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Elect NoSoftwarePatents as European Of The Year
Aargh writes "Every year a public Internet poll is taken to vote for, amongst others, the "European of the Year". This year, the founder of NoSoftwarePatents.com has been selected as a candidate. Taken from the NoSoftwarePatents.com site: "We now have a first-rate opportunity to make political leaders, media and citizens all over the world realize the significance of our cause. Please give us your vote, and help us gain more votes, so that the founder of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign be elected as the new 'European of the Year'." Non-europeans can also vote, so why dont we unleash the slashdot hordes?" Mr. Mueller had been exchanging e-mails recently on this subject; thanks to an introduction from Kaj Arnö. I truly do think that given his, and the organization's work that they deserve to win. Check out the celebrity endorsements as well. *grin* Also, worth reading their voting guide if you are going to vote.
I'll just do what slashdot tells me to and vote anyway!1!
Many of the voting recommendations have more to do with politics than patents; when it has little to do with patents, it might be worth disobeying the recommendations in order to make a real vote, rather than simply boosting an arbitary choice.
I wish in fact that NoSoftwarePatents.com had made no recommendation when the was no patent-related issues for that candidate. Such block-voting recommendations also make it easier for people to write this kind of idiocy.
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As the voting form requires to vote for all categories it is not a good thing to do this if you have no clue who all these people are. Even I, as a overaddict news consuming European, have no clue what to choose for most of the categories because here in Europe news sources are mostly nation minded and therefore very fragmented.
Repeat after me: We are all individuals
But you can check how your friends voted, hehe, to make sure that they are indeed as pro-freedom as they claim they are...
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Making it mandatory for people voting to vote in each and every cathegory is a good way to create junk results in my opinion. Can someone tell me how I can vote if I have no clue of what most of those people did?
diegoT
You know, thsi reminds me of old joke...
:P
School teachear giving homework: "children, please write who's your idol, and why Lenin"
Luckily the background isn't the same
One that hath name thou can not otter
Why doesn't someone write a greasemonkey script to mark all these votes ?
:D
Then I can install it, click Vote and be done about it
Or on the other hand, I could read up on who all these people are before voting. NOT !!!
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
The form requires one to place a vote in all categories, even if I don't know who the people are or if I support none of them. This quite simply bullshit. To support one candidate I'll have support others I care none for.
This is supposed to be politics. This is supposed to mean somthing! How can they err on such a simple thing as a flawed system of voting when it is the foundation of democracy?
All rites reversed 2010
It was a tough choice between Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the no software patent guy.
Voted for Florian though because I think that is the best choice for a more free economy.
This is the sig that says NI (again)
(... pshht! but don't tell them that this will make it easier for us to fix the vote too...)
this doesn't look like the first time Americans want to decide European policies!
Manojar - pronounced like Manager
poll in association with Microsoft.
Imagine some bobo from MS handing over the prize to the guy from NoSoftwarePatents.
(I know the organisation would let it come to that, but Microsoft would still be on all the promo material, press releases,...)
please read their recommandations on their voting guide. The recommandations are sensible and argumented, and when they don't want to choose (business leader of the year) they generate a random choice. I found it quite funny.
The issue is important.
I can't say that I agree with the idea to remove software patents. Where I can see that copyright will protect your program, what if its a novel idea in software design that you want to patent? It seems to me that copyrights protect individual works, but patents protect novel ideas and inventions. Perhaps what needs to be done is not to eliminate software patents, but re-define the borders of what is granted a patent and what isn't, and make it more difficult to obtain erroneous patents.
-Da3vid-
You, Sir, apparently want to make your pet goat European of the Year...
No arbitary choices are being boosted by these recommendations.
Astroturfing is when you *fake* a grassroots campaign, by, say, having your paid employees pretend to be consumers, or having setting up lots of pseudonyms on a web forum in order that one person pretends to be 20 disgruntled/satisfied customers or whatever.
In this case, we're a bunch of geeks who are being urged to vote for someone who most of us probably happen to agree with.
Organising a campaign isn't the same as faking a campaign.
