If I had to guess, this isn't a case of "government tapping into my bank account", but rather a case of having previously given them payment information tied to this account, and as a "courtesy", they auto-renewed the registration when it was due. Heck, an "auto-renew" setting may have even been turned on and forgotten about...
I would not be surprised if you were guessing incorrectly. The California DMV website makes no mention of auto renewal. Part of your registration fee is a "Vehicle License Fee", which is a tax on the vehicle's value. Since it is a tax (and deductible from your federal taxes), the California State Franchise Tax Board probably uses its authority to automatically take it's money from your bank account directly. I could be wrong, however.
Anyway, when I left the state of California I found that California gave me one of two options: A) Pay income tax for the year you give up your residency at the non-resident rate, even if you did not work a single day in the state of California. B) pay state income tax on my out of state income even for tax years where I was no longer living in the state until I forsake my residency. They'll do whatever they can to get as much money as possible from you.
He is #34 on the list of top Artists by Rolling Stone magazine. I realize that today's youth only listens to people who are number one on some other list today and will not be on next years list at all, and will NEVER be on Rolling Stones list at all, so go on back to listening to Flash in the Pan or whoever is popular today. 5 years from now Neil Young will be getting more airplay than whoever is the #1 selling artist this year.
Taylor Swift's current album is #4 for the week, according to billboard. It's been in the top 10 since November of 2014, when it was released. I highly suspect that, no matter what you or I think of her music, she will be very popular for years to come. She's been a success for 9 years now, topping the charts since she was 15 years old. In 5 years from now Neil Young will be getting less and less airplay as classic rock stations move more and more into the 90's. You can already hear Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, and other 90's groups on classic rock stations throughout the country. I would be surprised if Neil Young is getting more airplay than Taylor in 5 years.
Anyone else try to look up the documentary "My Country, My Country" on IMDB? You can quite literally put in the full movie title and the only auto-complete search it finds for you is "My Cousin, Vinny". I've never seen that with any other movie on IMDB, no matter how obscure. Even foreign films. But if you actually force it to execute the search, you'll see that the title is on IMDB. I wonder if I am on the watch list, now?:P
Honestly, I didn't expect this level of seriousness in response to the comment. I was drinking a bit and it made me chuckle to use her apocryphal quote to tie a comment about elites being parted from their head to the response that the elites could control them with food. It seemed less funny if I pointed out that it originated from someone whose head was not removed in revolution or if I provided an accurate interpretation of the statement instead of a flippant one.
I expected an eyeroll at worst, but I suppose tone has never been communicated well in comments. Perhaps I should have added a winky face?;)
Hah. It may just have been me having a stressful day because I see the sarcasm in it this morning.
There's no reason to protect any of those people from discrimination. It's not like there has been a history of any of these groups of people being oppressed, or anything like that... oh wait.
So what if there is? Do you really think making a skin head or klansman who owns a bakery bake a cake for a black family is anything other than a power play to force them to accept society's values when they're otherwise content to leave the people they hate alone? Does it even make sense to want to be served by someone who hates you? No, it doesn't. You are playing Russian Roulette with the possibility of them doing something spiteful, if not evil, to you. Particularly so because you are smugly forcing them to "accept you" and do business with you.
Speaking of wedding cakes, ever notice that gay rights activists are only going after Christians? Plenty of Muslims sell baked goods and cater weddings too. The difference is that if a Muslim version of Sweet Cakes by Melissa were attacked by gay rights activists, the gay community knows that someone in the Muslim community might at least burn down the couple's home, if not murder them in retaliation for attacking a Muslim business.
So what is a business owner going to disclaim all of their proclivities and hatreds in a profile so that I know I need to go to Bob's Bakery instead of Alice's Bakery to get handicap service? How am I supposed to know that a business doesn't support gay marriage? It's not like they usually advertise that information. And my guess is that they just didn't find a Muslim bakery that they wanted to make their cake. Even in cases where the business owner's views are well established (see Chick Fil A), I guarantee you a gay couple would still be served there.
