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I'm gonna have to throw this one back at you buddy... You don't know what you're talking about. Military spending is about half of social welfare spending (a good rule of thumb for our budgets is about 1/3 Military, 1/3 Medicare/Medicaid, and 1/3 Social Security). That has been true for a while now. See this graphic for actual data: https://www.cbo.gov/sites/defa...

But the thing is, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are all programs where Americans pay into a program and then get that money back at a later date either as direct cash or as medical care. Military spending, on the other hand, is money that goes nowhere. Sure, we employ Americans, but if your plan to promote jobs is to just give everyone a government job then we might as well be socialist. Hundreds of millions of dollars of military spending goes to bombs we literally vaporize. A shitload of money in the last decade went to building those big ass MRAP trucks that cost $1m apiece that we ended up handing to local law enforcement around the country for free because the military never actually needed them. The US bought $485m in new jets from Italy for Afghanistan and then scrapped them for $32k because they didn't work. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/f...
US Military spending is RIFE with pork.

Do you know how large the military budget is? It is way too big. In 2010 the budget was $700 Billion a year. In 2000 it was only $300B a year, and we were still BY FAR the world's largest military. We've added $400 BILLION dollars to our YEARLY military budget in the last 14 years. And it wasn't Obama that committed to that military spending, it was Bush. The president who committed to massive wars without paying for them (actually decreasing taxes at the same time).

This is how our military spending stacks up to the rest of the world.
http://cdn1.globalissues.org/i...

If Obama wanted to add $10B a year to helping Americans, you'd probably flip. But unchecked spending on the military is just fine by you?

The budget that is going through the House tonight has $490 Million for a fighter jet that doesn't work and the military does not want. Meanwhile, we are cutting $92 million from the food stamp program.
http://bulletin.represent.us/5...

Military spending in this country is fucking insane man, you literally have no idea. I can tell by your invocation of Obamacare as somehow a significant force in our debt that in fact you have no idea what you are talking about. Obamacare doesn't move the needle. And don't just shout that you know otherwise. You've been lied to and you've eaten it up. Go find the factual data that says Obamacare increased our budget by even 1% of our military spending. It's okay, I'll wait.

Here in my country, there was even a guy who called himself MC Marco who did it in the early 00s, way before Facebook was popular around here. The guy actually went to the trouble of setting up a website to tell everyone about his gun- and drug-smuggling and, IIRC even had his address and/or phone number there. Curiously, I can only find a foreign account of the episode, nowadays, and his site is, unsurprisingly, no longer available. I guess he liked making it easy for the cops.

This is similar to work that's been done with rodents being used to detect landmines. The animals themselves are light enough that they can stand on the mines without detonating them, and use their sense of smell to locate and alert the handler as to the location of the ordinance. Move over sniffer dogs, here come Africa’s rats

It's a real problem for Zuckerman. He's previously made fund-raising trips to Dubai. That's over. The UAE has blasphemy laws, which they enforce. The UAE also has an extradition treaty with Pakistan, but not with the United States. So he can no longer visit Dubai, and is unlikely to get funding from any source in the Arab world. He can't even fly Emirates Air.

I'm pretty sure that Pakistan and the UAE are well aware of the political repercussions of executing the executive of a major American company for doing something that Americans actively support (permitting blasphemy). Kind of like how European countries don't try to arrest American soldiers or politicians for war crimes.

So, not a huge risk for him. Although I wouldn't blame him if he decided to err on the side of caution when deciding whether to put my faith in Pakistan's sanity.

It's a real problem for Zuckerman. He's previously made fund-raising trips to Dubai. That's over. The UAE has blasphemy laws, which they enforce. The UAE also has an extradition treaty with Pakistan, but not with the United States. So he can no longer visit Dubai, and is unlikely to get funding from any source in the Arab world. He can't even fly Emirates Air.

It is interesting to me just how dependent we (and we in Europe are a lot less dependent on flights than USAians) have become on the jet aircraft, and how useless people have become, they just sit in the airports expecting some one else to get them to their destination...

ferries, channel tunnel, trains, automobiles, nope, just won't do... I have driven from London to Athens in less time than many of these people have been sat in airports wringing their hands... I also suspect that it may be CHEAPER to hire a car and drive back home, than to attempt to live in an airport for a week.