The kind of idiocy written by those in favour of software patents has nothing to do with block votes. It has to do with money, lots and lots of money, and the surprising effect this has on "journalists". Calling the FFII "communists" is a strange attack but then you have to realise that the author is Polish, and the Polish MEPs were one of the most single-minded blocks to vote against software patents.
Software patents are being pushed hard by a rich, powerful, and ammoral machine built from lawyers, lobbyists, and large misguided software firms that have been beguiled by the arms race.
Voting for Florian will send a strong signal that software patents are not a popular legal innovation but are rightly seen as a threat to the free market and open capitalism.
My blog
Still: some of those which aren't "at random" are still political, and not a lot to do with software, such as a candidate which is not neutral with respect to the events in Israel/Palestine.
Take care to make your own decision.
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Internet polls?
The No Software Patents site says that copyright should cover everything that patents cover, and elsewhere that patents are used as guns against small software developers. Um, and copyrights AREN'T used this way? C'mon. If patents disappeared tomorrow, the lawyers would find a way of crushing you with copyrights, and you'd have a No Software Copyrights! movement in a minute.
The problem is not with the protection of ideas, but with the execution of that protection in the business world. Maybe 20 years is an inappropriate length for a patent in software; maybe two years would be better. Perhaps patent and copyright duration should be scaled based on the industry, or adjusted based on the commercialization/profit of the IP holder. There are other ways of dealing with this besides chucking the whole system.
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Can anyone give me the rest of the answers?
Patents don't "protect" novel ideas, they *prevent* ideas from being used for the benefit of society. They are evil and harmful, the only saving grace for patents is that secrecy may be even more harmful than a time limited patent.
To defend software patents, you must find a software patent that has expired, is useful today, and is unlikely to have been invented independently during the patent period.
Where is the "info about" link on that voting form?
His statements concerning the bnetd case and reverse engineering in general makes me believe that someone like Michel Rocard would be a much better choice.
The more sophisticated amoung us see the issue of software patents as one of the artificial creation of monopolies and the unneccessary restriction of freedom, but from the pure propertarian perspective, this can look a lot like the slogan "property is theft". Lawyers know how complex a concept property is, but the average person, and it seems the average politician doesn't know this, and hear opposition as simple "rationalisation".
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Oh, wait, they did.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
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Slighly off topic, but watch this video from SNCF about Ideas:
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http://www.zippyvideos.com/3940632471977606/ideas
"we give it tools to exist somewhere else"
"rather than on a piece of paper"
Looks like SNCF taking a side swipe at how stupid patents have become.
They suggest voting for Spain's Zapatero. But wasn't Poland who blocked the software patents directive last time? Or was it DMCA-like laws? Heck, it's hard to keep track of all those freedom-butchering attempts. If anybody is better informed than I am, please clarify. Thanks.
The filesystem is the package manager
In this case, we're a bunch of geeks who are being urged to vote for someone who most of us probably happen to agree with.
I've seen enough organized ballot stuffings to recognize one when I see one. For example, if you have a "Most expected game next year" and you see some obscure game at the top, it was astroturfed by that game's forum. Many astroturf campaigns don't go as far as actually faking the stats, they simply market it to the people they want to respond, complete with templates, which wildly skews the results. Then you take a real poll (random selection and all that) and discover that the truth is something completely different.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
It's true that the Polish government was extremely helpful. However, the Polish candidate for Statesman of the Year wasn't helpful at all. He's the president, but all of the help came from the executive government, which is headed by the prime minister (at the time that was Marek Belka), and mostly from deputy minister Wlodzimierz Marcinski. We discussed the voting recommendations with our Polish activists who are quite familiar with how the decisions were taken within the Polish government.
The entire summary is a request for astroturfing, and my comment that this is astroturfing is Offtopic? What on earth are moderators smoking these days?
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
Read the Wikipedia defintion of Astroturfing. We're not all happening upon a poll and spontaneously deciding to vote for a specific choice. We're being told where to go to vote and what choice to pick. That is obviously "centrally orchestrating the behavior of many diverse and geographically distributed individuals." It doesn't matter whether people who vote for it happen to agree with it or not, what matters is that the push to get people to go there and make a particular vote is centrally orchestrated.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
I don't know if you are European or not - I guess not since you haven't heard of these people. Although I admit one or two were not familiar to me most of them were. I have no professional interest in the EU - in fact I don't even live in the EU. I guess I just read more news than you?
