It looks like we are close to yet another government led by our own ‘Harry Potter look-a-like’ Jan Peter Balkenende. When does he take a hint and get the hell out of politics? This will be Balkenende III and it’s not a good thing; he didn’t succeed in accomplishing what he said he was going to accomplish the previous two times, so why try a third time? Well, the idea behind it is simple: the two parties that will form the interim-government, CDA and VVD, think that if the stay in power the next few months it will possibly get […]
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
Great, yet another country is giving in to those assholes from the MPAA and RIAA: Spain has now adopted some new laws that outlaw P2P sharing and even makes Internet providers potential criminals by saying they can be held responsible as well: there is also to be a tax on all forms of blank media, including flash memory drives. Great. I guess the they never heard of legal filesharing (like the distribution of ISO images for Linux distro’s). As Monty Python said: “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition”. Btw: we have such a tax in Holland as well, but it is […]