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Swedish Pirate Party To Run Pirate Bay From Parliament
rdnetto sends in this clip from TorrentFreak. To pursue these plans the Pirate Party needs to win 4% of the seats in Parliament in an election coming up in September. "After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament. ... The party has announced today that they intend to use part of the Swedish Constitution to further these goals, specifically Parliamentary Immunity from prosecution or lawsuit for things done as part of their political mandate. They intend to push the non-commercial sharing part of their manifesto, by running The Pirate Bay from inside the Parliament, by Members of Parliament."
I agree with what you're saying. I live in Sweden and it saddens me to see all the, mostly young, people being manipulated by thepiratebays schemes, they are just trying to hold on to their revenue and they fight for it with claiming that piracy is somehow moral and should be legalized. Most people that supports thepiratebay are those that have never thought about producing anything themselves and just want everything for free. If the pirate party only wanted to make pirating a minor offence with only very little in damage fees then I would be allright with that, but instead they want to make as much damage as possible now during their 15 minutes of fame.
They won't get their servers into the parliament, this is just like all the other stunts they've pulled off with buying some island etc. I bet they have a list of stunts scheduled for every 2 months or so.
That's what they want you to think!
An "assault rifle" is a military designation for a short-barreled select-fire (i.e. can be switched to fire bursts or continuously) gun designed for use in restricted areas - such a popping up through a hatch in a tank.
"Designed for use in restricted areas" is a very strange definition, given that practically all standing armies use assault rifles as their main infantry weapon, in the field and elsewhere. And, most certainly, neither AK nor M16 - both of which are definitely assault rifles - are specifically "designed for use in restricted areas" or "through the hatch in a tank"!
The point that an assault rifle must be capable of firing in full auto or bursts is spot on, though.