Hamfish

I've long been a fan of Piet Hein

Oh I do like a good rant :o)

Yep I'm with my mate Hagarthe on this one. Asking ISP's to disconnect suspected files sharers because the entertainment industry claims to be loosing profit is utter madness.

For a society based on mutual aid, voluntary cooperation and the liberation of desires? ... Yep, it gets my vote

"The loud little handful will shout for war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously protest at first…The great mass of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes, and will try to make out why there should be a war, and they will say earnestly and indignantly: "It is unjust and dishonorable and there is no need for war." Then the few will shout even louder…Before long you will see a curious thing: anti-war speakers will be stoned from the platform, and free speech will be strangled by hordes of furious men who still agree with the speakers but dare not admit it ... Next, statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."