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I am quite literally enraged and offended by the latest efforts by the biggest retards the society has ever seen to enforce censorship on us. I am terribly on fire.

Freedom of speech, the free circulation of ideas is what has kept our western civilisation going for all those years. I am completely, one hundred percent enraged by these people.

About a week ago, Viacom got threats from Muslim extremists, because they had depicted their prophet mohammed. Yes, only depicted. They received threats that they would end up like Theo Van Gogh. Don’t remember Theo?

Bouyeri shot Theo van Gogh eight times with an HS 2000 handgun, and Theo died on the spot. Bouyeri then attempted to decapitate him and stabbed him in the chest. Two knives were left implanted in his torso, one attaching a five-page note to his body. The note threatened Western governments, Jews and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (who went into hiding).

All because he was critical of Islam.

If that doesn’t make you filled with rage, you really must be one of them. In which case, go die somewhere in the desert, where you belong, with your worthless paedophile coward of a prophet. And I hope people draw him on May 20th, and post it to the internet, as a way of protesting against the Islam occupation of the First World. I know I will.

Yes, I said it. Don’t like it?

Fuck off. This is how it works in the first world, the thing that you are oh-so-sacredly fighting against. Someone offends you? So what. Nobody cares. You fucking crybabies.

I’m offended by many things. Blasphemy is a victimless crime.

You have no place in the first world.

Islam vs South Park

Is islam a hate crime?

DEATH THREATS TO THOSE CRITICAL OF ISLAM

And now, as a complete shock to me, my Government has blocked 175 online poker sites. Not because they were fraud sites. They were completely legal within the laws of the European Union, to which my country belongs. EU Law reigns supreme. Look, I’m not a gambler, but this is clearly censorship. And you know the worst part? They left one major one unblocked. Guess which one? The biggest one in Estonia: Olympic.

Yes, Estonian government. I am accusing YOU of  possibly accepting bribery from Armin Karu/Olympic Group. Bring me to court for libel? No, it is just an accusation. It may not be this way, but for some reason I think it is.

I am standing up against censorship, against your pointless efforts on restricting the free Internet. This site is based somewhere where free speech matters. I don’t care about your pointless efforts.

I am blaming you for not doing what is right. I am blaming you.

The only thing you can do in a crisis is raise taxes, so that you could still “drive” that 2009 BMW Luxury car with your drivers. That is all you are good for, you worthless pieces of scum up there in Toompea.

I am blaming you, yes, you, Government of Estonia for screwing up the lives of ordinary Estonians. The Liberal Centre party’s advertisement “Ansip [the prime minister] has a Job. You don’t. He’s fine with it” is actually pure, 100% truth, and you know it. You raise the VAT when people are quite literally starving because they don’t have a job, and that is YOUR fault, for not taking action when YOU were supposed to. Shops can’t raise the prices because they would lose customers, but they will have to let people go because of the raising of the VAT.

You live on Western European wages, and have drivers, personal assistants, expensive cars… All you do is make poor decisions.

You, you incompetent pricks we have for Ministers and Prime Ministers. I am ashamed as an Estonian to be represented and ruled by you. I am ashamed that we have elected such terrible, worthless pieces of scum as our parliament.

It’s your call. Shut me up? The world will know and you will go down.

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Everything is suddenly changing.

I’m beginning to lose my ability to write, to speak, to complain. The world is suddenly changing, my world and the whole world. The US is getting a new healthcare system…

And today I had the hardest exam of all. 3.5 hours of 4 different subjects. All of which decides my future.

And I don’t feel anything. Not anything at all. I’m not feeling pain, not feeling sorrow. I’m not afraid, but I do care. I’m worried a bit, but I’m not sure I can feel my own emotions anymore.

Life passes me by a billion miles a second, but I hardly feel it move, change.

I’m not happy, I’m not sad, I’m not hazy, I’m not glad.

I feel fuck all.

I’ve discovered a new form of comedy: musical stand-up.

That’s NOT me in that video.

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The World According to Clarkson is a non-fiction book that looks at the modern British everyday life in a satirical way. What it is then, is a collection of his newspaper column articles, on the topic of Britain.

One recurring theme in the book is his comparisons with mainland Europe. Within the book, he even mentions Estonia in a chapter, a couple of times, writing:

“He ended up with an extraordinary collection including Estonia, which did have an army in 1993. But lost it. No, really. The Estonian army was ordered to capture a Russian military town but the soldiers decided this was an unpleasant way of earning a living and went off, on their own, to fight organised crime instead.”

Another recurring theme are his constant complaints about the government, the EU and generally, everyday life. His witty remarks make almost every subject a lot more interesting.

I agree with Jeremy Clarkson on most topics. I agree with him that “Health and Safety” is pointless. In fact, in the Top Gear production office, they call it the PPD – the Programme Prevention Department. I agree that Europe should have the same plug sockets. That’s something more necessary than the Euro.

