Things From My Brain (...be careful, this may be contagious!)

These are things that I have posted to the internet. I don't think I have stolen any of them, but if I have, I must have done it so brilliantly that I even convinced myself that I came up with them!

Welcome to my brain!

"It's very important that while I have assignments to do I stay very close to my laptop, just in case I'm struck by temporary brilliance... or lightning. Either way, this essay will be done, or I'll have a pretty good excuse for not doing it..."

"I really hate how many fat people are on weight-loss shows! Making me hungry, they are!"

"I wanna rename my apartment Mordor, to see what interesting ways people will use to avoid simply walking into it!"

"I would love to go about for a day asking twilight fans who Bram Stoker is...then punch them in their stupid head!"

"Sometimes I wish I could be you for a day! ...so I could hang out with myself...because I'm wonderful!"

"Brock had ten little brothers and sisters, a deadbeat father and no mother...and he left them all to go galavanting across the world with two freakin kids??? What a bastard!"

"I wrote a song about quants. It goes like this... *smashes guitar on ground and walks away*"

"just did the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs...that's right ladies! Please form an orderly queue!"

"If you're posting about the X Factor, the only people that are going to give a shit are the people who are also watching the X Factor...and they've already seen what has happened, so they don't need you to tell them!"

"I don't really care too much about the presidential election considering the extremely slim odds of any of the candidates being Batman..."

"went to woodies looking for a specific type of paint, they didn't have it. I said to the girl "I find your lack of paint disturbing", she INSISTED on hi-fiving me! I think i'm in love!!!"

"I wonder if the Batpole actually washes Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson when they slide down to the Batcave... Like, it DOES strip them and then re-clothe them while on a pole...why not???"

"just had a terrifying thought...Carnivorous Giraffes!!!"

Internet Piracy (EMI please don't sue me)

For legal protection this post is based on a dream I once had. There were way more dragons in the dream, but I have omitted them from the post in order to convey the seriousness of the issues at hand. 

It's considered pretty immoral...but a huge proportion of people do it! Be it music, video, software, or any copyrighted material, a lot of people are logging on and 'stealing'. Why? Because it's easy! You get everything you're interested in delivered directly to you for free. But wait...these people are stealing...right?
In my opinion, people who are doing this are absolutely stealing! But, it isn't entirely their fault. The fact that it's an incredibly easy crime has very little to do with the extent to which people engage in piracy.

EMI have filed a legal suit against the Irish Government, in retaliation of outdated piracy law in Ireland. In a bid they have dubbed 'Operation Futile Publicity Stunt', they want the government to bring forward laws that would restrict ISP's from allowing access to sites that enable piracy.

I don't understand how this can possibly be taken seriously! I understand that if your shop is being robbed you get a better security system, but if you put a restriction on these sites, these people won't thank you by going out and buying your music! If you try take the pirate sites offline, you're going to create a new horde of active pirates, that in retaliation for your interference in their daily way of life, will take that CD they bought and share it with the world.