Keep in mind though that there are plenty of people who are stuck and don't have the option of driving because they're trying to get home across the Atlantic.

Also I hear there are people who are simply not allowed to leave some airports:
"Some 200 travellers from Bangladesh were spending a second day inside Brussels airport on Friday, without a visa to leave the building"

I don't expect "freedom" from the existence of other religions. I just expect they not be hostile towards other's freedoms and beliefs. My religion has no problem with alcohol or gay marriage, and in fact, there is no social reason to ban them, so why should I be forced to follow their religion?

I'm sure you are thinking, that isn't so bad. They are a moral people. Well, do you like pictures of women in swimsuits such as Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue? I have heard plenty of Mormons say it is "pornography." How about coffee or tea? Hot drink is against their religion (yet they drink hot chocolate), now illegal. Smoking? In the same chapter of the Doctrine & Covenants. What if you need to go to the grocery store on Sunday? Can't allow that, that is their sabbath. Doesn't matter if non-mormons have no problem working on that day, they won't be allowed. I could probably go on for a long time. Different cultures and religions have varying beliefs, and it is unreasonable to have to follow other's when .

They have not been able to successfully ban these things because of the Constitution and people protecting our freedoms.

If you knew the people of Utah, you'd know they use laws to force people to follow their religion and squeeze others out. Why do you think the constitution was written this way? Because they knew there are people out there who would take away religious freedom in this way. As I understand, the Taliban operates this way. Is a ban on shaving religious? I guess not? So it is okay to ban shaving and wearing suits in Utah, even though most modern Mormons attribute men having a cleanly shaved face and wearing a suit to church as part of their religious and cultural identity. After all, I'm just banning an activity, not someone's religion...

Using Google isn't resourceful? Then what's this all this about in making "google" a verb?

Why would they bid against themselves?

If MS were to big higher they'd be bidding against Yahoo!'s board not against themselves. As for whether Yahoo! made a counter offer, TFA you link to provides no details about any such offer. It says "team Microsoft sources scoff at Yahoo's $40 counter-offer" but offers no details such as when it was given. Looking at the date on your TFA it's dated 12 February 2008, however this one dated 14 February says "Yahoo Inc's second-biggest investor urged Microsoft Corp to raise its $42 billion bid for the Web pioneer and warned Yahoo it has few options left, raising the pressure on them to seal a deal." Week in review: Microsoft the magnanimous? dated 22 Feb'08 also says nothing about a counter offer.

Enemy combatants that are not wearing a uniform

3 out of 4 of the people you rounded up and sent to Gitmo are not enemy combatants at all.

Only 8 percent were characterised in the government documents as Al Qaeda fighters and 16 percent as Taliban fighters, the report said.

Or maybe just people that happened to be at the wrong time in the wrong place ?

a concept that promises to reduce the environmental impact of farming

Thereby freeing up arable land for more "environmentally friendly" endeavors, like factories and housing developments.

Give me a break. How about spending this money on ways to reduce the world's population growth? Lack of arable land is a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself.

The report says most of the 3 billion people to be added to world population in the next 50 years would be born in areas where land was scarce. If the grain-land area in the world stayed the same as in 2000, the 9 billion people projected to inhabit the planet in 2050 would each be fed from less than 0.07 hectares of grain-land -- an area smaller than what is available per person today in countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, which face the shortage of land..
(link)

As someone who has loved ones afflicted with three of the four conditions mentioned, I'm all for it.

I'm not religious. I don't believe that an embryo is a life. It's a collection of cells with the ability to become life if allowed to develop fully.

Please don't mod this as flamebait or troll. I'm not alone. This just happens to be my point of view and I believe that if cures and treatments may be found from such research I will support it wholly until the day I die.

It's been painful watching my Uncle deteriorate by the week. He's afflicted with ALS (Lou Gehrigs). I've attended the funeral of a six-year-old girl who died of leukemia. My uncle has lost his sight due to diabetes.

