You may not know, but you can get ICS on your Ace. Check this XDA-Devs thread for some community-built ROMS (many CyanogenMod 9 based). FWIW, It just looks prettier than Gingerbread. You can achieve the same thing with a different launcher from the Market.
Valve is in a great position regarding this. You can already gift games to other players; They just need to enable gifting of currently owned games and Bob's your mother's brother. Hell, it may occur that Steam gets more subscribers as games are gifted to people who aren't currently subscribed. Licenses held in escrow until someone creates an account to redeem them? PayPal does that with money already.
It would seem then, to a lay man at least, that the UK is attempting to set precedent for extradition to the US for infraction of US laws while not on US soil, just or not, as would be required for JA's extradition. I understand there are fundamental differences to each case, but since when did the government allow facts or common sense guide their decision and policy making?
Scotland and England are the same country in the same way that Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland are the same country, in that they're not. Separate parliament, police force, legal system... The UK is a sovereign state, not a country.
I simply don't believe that "The Swedish definition of rape is sex without consent." There is more to it. There must be, or they wouldn't even have a legal system. That's like saying "The Swedish legal definition of murder is killing someone." It's absurd, and far more complex than that.
The Swedish definition of rape is sex without consent. The girls consented to sex with the provision that a condom was used, a condom wasn't used so it was non-consentual.
My apologies, I had no idea! Perhaps you should call up Ms Marianne Ny, Director of Public Prosecution and explain to her that she was wrong to dismiss the charges for lack of evidence and, after JA waited 5 weeks waiting to be asked to answer questions regarding the allegations, she was asked by and subsequently allowed Mr Assange to leave Sweden unhindered.
Your definition of rape is not only broad but naive too.
They're not scare quotes. They're "The definition you're thinking of isn't the one which applies, so you should probably read up on the definition before you go judging someone" quotes.
When you say "rape" the minds of the UK population jump to "Woman dragged screaming down an alley and forcibly forced into intercourse." In Swedish law, however, rape is "Have consensual sex, wake up the next morning and decide that you didn't want to have sex with the guy after all."
The quotes are definitely appropriate. The fact that their word for the crime of "Ex post facto retraction of consent" is translated to "rape" here is immaterial. The distinction needs to be made.
He's being charged^Wasked to answer questions relating to an allegation of rape (by Swedish legal standards), for which one prosecutor already stated there wasn't a case and, after staying 5 weeks in Sweden awaiting a summons for questioning, asked the same prosecutor is he could leave the country and she said yes, which all changed once the Bradley Manning files were released as the US stated in private communications they wanted to extradite him to stand trial for what amounted to treason (aiding the enemy), utilising a new Swedish prosecutor, a European Arrest Warrant which wasn't intended to be used to anything other than summons to trial, not questioning, and a story which doesn't hold up to the barest of scrutiny by anyone capable of critical thinking, seeing as one of the women he's supposed to have "raped" bought him breakfast the next morning, and then had sex with him again!...
You seem to still think that this was about prosecuting Kim Dotcom. It wasn't.
MegaUpload is done and dusted. There doesn't need to be a prosecution; It's Mission Accompllished. Dozens of similar sites shut their doors based upon these actions out of fear and intimidation, and that's what it was all about. "We're bigger than you, and we don't like what you're doing. We're going to beat seven shades of shit out of you in public, nobody is going to do a damn thing about it, and at the worst we'll get a strongly worded letter, which we'll use as toilet paper."
This is why if I'm ever pulled over an breathalysed, and the reading is a "fail", I'll immediately ask for a blood test. No messing around; I want a medical professional to take a blood sample and analyse it with chemistry and science, not just stick it into a machine which reads the absorption of a certain wavelength of light which is also absorbed by many other compounds.
UK is probably different, but there's no way I'd trust a conviction to a breath sample. I don't drink and drive, so the result will always be a false positive. Best to nip it in the bud.
You're off your trolley, mate. You want to leave the Little USA to go to the Big USA? Our government is so far up America's ass they both pick the same nose.
Still, I suppose we don't assassinate our own citizens on foreign soil... Yet.
The Silk Road thing set off my tin foil hat alarm. If I were a TLA, there's no way I'd openly admit that there was a way to be completely out of their reach.
$5 says Tor, or at least Silk Road is compromised, or maybe even a honeypot itself. If you were into the kind of thing they're in to, and a little short on the brain cell front, wouldn't you flock to the "Guaranteed safe by the FBI!" places?
Ah! Context helps; The Anon being hidden by a 0 moderation made it look like you were responding to a different post. I now see why many people dislike the "new" comment layout.
I would love to see 2D monocle, in the same vein as the 2D Glasses, for folk in the same position as Woldscum. Oh the opulence...
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Some companies cottoned on to that, and started stipulating that you agree to the Licensing Agreement at http://urlwhichisover300characterslong.com/thispageisfulloflegalesewhichyouwontunderstand/nobodyeverreadsthese.html.
No idea if it was enough.
You may not know, but you can get ICS on your Ace. Check this XDA-Devs thread for some community-built ROMS (many CyanogenMod 9 based). FWIW, It just looks prettier than Gingerbread. You can achieve the same thing with a different launcher from the Market.
Valve is in a great position regarding this. You can already gift games to other players; They just need to enable gifting of currently owned games and Bob's your mother's brother. Hell, it may occur that Steam gets more subscribers as games are gifted to people who aren't currently subscribed. Licenses held in escrow until someone creates an account to redeem them? PayPal does that with money already.
