If Western prejudice represents the core problem facing Islamic communities, then why do the two million (or more) Muslims in the United States count as the wealthiest, most successful believers anywhere on earth? Why do the one million Arab citizens of Israel enjoy by far the best standard of living and the highest levels of education (according to UN figures) of any Arabs in the Middle East? Logical analysis suggests that more devout Muslims who wear traditional robes and head coverings fare worse than their assimilated counterparts not because they provoke more prejudice from their neighbors, but because they have isolated themselves more fully in a deeply dysfunctional, even demented, medieval culture.

The core problem involves the Koran’s teaching that Mohammed represents the last prophet, that his revelations amount to the ultimate “seal of knowledge,” and that a just, well-ordered world will place his faithful followers in positions of greater power, prosperity and peacefulness than their infidel neighbors. For anyone who takes Islamic teaching seriously, the current state of the world offers a glaring, painful example of cognitive dissonance: the backwardness, poverty, and endemic misery of Muslim societies—particularly compared to the privilege and prosperity of the West—either undermines the validity of the Holy Koran, or proves that evil infidel conspirators have upset the natural, proper, and Godly order of things. In the 1930’s, the passion behind Nazism arose from a burning sense that the German people had been gypped, that the infamous “stab in the back” of the Versailles Treaty had deprived the nation of its rightful position of world leadership. Islamo-Nazis feel an even more galling sense of injustice, oppression and unfairness, since hostile forces have, in the view of the devout, denied them the chance to live out their divine endowment of world dominance.

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pirate walks into a bar,


bartender says ” is that a steering wheel in your pants?”


Pirate says ” Arrrrrrrrrrr its drivin me nuts!”

I just hate the fact people act like these corporations are honest and they care
about their customers.
These corporations are bigger pirates than those who
download music off p2p.
Look at our US.  They milk us every week out of our
check and we can’t say shit about it.

My list
The True Pirate with licenses:
1. IRS
2.MPAA
3.RIAA

on May 31, Swedish police finally arrived with a search warrant and
carted off enough servers to fill three rental trucks, the
entertainment industry was quick to proclaim victory. The Motion
Picture Association of America issued a press release announcing a
milestone. “The actions today taken in Sweden serve as a reminder to
pirates all over the world that there are no safe harbors for internet
copyright thieves,” trumpeted MPAA chairman Dan Glickman.

But the three stewards of the site — 27-year-old Peter; Fredrik
Neij, 28; and Gottfrid Svartholm, 21 — were already preparing their
response.

Coordinating with volunteers around the world in an IRC chat room,
the trio scrambled to relaunch the Bay at a new location. Peter — a
slim, dark haired, dark eyed geek — didn’t sleep in those first few
days, fielding a stream of phone calls from the press while confronting
the technical challenge of resurrecting a high-traffic site with a
partial database and all-new hardware. “They stole most of our backups
as well,” he says. “I managed to get some backups out of the servers
while the police were in the building.” (Peter wasn’t arrested with the
others, and remains anonymous.)

They took the reconstructed data to temporary hosting in the
Netherlands, and three days after the raid, the Pirate Bay reappeared
on the internet.

So fast was the Bay’s rebound that some news articles reporting the
site’s demise went to print after it was back up, recalls Peter. The
resuscitated site had a few glitches, but the resurrection was
remarkable in that it had never really happened before; when the major
American rights holders take a website down, it stays down. The pirates
delivered a victory message to the MPAA, and the Swedish equivalent,
APB, through the site’s reverse-DNS, which now read:
hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org.

Thanks to the press generated by the raid, the Pirate Bay instantly
became more popular than ever. The Bay’s T-shirt vendor alone now has
four people working full time to fill orders for apparel sporting the
site’s pirate ship logo, and a skull-and-crossbones with a cassette
tape as the skull. “They are behind something like 2,000,” says Neij.
“They are working day and night.”

The pirates have since moved the Bay’s hosting back to Sweden, where
they’ve built technological bulwarks against another takedown,
law-hardening the Bay’s network architecture with a system of redundant
servers that spans three nations. Shutting down the site in any single
country will only cripple the Pirate Bay for as long as it takes for
its fail-over scripts to execute, a gap measurable in minutes.

The various servers’ locations are obscured behind a load balancer
configured to lie, the crew says. Once the failsafe is triggered, a
determined adversary with an international team of litigators might be
able to track down the servers, but by that time — according to the
plan — the pirates will have deployed mirrors in even more countries.
In theory, the corporate lawyers will eventually tire of this game of
international copyright Whack-A-Mole.

With all that in place, crew member Fredrik Neij says he welcomes
the possibility of another raid. “I really want the pleasure of it
being down three minutes, then up again.”

Source Here.

Source Here.

Suppose the company comes to your house and watches you use the toaster
you bought at walmart. And when you put a bagel in it they sue you for
using the toaster to toast a bagel, because the agreement on the side
of the box (which you didn’t sign or read) says that the toaster is
only licensed by the manufacturer to toast white bread.