If it's about ethics then I don't see a problem with no supporting/rFatPeopleHate. It's not like they are being silenced, Reddit just declined to offer them a free platform for their content, following their own ethical code.
There is a difference between defending someone's right to say what they like, and actually setting up a soapbox for them. There are people I'd never help spread their message, but I wouldn't want the government to ban them from saying it either. Freedom of speech does not imply an obligation to facilitate other's speech, or listen to it.
Very well said. "Free Speech" means the GOVERNMENT can't make certain speech illegal, or ban books, or silence dissent (even though all those things do happen, even China enshrines free speech in their constitution). It DOES NOT mean I have to support you, or help you disseminate that speech.
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It's the same reason a Jewish printer can turn away business from a pro-Palestinian group, and the same reason a Christian baker can^H^H^H should be able to refuse to make a gay wedding cake.
Right. Or a KKK member baker from making a black person's wedding cake. Or for a eugenics supporter to not serve a handicapped person. And the list goes on and on. There's no reason to protect any of those people from discrimination. It's not like there has been a history of any of these groups of people being oppressed, or anything like that... oh wait.
Well, she is known for having said that, even if she never actually did.
But you're still missing the point of what was implied by her supposedly saying that. It wasn't suggesting that she was going to ensure that they were fed. In fact, the statement "Let them eat cake" is meant to show complete disregard and respect for the starving. But instead to imply that if they can't afford bread (cake being more expensive than bread), they may as well just starve.
> So you think it is far more appropriate for them to have to develop a nonstandard plug rather than trust in the honesty and decency of the citizens of the UK?
Wait, we ARE talking about charging an iphone?
Yes. But the plug did indicate that it was not for public use. Unless it was extremely urgent, you would expect a normal citizen to respect that request, I would hope.
There are non-standard sockets they should have fitted instead then, so only company authorised equipment can be plugged in. Simple and pretty much 100% effective.
As for the cost, it was probably far less than 10p, especially considering the enormous bulk discounts someone like TFL will get when purchasing their electricity. Sometimes publicity about wasting electricity by leaving chargers plugged in or equipment on standby can make people believe these things guzzle power. Bottom line, it would be impossible to measure the difference in power usage between two train journeys that was caused by someone plugging in a charger.
So you think it is far more appropriate for them to have to develop a nonstandard plug rather than trust in the honesty and decency of the citizens of the UK? I mean, don't get me wrong, I think this is a silly reason to prosecute anyone, but the cost of a nonstandard plug is far in excess of a few pence. They have to have them manufactured, shipped and installed in all of their locations and then there is the conundrum of plugging the equipment in, too. Do they order vacuums with special plugs? Replace the plugs on COTS vacuums? Have adapters manufactured? And then what is to stop some conniving Brit from stealing an adapter or making their own adapter? It's just silly. Arresting someone for this is just silly. The officer should have just given him a warning, perhaps even a written warning so they can track repeat offenders. Life should have continued on. But the guy made a huge mistake if he really did become aggressive after they decided to arrest him, as that is a serious crime in most jurisdictions.
If a bus passed by my place I would take it for free. I would even pay. But I am a rural kind of guy, so I drive.
I live in a city. I can walk to almost everywhere I need to go, except work. I live about 10 miles from work. It takes me about 15 minutes to get work. If traffic is bad, it takes me 30. If I took the bus, it would take me at least 2 hours. I would love to ride a bicycle to work, but I live on an island and the only bridge I can legally ride a bicycle on is about 5 miles north of both my home and office - adding an extra 10 miles onto a bicycle ride. It's also incredibly busy during commute and has no bicycle lanes. There really is no viable option for me, either.
Yep. I try to avoid running errands until I absolutely have to. When I finally go, I always map out my trip in my mind based on avoiding left turns. Only if things have to be done in a specific order do I prioritize a stop that increases the number of left turns./P.
