the first million times. Do you have anything new to contribute?

Contrary to the Murdoch toilet paper you're swallowing, the EU administration is not that bloated. Its budget is tiny considering the area it covers.

England should be thrown out of the EU. Yes I said England.

Your gun fetishism is pathetic.

Malware sites have a technical effect that is unrelated to speech. Blocking them is as much censorship as is banning lead-based newspaper ink -- i.e. not at all.

> Neither of those is censorship - they're illegal

What a stupid thing to write. By your idiotic "logic," there's no censorship in China because the law says you can't criticize the Communist Party.

They rely on the public SSL PKI. Any rogue SSL cert registrar can let someone generate a cert for any domain.

Just like with Zune, Microsoft copied what's worst about their competition. I attribute it to cargo cult marketing.

And you can stick your sanctimoniousness up your ass.

Ever. Besides I can't even watch anything with DRM, except on my iPad.

Why would I?

Just as not offend the copyright holder? I don't give a fuck about copyright holders. So why would I?

I don't know where you get the idea that it's not. It pays for itself, and it translates into the lowest CO2 output in the EU.

The main drawback and the reason why it's being reconsidered is that it's dangerous.

The great thing about nuclear's impact on the environment is that it typically mostly happens near the point of use. Fukushima is going to have terrible consequences, but mainly local ones; i.e. it's mainly those people who benefited from it that will bear the cost.

Contrast with coal burning: everybody gets hit by the carbon bill, even if you don't have electricity.

Are they? Here in Paris local taxes are the lowest in the country, in spite of the largest concentration of services, because of the economies of scale.

What makes lobbying so damaging is that there is a large multiplier effect. A $1 million lobbying effort would easily drive a $100 million profit.

According to someone I know who works in windmill financing, the whimsical nature of wind subsidies in the US has been almost as bad for the industry as if there had been none. Wind projects, as well as manufacturing and deployment infrastructure (barges, trucks, cranes ...) are decades long investments. Congress let subsidies expire almost every other year; that's made it nearly impossible for financiers and actuaries to project the profitability of farms.