Then they sue you for $5000 dollars, claiming that they need to be
compensated not just for the bagel you toasted, but for the bagels you
probably toasted when they weren’t there to watch you. Do you consider
this fair? You are violating the terms of toaster use, therefore using
your criteria you are acting in an immoral way.

What if Sealy sued people for sleeping on couches? Can Ford sue you if
you squeeze 8 people in a car that only seats 6? (instead of buying
another car)

If you take a picture of the Eiffel tower from the street, can France
sue you for selling copies of that picture? Sue you for giving copies
of the picture to friends?

What if I hear a song on the radio, and then I get out my guitar and
play that song into a microphone and listen to it from time to time. If
I don’t distribute copies of my recording, can the record company sue
me? Is keeping a copy of me singing a song ok?

What if I hear a song on the radio and record it onto a tape. Is that illegal? Should I be jailed or fined for this?

What if I’m really really smart, and I hear a song, and I type 1′s and
0′s into a computer, purely from memory, and those 1′s and 0′s combine
to make a file which can be played and sounds exactly like the song I
heard, but isn’t a recording since I recreated it from scratch? Could I
give away copies of this file that I typed in in binary based on
nothing but memory?

What if I just borrow a friends CD and listen to it until I’m sick of it and give it back? Is that moral?

What if I borrow a friends CD and make a copy, listen to the copy until
I’m sick of it, then break the copy in half and return the original
disk?

What if I borrow the cd and make a copy, then return the original a few minutes before I break the copy in half?

What If instead of breaking the copy in half, I return the copy and break the original?

Suppose I never break the copy, but I never listen to it again?

Suppose I only listen to the copy when I know for a fact my friend
isn’t listening to the original, so that I save gas by not driving over
to his house to borrow the CD?

What if we both listen to the cd so that we both are listening for 1 overlapping second? Is this now immoral?

Suppose a friend and I make a copy of his CD, and agree that we will
only listen to the same song at the same time while we are in the same
room, but using separate headphones so we don’t disturb anyone?

What if we get out of sync and we end up accidently listening to totally different songs?

What if I just make a copy of the CD and listen to it how I feel like
and people who buy in to big corporate bullshit about owning sounds or
data kiss my ass?

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I think the reality here is that “law” is of two kinds. There is
natural law, i.e. don’t murder, steal, etc. which nearly all of us
respect. And there is political law i.e. anything the lawmakers’ and
their owners want to be a law.

There are people in jail today for not filing income tax returns who
claimed that the constitution protects them from testifying against
themselves. Sounds logical to me.

Well, the judges have dispensed with that logic and will do so in this
case as well. Point being, don’t apply logic to political law, because
it’s completely irrelevent.

Source Here

So, what is it the Mel did that was so bad?

He drank a little, and said the Jews start lotsa wars.

Lotsa people drink, and lets face it, the Jews have been involved
in a war or two since the establishment of Israel.

So, what’s the problem? 

How The Piratebay Raid Changed Sweden.

— This is the biggest story on the net, it will take a while for the
major media to catch up to it. In short, all hell has broken loose in
Sweden after the shutdown of the Pirate Bay, probably more due to the
fact that the USA made some threats about it. Now it turns out that a
new political party, the Pirate Party is growing so fast that it
already almost as big as the Green Party in membership.More Here.

Well, it looks like the boneheads in Hollywood and the RIAA, along
with onerous new copyright laws such as the DMCA and other
restrictions, are triggering change. I’d be cautious. Today’s youth
internationally are not like anything we’ve seen before. Their view of
the world is skewed by the media and new realities. When they see all
these restrictions, they see them done on behalf of fat guys who are
flying around in private jets with a cabin full of high-class hookers
while lighting cigars with hundred-dollar bills. They see rappers in
limos wearing diamonds and having their teeth removed and replaced with
gold for no apparent reason other than to spend the suckers’ money.
They see mega-yachts and homes that are the size of a small college all
bought and sold on the backs of the kids buying music. Indeed, they are
seeing a different world than most of us did when we were growing up.
It’s nuts. It looks unfair or, worse, exploitative.

Then they see old ladies arrested for copyright violations
because a grandkid downloaded a song. Dead people are indicted in
hysterical sweeps. Kids are threatened with ruination for
song-swapping.

They’re not going to put up with it for long, I can assure
you. While I think any outrage will fall short of storming the
compounds of the rich and burning their homes, once the next-generation
youth finally figure out that they can take over at the ballot box, all
hell will break loose.

In a parliamentary system, a group like the Pirate Party, which
will quickly surpass Sweden’s Green Party, doesn’t have to win a
majority of seats to have an effect. In multiparty systems (unlike in
the U.S.), you have to form coalitions to rule, and all sorts of deals
are made for anything to get done. And I suspect that a lot of older
politicos are tired of being pushed around by U.S.
intellectual-property monopolists and would love to side with the
Pirate Party on the excuse that they “had to.”

More Here.