Why the hell would China deliberately sabotage a foreign cable in order to knock 50,000 islanders off the 'net? That's like opening yourself up for actual diplomatic reprisals for 0 gain.
Now if you claimed they broke it by accident dredging for sand to build their their little island thing, maybe.
These islands are very strategically important to the naval control of the Pacific Ocean. There is a reason that the US has military bases there. There is also a reason that the Japanese took these islands by force during WWII. There are reasons to knock out communication on these islands, but they all involve conventional warfare with the hope that disruption to normal communication and air traffic would prevent the US from being able to prevent a change in the status quo in the Western Pacific. Obviously, this is not a likely scenario at this point in time.
The folks from Enron (who aren't presently in jail)
I can understand the desire for revenge, but you have to admit that Enron isn't stealing money from innocent investors anymore.
Enron didn't just steal money from investors. It stole $40B from the State of California, who was paying exorbitant fees to buy electricity to prevent rolling blackouts. All of this was due to the deregulation of electricity generation and transmission.
Wait... which part of this situation hasn't been obvious for 80 years? The same conditions apply in nearly every politically-regulated industry (which is why consumer-regulation is always far more effective).
The folks from Enron (who aren't presently in jail) have a bridge to sell you! There are plenty of times where a regulated industry is ideal. Public transportation happens to be one that I highly agree with. I want the government mandating safety rules for airplanes, trains, and livery services. If you don't want that, try living somewhere in Latin America or Africa with all those freelance taxis. Where airplanes get so overloaded that passengers don't have room to sit. And if you survive all of that, let me know what you think when you get back.
I'm well aware of that. I'm also aware that it's relatively straightforward for an airline to determine their average passenger weight quite accurately, and to budget for that in setting their ticket prices. And I'm also aware that it's an idiotic issue to raise in the first place, because airlines have never charged by (or even measured) passenger weight in modern history.
I do wish that airlines would stick to their guns about passenger size. I'm a big guy, and have a hard time fitting comfortably in a coach seat. My hips go from arm rest to arm rest and I have to tuck my arms against my body to keep from having them stick out into my neighbor's seat. I used to travel all the time for work and have had even bigger guys push me into the window or the aisle because they were about 1.5 times as wide as me./P.
so armor is the problem, not crazy people with a shitload of privately-owned automatic defense rifles and stuff ?
Very few people in the US own automatic rifles. Only the wealthy can afford to buy one that is obtainable by a person (and not a FFA business). They also have to have approval from their local governments, as well as pay for a stamp to own that weapon.
Yup. If you are already very rich then London can be nice, but for everyone else it's just expensive and dirty. Property prices in particular are insane. Its' grimy, overcrowded and generally not a very nice place to live.
Not that Silicon Valley is necessarily much better, but if you are not obsessed with living in a "tech hub" then there are plenty of much nicer places to be.
I've been to quite a few major cities on three different continents. While the underground in London is indeed dirty compared to somewhere like Munich, I would not consider the greater London area to be very dirty at all. Paris is, on the other hand, one of the dirtiest cities I have ever been to. There are major cities in Latin America that are far cleaner than Paris. NYC is pretty dirty also.
There is more to it than being technically capable.
If you want to submit a change and aren't able to confidently able to articulate the how and why of it you are going to waste a lot of peoples time, even if the change is technically correct.
I've mentioned this on here before but: When 2.11 kernel came out, somebody put in a sleep with a spinlock in an obscure part of the USB HID driver. I submitted a patch, which was just to revert that one section back to how it was in the previous kernel (which was just without the sleep) and it was rejected multiple times. It was obviously incorrect, but it was not until the 2.17 kernel that one of the mainstream developers submitted the exact same diff that it got fixed. I've never tried to make a contribution to the kernel since. Even when you're reverting a change that is obviously wrong, they won't accept your diff.
