nah, there's no need to drag democrats in the mud... they play in in regularly already.

Of course it would put much less stress on everyone if the porn sites simply agreed to putting that content into the .XXX or .SEX TLD. But no, that would be too easy and the porn industry WANTS people to stumble over their sites.

...think that porn is too easy to "stumble" upon. Most of the time you'd have to be looking for it. But yes, it CAN be accidental, regardless of any filters or proxies I might use. Short of blocking all pictures or something retarded like that.
Here's what I'm NOT saying:
- We need everyone to verify their age via CC or SS to browse the web
- Parents have no responsibility in this matter
- We can make it impossible for kids to access this

I'm fully aware that age verification for online access would be a nightmare, that I need to raise my own child and my kids could find it if they really wanted too regardless of my actions. But this accidental sh*t that comes up could be prevented if websites are also given at least a SMALL part of the responsibility in keeping their stuff behind some kind of age verification - even a simple "are you 18" would be sufficient and many websites don't have this. Also, much of the accidental crap comes from image searches (even with the safe filter enabled) which could easily be prevented if the website owners took care of their content.

Monty Hall is great, but the Tuesday Birthday problem takes the cake and eats it too: http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/06/28/2221252/The-Tuesday-Birthday-Problem

But can it make dead and severed limbs move again? mmmmh, zombies.

I mean, "Fucking, Austria"

So is "Fucker, Austria" :

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Fucking,+Tarsdorf,+Austria&sll=47.50978,12.150879&sspn=5.632476,14.227295&gl=us&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Fucking+Tarsdorf,+Braunau+am+Inn,+Upper+Austria,+Austria&ll=48.070279,12.886448&spn=0.087063,0.222301&z=13&iwloc=A

I had read somewhere before (maybe in one of Mitnik's books? ) that the first EVER ATM hack was something similar. When they set up a security camera to find out where the money went it revealed that a cleaning service just drove up the machine and sucked out the money. Remember, this was back in the day - like the FIRST ATM in UK or USA or something like that.

Because ebooks are not purchased... they're stolen: http://dilbert.com/2010-09-18/

Just Get a Mac. And if you don't we'll keep "accidentally" leaving backdoors in our software for windows.

That may very well be a true for a small shop, but in a small shop you may not actually have dedicated systems for a complete Dev cycle anyway (Dev, Q/A, Prod) and if you do, it may be acceptable to let the devs have access to production systems (they may even be the only people capable of maintaining them anyway). In a large environment review processes should prohibit backdoors - if not, then you need to fix the review process. But somewhere in-between are those businesses where it can be difficult to balance system integrity and security with development access.

As a political entity, wouldn't the pirate party have some sort of international obligation to comply when other federal governments ask them to remove information?

Sure, natural selection is a great way to remove genetic information from the current pool. I don't understand why you would provide one more complexity which evolution would have to randomly overcome in the same sentence that you belittle someone's distrust in evolution - not helping your cause here.