A quick google search on "european of the year" has quite a few mentions of Florian Mueller on the first few pages, and *none* of any other candidate. Now that this Slashdot story is going to be added to that list pretty soon, and given that the poll is internet-based, I'm feeling quite confident that he's going to win. I wonder what the odds are now...? (skips off to local betting shop)
One good turn - gets all the covers.
Well the name of the game in low-turnout mickey-mouse politics is *always* to be the one gang that gets people fired up enough to vote or turn up or whatever. That's how the game actually works at this level. And it's not really fair to complain that the people who actually bothered to turn up and vote are unbalancing the results because the lazy apathetic shithead vote didn't turn up to balance thm.
As I say, that's different from real astroturfing, which is based on actual deception.
Hard to say if any one country did anything - since they're not grouped according to national lines in the European Parliament.. It's like Congress - they just have more political parties.
As the voting form requires to vote for all categories it is not a good thing to do this if you have no clue who all these people are. Even I, as a overaddict news consuming European, have no clue what to choose for most of the categories because here in Europe news sources are mostly nation minded and therefore very fragmented.
Oh please, give me a break. There are a huge number of fantastic EU focused news-sites that have excellent coverage on all matters pertaining to the Union. Not to mention the EU's own news pages.
http://euobserver.com/
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/
http://www.european-voice.com/
http://europa.eu.int/geninfo/whatsnew.htm
http://europa.eu.int/newsletter/index_en.htm
http://europa.eu.int/news/index_en.htm
http://www.eubusiness.com/
http://www.eubusiness.com/
And of course most news sites (such as BBC news) have an EU portal. And of course you can use google news with a custom filter for 'European Union' to get your daily fix.
How do you know if we would agree with him, except on the point of software patents?
Ever read any of his other writings?
I did, and I don't agree with him. I don't agree that open sourced software isn't used by a bunch of IP-hating communists for one thing.
See his rants on Linux Weekly News, just search for his name.
Let's all be good little Asimov robots and obey the leader, er, Slashdot. I, for one, welcome our new moderator overlords...
As for Hirsi Ali's party, the VVD pushed for software patents like hardly any other political party in Europe. The whole directive project was started by Frits Bolkestein. On 1 July 2004, all of the Dutch parliament except for the VVD group supported a resolution that the Dutch government should retract its support to the EU Council's pro-patent proposal. And Toine Manders was a driving pro-patent force in the ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe) group in the Europan Parliament. It was only toward the end of the process that he was burned out and (probably because Philips also wanted this) introduced a motion for rejection of the entire bill. On the day before the vote, I met him in an elevator in the European Parliament and we actually had a friendly discussion because we all wanted to go for rejection of the proposal, but let's face it: He's an intellectual property lawyer by profession, and he didn't call for rejection because he was against software patents. He just realized that his camp couldn't get its way, and then they decided to abort the process, which was perfectly fine with me.
"where words meet intent, lies rhetoric's lament"
And if you'd bother to read the article you point me at, then you'd see that Wiki's definition of an astroturfing campaign differs from this one in it's most important respect:
"The campaign typically instructs the supporters on what to say, how to say it, where to send it, and, **above all**, how to make it appear that their indignation, appreciation, joy, or hate is entirely spontaneous and independent "
(my emphasis)
If NoSoftwarePatents.com or Slashdot was saying 'vote for this guy but pretend that we didn't tell you to do it' then it'd be astroturfing. As it is, it's merely campaigning.
The parent is calm, non-inflamitory, and actually offers an alternative suggestion. how is parent a troll? Shameful when disagreement with the /. majority is marked as trolling.
