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Law enforcement isn’t supposed to be easy in a free society. If the goal of society was to make law enforcement’s life easy, we’d get rid of all privacy rights entirely. The excuse that this is somehow “necessary” for law enforcement to do their job is a lie. It may mean they have to investigate crimes in different ways, but no blanket removal of privacy is ever “necessary.”

Churchill once wrote: “If your argument is weak, shout. ” Remember that when you watch the politicians & the preachers on tv. Just sayin’. Ben Templesmith

To their credit, if that’s the right word, you can now purchase some music from the iTunes store that is unencrypted and plays anywhere. Apple calls these songs “iTunes Plus”, because it sounds so much better than calling everything else “iTunes Minus.” Mark Pilgrim

The fact that the first response to “John Locke” was Lost and not Second Treatise on Civil Government or An Essay Concerning Human Understanding really shouldn’t surprise me nearly as much as it does. Minwee

I don’t support Netscape, Firefox or any other webbrowsers since I believe that there should be one HTML standard and not a dozen. Pixels on the web

Ahahahahahahahaha!

Way to not understand what a web standard is, buddy.