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Commented on Pirate Bay defendants found guilty, sentenced to jail
We should distribute the jail term by P2P, everyone would spend a few seconds? minutes? in place of the pirate bay guys :P...
Commented on Vintage Gadgets I've Bought for Some Reason: Bynamics Desk Director System Six Hundred
There's even a company still selling them - http://www.cadigital.com/office.htm Looks like a time capsule to the internet of 10 years ago....
Commented on Sandwich boxes that open into trompe l'oeil place settings
ASDA's a UK supermarket owned by WalMart, with a reputation for selling crap cheap. In the UK, even the media don't call supermarkets 'grocers'. Here grocers are small (usually non-chain) shops & market stalls selling vegetables....

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blashyrkh commented on Pirate Bay defendants found guilty, sentenced to jail
"You do realize that, once upon a time, record companies and sheet music producers tried to prevent radio stations from playing their songs? Is that theft?" I was aware of that (and I can list 100 more ways that corporate record labels are horrible), but I am not being sarcastic when I say that I am not sure how that is at all relevant to our discussion. Now on a different but related topic, one that I hope gets much more coverage here beyond the one mention in a earlier post to this thread, is that one of the 4...
jmnugent commented on Pirate Bay defendants found guilty, sentenced to jail
#116 Anonymous (Blashyrkh?) I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to write that long of a response (no, really, I sincerely do) You seem to have a lot of past experience to share and I'm thankful you did. It benefits the discussion, and I learned some new viewpoints. Thank you! On the issue of "survival of the fittest",.. I guess I would have to say "Yes.".. I do believe thats how it should be. We require that for other business sectors (well, apparently except banking ;)... But let me further clarify what I said before that the way I think...
Takuan commented on Pirate Bay defendants found guilty, sentenced to jail
Christain Engstrom is supposed to be a neo-nazi? Citation? I did find this though: http://www.p2p-blog.com/index.php?itemid=290...
blashyrkh commented on Pirate Bay defendants found guilty, sentenced to jail
"Christain Engstrom is supposed to be a neo-nazi? Citation?" Ugh, my screwup, I meant Carl Lundström, not Christian Engstrom, I got confused. That's what you get doing research in the middle of the night with little sleep, all Swedish names start to look the same. :) My apologies to Mr. Engstrom, who is not a defendant in the trial either. The lion's share of the information is in Swedish, but here are some pages I found in English - http://www.thewormbook.com/hlog/?p=1973 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26/pirate_bay_neo_nazi/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/07/pirate_bay_accepted_right_wing_money/ I can link to more pages in Swedish...
Takuan commented on Pirate Bay defendants found guilty, sentenced to jail
always want to be accurate about such serious charges. Thanks for the correction information. I can take the hit off him now....

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