I think Kennedy said it best: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

It is becoming popular in Denmark these days, since people are losing faith in the justice system. Civil disobedience is not about winning the case, but exposing the (unjust, unclear, stupid?) law to the public (whereas the newspapers never cared about in the first place).

It seems to work for this guy ;)

Another guy from Facebook, is questioning the morality of the tv-license system in Denmark (or Europe in general), since it also applies to an (min. 256kbit) Internet connection. He is also awaiting court, for not paying it, to make his stand.

The US constitution is based on "The Republic" as it was mentioned in the Roman Republic. It means the good of the common (not the common good though), and is a principle that people comes before the ruler, and therefore people occupy the government.

It is probably the closest you can get to anarchy and still have government (though very corruptible through amendments, and that is why you are blinded by the progressive movement's newspeak about "democracy as saviour to humanity").

I started using deluge lately too, and it works great. I used to use Azureus (mainly for the plugins), but I always wanted memory handled better. Deluge is just as good as uTorrent IMHO.

I don't vote, but at least they didn't allow the EU to overrule national laws.

That is probably why I never bought a PS3 retail game (and few blu-rays) in Denmark, especially since we have easy access to UK (and the canal islands) prices. I even import from Hong Kong from time to time, and if they get caught by the post office, the company accepts that it will be returned and they send another one.

On topic: In the US, PSN has started to accept competition on its own Store (sounds weird, but apparently Sony likes competition) from Amazon, where you essentially buy a redeem-key. I would hope it would spread to the rest of the world, as a freer market for digital downloads sounds promising (for getting more fair pricing), but it would probably mean a different PSN setup as we are used to (like accessing several stores, and Sony might be the market handler).

West Repository? Repository Help Club for Men? Anne Repository-roft? ... I find this quite disturbing ...

Maybe you should look at it like any other computer you have around (hey, this is slashdot, our rooms are filled with computers :P). They way I "sync" or "backup" is mainly through scp/ftp.

I don't know what tone they said these things, but after working with a lot of Asians, these sounds like compliments: "You are really doing great at emulating our culture, keep up the good work". It is very complementing to say that you are a big guy (at least they tell me :P). But it was Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Malaysian and Vietnamese I have been working with, I don't know if Japanese culture is more different (at least I know that they are more conservative).

Well, the Netherlands also have had (still have?) a large immigration from outside Europe. Most "western" European countries are exposed to different cultures, but the "eastern" countries have not been a part of this.

Yeah, hopefully we don't get a Abraham Lincoln who decided against the constitution and didn't want states to succeed. For now a European country have a five year waiting period from leaving the union, but then again, nobody have tried it yet (though Switzerland did leave the EFTA without issues).

What do you mean by "knowing each other"? This homogeneous country myth has to stop, we are individuals, not a collective mind. Danish people are probably worse at networking than an American (who are more forced into the situation).

The security of the job market works either as a payment from the municipality or as a insurance (where the government pays for most of it, but you get a more decent monthly payment). The system hunts you down to get a new job as fast as possible (by you hating it so much to get away from useless courses and forced applications), or getting an education (either payed by the municipality or the educational state system). The companies on the other hand gets much more freedom (than other EU-countries that is) to fire and hire people as they please.

For a mixed economy, the system works pretty well, and this is probably why we haven't felt the recession yet (yes, we have had stimulus packages to banks and what not). But the price is that we pay over 50% personal taxes (+25% sales tax and "behavioral" taxation of almost every product available) with some subsidies (mainly interests; good for home owners and banks).