"In the game of life, someone always has to lose. To me, if life were fair, that someone would always be Oklahoma." -DKR
You might actually want to read that entry again, as you missed the necessary requirement for astroturfing that the campaign is organized to make it appear spontaneous. Not so in this case: we've got a highly public website attending the readers on this poll, and a pointer to the way to vote. This is simply a public announcement with a voting recommendation based on a specific political issue. Completely clear and legit. You're no claiming that whenever a politician says 'please vote, and do vote for me', he's actually astroturfing, or are you?
Your karma ^_^
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Look at the buttom of the page!!! MICROSOFT IS SUPPORTING IT!!!!!!!!
Someone have a quick look to see if Bill Gates is one of the options we will make it an expetion and not counting it as RTFA
one of the choices for European of the Year is
Olli Rehn, Enlargement
o_O enlargement of what??
It's true that I support Blizzard's position on bnetd. That doesn't mean that I'm "an outspoken proponent of the DMCA" (because the bnetd case is one very specific case), nor that I believe "that video game makers should be able to control the experience and where and how the game is used, through technical means backed by the force of law". Those are out-of-context statements and unreasonable interpretations of what I said in the bnetd context.
It's a matter of fact that I'v ebeen living off intellectual-property rights, mostly copyright (and to some extent trademarks, but never patents), for 20 years. I started at age 15 as an author of articles for computer magazines, and a year later became a computer book author, and I wrote computer programs. I interrupted a game development project to fight against software patents, and after my book on the software patent story is out the door, I'll resume that project.
The only way to succeed politically against software patents is to have a pro-author's rights position. That's the basis on which I was able to win some politicians over who weren't on our side before (especially on the right wing). An anti-IP fundamentalism is counterproductive. The net effect of taking a radical anti-IP position is that politicians don't even meet with you, parliamentary committees don't invite you to their hearings, and you can rant but you can't influence legislation. Look at the process concerning the Patent Reform Act in the US: Those who take too much of an anti-IP position aren't listened to. Politicians view this as a matter of economic policy for the most part, not a question of idealism.
As for the bnetd case, I'm absolutely pro-interoperability when it comes to exchanging documents between different computer systems. Where I think one has to be careful about an interoperability privilege is any client-server setting. There are situations in which I believe it's legitimate for an author to reserve certain rights. Also, I can't see that it's reasonable to claim that interoperability is important between the client and the server component of a computer game, especially not when the primary effect of such interference is that a copyright-protection scheme is broken (and thereby a business model that is much more in the interest of consumers than those subscription models where you pay every month, or copy protection by dint of errors on a medium that are checked for). Also, I know that the Blizzard guys are gamers themselves. I worked with them as a consultant and representative from 1995 to 1998. You can find my name in the credits of WarCraft II and StarCraft (provided that you haven't installed Brood War, a project in which I was no longer involved).
That's my position. If you find someone on the ballot who's not only anti-swpat but also anti-copyright, go and vote for him, but you won't find any because people with that attitude don't make much political headway. Please also read the endorsements that I received from RMS, Tim O'Reilly, Alan Cox, Rasmus Lerdorf and Monty Widenius. RMS and Tim O'Reilly discussed some of those copyright-related issues with me by email, and there are differences between their positions and mine that we're well aware of, but the endorsements relate to the fact that I'm running on a NoSoftwarePatents.com ticket, and that's the message that this is about. It's not about YesToCopyright or whatever else. I'm not going to be elected president and then have power to do lots of things. I was just nominated as a figurehead of the NoSoftwarePatents movement, so I hope I can count on your support.
Here's a thought. The thing about patents is the give an organization exlusive rights over an idea for a product which prevents competition. Why not change it so that you can still have the primary patent holder, but also 2 additional qualifier slots to allow for competition. Whoever implements the patent best wins. Perhaps the primary would be given certain rights above the secondaries, but after an initial probationary period the secondaries would be allowed to license rights to other companies to use the patent and truly open it up.
What I like about patents is that it allows you to make a living on good ideas which should be encouraged. But patents stifle great solutions when certain concepts must be worked around due legal barriers.
I would also automatically grant secondary status to standards organizations like W3C and those ISO folks because their works benefits us all.
