Really?

Because the actual truth is that spending under Obama is the lowest it's been in 60 years.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/23/facebook-posts/viral-facebook-post-says-barack-obama-has-lowest-s/

And what, exactly, makes you think you have any privacy, or expectation of any privacy, on public roads?

And how will VLC even read the DVD, if the mechanical drive itself is inoperable until you pay Microsoft?

If it's that normal, maybe it's not abnormal after all?

The United States is a theocracy that /has/ nuclear weapons, and /regularly/ annihilates foreign countries. Iraq was destroyed on a whim, albeit without nukes.

See: The last fifty years of the United States engaging in constant, unending international warfare, against continually new enemies, without cause or justification.

Now who looks more dangerous?

How is this not working as it is intended to? The point of copyright, as the big labels intend it, is to prevent competition from unsigned artists.

What's wrong with youtube?

Yeah, that sounds exactly like what the US did in the 1800's with their massive pirating of the European industrial revolution, stealing the designs, flaunting their massive patent and copyright violations, outright theft of designs and ideas, and massive intellectual dishonesty.

Free does not mean 'immune from criticism'.

Why do you imply that it does?

24 hours later without charges?

What are you talking about?

That's being changed to indefinite suspension without trial, for any individual, citizen or not, outside of or within US borders.

Released 24 hours later. Pah. That's a thing of the past.