Those who oppose such research based on their religion, to me, are no better than those who deny life saving treatments to their children or themselves due to religious reasons. Religion makes people do things like this.

Why is it so hard to imagine that your God gave man the ability to do such things as a means to improve our lives?

Whether the "bird flu" is hype or not, Tamiflu® is not the solution. What it is, however, is a great opportunity for some people to make a buck on what could be (or not) a serious issue.

That's because there's big money in blowing certain things out of propotion.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. -- FDR

You aren't reading the official figures. Sheesh! Here you go: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006 %5C04%5C13%5Cstory_13-4-2006_pg5_19

So the University of Chicago is run by right-wing, conservative, fundamentalist fascist bullshitting Republicans? The French newspaper France Soir is under their spell too? Along with the Finnish magazine, "Kaltio" ? Boy those Republicans get around! Damn those right-wing, conservative, fundamentalist fascist bullshitting Republicans!

Not to nit-pick but it was the leader of Hezbollah, not Hamas that said the fatwah against Rushdie would have prevented this.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006 %5C02%5C03%5Cstory_3-2-2006_pg7_46

More from the same blog.

You are shifting the burden of proof and rather distorting the facts: You may only ever have seen exceptionally weak arguments, but that is not because only exceptionally weak arguments have ever been deployed - quite the converse is true*. The problem so far has instead been that no argument with even a semblance of strength for introducing software patents has ever been produced. And however weak you think any argument against the expansion of patentable subject matter is, it automatically wins unless you have a strong argument in favour of that expansion. But the expansion has occurred anyway of course, and in the face of strong arguments and strong opposition from industry and academia. That many companies, academics and individuals had to make such arguments at all illustrates the appalling state of recent policy making in this area (if you can call it policy making). Any credible economist will tell you that patent scope expansion without prior empirical and sound theoretical justification is verboten. Too bad - the damage is done and in the US it seems the fight's effectively over now, but the rest of what I want to say is appropriately Eurocentric anyway.

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http://researchoninnovation.org/online.htm
http://www.si.umich.edu/~kahin/mip.html
http://swpat.ffii.org/archive/mirror/impact/index. en.html
http://philsalin.com/patents.html
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/knuth-to-pto.txt
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul05/1557
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=stor y_16-8-2005_pg5_12
http://swpat.ffii.org/archive/quotes/index.en.html

"You have to be prepared to deal with issues like why expressing a particular piece of logic in C or Ada doesn't deserve patent protection, while expressing the same logic in Verilog or VHDL, which look identical to a non-programmer should deserve that protection."

That is definitely not an issue. One does not ask whether or not some invention deserves a patent, but whether or not it is patentable subject matter at all and your example is a poor one because if the claims of a patent are directed to the expressions of logic, then they are software patent claims.

"Likewise, why a device that fits the description in a patent claim should not be protected if the implementation happens to be (even in part) carried out with an embedded processor with embedded code, even though it's not at all apparent to the outside world that there's any software involved at all."

The distinction between hardware and software is not useful and is not at all relevant to the question of whether a patent claim is a software patent claim or not. One way to discover how the distinction between software patent and non-software patent is determined (and it is not always easy) is to read the way it is expressed by Judge Peter Prescott QC in his recent CFPH decision, in which he carefully and fully interprets the EPC Article 52 exclusions. Unfortunately, Prescott's interpretation seems to me to leave a lot of room for claiming things such as image enhancement techniques derived from purely mathematical considerations, but at least compression algorithms and data manipulation and data st

Windows is sercure. It's even more secure than I thought! I just read in the Pakistan Daily Times.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=stor y_10-10-2005_pg6_7

Is Steve Ballmer licking his lips?

Perhaps they could use biodegradable oil?

There's an old sailors' tale that pouring a teaspoonful of oil on troubled waters soothed them. Turns out that 1 teaspoonful of oil would cover 100 square metres. And for really troubled waters, they would use a whole barrel or more.

And there's actually a scientific reasoning behind this. The oil helps increase the surface tension of the water preventing the wave crests from disintegrating and throwing spray all over the place. And this spray acts as a fluid layer between the atmosphere and the ocean, reducing air friction and allowing winds to gain speed.

