Why does it matter when a) they've been elected to the European Parliament and b) even the copyright lobby belives it's a "cool" name? It would be a near political suicide to try to change the name. There was a short lived "information society party" in Finland but that didn't go anywhere.
Because it all started from copyright. The Green Party (atleast in Finland) also has a broad range of issues they wan't to deal with. But they also started with the conservation of nature and such.
Many countries (including Finland for example) have a cassette tax (which applies to CD's etc), but still have strict copyright laws. Besides, pirate parties have a broad range of issues from civil liberties to privacy, patents etc. Copyright is only a rather small part of our agenda.
Nokia has already paid off its research costs many times over from the sale of cellphones, so it doesn't make sense to pay anything to Nokia. If you read "Against Intellectual Monopoly" it's clear that patents are not needed for innovation, and actually slow it down. Of course, Apple is also wrong to sue companies, but I'm not sure if it's for defense in the case of HTC.
Corporations are naturally somewhat evil, because their goal is to make profit, not do anything good. I didn't imply you should boycott a large company if it has single product, but google has 100+ products all with linked private details.
Your "logic" isn't even logic at all, it's self inflicted stupidity.
Google makes very good products, but they don't take privacy seriously at all. Even if they did, I'm not going to use any more products by Google (and I'm soon transfering out of Gmail). The reason is that Google is just growing to be too big, it's not even funny anymore. Soon they know everything and have huge corporate power. And it's a corporation after all. Their main goal is profit, not acting morally.
This is why you shouldn't trust proprietary software. Once they have the market they don't care about the small operating systems, and there's nothing you can do about it (other than writing a free alternative). The problem is that once gnash can play flash10 files Adobe will release a new standard.
No, they forced a product to people who never wanted it. Then they made it *by default* to leak out private details. Then they made the "turn off buzz" option not really working.
Why is anything about the Space Shuttle secret in any case? Space projects should be open to the public and there shouldn't be any secrets. If the technology is secret the human species won't get much utility out of that huge spending.
Brakes can overpower the engine, but only for a moment. At highway speeds they will overheat quickly, maybe before the car has stopped fully, and after that the brakes are useless.
When Google does a huge scale for profit copyright infringement, they'll make a profit sharing deal. When a student shares 1 song to his friend non-commercially, he gets a $100 000 fine. That's justice in modern world. Corporations are above the law.
Why does the government have to give out any kind of loan guarantees? In my country at least the goverment loans nothing, and the private sector builds then. In fact, there's many companies waiting in a line to build new nuclear power plants.
It's better to have slightly more global warming than to let billions suffer. We can adjust to global warming through technology, and ultimately control the climate easily through geoengineering etc. Global warming is one of the smallest existential risks, and technologies such as biotech, nanotech and (greater than human) AI will solve this problem quite easily.
The only true and long term solution to poverty is industrialisation. You simply can't "build factories" and think industrialisation happens magically. You need to think a way to make Africa a better place to invest than China/India. And that will be really difficult. The wage difference is not large, China has really good education system, and China is quite stable politically and has reasonable infrastructure.
So, the more money is used to make investing more viable in the Africa, the less problems there will be. Luckily, every year as China is getting more wealthy, the wages are also increasing. That makes Africa a better place since it will have cheaper workers. Of course, to be precise, industrialisation is already happening in different places in Africa. But progress will take a long time.
Why is it that some people simply don't want to understand how things work nowadays? I think that's a sign of how the society is getting more stupid as time goes on. Sure, devices itself are getting more complex, so it's harder to understand how they work, but even a general idea is rewarding to know (for me atleast). However, when something doesn't work, the most obvious thing is to understand how the device works, so you can know what's happening, and maybe how to fix it. Yet it seems modern people simply wan't to brush that aside and live in world they have no idea how it functions.
Parenting should and is regulated. I've never believed in the idea that parents somehow "own" their children. If the parents don't give a neutral, healthly upbringing then the government should step in and take the children away. There is no "right religion" to choose, they shouldn't brainwash the children into any religion. It's okay to teach facts about religions though.
You see nothing wrong in a superpower bullying a small country through economic means? Well, that certainly sounds like an American way to do things, i.e. acting like an asshole.
Men have more variance in IQ, that's why there's more very smart men than very smart women. Of course, there's more very stupid men, which is reflected in crime rates etc.
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It actually seems they view pirate parties as legitimate, and do participate in debates with them.
Why does it matter when a) they've been elected to the European Parliament and b) even the copyright lobby belives it's a "cool" name? It would be a near political suicide to try to change the name. There was a short lived "information society party" in Finland but that didn't go anywhere.