I loved the book. It was witty and interesting. I read it straight from start to finish because it was simply so interesting to read. It wasn’t a single story, but a collection of ideas and thoughts as he travelled throughout the UK, Europe and the world. With most books, I want to take a couple of breaks because I get tired of reading them. With this, I simply kept going for hours and hours, until I’d finished it. I payed attention to… everything! Which isn’t something that happens to me very often. And what an experience it was! My world view didn’t change much, but my mind was definitely broadened by it.

The man has a point.

Originally written as a school book report. ©Johannes Siig, All Rights Reserved.

This year, and in fact, every year I have Christmas with the family. Every year 10-12 people are there.

This leads me to question the meaning of Christmas. It’s been long since the days of celebrating the birth of a religious figure during Christmas. These days it’s Santa and presents and all that bullsh*t. Why do we give each other gifts during Christmas? I mean, we could instead buy ourselves whatever we wanted, couldn’t we save others and save ourselves from that Christmas stress. Every year, millions of people are stressed out around the world thinking what they should buy each other for Christmas. Why? Buy yourself whatever you f*cking want and save yourself and others from the stress…

I may sound like a pessimist, but this is really getting annoying. Every year we have that gift giving conundrum. Every f*cking year.

And in the shopping centres, Christmas starts way too early. It used to be three days long, now it is three (or more) months. They start in September (sometimes October) and end in late December (sometimes January).

For crying out loud, does this holiday have to be so damn long?

And what’s worse, there’s the way we celebrate it in this f*cking country of ours: A guy comes to your house, dressed as f*cking Santa, and to receive a present from your parents you have to perform a poem or a song to him by heart and if he doesn’t like it he can just not give you the damn present…

Last night, on Christmas Eve, I almost went mental as other people in the room didn’t like the poem I performed. I admit, it was a bit… vulgar, but for f*ck’s sake. Due to that, I was almost going to say something in the lines of “Up yours you red c*nt” to the guy, when I remembered that my relatives think of me as a polite person… Well, I am. But I can’t stand bullsh*t.

I mean it’s all way too much. It creates way too much stress – as if you didn’t have enough of it with the purchase of presents.

Merry Christmas!

I woke up at 9 o’clock this morning.

Not because I wanted to, not because I needed to, but because someone called me.

It’s Saturday morning. If you knew me, you’d know I have really hard and long days during the work week, and prefer to sleep on Saturdays till, at least, two o’clock in the afternoon.

But no, it wasn’t because they had something urgent to tell me. Nothing is that urgent that it would wake me up 5 hours before I need to.

It was the usual broken PC thing. They had disconnected it and moved it into another room, but were unable to put it back together again. C’mon, how hard can it be to plug things back into where they were before? It’s not like all ports look the same and everything fits together. It’s not like you can mix up the monitor port and the USB…

And then they wanted me to do something completely new and surprising – send an e-mail from their behalf. I’m not kidding. They actually wanted me to send someone an e-mail from their behalf…
What the hell happened to phones?

Couldn’t they just call them if it was so urgent?

It’s not like most people read their e-mail on Saturdays, anyway. I know I don’t.

And then, after 10 minutes of the sleepiest tech support ever I thought this was it. The call ended, and I thought it was over so I could go back to sleep.

5 minutes later I got another call… The same people asking me to send another e-mail.
For f**ks sake. Couldn’t they have just told me the contents of both e-mails at once…
And, to make matters worse, I actually had to look the e-mail address up.

What the hell?

After all that headache, I couldn’t sleep any longer, so I decided to treat myself to a new router. I went to a really nice and new shopping centre in the city centre and bought myself a new router – an Airport Extreme. And I went to a Latvian restaurant and had, what probably was, the best thing I’ve ever eaten…
Then I headed home to set up my new network. And then I satisfied my OCD by cleaning my whole office, including every single key on every single keyboard.

Have you ever heard of a concept called “free promotion”? Basically, the product you sell gets advertised, without you paying for the advertising… Well, how does it work?

Let’s take an example –  youtube. A user posts a video containing your music. Or a music video by an artist that’s signed under your label.

You think to yourself – “oh my god they are stealing our music.” First of all, why do you assume that they are stealing, and why do you assume it will create a loss in profit?

In fact, common sense tells us that if a song is advertised *anywhere* and people like it, people will probably buy it. But if the song isn’t available on, for example, youtube,  then your song will be unheard, and probably bought a lot less.

I agree on one point, though. If the author of the song isn’t credited or any mention of the song’s name and performer isn’t there, then it should count as copyright infringement. But if the author and/or performer is credited and the song’s title given and (preferably) a link to the song on, let’s say, umm, iTunes is given, then what’s the f**king problem?

Have you heard of these things, called, err, common sense and independent thought?

Because if you had any of either, you’d realise disabling audio on infringing promoting videos is clearly… retarded.