That's fine, but he uses the term "liberalism" in his sig, which does in fact have the same meaning in the US as it does in Europe
I merely pointed out where I thought his misconception came from, namely that what you call "liberals" have little to do with the "Liberalism" he mentions in his sig

He obviously does not, but fell for the misleading US practice of namecalling the people on the left of the political spectrum "liberals" and "liberals" in turn seems to be equated with communists...at least by some people in the States...
here in Europe a "liberal" pretty much means the opposite of communist.

clickable link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism

Fun stuff; I scored: Economic Left/Right: -5.00 & Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.74 greetings from the Netherlands

is a monopoly on something that is free, against the law?

I like novels with some philosophy in them, for instance I really like the books by Jostein Gaarder. His book "Maya" is one of my all-time favourites.

Actually, here in the Netherlands, reporters can be freed from prosecution from breaking the law if in doing so, the greater good was served to report on some big issue that might otherwise have never been brought to light. For instance, a reporter who broke into an airport without authorization to show how sloppy the security was, was not prosecuted further after being charged. Note that breaking the law is still illegal, it's just that no penalty will be imposed.

No. It indeed showed (a fraction of) things I recently downloaded using torrents

it really does not. I still find the available plug-ins and interface reason enough to continue FF as my main browser even if it takes 2 second longer to load on start up...soit

Amazing the USA still has the funds allocated to develop such things

It never stops to amaze me that so many Americans equate Socialism with Communism. They really are vastly different. Most countries in Western Europe have had large "socialist" influence over the past decades and they have not been worse off for it.

so nothing to see here, I guess..

Finally a step in the right direction from Facebook regarding privacy

Politicians serving the industries instead of the public...news at 11