You may perhaps be surprised to find there's a Wikipedia article about Prostitution in Australia.

How can you say that? Pregnancy is OBVIOUSLY a Sexually Transmitted Disease.

You're all fools if you honestly believe that your elections are significantly more honest and trustworthy than theirs.

I don't see that as such a bad thing, if The Stork Market crashes it will help offset the global overpopulation crisis we're in the process of having.

Preferably in a rubber dingy with no sunscreen.

You appear to be misinformed.

This is IN NO WAY "mission creep".

This is merely a case of "hidden agenda" - it was ALWAYS about Copyright Violations, for the simple and extremely obvious reason that THERE'S NO DIRECT FINANCIAL PROFIT TO BE MADE FROM PREVENTING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY OR CHILD ABUSE.

Seriously folks, follow the money.

You heard it here first, folks: Forget BitCoin , FUCKS are The Currency Of The Future!

Which , by definition, makes most slashdot'ers as poor as dirt.

It's easy to tell what is a crime and who has committed one.

The person with the highest paid lawyer wins.

Not only that but person-or-interest-group with the largest bucket of cash writes most laws these days anway.

Being poor IS a crime these days (effectively).

Almost there....

The caption will read "when asked, The Government implied this person may be a terrorist, or perhaps a paedophile, then again they might just be feeling depressed and suicidal."

Medical science has been saying for YEARS that frying Scented Candles is bad for your health.

The term "cherry picking" relates to selecting a small sample of data which proves your point.

All this study has proved is that AT THIS SITE fracking HAS NOT YET produced contamination of the water-table.

The problem is that The Industry will now point to this SAMPLE OF ONE as proof that "fracking is non-polluting" and therefore needs to be LEGISLATED as "not requiring environmental evaluation, not requiring pollution checks, and generally ignoring concerned scientists/enrivonmentalists/local people dying from(or concerned about dying from) industrial pollution.

Then only outlaws will have encryption.

Of course, OUTLAWING it would incur a MASSIVE backlash from the population (insert legal challenge here).

By denying encryption FINANCIALLY, you achieve the same thing with SIGNIFICANTLY less opportunity for a legal challenge.

As Paul once said "He who can destroy a thing, controls that thing."

The simple fact is that some people STILL believe The Earth Is Flat. Just like some people believe that a Fibre-to-the-home National Broadband Network is A Bad Thing.

Sure it's a huge bucket of money.
Sure there needs to be oversight, to ensure the money is well spent not just pork-barrelled.
Sure, you *could* achieve some (but only a little) of that by being (slightly) cheaper.

The bottom line is that the VAST overwhelming MAJORITY of backlash against the NBN has been spearheaded by The Opposition - People who (as in America) OPPOSE things for no reason other than it was somebody elses idea, therefore Ahm Agin' it!

Wake me up when it lands on its feet (after being dropped).

Sure it runs like the wind (a very slow and mostly tired out wind).

Probably $DEITY (insert appropriate value according to what you truly worship, in the deepest and most secret depths of who you really are)