True, but at least in that case you'd expect them to limit their search to plausible bludgeons. It's a tantalising grey area, I think we both agree.

They'd presumably just seize the server as evidence.

A better analogy would be "we have enough evidence to justify a search, but we don't know whether the murder weapon is a gun, a knife, a potato, or a window, so we're going to be keeping an exact record of every single object in the house".

I'm wary of the slippery slope fallacy, but this seems like a genuine example of an instance where a slightly troubling activity - keeping images of people's entire hard drives - has led to a broader and more troubling one.

And if you tolerate this,
Then your email will be next
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next

Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas. Or... something.

You forgot the horn part, which is absolutely essential.

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Thunderbirds are Go.

Yep, one of their cited benefits is continuously variable torque without the weight of a transmission.

They seem to be "further up the tree" than arthropods, i.e. they predate the existence of distinct shrimp altogether.

The whole point of having a corporation (or any other sort of team for that matter) is that you find ways to be less failure-prone than you are as individuals. You have to do this to offset the fact that a failure of the group affects every member - the cost is multiplied.

If Apple and publishers wanted to attack Amazon's monopoly position, there is a legal mechanism to do so. That they chose a mechanism that make them all an enormous amount of money should tell you something about whose side they're on, and it's not yours.

Great, so if you have enough money to sue the other guy, you're fine.

Well, a group of libertarians in a region could band together to share the costs and the benefits, by a system of wealth distribution administered by elected representatives.

Admittedly that's just reinventing the system of government we have now but whatevs.

Sometimes being successful enough to wind up in a position of responsibility gives you responsibilities you don't want to have.

The adjustments generally lower the warming trend. Indeed, until the Muller report came out, WUWT's main talking point was that such adjustments were inadequate; I find it interesting that since that study arrived and indicated that the adjustments were sufficient, WUWT has shifted to an entirely fictitious narrative that the adjustments cause the trend in the first place.

I would prefer to have a lifespan that wasn't measured in tens of hours.