In Switzerland, sitting on that motherlode of gold and art of dubious legality. Duh. Seriously, though, I suspect that Switzerland is very capable of retaining its high potentials, although its banking system may not have everything to do with that.

End of discussion.

Although as a Dutchie I am rather ashamed and angered by the reason and/or cause. I used to smirk at articles about the US where someone was ordered to pay boatloads of money for down/uploading some songs on Kazaa or Napster or whatever. Karma man, karma.

They would, but don't forget this is the same country where a private organization goes around smacking small ISPs with court orders not even meant for them for fuck's sake, to get the small ISPs to ban TPB.

However, as the article rightly notes, the commercial enterprise is in educating lawyers, and thus not a general anti-piracy practice. Although still sort of shady in my personal view, I can see how this does not constitute a direct conflict of interests.

The truth of your comment makes me cry with despair.

And this is your mistake, see. You should consider any person trying to pat down a 4 year old a child molester. Any mistake to do so results in news like this.

Oh dear, I'm terribly sorry but I misclicked. Now I have to comment =/

Which is a bloody shame. It may not be the most cheerful book, but what it describes, the image it paints of a totalitarian future, I'll be damned if our current society isn't moving in that direction faster than anyone should like.

Then again, my big brother rather likes it.

Wait, I don't even have a big brother.

First Europe sends banking info, passenger info, what will come? And there, for a moment, I believed Europe stopped being America's bitch. I'm voting... No wait, I don't know what or who I'm voting, because all parties I somewhat agree with agree with this shit. Fuck.

That's also one of the points from TFA: they will not pre-install Ubuntu, just 'certify' it.

Why is this even necessary?! Apparently, you can void your hardware warranty by installing software (from TFA):

But how does this even work? Also: as TFA notes, it's unclear who is endorsing who here, with HP being extremely profitable and all, but wouldn't it be cheaper for HP to just not be a little whiney kid about what kind of software you can or can't run?

But here you are wrong. With SOPA, the public at large managed to find -- finally, I might add -- the supreme spot where to exercise influence over legislation. See, if corporations control politics, it's no use trying to influence politics directly. But if we can influence the politics corporations push for, which we demonstrably can, we can influence politics. Therefore, your point that people don't matter anymore is false.

Make available computers to use specifically to browse the archives and related activities? Seems quite reasonable. Also attach a printer so they can print it all and study it at home.

Yeah, I concur. If friends are over and we want to watch a movie, either I already have it, or I can download it in about ten minutes, so while that is going on, we play a short boardgame or prepare some drinks and food and hé presto!