1: I have a job.
2: I tend to wake up several times before the alarm time. If it's just 15 minutes before, I get up; if longer, I stay in bed and try for some additional sleep.
Also, sometimes I sleep other places than where I have an alarm clock.

It wasn't American law that got Osama bin Laden, though.
And it took a decade.

Primarily because you can glance at a wristwatch without having a free hand or any specific clothing.

And you can also wear a wristwatch to bed. I like being able to see whether I can sleep for an hour more without fumbling around.

Waiting for a 2+ year battery life which is what I expect of my watches.

If I'm encrypting my data with my own keys, how exactly, other than brute force, is the NSA going to get access to the data?

By classifying you as a terrorist and using torture to extract whatever information they need to decrypt the data.

I think that qualifies as brute force in the more original meaning of the phrase.

But the problem isn't that - if they have a target, they can get a court order. What they want is a carte blanche to spy on everyone, without having to target anyone. I.e. a full immunity against the fourth amendment.

In essence, yes. It means we cannot know whether anything you say is your opinion, but have to presume that it has all been vetted.

What have the chocolate rations been increased to again?

So much this. Being not American is not justification for spying on someone.
Most citizens of the world have no plans to bomb this country. Don't give them a desire to do so. The quickest way to make someone your enemy is to treat them like an enemy.

Does it matter? Do violations become more palatable depending on who started it, or whether it is condoned by your party?

If Joe is a villain, it doesn't imply that Jack is a saint.

Stop blaming. Do something. Shout loud and clear "No more".

Are you really stupid enough to think that if we had legislation mandating backdoors in the 1940s, that the Japanese and German would have incorporated them?
If not, what's your point?

This has nothing to do with surveillance of "the enemy", whoever that may be at any given time. Because they won't build in the back doors. It has everything to do with ability to read the data of those who are not the enemy, and who can't guard themselves from CIA. Ordinary people and businesses.

It couuld be useful for one thing: If a list is obtained of who supported or applied for this bullshit, I'd consider that an overall win.

Texting or receiving SMSes from my friends in Europe?
T-Mobile blocks that, even on their "all included" plans, and even though it doesn't cost them a dime.

You misunderstand - read again.
That you can use your own mobile phone in foreign countries, also for texting, isn't the issue. I never said it was.

However, you cannot text or receive texts from someone who has a non-American/Canadian phone number (even if on T-Mobile) without paying $10 per month extra for T-Mobile turning off the blocking.

The T-Mobile data plan is nice, except for not getting high speeds most places outside big cities and their suburbia.

But they nickel and dime you for everything else. Even with their top plan where everything was supposedly included, a friend sent me text messages from his T-Mobile service, and I never got them. It turned out that for the privilege of sending or receiving SMS to or from other countries, you have to pay T-Mobile $10 extra per month, despite it not costing them anything extra, and even when the people in the other end are also on T-Mobile. Pure money grabbing.

From TFA:

Um, wot? First of all the endpoints are not URLs - presumably he doesn't know the difference between socket addresses and URLs.

But to present a list of each data packet? I don't think this guy has any idea at all of how networking works. Even if his phone operated with an X.25 1500 byte packet size and everything he sent or received were even multiples of that, a 3 GB usage would then mean at least two million lines listing endpoints. In real life usage, much more.