This happens around 5 on the Beaufort scale

New Scientist had an article on this subject, with a followup:

The 1937 US Naval Academy textbook Modern Seamanship by Austin M. Knight gives specific instructions on the use of oil, with illustrations. It notes that the practice was so valuable that "all United States Registered machinery propelled ships of over two hundred tons must carry from 30 to 100 gallons (amount dependent on tonnage) of oil..."

But all of this would only work for the local vicinity of a single ship. You would need a considerable lot more to cover an entire ocean.

random links pulled off of google news just now

http://pakistantimes.net/2005/07/05/top6.htm

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=stor y_4-7-2005_pg7_27

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15 815164%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8424511/

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/08/conte nt_3195248.htm

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?t ype=internetNews&storyID=2005-07-08T133115Z_01_YUE 843230_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-TELECOMS-PAKISTAN.XML

Only on /. can the idea that obesity is somehow healthy get +5 Insightful.

Look, I don't argue the point that the BMI method may be flawed, and I don't doubt that the numbers may be fabricated.
I am convinced that the food industry has a terrible influence on our diet, and they probably fake the numbers as they like, depending on whether they currently would like to sell fat, antibiotic-poisoned meat, or so-called "light" products that are even worse.

We don't need to argue about the fact that some people are just heavier, and some are lighter than some artificial average, and as long as one feels ok and is healthy, there is no point in forcing oneself to have some artificial "ideal" weight.

But we are talking "obesity" here, which Merriam-Webster defines as "excessively fat". And you are not going to convince me that this is in any way healthy.

I give you a hint: check out people that do regular manual work in healthy conditions, and are relatively self-sufficient wrt to their food. Try to find some without US TV. Then check if they are obese. May tell you something

"... force used to put a stop to someone else's violence is a perfectly rational use of our military."

Think about it. The paychecks of the military and secret agencies depend on violence. When there is more violence, there are more promotions and raises and importance.

The U.S. government has been, since the end of the Second World War, an instigator of violence, not a force for less violence.

The outcome of the Iraq war has not been that Iraq is a less violent nation. The outcome has been that the profit from Iraqi oil goes to U.S. companies, and not Iraqis.

The U.S. government encouraged Saddam's violence. For example, see History surrounding the U.S. war with Iraq: Four short stories.

Hope no Saudi investors saw your comment..

Summary of Saudi Arabia - Yahoo! Finance
"net transfers out of Saudi Arabia are among the largest in the world--some US$15 billion per year or about nine percent of GDP"
http://biz.yahoo.com/ifc/sa.html

Daily Times - Site Edition
"According to Youssef Ibrahim, a senior fellow at the US-based Council on Foreign Relations, Saudis have pulled out at least 200 billion dollars from the United States in recent months, the paper said."
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=stor y_22-8-2002_pg1_3

I would suggest that people split their donations among two or more charities. That way, it is less likely that their money will be stuck due to logistics.

Personally, I usually go with Red Cross & Catholic Relief Services.. And please, no argument about donating to a religious charity, it's my choice.

In the back of my mind there is always the fear that some self-righteous warlord will object to US charities helping those he considers his people, so I sometimes lean to charities not directly associated with the US.

There is too much politics in the world... witness the "US is stingy, not giving enough" followed by the "US is giving too much, they want to buy friends in the area" soap operas. No matter what you do, you can never win with some idiots. I understand that people are frustrated, but some people should just shut the f*ck up and tend to the tragedy instead of playing politics!

And what the hell is with Kofi Annan and all these idiots (yes, US too) who must "tour" the devastated areas. What the hell can they contribute?

It makes me sick... Middle-eastern countries, rich in oil, are contributing crap, and they are supposed to look out for their "muslim brothers". Saudi Arabia, $30 mil? The royal family has this much change in their couch cushions!

