You have got it precisely. Indeed, there is in fact no need whatsoever for centralized control of anything save perhaps IP address allocation. Each nation ought to be solely responsible for the details of implementation within their borders, and each nation can decide whether it wants to accept traffic directly from each other nation, or whether their citizens will have to do some tunneling (and perhaps break some laws) in order to access those addresses. It's nobody else's business.

I'm not saying I support her specifically, just that I believe leaders in a representative government have a responsibility to listen to the will of the populace to some extent, and not just during elections with no intent of acting on it.

The CIA is and always has been an intelligence/espionage agency. Blurb is incorrect to call them law enforcement

Yup just like how no governor of a state would in his right mind talk about selling a senators seat to the highest bidder.

Ask Illinois about that.

Actually yes.

if you know of a NSA or Govt operation going on, get an operative to place a unit near them and start intercepting their cellphone traffic so you can spy on the guys spying.

Now imagine making hundreds of these things all placed at specific locations but with a backend system that lets you enable or disable at will. Now you have a cellular snoopnet covering a very wide area.

Alternately, those individuals could have patronized other content providers that are willing to provide entertainment on terms and at a price that is more agreeable. Rather than feeling entitled, that is.

Yes they do.

If you are running, or exerting more energy you will exhale more often than other people who may not be exerting the energy.

Not every person has the same C02 per action. Some people are more efficient and others are less.

When have you ever seen IP lawyers overreach their position in any "honest" way? Their methods are ham-handed shotgun approaches. Shoot randomly and hope it hits something.

If those facilities, offices, and data centers are owned by the American company, then perhaps Germany should be looking into laws which permit that instead of trying to make other nations' corporations behave by their laws. You can't even _do_ that in China, you have to partner with a Chinese firm to even have that kind of presence there. If Germany wants that level of control, perhaps they should institute it.

There's no inherent need to permit a foreign corporation to own land and an effective business; force them to incorporate in Germany, in which case they can be regulated. If they haven't already, in which case they can be regulated, and this whole conversation is stupid. But it's stupid anyway, because this is what corporations do, and it makes more sense to control them from that angle.

When you think about it, domains are only as valid as people's willingness to use the commonly accepted DNS system and servers. It would be no more difficult on a technical level to replace the standard DNS servers with alternates of your own choosing.

I really wasn't trying to insert abortion into the conversation. Except for the fact it another deeply polarizing issue about safety vs liberty. And the debates about it go on shooting stereotypes and other stuff, instead of actually looking at the issue at hand. I am actually quite happy you figured my comment was suppose to be about pro-choice, because I am actually pro-life, but I try hard to understand why good people choose pro-choice. But I didn't want to bring the abortion debate into the post but express similarities in the two debates, about Safety vs. Liberty. Where the political spectrum splits these core ideas.

The arguments the the Right use for Gun Control is the same the Left does for Pro-Choice.

These debates is what gets people really riled up and stand behind their politician... However they are too polarized to get anything done on either side. Other than pissing off the other 50% That is why they talk big during the elections then often do little afterwards. Sometimes the most passionate speeches will be about blocking the bill so it doesn't pass.

We are wasting too much resources on this and should focus on better topic.

That's a nice theory, but in practice, the only way to preserve a free and civilized society is constant vigilance and preparedness. Unarmed law-abiding citizens and armed criminals is a recipe for nothing good.

I think .biz was helpful, in that I don't trust any domain name that ends in .biz.