I'm sorry to tell you, but rock's always meant to be loud. If it's not LOUD, it's not rock n roll. Jimi Hendrix, for example, said once that he wasn't the best, he just played louder.

"In China you can easily switch to google.com and get the same results as the rest if the world."

Yes, you can. But after searching 2 or 3 times about tiananmen, you won't be able to load google.com again (until 2 hours later): The firewall will detect that you are searching for information that threatens the dictatorship and therefore will (without showing you any warning) block you from loading google.com for 1 hour or two. Then you'll realize you shouldn't have searched for that information, because if you repeat that behaviour N times the thought police will actually go to your house for you and you'll end in jail or dead.

There was an article on wired about how China's firewall makes people censor themselves this way.

"Jajajaja... sorry... Hahahaha... where do you work? At the BSA?"

I'm pro-piracy, so no, I don't work for the BSA. I just look around and see that normally, businesses don't normally use pirated software. I haven't finnished my studies so I have no proffesional experience yet, but I look around and this is what I see: the faculty buys original software, the administration uses original software, my mum's company uses original software etc... The price for not doing so is too high (â). On the other hand, at home, everyone uses pirated software, fortunately.

Yeah, that's right. Here in Spain, it's simply legal to download, upload and/or share music and films, if it's non-profit. Also, it's been ruled that pages that encourage sharing films and music and have revenues from ads are also legal, in part because otherwise google would be illegal, as google also has links to torrent files (try searching for "filetype:torrent" in google).

Unfortunately, Spanish Law makes an exception with copyrighted software. So it's legal to share music and films but not software. Anyway, I'm PROUD to say that software piracy is also widespread here in Spain (the exception is that businesses don't use pirated software).

You are wrong. It is the people who vote, not lobbies, not companies. And your argument is ridiculous: Summarising, what you people are saying is that "he must vote whatever lobbies want him to until he becomes president, and it is then and not before that he will stand againt lobbies and for the good of the people".

And, excuse me, but that's fuckin' ridiculous. Only a doublethinker would "think" that.

So he compromised the privacy of his fellow citizens to get his hands on power. What a great leader. His actions are an example to follow. We surely must trust him, because things like this show that he will do whatever in order to protect the rights of the people. Because destrying people's right to privacy is an outstanding example of defending people's rights. Because he did it for our own good. /sarcasm

Fuckin' Doublethinkers!