Lets see... You can get a 7.6gb Torrent in around 2-3 days from a so called 0-day release...

With Usenet you get the same release within hours.. Anyone who is serious into pirating NOT using usenet isnt a pirate. Check out NFOHump's forums... nearly every one on there downloads using usenet. I think you need to re-check your facts my friend..

Actually the US lost 11 over the cold war period, and Mother Russia far more.

Actually you could, because I have been living in the USA for the past 6 years.. I escaped one crap political environment to another, that isn't quite as crap as I don't get taxed to the eyeballs anymore...

"This party isn't really Labour. Labour was started to help the people. This lot are only interested in helping the rich. This Labour government has become a bunch of arrogant, close minded, greedy, self-righteous, control freaks, pulling the whole UK into their personal police state hell and no one can tell them anything, otherwise they get labeled opposition (or worse) and then simply ignored."

Labor stopped being Labor (A party for the working class people) when John Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(UK_politician)) died back in 1994. Since then Labor has been the mirror image of the conservative party and only really got in power due to Thatcher and John Major's total screwing of the people. The reason they have stayed in power so long is that everyone remembers the Tory years and keep hoping that it will get better with labor, but it never does.

Really the British public have no real choice of who will lead the country more so than any other country, the opposing sides are exactly the same. I personally think there needs to be a major shakedown and reworking of at least on of the parties to get things working for the people again, instead of people working for the government.