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All the more reason to support WikiLeaks. Free speech and freedom of press are more important than government secrets. In a democracy, the government should be afraid of it's people, not the other way around.

I don't know about that. Is Daniel Ellsberg a marked man? The US government tried to put him in prison for leaking the Pentagon Papers, and failed. By contrast, Julian Assange didn't even do anything illegal. All he did was to publish the papers that were given to him. The only person who did anything illegal by US law was the guy who leaked the information in the first place, Bradley Manning.

Fortunately, not everyone is a spineless blob. Here's some interesting information about the rape allegations: http://radsoft.net/news/20101001,01.shtml http://radsoft.net/news/20100914,00.shtml http://radsoft.net/news/20101202,00.shtml

Go England! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_O3NsHCEDw]YouTube- How To Lose Friends 4th of July[/ame]

Don't ask me Saffire brought him up.

With all due respect, but you obviously don't know very much about history and human nature. Trust me, the world is a lot more complicated than you think it is, and there are no simple solutions. You now think you have the answer to all the world's problems, but as you get older you'll (hopefully) realise that you're not nearly as smart as you seem to think you are ;) CD sales have been down long before the lawsuits started, simply because it's cheaper to download. Hitler wasn't directly elected, he was appointed by Hindenburg, who was already senile at the time. And the first thing he (Hitler) did afterwards was to get rid of democracy. Surely you're not so naive? You're only replacing government with something else, namely corporations. I'm not proposing anything, and I'm certainly not forcing anyone to do anything. I'm just sick of social and political experiments, we had more than enough of those in the last century and millions of people have died as a result.

Right. Of course the music industrie would never sue their own customers either because people wouldn't like that and stop buying music. Oh wait, they do that and people still buy music. Never mind. :rolleyes: Must be nice to be rich. Guess that means the less fortunate among us are screwed. You're making the same mistake over and over again, you equate government with dictatorship. A democracy can't get away with the stuff dictatorships do to stay in power. If people don't like what they do, they'll get replaced after the next election. Don't like any of the parties? Get involved and create a new one. Besides, what you're proposing isn't really anarchy, it's corporatism. You replacing a democracy were every vote counts the same with a system were the rich have all the say.

If you get your wish of a world without governments, they won't bother with suing you, they'll just send a hit man to your house "to set an example." ;)

Wrong. They are part of Parliament, but not of the government. However, they were the government in the early 90s, when the Iron Handbag and John Minor botched up the privatisation of BR, among countless other things.

Nothing, the Tories are the ones who created this mess in the first place. You really don't know very much about history, do you? It'd almost be funny if it wasn't so sad.

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 6/10 I liked the old one with Walter Matthau better.

What has the government to do with this? British Rail has been privatised in 1993, what you see here is the result.

Depends on what ice you're talking about. If the ice at the North Pole melts, it won't affect sea levels at all because the ice there is floating in the water. If on the other hand the ice in Antarctica and Greenland melts, it will affect sea levels massively. We're not talking about a few metres of ice here, the average thickness of ice in Antarctica 2000 metres, in Greenland it isn't much less.

Mac OS X 10.6.1

I've uploaded a video I took in Hamburg tonight. Enjoy! :) [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bthGgiChS0k&fmt=22]YouTube - Muse - Starlight - live (Hamburg 28/10/2009) [HD][/ame]

In no particular order (will change that later): Muse - The Resistance Idlewild - Post Electric Blues Doves - Kingdom Of Rust Natalie Imbruglia - Come To Life U2 - No Line On The Horizon White Lies - To Loose My Life Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

But it's so much more convenient to be in denial and not change anything... :dozey:

For what it's worth, I've had my iPod for almost 7 years and never had a single problem with it. It has got scratches all over it and a dent in the back, but it still works like on the first day :smiley:

The Proposal - 4/10 The Big Country - 10/10

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Good choice! :nice: Did you hear they're going to do a remake of it? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycdZpjq4ykw]YouTube - The Prisoner Comic Con 2009 9 minute trailer[/ame]

Believe it or not, I don't think that the government is the answer to all our problems. But I don't think a mythical free market is the answer to everything, either. What we need is a mixture of both. And we most definitely need laws, and a way to enforce them. If there's no need to fear punishment if you steal, kill or rape, things will get ugly, trust me. If you don't like your current government, the answer isn't to abolish it but to strive for a better one. By the way, you never answered how the "free market" is going to care of the poor. After all, there's no money to be made off them.

anarchy |ˈanərkē| noun a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority That's what happened in the final stages of the Weimar Republic. Statism is what came afterward. HTH Anyway, I'm off for tonight, I need to catch some sleep.

Hitler came to power because the Weimar Republic became unstable and was to weak to defend itself. Both communists and fascists had their own militias that were fighting each other and terrorising dissenters. Sounds a lot like anarchy to me.