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The Pirate Bay is Here to Stay?
vitaly.friedman wrote to mention a Wired article about The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing crewe out of Sweden that thumbs its nose at the MPAA just for kicks and has yet to be shut down. From the article: "The Pirate Bay's legal adviser, law student Mikael Viborg, said the site receives 1,000 to 2,000 HTTP requests per second on each of its four servers. That's bad news for the content industries, which have fired off letter after menacing letter to the site, only to see their threats posted on The Pirate Bay, together with mocking replies. Viborg said that no one has successfully indicted The Pirate Bay or sued its operators in Swedish courts. Attorneys for DreamWorks and Warner Bros., two companies among those that have issued take-down demands to the site, did not return calls for comment."
Please expound on the specific freedoms. Hearing from friends - Sweden/Finland/Norway in particular of the European countries are known for being very expensive - mostly stemming from Socialism (but then, in countries without healthcare for the people, is it any cheaper just because you pay a "friendly" corp instead of a government? Most likely not.)
Gee whiz! Your argument argues for illegal and immoral behavior merely to spite government. If you follow that to its logical extreme then I imagine that you enjoy bar room disputes that end in beheadings and rape. That makes you glad. Right?
That has to be the stupidest thing I have heard all day, can you imagine how many other people would try and open up torrent sites just to get shut down and a bit of money for it? Even if the terms cant be discussed, you should know damn well news will spread
What cow town is this? You are making generalizations based in made up examples. Yes there are towns that don't have OB GYNs but that is more a function of our legal system than our medical system. With a loser pays system of legal trials, that might end.
How is the U.S. medical system failing? Did you read that on the Huffington Post or something? The U.S. has the best healthcare in the world.
There is a reason that sheiks fly to Cleveland to have heart surgery.
I will tell you what, next time you have a serious health issue, we will medevac you to Mexico, if the U.S. is so bad for healthcare.
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Did you like, actually live in Sweden? You have to wonder after reading something like this:
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"And all this despite alcohol (and probably other drugs) being more easily accessible in this country".
Sweden employs strict drug laws, both for dealing and possession, concerning both 'soft' and 'hard' drugs. We also run a government-owned alcohol monopoly ("Systembolaget"), with restricted opening hours and several hundered percent penalty taxes on hard liquor. What do you have in Oz? Prohibition?
As for crime, etc. Sweden is definately a decent place, about in level with the rest of Europe when it comes to crime victimization rates, etc. (Australia does stand out as having somewhat more baddies than average. Renegade surfers? Or all those backpackers?)
(Statistics from here: http://www.unicri.it/wwd/analysis/icvs/statistics
Finally, it's interesting to see how lefties always recoil at the suggestion that they are terrorist sympathizers, then happily spout off stuff that sounds like the latest communique from the local Al Qaeda branch office.
"Janet Reno did that with Australia and they caved soon after"
You must be mistaken. Janet Reno was the Attorney General in the Clinton Administration, and since only the Bush Administartion suppresses human rights and eats babies for brunch, she couldn't possibly have applied the pressure you attribute to her.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
"violence of poverty"? Sorry. That phrase alone is all the information I need to understand that your head is packed full of organic fertilizer (I thought you might appreciate the reference to "organic" material - shit, in this case). All subsequent points you were trying to make were rendered irrelevant by the stupidity inherent in those two initial sentences.