http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/arts/18pira.html?ex=1310875200&en=e1558dc44194c9d4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Lovely. If I remember rightly, the last time the youth of a country were asked to spy on their fellow civilians, it ended up in a world war.

I have nothing against reducing piracy; asking for volunteers and all people to report copyrighted material to the releveant authourities is OK; forcing kids to do it is completely immoral [forcing anyone to do it is immoral].
The kids who do this will be shunned by their peer group, which isn't going to help their developement at all >insert Freudian analysis here<

What would be better? Teaching them moral responsibility; Yes, download a few songs if you want, listen to them to see if you like: If you don't, delete the songs; if you do, go out and buy the album/single/multitrack or whatever.

The records/movie companies have gotten so scared and fixated about this "unlimited piracy" they've completely forgotten about the honest consumers who go out, buy their music/movies legally, get pissed off when it doesn't play because some paranoid jerk thinks everyones a crook whereupon the honest consumer goes to Bittorrent and downloads the same stuff which isn't crippled.

This is complete lunacy.

In other news, Its too damned hot.

No update for 2 weeks, many apologies, no internet at my new house [hint to hippygeek to get it sorted before I go doolally ]

Must get some work, although the PPM at Stourbridge looks promising, I shall be going down there to look about and show interest [Sunday working with the possibility of weekday work next year], unless other peoples know of work about that I can get started with now?

I'm single again. Nuff said.

Lapwing-Linux is slowly coming along, the base packages total 107Mb, so prob 120Mb when in an ISO; looking at 250Mb all told, for a fully working GNU/Linux distro, with a 700 Mb one in the pipes [everything and the kitchen sink]

I must go and raid Thomas' room at Wolverhampton for TA ... or turn up and play against him ... ah good times

Chasewater with the "Chairman in waiting" trying to throw his weight around, finding he doesn't have much weight and bouncing around, is very amusing. The signalbox is [finally] going up in the near future, which is just as well as the box will fall apart if its stored for too much longer. I'm going later today [yes it is sunday now] to do some brush cutting and painting.

I'm beginning to think that everyone should be required to obtain a licence to use a computer, in a similar way you have to have one to drive a car, operate machinery or prepare food for other people. This is why: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499
Someone give me a shotgun. I shouldn't be long.

Thats about it. Normal sam tick over.