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So this little family drama is more interesting to you than abuse of power, which the officer is quite evidently guilty of. He is not supposed to arrest anyone without a warrant, this is pretty basic stuff. The boyfriend was obviously young and impressionable and unable to tell it was a charade, it must have seemed quite Kafkaesque.

It's not uncommon for bands to leak their albums early on PTP networks to create a buzz. We are talking about bands whose main interest is to get noticed of course. Right now the prime add space on The Pirate Bay is a plug for a free download album. It's perfectly legal, but the site providing the PR isn't. The top 100 music downloads on the same site reads pretty much exactly like a billboard chart though, so I don't know how genuine the notion of them being a grassroots launch platform for unknown acts is.

They look like peacemakers.

Free speech : good. Doesn't seem like it to me.

It's not really the practice itself, it's the ease of it. Anyone who got moral convulsions back in the day about making mix tapes and giving them to your friends raise their hands.

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. I'm with the whiners all the way-

You tube dodged having to pre clear all of their user content not long ago, did you miss that ?

Bad analogy, Warez don't cost anything. Although a shop giving away free bootleg DVDs would get shut down just as fast-

I much prefer the internet the way it is, as opposed to effectively enforced and comprehensively legislated. Anyway this is affecting the US, the home of the biggest champions of intellectual property rights. The rest of the world isn't going to follow suit anytime soon. As it turns out streaming content is extremely difficult to shut down for copyright infringement, as it has to be done on a per case basis, and even the music industry doesn't have that many lawyers. You might think that such apparently blatant disregard for copyright is unfair, but I'm not so sure you are going to like the end result of tough legislation either. Does anyone really consider the legality of every video clip they watch ?. Does the net belong to the users or to the copyright holders ?. I dunno, I suppose I can live with stepping on a few toes as opposed to youtube being emptied of content tomorrow.

They have a specific formula they have sold to the people who bailed them out of a bankruptcy. Doesn't surprise me that they are making every effort to produce a 'sure thing'. Apparently someone likes QTEs and is convinced they are integral to a success.

It's not like there is a wrong answer to the question of what kind of artistic flavor you like in a comic. To me it's adequate, but it doesn't excite me.

He's good enough to tell the story. Me, I want my comics to be pretty as well.

What, no, cleavage is a good thing.

I have been farting every 5 minutes since noon. Just glad I'm not going to work today.

I didn't mind the sex, but I do think they should have stuck to CGI sequences. The whole dirty postcard collector minigame aspect of it was laughable.

Humbug. The Finnish aren't really Nordic, they're arctic.

Somehow I suspect that violence is here to stay.

It's been interesting reading all the back and forth. Federalism and small government is something politicians have been talking about for ages, but not unlike campaign finance reform it's not a desire for change that comes from within the system. I suppose it attracts people who don't fit into the established system anywhere else. Is there really a new ideological front here, that is to say does the Tea Party represent a popular movement stirred by the recession and the Obama administration compromised of people who were not politically active before, or not active to the point that they would ever consider going to a rally. How much is genuine and to what degree is it amplified by Fox. To me the fact that they would blunder by launching so vicious attacks on Obama that they could be interpreted as racism either means that political discourse is off the hook and that yelling the loudest means getting the most attention (and the Tea Party is certainly not alone here) or that these people actually aren't as media savey as we would like to think. Maybe it's that they have to tap into anger and outrage to connect with their base. As a protest movement they are free to say things established politicians can't , but in doing so they have also landed the republicans in trouble, and the Republicans must - all things being equal - be their closest allies. This must count against the notion of the Tea Party being their lapdogs. Maybe this is the wave of the future. A rigid two party system can't accommodate much in the way of differing direction and ideologies, and voting gets you practically nowhere as regards exercising political influence. A movement like this on the other hand can affect the system quite effectively.

I am currently doing research for a paper on protest movements in the American political system taking the so called 'Tea Party' movement as a point of departure. I recall Guard Dog writing something about the role of government in the 2008 bailouts following the housing crash. As this idea of negative government interference in the economy is also very much at the heart of the Tea Party I am looking to identify sources, commentators, analysts, ideologues who believe government was directly or indirectly to blame for the state of affairs which led to the global recession.

Seeing what's over the next hill. That's sortof the Bethesda trademark, and it's pretty enjoyable too until you have seen all the real estate. I just hope we get more than 'go there, fetch 20 of those, come back'

Opps wrong thread

The game looks pretty crappy.

So, this is a punishment. Not more like doing the kid a favor ?.

Jeremy Clarkson should do Larry King. Come on it would be a blast, he hates everything American and has borderline tourettes syndrome.

It might be argued that when you start dreaming about playing games it would be advisable to take a break from playing them.