is quite clearly about encryption to the nearest router.

No, he's quoting the last line of the abuse practitioner.

Ah, but torrent sites now are pushing magnet links instead, which are pretty much what you're talking about.

I think there are quite a few people in your so-called land of the free who don't know the difference, given that they keep sending your military off to be policemen.

I think that was grandparent poster's point: if people stop using social media because it's taxed, it clearly isn't as addictive as alcohol and tobacco.

There is, of course, a slight problem with this. Unless you put in a lot of effort to make your own, you'll have to pay for the alcohol and tobacco anyway, so adding taxing increases the cost by a non-infinite proportion.

Different countries have different procedures. In some countries I've been asked to go through again, but in the UK it's straight to the hand-held wand. It wouldn't surprise me that more than 20 years ago they used patdowns instead of hand-held wands.

I actually use HTML escape codes when I remember, but I have to remember not to just hit the combining accent key, and I forgot more often than I remember. The same is probably true of most of those of us who use keyboards with keys for Latin-1 accents.

It's a loan-word from Greek. It follows the basic English rules for borrowing Greek words.

So at least give us Latin-1. There are English words which use accents in high registers.

You could remove "the stock hard drive that comes bundled with" from that sentence and it would still be true.