Brennan Stehling - http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/
Thank you. You'll find my reply in that branch of the thread. I was going to ignore the posting of an anonymous person, but since you asked me for my opinion on a non-anonymous basis, I have replied.
Have a look at the bottom of this page. The award is co-sponsored by MS.
One wonders whether that's going to have an influence on the outcome... /me dons tinfoil hat.
U2 advertised this poll on the main page of its website last month, and so did various U2 fan sites. The publisher of the European Voice (the weekly newspaper that stands for the "EV" in "EV50") told me that there have been large-scale campaigns from the very first year of the EV50 awards (2001). It's perfectly legit, and we're going to win this thanks to the overwhelming support we've received from key people, large organzations, and major websites.
Lets also not forget that software is a "LANGUAGE" as in, communication. If patents worked the same way with the "English" language as they do for "C, C++, JAVA, C#, Perl, etc., etc.,", then I would take out a patent on the use of an entrance way, be it a door, opening, gate, portal, window, chimney, for allowing a character or person to enter into a space where dialogue, or other plot or storyline event takes place that advances the work as a whole. Because, lets face it here, this is the kind of patents that are being granted in those other "computer" languages...
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
You make one big assumption here, a real deal-breaker:
:)
The boundary between Patent and Copyright would have to be determined by the Patent Office. This is a government office, which means that a government employee must make an intelligent decision.
Need I say more?
Government workers need simple, clear rules.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=166861&cid =13915288
I've received an email from NoSoftwarePatents.com about two weeks ago and voted the same day.
Informative comments indeed, and thanks also for the explanation on the "Statesman of the Year" issue.
The filesystem is the package manager
You're right. But there's no "-1 Incorrect" option.
I would offer to mod you "-1 Troll", which is probably closer, but I just posted so I can't spend any mod points here.
Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
Surely you losers can understand that there are things way more important than SOFTWARE PATENTS?! Give me a break.
If you check out the link marked "Nominees", you will get ;-) or
.. ;-)
- probably an ODBC error
- this page, where you can select each category and read some short blurbs about every nominee.
I read that (remembered some of them in a "oh that was the name of the one who did foo" kinda way) and used that instead of the suggestions.
The only category left where I didn't care about a candidate was "business leader".
Oh, and don't vote for McCreevy as he is a bought hardcore supporter of SW patents.
And lets hope that more patent opposers than Harry Potter fans know about this vote
"but from the pure propertarian perspective, this can look a lot like the slogan "property is theft".
That someone who would believe in perfect property rights would think that they have, through force of law, the right to tell others what they can do with their private physical property because they were the first ones to take an idea and run off with it to the government.
There's a great argument to made from a strong property rights perspective patents and copyrights are indefensible. I'm not sure where I stand regarding that argument, but at least once I've suggested in argument that patent and copyright law is a violation of personal property rights and then been accused of being a communist.
Probably because you don't know what astroturfing actually is.
I agree, "Offtopic" is inappropriate. I use "Overrated" as a catch-all for factually incorrect posts.
I'm having a hard time picking anyone in some of the categories, but because I can't vote in one category without having to vote in all categories I'm going to have to do the 'vote for the least worst candidate' thing. Why couldn't they have put a cowboy neil option.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Watch as the hordes of American slashbots, who continually complain about Americans interfering in European politics, now rush to interfere with European politics.
Bud Light Presents: Real Men of Genius
[Real men of genius]
Today we salute you, Mr. Anti-Software Patent Guy.
[Mr. Anti-Software Patent Guy!]
Some people only complain about patent quality, but you know enough to step it up to the next level: advocating the total abolition of all software patents. Patents? You don't need no stinkin' patents.
[Copyright is all you need!]
There's a specification - maybe even some drawings - and a bunch of claims somewhere in the back, but only you know that the only way to determine the scope of a patent is by reading the title.
[They're trying to patent the Internet!]
It could be Microsoft. Or Google. Or Amazon.com. Or some holding company you've never heard of. But whoever it is, their patents cover algorithms you thought of 10 years ago. And besides, the ideas are pretty stupid anyways.
[Don't forget the one-click-patent!]
While others rest, you can't . . . because somewhere a patent is being filed on code you are writing this very moment - and that patent's going to make someone a lot of money.
