A unicorn agnostic would say "I have no evidence for the existence of unicorns, so there may or may not be unicorns" but a unicorn atheist would say "I have no evidence for the existence of unicorns, so I don't believe unicorns exist".
In the UK police have powers of stop and search which are very wide ranging. Small, personal amounts of cannabis possession are sometimes overlooked or given a 'caution' (which still goes on your record) but its completely up to the cop's discretion. No surprise, figures out last month showed black people are rarely given a caution compared to white. Cannabis is the same class (B) as mephedrone and speed and more restricted than class C ketamine.
Few European countries have police as militarized or jails as full as yours, but many of them eat up the same war on drugs rhetoric.
Intriguing... is that really so much of a factor? To torrent-stream successfully you have to have eventually loaded all snippets from beginning to end of a file and could potentially be offering them for download at most only a couple of hours later than if you downloaded it first snippet.
Congressmen like Mike Pompeo sit in the House of Representatives, which governs the whole US.
Rep. Pompeo is on the House Intelligence Committee. He most likely honestly hate what Snowden has done and represents a part of the country which is very anti-Snowden. This is easy grandstanding for him.
Do you think? Films are only 100 years old and collecting film memorabilia has been popular for some time.
Is it not conceivable that video games might be collected in the same way in 60 or 70 years time?
Young people starting to collect now might rationalising their purchases as a bet that the value of such things will skyrocket by the end of their lifetime. I don't think that's such a crazy bet.
As a Brit holidaying in the States, I have been asked many many times in the most serious of tones if I know Prince Charles/the spice girls/David Beckham. Quite bizarre.
Your European friends have a long tradition of being skeptical of their governments too. The 'conversation' Naughton is referring to here will be between nation states about who exactly is most capably operating the implements of surveillance society.
It falls to the citizens to try and drag those implements off their governments. I'm not sure if they collectively have the will for that tussle though.
It is a matter of semantics.