If they get elected to European parliament then the rest of Europe is obliged to care and must count their vote. That said, it's only one vote, but I'd be willing to bet that the other MEPs will hear a lot more about copyright, patent, FoI and privacy in the future.

If I download a song from the pirate bay a copy is made. If I steal a car then no copy is made, someone wakes up to find their car missing, and they can never use it again, they must replace it or find a new way to travel.

Well stuff like net neutrality and the right to privacy for one. Perhaps you should go read their views on various issues, I think you'll find there's a bit more to it that "LOL I WANT NEW TOM CROOSE MOOVIES".

Finally, an American who'll admit it.

Freedom of Information and Privacy are their stated goals, and that with regards to both online and offline activities.

So it's limited, but not nearly as limited as JUST copyright and patent reform.

No, a right wing racist millionaire made a donation to the site several years ago.

Needs a referendum here (Ireland) and since the opposition to it (Mainly Libertas, a party that popped into existence just for the purpose of campaigning against Lisbon currently under investigating for having it's money appear out of thin air and refusing to explain, but that's only slightly related) seems to just be spreading blatant lies, claiming that it will bring back the death penalty, legalise abortion and double taxes, it seems unlikely to pass.

That said, I'm not saying the Lisbon treaty is an excellent treaty, I don't know that much about it to be honest, but it annoys me that it lost 53-47 in the first referendum, because I know if people weren't blatantly lied to it would have passed.

If you quit your job today you'd expect to still be getting paid 5 years from now I assume?

Then Windows Update would put the extensions in THERE, and it'd still be impossible to remove without Administrator privileges, because either way the files created would be created with same permissions.

Show me an application that can stop the administrator of the computer from changing any of it's settings while not even running and I'll accept that you're right.
That is, if it's done without posing far more serious flaws (setuid root comes to mind).

And I did elaborate on how it could be done (admittedly not very well, but good enough to get the point across I would think, basically if installed by Administrator then User doesn't have permission to delete the files, kind of like every file on any operating system).

It DOES tell you when a new extension has been installed when you first run it, and then you're able to disable it, Microsoft seem to have made it un-uninstallable though, which is the problem, and one you probably can't blame on Firefox.
Not sure HOW it was made hard to remove, whether that's a Firefox feature or whether it's a Windows thing, but for example you can install some Firefox extensions through the package manager on some Linux distros for all users, and they can't be uninstalled in Firefox by a user since they were installed as root, I'd imagine something similar is done on Windows, but you can disable the extension

The spec doesn't say HOW it should be done AFAIK, just that it must be done.

I lol'd, hard.

I lol'd

I'm aware, but recently I've seen a bunch of people say stuff like " I could care less about X", it may just be a failed attempt at sarcasm, or maybe they're idiots, either way it annoys me.