It would seem then, to a lay man at least, that the UK is attempting to set precedent for extradition to the US for infraction of US laws while not on US soil, just or not, as would be required for JA's extradition. I understand there are fundamental differences to each case, but since when did the government allow facts or common sense guide their decision and policy making?
Scotland and England are the same country in the same way that Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland are the same country, in that they're not. Separate parliament, police force, legal system... The UK is a sovereign state, not a country.
You forgot the 1% Rule;
The rules don't apply to the 1%.
If I fire a gun from the England border into Scotland and kill someone, you can bet I'll be extradited to Scotland to stand trial for murder.
Actually I thought of 'glanding' as per Iain M. Banks' Culture series.
Ah, thanks for the clarification over the names.
I simply don't believe that "The Swedish definition of rape is sex without consent." There is more to it. There must be, or they wouldn't even have a legal system. That's like saying "The Swedish legal definition of murder is killing someone." It's absurd, and far more complex than that.
Are those paywall account details or subliminal instructions?
+1 Pedantry to you, Sir.
The Swedish definition of rape is sex without consent. The girls consented to sex with the provision that a condom was used, a condom wasn't used so it was non-consentual.
My apologies, I had no idea! Perhaps you should call up Ms Marianne Ny, Director of Public Prosecution and explain to her that she was wrong to dismiss the charges for lack of evidence and, after JA waited 5 weeks waiting to be asked to answer questions regarding the allegations, she was asked by and subsequently allowed Mr Assange to leave Sweden unhindered.
Your definition of rape is not only broad but naive too.
They're not scare quotes. They're "The definition you're thinking of isn't the one which applies, so you should probably read up on the definition before you go judging someone" quotes.
When you say "rape" the minds of the UK population jump to "Woman dragged screaming down an alley and forcibly forced into intercourse." In Swedish law, however, rape is "Have consensual sex, wake up the next morning and decide that you didn't want to have sex with the guy after all."
The quotes are definitely appropriate. The fact that their word for the crime of "Ex post facto retraction of consent" is translated to "rape" here is immaterial. The distinction needs to be made.
He's being charged^Wasked to answer questions relating to an allegation of rape (by Swedish legal standards), for which one prosecutor already stated there wasn't a case and, after staying 5 weeks in Sweden awaiting a summons for questioning, asked the same prosecutor is he could leave the country and she said yes, which all changed once the Bradley Manning files were released as the US stated in private communications they wanted to extradite him to stand trial for what amounted to treason (aiding the enemy), utilising a new Swedish prosecutor, a European Arrest Warrant which wasn't intended to be used to anything other than summons to trial, not questioning, and a story which doesn't hold up to the barest of scrutiny by anyone capable of critical thinking, seeing as one of the women he's supposed to have "raped" bought him breakfast the next morning, and then had sex with him again!...
FTFY. Facts are fun, aren't they?
Absent the shooting of pets, this is exactly what they did.
You seem to still think that this was about prosecuting Kim Dotcom. It wasn't.
MegaUpload is done and dusted. There doesn't need to be a prosecution; It's Mission Accompllished. Dozens of similar sites shut their doors based upon these actions out of fear and intimidation, and that's what it was all about. "We're bigger than you, and we don't like what you're doing. We're going to beat seven shades of shit out of you in public, nobody is going to do a damn thing about it, and at the worst we'll get a strongly worded letter, which we'll use as toilet paper."
You missed the start of War Games, right? How about Hackers?
Students working on your security make for an underground market of answer sheets and grade changes.
This is why if I'm ever pulled over an breathalysed, and the reading is a "fail", I'll immediately ask for a blood test. No messing around; I want a medical professional to take a blood sample and analyse it with chemistry and science, not just stick it into a machine which reads the absorption of a certain wavelength of light which is also absorbed by many other compounds.
UK is probably different, but there's no way I'd trust a conviction to a breath sample. I don't drink and drive, so the result will always be a false positive. Best to nip it in the bud.
What do you have to hide? You must be a drunk driver.
This mental backflip brought to you by the Minnesota Justice Dept.
You're off your trolley, mate. You want to leave the Little USA to go to the Big USA? Our government is so far up America's ass they both pick the same nose.
Still, I suppose we don't assassinate our own citizens on foreign soil... Yet.
Jesus, they could have let him finish off first.
One last hooray, if you will.
The Silk Road thing set off my tin foil hat alarm. If I were a TLA, there's no way I'd openly admit that there was a way to be completely out of their reach.
$5 says Tor, or at least Silk Road is compromised, or maybe even a honeypot itself. If you were into the kind of thing they're in to, and a little short on the brain cell front, wouldn't you flock to the "Guaranteed safe by the FBI!" places?
Ah! Context helps; The Anon being hidden by a 0 moderation made it look like you were responding to a different post. I now see why many people dislike the "new" comment layout.
I would love to see 2D monocle, in the same vein as the 2D Glasses, for folk in the same position as Woldscum. Oh the opulence...
You're kind of missing the point. Parent is blind in one eye; He can't see 3D movies anyway.
OP is suggesting abandoning HFT in its entirety. You may have read the comment, but you didn't spend enough time comprehending what was being stated.
Everything you have said is completely true and accurate, yet utterly irrelevant to the point being made.