Yeah, it's not going to happen, but there are additional arguments in favor of that bill, such as the danger of emf and screen addiction on developing brains, as well as easy access to pornography and abusive social media stalkers on people too young to use common sense. But, like most things, we should leave it up to the parents to regulate. Let's hope they're paying attention.

What could possibly go wrong? And gosh, no one would ever use them for bad purposes, would they? Only bad guys, and medical professionals and researchers are proven to have only the purest of motives. Not to mention agents of our sacred government.

Right, because only people who agree with you post thoughtful and intelligent comments.

You mean the insane level of protection offered to anything Islamic. Christians and Jews have not been so very protected of late. BTW, interesting that anonymous commenting has been turned off on a news item involving surveillance.

Live in small communities near family and friends, work the land, talk to people in person, barter, use carrier pigeons, starve the NSA and all the voracious government agencies and the multi-nationals. But you might need a spaceship/habitat to get away.

I don't know the episode names, but for me the worst are anything with Q; anything with evolution, terminally dumb, especially the episode where they all devolve into different animals - please! - and then evolve back in the same episode! -and the Wesley Crusher episode where he takes off with - gag - the Traveler. And I'm not fond of holodeck-takes-over-the-ship episodes, either, at least as a premise; the execution wasn't always bad. I do love, in no particular order, the first Vash episode, any Data episode, Lwaxana Troi episodes, Barclay episodes, episodes that feature Picard or Worf or Alexander. The one in which Worf gets paralyzed is wonderful. The episode in which the crew is out for "30 seconds" but it's really 24 hours and only Data knows the truth is excellent. I'm not a big Wesley Crusher fan, but the episode with Ashley Judd was fun. Lots of silly episodes but some marvelous ones, as well-- too many to mention. And don't hate on Voyager! Some great time paradox stories there (tho the series finale was too contrived for me), great B'Elanna and Tom episodes, oh! And that great episode about smuggling telepaths through hostile territory in spite of the duplicitous and cultured customs agent! Not to mention the episode in which Jane way and Chakotay are quarantined on a planet together. And then there's Deep Space 9....!

That was always my problem with it, just behind the fact that - you'd think - the universal translator would have no way to figure out the names, locations, and prepositions without being able to relate them to other words in a fully developed language.

After WWII, the Jews and everyone else considered Pope Pius XII a hero It wasn't till a 1960s play, based on the author's imagination, portrayed him and the Catholic Church in Germany as having done nothing to help the Jews that everyone started jumping on the hate bandwagon. People believe what they see, especially if it corresponds with their prejudices.