Pray tell, oh noble one, what fantastical country free of all guilt do you hail from? It must be so rewarding to assume credit for the virtues of hundreds of years of blemish-free civilization and not have to be condemned for the sins of your fathers.

While online only is not much of a problem for me (thanks Google Fiber), your comment comes across as a celebration of a lack of choice.

Yeah, the Post Office has been collecting metadata from mail far longer than the NSA has been monitoring e-mails NY Times

So would you be in favor of Tic Tac aggressively marketing their candies as a cure for cancer? If they're really convincing about it, maybe someone believes it enough to trigger a placebo effect, and so that makes it all ok? And probably a lot cheaper than most alternative medicines.

So the best argument in favor of your treatment is that it works as well as nothing, which is totally proven to work, sometimes?

If you have no one to call, you have nothing to fear.

It gets lonely though.

It's likely where you live. Where I live, I tend to hear the songs on the radio first, and later see them get on MS commercials about the time the rest of the country is picking up the songs. If you live in a smaller radio market, you'll get those same songs after the commercials hit.

Except for Gipsy Danger. Which is nuclear powered. And analog.

I'd put up with a lot for that.

And why do they each need their own keyboard? If your programmers were any good they could pair up!

From TFA:

It's amazing how irrelevant many comments become after you RTFA.

E. Nothing to do with the NSA, and not a fable. His company's security sucked, they got hacked, the improved their security. That's TFA.

FTA, quoting Snowden: “For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,” he said. “I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”
His work is done, the rest of us have to get to work now.

I can multitask pretty well. Link to discussion? Not really a sweets guy though, so unless you want to join me there as my nemesis, I won't have much to contribute.

Which is why it amuses me. He's on here at all hours, posting on every NSA topic that comes up, but he gets so ruffled about being called a shill that he address it in his signature.