He was allowed to leave the country, then they requested an interview. While I would agree that the statute of limitations should not run out if you have been officially subpoenaed in a court, in this case he was not given the same courtesy that is given to others. Someone posted a story of someone who is a professional athlete that can do a phone interview for his alleged crime in Sweden, but they have been refusing that to Assange for four years now.
Well I agree that they know where he is and allegedly he is not preventing them from conducting a phone interview. In fact, he probably is more than happen to conduct a phone interview or Sweden would be plastering that information all over the news. I would say that a reasonable judge should be able to determine whether or not his statute of limitations is running or not. The question is, do they have reasonable judges or even a process by which to make this determination?
This is going to be interesting to watch. If I understand the nature of the criminal complaint, there's a class of sexual crime that does not exist in the UK that he stands accused of in Sweden, and that this whole mess is going to be a giant can of worms.
I wonder if there are any statutes of limitations in Sweden that the authorities, in a failure to interview someone that has been open to it on foreign soil, would run up against if they didn't interview him, which would basically void the ability to prosecute (and to seek extradition) if they don't take this step.
I do not know how the law works in the UK or Sweden, but in the US, you cannot elude capture in order to run out the statute of limitations on your crimes. Once the police file a subpoena to compel you to be interviewed, the clock stops running on the statute. I think this makes sense, in general, though of course could be abused like anything else.
Nope. Fiber optic, not copper comm lines, so this incident cannot be ascribed to greed rather than mischief.
This is an anecdote and I don't have any evidence to back it up but I know that copper theft is very common here (as it is in most of the US). A phone company guy once told me that they've started labeling the fiber to indicate that there is no copper so that copper thieves don't rip out a half a mile of the stuff only to realize it's useless to them.
...will be when they realize not everyone tht spelz lyk dis is a teenager.
On the upside, they could use that as a way to lay off people too lazy to spell "what", "are", "you" and other amazingly difficult words.
"Dear Mr. Smith,
GTFO, lol.
kthxbai,
Management"... I'm stuck on 2007, aren't I?
Oh I know a project manager who types exactly like that. He's in his 50's and I believe he does it to try and look like he is young and hip. To me he looks like he is trying to be a teenage girl. It drives me insane. Use complete words and proper spellings please.
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If I had to guess, this isn't a case of "government tapping into my bank account", but rather a case of having previously given them payment information tied to this account, and as a "courtesy", they auto-renewed the registration when it was due. Heck, an "auto-renew" setting may have even been turned on and forgotten about...
I would not be surprised if you were guessing incorrectly. The California DMV website makes no mention of auto renewal. Part of your registration fee is a "Vehicle License Fee", which is a tax on the vehicle's value. Since it is a tax (and deductible from your federal taxes), the California State Franchise Tax Board probably uses its authority to automatically take it's money from your bank account directly. I could be wrong, however.
Anyway, when I left the state of California I found that California gave me one of two options: A) Pay income tax for the year you give up your residency at the non-resident rate, even if you did not work a single day in the state of California. B) pay state income tax on my out of state income even for tax years where I was no longer living in the state until I forsake my residency. They'll do whatever they can to get as much money as possible from you.
Stubborn man
better keep your head
Don't forget
what your pocketbook said
burma shave?
He is #34 on the list of top Artists by Rolling Stone magazine. I realize that today's youth only listens to people who are number one on some other list today and will not be on next years list at all, and will NEVER be on Rolling Stones list at all, so go on back to listening to Flash in the Pan or whoever is popular today. 5 years from now Neil Young will be getting more airplay than whoever is the #1 selling artist this year.
Taylor Swift's current album is #4 for the week, according to billboard. It's been in the top 10 since November of 2014, when it was released. I highly suspect that, no matter what you or I think of her music, she will be very popular for years to come. She's been a success for 9 years now, topping the charts since she was 15 years old. In 5 years from now Neil Young will be getting less and less airplay as classic rock stations move more and more into the 90's. You can already hear Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, and other 90's groups on classic rock stations throughout the country. I would be surprised if Neil Young is getting more airplay than Taylor in 5 years.
