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Swedish Pirate Demo
Arioch of Chaos writes "In Sweden, May 1 is still a day when many people get out on the streets to take part in the traditional demonstrations. Today, the Swedish site Piratbyrån organised demonstrations in several Swedish towns, demanding more bandwith and the abolition of intellectual property laws. This picture is just great. More pictures here." Congratulations to whoever made the AYBABTU sign.
as the Swedish prime minister,
I'd like to assure that group of (what appears to me to be less than 100?) bored swedish teens.
FREE BANDWIDTH and SOFTWARE for you all.
please take all your PC loaded with your pirate material to your local police, to recieve you offical FREE Software stamp. be quite sure to tell them that you've brought your PC LOADED with PIRATE Software.
Thank you.
(whoever the hell the prime minister of sweeden is.... actually do they have a prime minster? oh wait I'm American WHO GIVE A FUCK WHAT THEY HAVE =)
actually I am happy to see you, however that is in fact a banana in my pocket.
GOOOOOO SSSSVVVVVEEEEERRRIIIIIGGEEEEE!!!!!!!
wtf is a DKK? donkey kong kountry? thank God i'm american and don't have to deal with your european monopoly-money currency.
For all you Americans who make the mistake of glorifying the socialist countries in Europe, think again. Please stop portraying socialism as some kind of utopian wonderland.
Of course each country is somewhat different, but in general, the high taxes and expensive social programs have left Europe's economy in dire straits. The Euro is turning into a disaster. The EC is a failure and is descending into bickering and disagreement. Many of these socialist countries can no longer afford the huge government programs they have built, and they have stifled business to the point where their own business are fleeing as fast as possible.
In the U.S. we are worried about outsourcing, yet the fact is we are importing more (and higher-paying) jobs than we are exporting. In Europe, this is not the case. Their business is going out of the country at a fast-increasing rate. I'm sure someone from some specific European country will contradict this, but in GENERAL there are huge problems in Europe right now. The number of workers is falling rapidly, and is supporting a fast increasing dependent-class of entitlement recipients (freeloaders we call them in the U.S.)
Remember, nationalizing companies results in inefficiency and incompetence. With no competition and profit incentive, quality goes down the tubes.
Yes I am an American who actually reads European news sources.
As a European just let me say: You could not be more right.
The moocher and freeloader cleptocracies are bleeding Europe dry, all the more so for countries (like Sweden) where it is the most prevalent. Check out the direction of Sweden in every indicator of national wealth during the last thirty years. Now have a look at indicators of crime rate (long overtaken the US), health, employment, and the number of large Swedish companies that were founded in the last 50 years (try none!).
A free society is one where the people control the government in an indrect way. ... This isn't up for debate, this is what a free country means.
Oh, and why do you get to define what a free country means? Perhaps the word "free country" is often used to mean a country having representative democracy, but that the population of those countries are actually free? What if all the choices are the same, or if the barrier to voting is so high that not all people can afford to cast their vote? Even in a representive democracy where everyone votes, it's still the dictatorship of the majority. This may be a reasonable compromise (although I think there are better alternatives), but that doesn't make the system "free".
Furthermore, having the freedom of {speach,movement,whatever} doesn't automatically mean that you're free or have control over your life since the most important power is weilded not by government, but by corporations.
The fat corporations represented by the MPAA and RIAA have been fleecing the public for years. They are the real criminals.
Now, as the people are becoming empowered by technology, those same corporations are fighting a propaganda war in a desperate attempt to derail a future in which they have no place. Let us celebrate their imminent demise!
Check out Downhill Battle. They have the same sort of skull and crossbones logo.
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I mean, fuck, every time you see a picture of somewhere in europe, you see some fucking audi or mercedes parked right there.
The entire bible is based on stolen IP. Most of the big ideas in the bible come from ancient Mesopotamian religion/culture. The idea of "christian" morals, the idea of a giant flood killing everyone but one man, monothiesm, the idea that heaven was not just for the king, an eye for an eye in the old testemant, not taking an eye for an eye in the new testement, ect ect ect.