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Story: US announces global intellectual-property plan

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"you anti-American people are the problem."

Most people I know aren't anti-American. They've just lost a whole lot of respect for you since you voted in Bush. And then a whole lot more when you voted him in again! And we lose a bit more respect for Bush every time he sells out to another corporation.

"There's a solution: not let the US export *any* more software to your countries. screw you."

Good. In case you hadn't noticed, the software that people get most worked up about happens to be American.

"go write your own programs. oh, that's right; you're not capable of that. you have to steal it instead. then whine when the US talks of enforcing anti-theft laws."

Don't be ridiculous. Who can ever compete with Microsoft when they have more money than God?

"let's also take away your internet connection and let you create your own internet. oh - you can't do that, either. again, not capable of such an undertaking. "

Er, a lot of the basic infrastructure that we call the Internet was invented in Switzerland by an Englishman, just as much of it was invented in the US. The US certainly didn't "create" the internet. Let's just let that one go.

Anyway, what happens if the countries in question refuse to let the US inspectors in? There's certainly no reason they should allow them. So do the US invade at that point looking for pirate WMDs (Windows Mass Distributions)?

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