Anyone else try to look up the documentary "My Country, My Country" on IMDB? You can quite literally put in the full movie title and the only auto-complete search it finds for you is "My Cousin, Vinny". I've never seen that with any other movie on IMDB, no matter how obscure. Even foreign films. But if you actually force it to execute the search, you'll see that the title is on IMDB. I wonder if I am on the watch list, now? :P
Honestly, I didn't expect this level of seriousness in response to the comment. I was drinking a bit and it made me chuckle to use her apocryphal quote to tie a comment about elites being parted from their head to the response that the elites could control them with food. It seemed less funny if I pointed out that it originated from someone whose head was not removed in revolution or if I provided an accurate interpretation of the statement instead of a flippant one.
I expected an eyeroll at worst, but I suppose tone has never been communicated well in comments. Perhaps I should have added a winky face? ;)
Hah. It may just have been me having a stressful day because I see the sarcasm in it this morning.
So what if there is? Do you really think making a skin head or klansman who owns a bakery bake a cake for a black family is anything other than a power play to force them to accept society's values when they're otherwise content to leave the people they hate alone? Does it even make sense to want to be served by someone who hates you? No, it doesn't. You are playing Russian Roulette with the possibility of them doing something spiteful, if not evil, to you. Particularly so because you are smugly forcing them to "accept you" and do business with you.
Speaking of wedding cakes, ever notice that gay rights activists are only going after Christians? Plenty of Muslims sell baked goods and cater weddings too. The difference is that if a Muslim version of Sweet Cakes by Melissa were attacked by gay rights activists, the gay community knows that someone in the Muslim community might at least burn down the couple's home, if not murder them in retaliation for attacking a Muslim business.
So what is a business owner going to disclaim all of their proclivities and hatreds in a profile so that I know I need to go to Bob's Bakery instead of Alice's Bakery to get handicap service? How am I supposed to know that a business doesn't support gay marriage? It's not like they usually advertise that information. And my guess is that they just didn't find a Muslim bakery that they wanted to make their cake. Even in cases where the business owner's views are well established (see Chick Fil A), I guarantee you a gay couple would still be served there.
If it's about ethics then I don't see a problem with no supporting /rFatPeopleHate. It's not like they are being silenced, Reddit just declined to offer them a free platform for their content, following their own ethical code.
There is a difference between defending someone's right to say what they like, and actually setting up a soapbox for them. There are people I'd never help spread their message, but I wouldn't want the government to ban them from saying it either. Freedom of speech does not imply an obligation to facilitate other's speech, or listen to it.
Very well said. "Free Speech" means the GOVERNMENT can't make certain speech illegal, or ban books, or silence dissent (even though all those things do happen, even China enshrines free speech in their constitution). It DOES NOT mean I have to support you, or help you disseminate that speech.
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It's the same reason a Jewish printer can turn away business from a pro-Palestinian group, and the same reason a Christian baker can^H^H^H should be able to refuse to make a gay wedding cake.
Right. Or a KKK member baker from making a black person's wedding cake. Or for a eugenics supporter to not serve a handicapped person. And the list goes on and on. There's no reason to protect any of those people from discrimination. It's not like there has been a history of any of these groups of people being oppressed, or anything like that... oh wait.
Well, she is known for having said that, even if she never actually did.
But you're still missing the point of what was implied by her supposedly saying that. It wasn't suggesting that she was going to ensure that they were fed. In fact, the statement "Let them eat cake" is meant to show complete disregard and respect for the starving. But instead to imply that if they can't afford bread (cake being more expensive than bread), they may as well just starve.
> So you think it is far more appropriate for them to have to develop a nonstandard plug rather than trust in the honesty and decency of the citizens of the UK?
Wait, we ARE talking about charging an iphone?
Yes. But the plug did indicate that it was not for public use. Unless it was extremely urgent, you would expect a normal citizen to respect that request, I would hope.
