That's just like the term "progressive". I know people that consider "progressive" to be the ultimate compliment.

Actual conversation: "Oh, I can't believe those neighbors turned out to be such jerks. They seemed so progressive!"

Progressive taxes, progressive politics, etc. Never real thought about to *where* are we progressing.

Never heard of it before.

Climate discussion instantly transforms the staunchest conservatives into Occupiers. Suddenly they're worried that the big bad CEOs of renewable energy companies are going to be getting rich from the rest of us and leave us impoverished.

Would printing the 1,5 meter stack of most influential papers be a reasonable alternative to printing the 109.91 GB Survival Library http://tech.slashdot.org/story... ?

Yes.

What this effectively does is create a legal loophole through which the US intelligence agencies can request data from the GCHQ, on US citizens thereby bypassing surveiling citizens directly.

Can someone remind me why it is that we, the people who elect and pay the wages of the politicians and public servants who seek to destroy our right to privacy in this way, continue to allow such outrageous behavior to continue?

Because unlike the colonists, we have never overthrown the British state and insisted on a written constitution to which the State is subject.

GCHQ on the other hand are tasked with the job of securing British communications from foreign spying, and for some reason, someone in there has risen to a position of power, where he thinks his job is to spy on Britain for a foreign power. It doesn't take a genius to see what's happened there. I'm sure a considerable amount of effort was expended to ensure he got into that position.

Faith should be reserved for deities.

The first thing you should do is to look into how you can pay nothing or as little as you can in taxes.

a whole lot of people (almost all people above 50) love automatism and fascism

+5 ignorant. What do you think would happen if a black hole were to form on the moon? Pls, use some common sense here. And trust us science folks to know what we're doing. We go to university for 10 years for a reason.

As a physicist, I could now either get angry and rant about how your inferiority complex due to sucking at math impedes your thinking or I could just chuckle and say: tough luck, buddy. Sorry my job pays better than yours.

For me this is about porn.

When I go to a reasonably legitimate porn page and type in "sexy girl playing with a dildo" I do NOT expect an underage GIRL; I expect such videos have been expunged and anyone that looks to be 16 or so is at very least 18, but more likely about 22.

Now let's say the fuckers wanted to 'get me' for some reason? Perhaps they put up a bullshit page where they have uploaded child porn, and now i'm going to jail because of what? Because I couldn't trust the page I was going to to be the page I intended to go to.

Entrapment is bullshit, no matter how you cut it.