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Copy protection is guaranteed to fail because it’s a house of cards. No matter how sophisticated the software, it takes only one person to break it, once, and the music is free to roam and multiply on the peer-to-peer file-trading networks. – Damian Kulash, lead singer of OK Go January 12th, 2006 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
 “I think this nanny state business, you know, is just nonsense.” – Tony Blair, today’s BBC2 Newsnight, responding to the allegation that he is creating a nanny state January 10th, 2006 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
And another thing – the argument that we can all support Cameron’s leftward lurch because it’s all an act and he doesn’t really mean it – he is lying pretty low. I might be prepared to give someone the benefit of the doubt on the grounds that they are telling the truth, but to give someone the benefit of the doubt in the hope that they are lying through their teeth? January 5th, 2006 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
Veisalgia– the medical term for the common or garden hangover. I suspect that there has been a slight epidemic of veisalgia in the ranks of Samizdata’s contributors and editors lately. A useful word to know when filling out sick leave application forms for work. January 4th, 2006 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
Last century over 170 million people were murdered by their own governments, and your government doesn’t want you to have a gun. Doesn’t that bother you just a little? January 3rd, 2006 | 26 comments - (Comments are closed)
Now that they have a fairly sensible and popular sceptic policy on Europe, the Conservatives react with wounded surprise when polls say that the public still do not respect them on the subject. But the reason is very simple: again and again, their actions have belied their words. December 29th, 2005 | Comments are closed
But, whatever the crimes of our forefathers, this is the country of Drake, Clive and Kitchener, not of Tipu Sultan, Shaka Zulu or the Mahdi. December 27th, 2005 | 49 comments - (Comments are closed)
These whiners are the same people who complain of American cultural imperialism because people like Coke and Starbucks. [Yet] there is no more rigid, aggressive, ignorant bunch of cultural imperialists in the world than Muslims who, as a group, are intent on forcing their preposterous beliefs on the rest of the world. Give me Starbucks any day. December 24th, 2005 | 36 comments - (Comments are closed)
– Adriana Cronin-Lukas, on dealing with day to day annoyances of Eastern Europe’s post communist legacy December 22nd, 2005 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
Pity Samizdata.net does not have a catagory for articles called “Treason & Betrayal”. December 19th, 2005 | 76 comments - (Comments are closed)
Protectionism does not aid development. Developing countries with open economies are catching up with rich ones; those with closed economies are falling further behind. – Andrew Mitchell, the UK’s Shadow Secretary of State for International Development December 15th, 2005 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
My least favourite radical chic interviewee: the talented but humourless Ute Lemper. Ensconced in a luxury suite at the Savoy, she embarked on a lecture about the downtrodden masses, and was so busy talking about how East German workers were exploited that she forgot to even acknowledge the existence of the maid who’d put a tray of tea in front of her. – Clive Davis commenting on this. December 14th, 2005 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
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