There are non-standard sockets they should have fitted instead then, so only company authorised equipment can be plugged in. Simple and pretty much 100% effective.
As for the cost, it was probably far less than 10p, especially considering the enormous bulk discounts someone like TFL will get when purchasing their electricity. Sometimes publicity about wasting electricity by leaving chargers plugged in or equipment on standby can make people believe these things guzzle power. Bottom line, it would be impossible to measure the difference in power usage between two train journeys that was caused by someone plugging in a charger.
So you think it is far more appropriate for them to have to develop a nonstandard plug rather than trust in the honesty and decency of the citizens of the UK? I mean, don't get me wrong, I think this is a silly reason to prosecute anyone, but the cost of a nonstandard plug is far in excess of a few pence. They have to have them manufactured, shipped and installed in all of their locations and then there is the conundrum of plugging the equipment in, too. Do they order vacuums with special plugs? Replace the plugs on COTS vacuums? Have adapters manufactured? And then what is to stop some conniving Brit from stealing an adapter or making their own adapter? It's just silly. Arresting someone for this is just silly. The officer should have just given him a warning, perhaps even a written warning so they can track repeat offenders. Life should have continued on. But the guy made a huge mistake if he really did become aggressive after they decided to arrest him, as that is a serious crime in most jurisdictions.
If a bus passed by my place I would take it for free. I would even pay. But I am a rural kind of guy, so I drive.
I live in a city. I can walk to almost everywhere I need to go, except work. I live about 10 miles from work. It takes me about 15 minutes to get work. If traffic is bad, it takes me 30. If I took the bus, it would take me at least 2 hours. I would love to ride a bicycle to work, but I live on an island and the only bridge I can legally ride a bicycle on is about 5 miles north of both my home and office - adding an extra 10 miles onto a bicycle ride. It's also incredibly busy during commute and has no bicycle lanes. There really is no viable option for me, either.
Apparently it also reduces fuel consumption and saves time http://compass.ups.com/UPS-dri... .
Yep. I try to avoid running errands until I absolutely have to. When I finally go, I always map out my trip in my mind based on avoiding left turns. Only if things have to be done in a specific order do I prioritize a stop that increases the number of left turns./P.
Why the hell would China deliberately sabotage a foreign cable in order to knock 50,000 islanders off the 'net? That's like opening yourself up for actual diplomatic reprisals for 0 gain.
Now if you claimed they broke it by accident dredging for sand to build their their little island thing, maybe.
These islands are very strategically important to the naval control of the Pacific Ocean. There is a reason that the US has military bases there. There is also a reason that the Japanese took these islands by force during WWII. There are reasons to knock out communication on these islands, but they all involve conventional warfare with the hope that disruption to normal communication and air traffic would prevent the US from being able to prevent a change in the status quo in the Western Pacific. Obviously, this is not a likely scenario at this point in time.
The folks from Enron (who aren't presently in jail)
I can understand the desire for revenge, but you have to admit that Enron isn't stealing money from innocent investors anymore.
Enron didn't just steal money from investors. It stole $40B from the State of California, who was paying exorbitant fees to buy electricity to prevent rolling blackouts. All of this was due to the deregulation of electricity generation and transmission.
That just shows up as asterisks here...
Yep. I can type in my password all I want and you can't see anything but asterisks. So I can hunter2 all I hunter2 want and you can't hunter2 it
Wait ... which part of this situation hasn't been obvious for 80 years? The same conditions apply in nearly every politically-regulated industry (which is why consumer-regulation is always far more effective).
The folks from Enron (who aren't presently in jail) have a bridge to sell you! There are plenty of times where a regulated industry is ideal. Public transportation happens to be one that I highly agree with. I want the government mandating safety rules for airplanes, trains, and livery services. If you don't want that, try living somewhere in Latin America or Africa with all those freelance taxis. Where airplanes get so overloaded that passengers don't have room to sit. And if you survive all of that, let me know what you think when you get back.