Because it all started from copyright. The Green Party (atleast in Finland) also has a broad range of issues they wan't to deal with. But they also started with the conservation of nature and such.
Many countries (including Finland for example) have a cassette tax (which applies to CD's etc), but still have strict copyright laws. Besides, pirate parties have a broad range of issues from civil liberties to privacy, patents etc. Copyright is only a rather small part of our agenda.
Nokia has already paid off its research costs many times over from the sale of cellphones, so it doesn't make sense to pay anything to Nokia. If you read "Against Intellectual Monopoly" it's clear that patents are not needed for innovation, and actually slow it down. Of course, Apple is also wrong to sue companies, but I'm not sure if it's for defense in the case of HTC.
Corporations are naturally somewhat evil, because their goal is to make profit, not do anything good. I didn't imply you should boycott a large company if it has single product, but google has 100+ products all with linked private details. Your "logic" isn't even logic at all, it's self inflicted stupidity.
Google makes very good products, but they don't take privacy seriously at all. Even if they did, I'm not going to use any more products by Google (and I'm soon transfering out of Gmail). The reason is that Google is just growing to be too big, it's not even funny anymore. Soon they know everything and have huge corporate power. And it's a corporation after all. Their main goal is profit, not acting morally.
This is as creepy as it can get, spying in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vza_bMuy42M
This is why you shouldn't trust proprietary software. Once they have the market they don't care about the small operating systems, and there's nothing you can do about it (other than writing a free alternative). The problem is that once gnash can play flash10 files Adobe will release a new standard.
No, they forced a product to people who never wanted it. Then they made it *by default* to leak out private details. Then they made the "turn off buzz" option not really working.
Why is anything about the Space Shuttle secret in any case? Space projects should be open to the public and there shouldn't be any secrets. If the technology is secret the human species won't get much utility out of that huge spending.
What a good reason to switch to free health care.
And the first tank was an expensive death trap. And the first car was useless. And the first airplane couldn't fly very far at all.
Brakes can overpower the engine, but only for a moment. At highway speeds they will overheat quickly, maybe before the car has stopped fully, and after that the brakes are useless.
When Google does a huge scale for profit copyright infringement, they'll make a profit sharing deal. When a student shares 1 song to his friend non-commercially, he gets a $100 000 fine. That's justice in modern world. Corporations are above the law.
Why does the government have to give out any kind of loan guarantees? In my country at least the goverment loans nothing, and the private sector builds then. In fact, there's many companies waiting in a line to build new nuclear power plants.
It's better to have slightly more global warming than to let billions suffer. We can adjust to global warming through technology, and ultimately control the climate easily through geoengineering etc. Global warming is one of the smallest existential risks, and technologies such as biotech, nanotech and (greater than human) AI will solve this problem quite easily.
The obvious value is to destroy an threat to their existence, or to use the planet's resources for computation.
The only true and long term solution to poverty is industrialisation. You simply can't "build factories" and think industrialisation happens magically. You need to think a way to make Africa a better place to invest than China/India. And that will be really difficult. The wage difference is not large, China has really good education system, and China is quite stable politically and has reasonable infrastructure. So, the more money is used to make investing more viable in the Africa, the less problems there will be. Luckily, every year as China is getting more wealthy, the wages are also increasing. That makes Africa a better place since it will have cheaper workers. Of course, to be precise, industrialisation is already happening in different places in Africa. But progress will take a long time.
Why is it that some people simply don't want to understand how things work nowadays? I think that's a sign of how the society is getting more stupid as time goes on. Sure, devices itself are getting more complex, so it's harder to understand how they work, but even a general idea is rewarding to know (for me atleast). However, when something doesn't work, the most obvious thing is to understand how the device works, so you can know what's happening, and maybe how to fix it. Yet it seems modern people simply wan't to brush that aside and live in world they have no idea how it functions.
Parenting should and is regulated. I've never believed in the idea that parents somehow "own" their children. If the parents don't give a neutral, healthly upbringing then the government should step in and take the children away. There is no "right religion" to choose, they shouldn't brainwash the children into any religion. It's okay to teach facts about religions though.
So, if you beat up somebody, you'll probably get less jail time than refreshing a website several times using a script?
You see nothing wrong in a superpower bullying a small country through economic means? Well, that certainly sounds like an American way to do things, i.e. acting like an asshole.
If you don't want to be spied by google every second, download the Iron browser. It's based on Chrome code base, but has spying disabled.
Men have more variance in IQ, that's why there's more very smart men than very smart women. Of course, there's more very stupid men, which is reflected in crime rates etc.