[It's all a scam anyways!]
So crack open an ice-cold Bud Light, Mr. Anti-Software Patent Guy, because if you filed a patent application for being smarter than the rest of us, you'd get a first-action allowance.
[Mr. Anti-Software Paaaaatent Guy!]
(http://271patent.blogspot.com/)
Look, I am 100% against software patents, but I really have a personal problem with Florian. Yes, he did do good things. However, in the middle of the fight, when it looked like he was going to lose he jumped ship and returned to game developement. And I quote from http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651, 39193150,00.htm
"For almost a year, I have been spending virtually all of my working time on
the political fight against software patents," said Mueller. "[But] the time
has come for me to step down from my responsibility as a full-time campaign
manager, and to resume a game development project in which I had previously
invested almost two years of work."
"Obviously, most people will in the greater scheme of things consider the
software patent issue more important than a game. However, that game is my
project, so I had to make a personal choice."
Suddenly, when it was clear we would win he suddenly appeared out of nowhere was the leader of this movement. This just strikes me as opportunistic and looking to profit (book deals, interviews) and stroke his ego.
I think they missed one person in this vote ;-)
Well, if you are right, he meets the definition. So what?
Claiming that I returned when we were on the winning track is the opposite of what happened. On June 20, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament voted on the software patent directive, and many essential amendments to the proposed bill (in order to exclude software from the scope of patentable subject matter) fell through. When the members of the committee voted at the end whether the parliament should accept or reject the bill (accepting meaning that it would still have gone back to the EU Council and possibly to conciliation), 16 voted for and only 10 against the proposal.
In that precarious situation, a group of companies actually did provide the kind of support that I became involved again for the last two weeks before the plenary vote. Like in almost all parliaments, it's the plenary that takes the actual decision, and the committee sort of prepares the plenary vote (in some parliaments, if the committee decides in a certain way, it's practically a done deal because people in the plenary just take the official party position, but in the European Parliament, the plenary may still decide differently).
I didn't position myself as the leader of our movement in the European Parliament at that stage. I took some initiatives and met various politicians and aides, and the FFII was really in charge.
Someone is not a "glory hog" because several independent juries nominate him for certain awards and honors. There's some information on those awards and honors toward the bottom of my backgrounder page on the NoSoftwarePatents.com site, and especially about how I personally view those nominations. I also explained that at great length in an email that the FFII sent out to all of its registered supporters.
Not a chance.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
I'm a US american voting for european of the year only because a slashdot article told me to, and I hate/fear software patents.
nominated for Europen of the Year?? since when are Israelis European?
It's a long shot, but the Supreme Court just accepted an appeal that could invalidate most U.S. software patents in a single stroke. This would happen if Justice Stevens, the only justice on the current Court to have heard a patent "subject matter" case, follows his previous opinion in Parker v. Flook (way back in 1978!)and convinces the other "patent virgin" justices on the court to follow his opinion.
c ourt-takes-patentable-subject.html
More information at http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/10/supreme-
Why not just vote for JK Rowling as European of the Year? After all whats more important than creating a hugely successful children's franchise? Its the only good thing to come out of Europe in ages.
Thats what it amounts to. I'm theorizing it would only work in theory.
Has this Operating System been openly and publicly vetted or peer reviewed?
How can we trust this operating system?
I'd vote, but the names mean absolutely nothing to me! I consider myself politically involved, but to be able to keep up with what the hell's even going on in the European Union is a greater task than just reading the news papers, apparently. I recognized one name, which was of the former Danish prime minister. The rest is kind of a blur. It saddens me that these people are apparently affecting the lives of people like you and me when in fact I've never heard of them before. Some representatives, huh.
Down with the EU. We don't understand it because it's too big to be understood.
Take off every 'ZIG' !!
You're a lazy apathetic shithead if you didn't vote in an internet poll for European of the Year? You need to get out more.
If I didn't want people to vote, I'd say "don't bother", rather than "please inform yourself".
Wikileaks, no DNS
It's Windows, not a Wikipedia Featured Article candidate.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.