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/159/story_15913_1 .h tml

Quotes:

"In her January 1 op-ed in Jordan's Addustour, Ayida al-Najjar wonders whether the tsunami left an opening for America to "wash its face and appear cleaner, more sincere, and beautiful" to the Islamic world. The U.S. may see its aid to the Indian Ocean nations as a remedy for the political ruptures its foreign policies have created in the Islamic world"

"Tapping into some of the wild rumors that are circulating around the Internet, in English and Arabic, Mahmud al-Busayfi wondered in Libya's al-Jamahiria on January 4 whether the tsunami was "a reactionary result of the terrible American bombing in Afghanistan and Iraq?" "

http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_ fu ll_story.asp?service_ID=6486

Yes, whining about Bush taking 3 days to work the logistics, but not a word about Mr. Annan continuing his vacation for three days after the tsunami hit..

Believe it or not...real estate IS being sold in space ...damn you Tom Cruise! :) --Teechur007

The same story, direct from Reuters: Crackdown on Internet Journalists. More detail: New arrest of a journalist contributing to reformist websites. More about Iranian "religious" extremism: Iran cancels music concerts under hard-line pressure. There is political turmoil inside Iran: Iranian vice president quits. More about the social breakdown in Iran: Rights Group: Human Rights Violations on the Rise in Iran.

Don't expect leadership from the U.S. government. Members of the Bush administration can't even say Iran. It's not I-ran. It's I-rahn. During the vice-presidential debate, Cheney said I-ran, showing how little he knows about the topic. President Bush said "Moo-lah", instead of mullah, the Farsi name for religious leader. Don't underestimate their lack of interest in things that don't make money.

More Bush administration mis-pronunciation from Cheney: "Tolleybon", intead of Taliban, and "Internets".

More about U.S. government corruption: The Bush administration borrows money to give to its friends, you pay it back. Government data shows Republicans are corrupt.

This isn't the first time there's been malicious use of lasers. I'm not reaching for the tinfoil hat, but I wouldn't rule it out completely.

And the same thing could be done for almost any country.
Many of those are accusations, and while some are probably true, we can do the same thing for almost any country. Let's start a list, shall we?

England
England again (the world champ 100m sprinter... no!)
Germany
Ireland
Russia
Turkey!

How multicultural! Those took me about 5 minutes to find.

Have a good day

Orin Hatch is a nudist! Exclusive Photos!

I absolutely dispise Orin Hatch. I'd rather have that bi-pedal monkey be Senator than this regressing primate of a Republican from Utah.

though that didn't mean that they were willing to turn over bin Laden

Actually, the Taliban were negotiating with the US prior to 9/11 about handing Bin Laden over to a third country:

"ZDF television quoted Kabir Mohabbat, an Afghan-American businessman, as saying he tried to broker a deal between the Americans and the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, who were sheltering Bin Laden. He quoted the Taliban foreign minister, Mullah Wakil Ahmed Mutawakil, as saying: "You can have him whenever the Americans are ready. Name us a country and we will extradite him." A German member of the European Parliament, Elmar Brok, confirmed to Reuters that he had helped Mohabbat in 1999 to establish initial contact with the Americans. "I was told (by Mohabbat) that the Taliban had certain ideas about handing over Bin Laden, not to the United States but to a third country or to the Court of Justice in The Hague," Brok said."

'Taliban told US they would give up Osama'

Unfortunately, the US decided before 9/11 that they wanted to invade Afghanistan and overthrow the Taliban.

US 'planned attack on Taleban'

And they're working on getting them to the right location, too.

Gotta love Bush.

Exactly; also, networks like Al Quaeda depend on a large number of radicalised supporters; Bush hands this to them on a plate. His attitude of people being either with the USA or against it couldn't be better for Al-Quaeda. Try these:

link 1

link 2 - 1/2 way down

Do a Google News search for bush al-Masri for more information.

-Chris

Now that the news was reported in the Pakistan Daily Times. A trusted source for all Simpsons related information since 1990.

Do you mean this?

Osama bin Laden captured. United States government waiting to announce the capture so that Bush will be re-elected.

... as space is the ultimate high ground on military thinking and United States is publicly touting to build space-based weaponry to maintain supremecy.

This is just the beginning of next arms race, even India is building nuclear attack platform in space.

Arms control is dead, welcome new instability.

TIA has nothing to do with protecting U.S. citizens from terrorism. It is instead part of a hidden political agenda.

