> Somebody please help me find a better country. How are Iceland and New Zealand?
You don't want to move to NZ. Positively, you can NOT sue for just about anything. It's unlikely you would ever have such cases in NZ. Then again, it's such a small country that they probably couldn't care less anyway. Even though we do tend to follow the US with respect to the RIAA, I've never seen it enforced. It's still not a country that bows completely to corporate or foreign government pressure.
Negatively, NZ is trying, in a half-assed way, to become a capitalist country. As it can't make up its mind on whether to be capitalist or socialist , it's majorly screwing up both. With regards to techology, they still have some truly amazing self-taught programmers there. I believe, if the figures are still correct, that they have more computers, Internet connections, and webservers per capita than even Silicon Valley. However, in probably twenty years - NZ won't really exist anymore; it'll simply be a tourist resort for the rich of Asia.//
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> Somebody please help me find a better country. How are Iceland and New Zealand?
You don't want to move to NZ. Positively, you can NOT sue for just about anything. It's unlikely you would ever have such cases in NZ. Then again, it's such a small country that they probably couldn't care less anyway. Even though we do tend to follow the US with respect to the RIAA, I've never seen it enforced. It's still not a country that bows completely to corporate or foreign government pressure.
Negatively, NZ is trying, in a half-assed way, to become a capitalist country. As it can't make up its mind on whether to be capitalist or socialist , it's majorly screwing up both. With regards to techology, they still have some truly amazing self-taught programmers there. I believe, if the figures are still correct, that they have more computers, Internet connections, and webservers per capita than even Silicon Valley. However, in probably twenty years - NZ won't really exist anymore; it'll simply be a tourist resort for the rich of Asia. //
Have you noticed that Gibson has also made the "classics" list? I recently saw his book, "Virtual Light", published by Penguin Classics.