For starters, take a look at the original New Deal & how that was paid for. I'm willing to bet you're intelligent enough to extrapolate from there.

It protects them from having to actually do the porn while still starring in it!

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Ha! For a minute there I thought Captain Dork was my manager's online persona!

When that "reaching out to and communicating with other people" is done by a person who doesn't listen it's a waste of both people's time & the organizations resources as a whole.

When will people ever learn that it's government that's the problem and if they'd just leave darned well enough alone the market would surely sort all this out?

Hah!?!??

This is very bad for the U.S. healthcare insurance providers though who also have kids to feed, btw. What you hate kids and want them to starve to death is that it? No, like op said there's no reasonable plan available for a good healthcare system which will keep the healthcare insurance gravy train flowing and that therefore means THAT THERE IS NO REASONABLE PLAN! (emphasis there quite emphatically mine!)

I absolutely effing love the way you write that screed, man! Keep going with it looks good on ya!

I didn't read it as sarcasm so much as a call to action. Call your congress-critters, people and tell them backdoors are unacceptable on any terms.

The "bad guys" will know enough to use unlegislatable open-source encryption methods only to further real crimes. Legislated back doors will be avoided by any criminal worth their salt.

Legislated back doors are for the rest of us plebes who might cross over the line into threatening power. They are also even better for targeting politicians whose ideologies aren't in line with the status quo.

Why can't people understand that?

How in the world did law enforcement manage to do their jobs BEFORE they had massive amounts of metadata to drink from?

And now they say they need the data too because without it we're not safe. So they're saying they were completely unable to execute law enforcement duties BEFORE the ability to massively spy on everyone became possible? How in the world did they EVER manage to catch any criminals?

Horse shit. Completely & utter horse shit.

Is the externalized cost of pollution included in the price of coal-generated electricity?

We need to start seriously understanding ALL the costs, not just the design, manufacturing, and distribution costs.

That's the sign of a mature civilization, IMHO.

Tell you what, don't. If that's what you're worried about just don't bother, k? Thanks.

You don't need to be so gruesome about it. Vasectomies are a neat, effective, and tidy in-out procedure with the desired effects and without the visually obvious maiming. Also, testosterone can still be produced, preventing unnecessary altering of the physical traits of the male involved.

Uh.. not so much. War is business as usual. The revolution is absolutely NOT being televised here.