Every year, the U.S. government gives between $3.5 billion and $5.5 billion to Jews in Israel. This money is used to kill Arabs. (The Jews call it defense.) The terrorism toward the U.S. was caused by Arabs who feel they have no other way to protest the brutality of moving them from their homeland, and continuing to kill them, to make a new country called Israel. They are sacrificing their lives to try to make a statement. I don't think violence is justified, but the U.S. government thinks violence is justified, the Jews think violence is justified, and it would be illogical to think that violence is okay for politically powerful groups in the U.S., but not for the people they want to kill.

The people who have brought you TIA have also put the U.S. government back into the huge debt it was in during the Reagan-Bush years. The people who want corruption cause the U.S. government to borrow money so that they can spend it (tax cut) to make themselves look good and on high-profit weapons.

Here are a few links that discuss other kinds of corruption:

War Profiteers card deck.

"Speaking to Pentagon reporters in a video teleconference from Iraq, General Conway said, 'What the regime was intending to do in terms of its use of the weapons, we thought we understood.' He added, 'We were simply wrong.'" [last paragraphs]

Secretary of State General Powell believes he may have been lied to about weapons in Iraq: Powell's doubts over CIA intelligence on Iraq prompted him to set up secret review.

"Could be the greatest intelligence hoax of all time."

More about war profiteers and conflict of interest: Lawmaker Questions Scope Of Iraq-Related Contracts.

Questionable accounting practices -- The U.S. government becomes another Enron scam:

Questionable accounting practices in the U.S. government: "The U.S. government is broke." George Bush gave U.S. citizens a tax cut, but it was fraud. The tax cut will be paid by money the U.S. government will borrow.

Questionable accounting practices at Halliburton, Vice President of the U.S. Dick Cheney's company.

Should U.S. President George W. Bush be impeached?

In a CNN article, John Dean asks, "Is lying about the reason for a war an impeachable offense?"

An Associated Press article reports that a retired Department of State analyst says the Bush administration was "not entirely honest".

International reaction is extremely negative. The Hindustan Times mentions that "a former CIA analyst with 25 years' experience" ... "accused the Bush administration of lying to Congress".

Subject: FW: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL

URGENT ASSISTANCE - FROM USA

IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED : HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL

FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH
202.456.1414 / 202.456.1111
FAX: 202.456.2461

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am GEORGE WALKER BUSH, son of the former president of the United States of America George Herbert Walker Bush, and currently serving as President of the United States of America. This letter might surprise you because we have not met neither in person nor by correspondence. I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential business transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to an account requiring maximum confidence.

I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance in acquiring oil funds that are presently trapped in the republic of iraq. My partners and I solicit your assistance in completing a transaction begun by my father, who has long been actively engaged in the extraction of petroleum in the United States of America, and bravely served his country as director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

In the decade of the nineteen-eighties, my father, then vice-president of the United States of America, sought to work with the good offices of the President of the Republic of Iraq to regain lost oil revenue sources in the neighboring islamic republic of Iran. This unsuccessful venture was soon followed by a falling-out with his Iraqi partner, who sought to acquire additional oil revenue sources in the neighboring emirate of Kuwait, a wholly-owned U.S.-British subsidiary.

My father re-secured the petroleum assets of Kuwait in 1991 at a cost of sixty-one billion U.S. dollars ($61,000,000,000). Out of that cost, thirty-six billion dollars ($36,000,000,000) were supplied by his partners in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other persian gulf monarchies, and sixteen billion dollars ($16,000,000,000) by German and Jap

A Google new search reveals all sorts of interesting articles, including some cases where people were busted.

And this little gem:

The group said that last week's new piracy-fighting proposal from the European Commission is "inadequate in view of the magnitude of the piracy problem and fails to introduce urgently needed measures to hold back the epidemic of counterfeiting." The group claims that in Europe, film, video, music, business and leisure software industries alone suffer losses in excess of EUR4.5 billion annually due to piracy.

I'm sure these people will be glad to know that untouchability is not practiced. And I'm sure that all of these stories are just made up.

And of course CNN is well known for making things up. And I'm sure this
guy is just making stuff up also. And last but not least this