Maybe that's right. But police, once they have the address, has more option than blindly raiding the house. They could scan the network and see from where it's used and maybe even intercept the packages.

That would mean one more step for the police. And anyway, the main question was, if it's making police work impossible, what it doesn't, since police with evidence that a certain IP was clearly used for criminal activity would get the address and other data necessary to carry on their work.

I don't think this ruling applies to normal police work.

from the order:

The police can still get the address of the suspect and than do some their job by observation to collect evidence. I think if they can proof, that the suspect is at home every time the IP was used for some criminal activity, this would be enough.

While "explaining the unexplained" may be a reason for some people to believe in god, in my opinion that is a minority. Most deeply religious people don't care about the "unexplained" and wouldn't even come up with any of the questions that where driving science and modern society for centuries.

Most religious people simply seek a omnipotent protecting father figure that shields them against plain everyday peril and distress. Something where they can take refuge in cases of illness or poverty. And something that gives them the hope, that they may see again those who they have lost in some "paradise" after death.

I mostly agree with you and I'm not opposed to nuclear energy. And if things in the Arab world spread from Northern Africa, oil will become even more of a problem anyway.

But there are a few more problems about the highly toxic waste produced in nuclear plants. First of all it's by far not everywhere easy to find a storage place. Here in the more densely populated Europe and especially in Germany it's near impossible to find such a place that's not within a few kilometres of a city.

Then there are questions of security. For a very long time to come. We have seen this problem in Russia and other countries. Governments change, borders change. Can we be sure, that such storage facilities will only be accessed by nice guys? There is always the risk of somebody taking even small amounts of this waste to built a dirty bomb.

My main hope here is, that scientists in near future will find a better way to handle all or at least the most dangerous of those substances. Maybe if fusion energy would be available, we could bash the stuff with some extra accelerated neurons to make something harmless out of it. Maybe even something useful. (I know that this is most likely nonsense from a scientific view. Just meant as a kind of abstract picture)