaner air is better even if Cc isn’t real”

For us years I blocked scripts only. Taking a moral stance, I still saw ads, but they didn’t flash or takeover the page. It was the price of content, I didn’t mind.

Like cointelpro?

Star trek has been a fount of diversity since it’s birth, Google “Nichele Nichols Martin Luther King” to read about how significant having a black woman on the bridge was at the time. 2 of the 5 main captains have been minorities, with female and black admirals making appearances throughout. Is trek perfect? No, but…

Janeway didn’t suck because she was female, voyager sucked because to be a ‘strong female lead’ meant she had to always be right, and never questioned. Put women wherever you want, just don’t treat them as special because of their gender. Make them wrong sometimes, let them take a punch, treat them equal.

I work at a bacon plant, the nipple and skin is an accidental result of a basic cost cutting measure. Basically, bacon is worth more than skin, so they/we skin it as little as possible.

No, they will track environmental activists, free trade opponents, civil rights demonstrators. Harass them, find technicalities to arrest them on (charges dropped after a year or pled to be) and generally just make speaking your mind on political matters cost more to the speaker and reduce its range, chilling possible…

When you look at government use of surveillance through history, he was helping the people. The boring people may not be personally abused, but they lose the opinions of those the government doesn’t like, without such diversity of speech and thought democracy dies.