100 USD of that total was mine.  I was really, really, really upset that TPB servers were seized on order of a US official.  Not that I pirate anything, no...

But it BURNS me that our corporate machines here think they have the fucking RIGHT to enforce their version of the law in OTHER COUNTRIES.  Damn, that makes me mad.  Almost as mad as Cisco making a killing building the Great Firewall of China.  Time was no REAL American conservative would truck with letting a US company HELP a repressive regime, much less help with suppression of their people.

No real Pirate Party here, but we keep the flags flying for you.  Seriously, I have had Calico Jack's Jolly Roger flying on my flagpole for 3 years now, ever since I moved in.  Looks better than everyone else's American flags.  Variety is a good thing.  That, and we run our house like a REAL Democracy, a pirate ship!

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?" -de Gaulle. We have one, American, and I don't think it comes from the same place on the cow.