I'm well aware of that. I'm also aware that it's relatively straightforward for an airline to determine their average passenger weight quite accurately, and to budget for that in setting their ticket prices. And I'm also aware that it's an idiotic issue to raise in the first place, because airlines have never charged by (or even measured) passenger weight in modern history.
I do wish that airlines would stick to their guns about passenger size. I'm a big guy, and have a hard time fitting comfortably in a coach seat. My hips go from arm rest to arm rest and I have to tuck my arms against my body to keep from having them stick out into my neighbor's seat. I used to travel all the time for work and have had even bigger guys push me into the window or the aisle because they were about 1.5 times as wide as me./P.
so armor is the problem, not crazy people with a shitload of privately-owned automatic defense rifles and stuff ?
Very few people in the US own automatic rifles. Only the wealthy can afford to buy one that is obtainable by a person (and not a FFA business). They also have to have approval from their local governments, as well as pay for a stamp to own that weapon.
My neighbor has a howitzer. No problems. But I do check occasionally when I drive by that it's still pointed the other way.
Just make sure you never forget to send your neighbor a Christmas card, and I am sure it will continue to point the other way! ;)
Yup. If you are already very rich then London can be nice, but for everyone else it's just expensive and dirty. Property prices in particular are insane. Its' grimy, overcrowded and generally not a very nice place to live.
Not that Silicon Valley is necessarily much better, but if you are not obsessed with living in a "tech hub" then there are plenty of much nicer places to be.
I've been to quite a few major cities on three different continents. While the underground in London is indeed dirty compared to somewhere like Munich, I would not consider the greater London area to be very dirty at all. Paris is, on the other hand, one of the dirtiest cities I have ever been to. There are major cities in Latin America that are far cleaner than Paris. NYC is pretty dirty also.
There is more to it than being technically capable. If you want to submit a change and aren't able to confidently able to articulate the how and why of it you are going to waste a lot of peoples time, even if the change is technically correct.
I've mentioned this on here before but: When 2.11 kernel came out, somebody put in a sleep with a spinlock in an obscure part of the USB HID driver. I submitted a patch, which was just to revert that one section back to how it was in the previous kernel (which was just without the sleep) and it was rejected multiple times. It was obviously incorrect, but it was not until the 2.17 kernel that one of the mainstream developers submitted the exact same diff that it got fixed. I've never tried to make a contribution to the kernel since. Even when you're reverting a change that is obviously wrong, they won't accept your diff.
He was allowed to leave the country, then they requested an interview. While I would agree that the statute of limitations should not run out if you have been officially subpoenaed in a court, in this case he was not given the same courtesy that is given to others. Someone posted a story of someone who is a professional athlete that can do a phone interview for his alleged crime in Sweden, but they have been refusing that to Assange for four years now.
Well I agree that they know where he is and allegedly he is not preventing them from conducting a phone interview. In fact, he probably is more than happen to conduct a phone interview or Sweden would be plastering that information all over the news. I would say that a reasonable judge should be able to determine whether or not his statute of limitations is running or not. The question is, do they have reasonable judges or even a process by which to make this determination?
This is going to be interesting to watch. If I understand the nature of the criminal complaint, there's a class of sexual crime that does not exist in the UK that he stands accused of in Sweden, and that this whole mess is going to be a giant can of worms. I wonder if there are any statutes of limitations in Sweden that the authorities, in a failure to interview someone that has been open to it on foreign soil, would run up against if they didn't interview him, which would basically void the ability to prosecute (and to seek extradition) if they don't take this step.
I do not know how the law works in the UK or Sweden, but in the US, you cannot elude capture in order to run out the statute of limitations on your crimes. Once the police file a subpoena to compel you to be interviewed, the clock stops running on the statute. I think this makes sense, in general, though of course could be abused like anything else.
Nope. Fiber optic, not copper comm lines, so this incident cannot be ascribed to greed rather than mischief.
This is an anecdote and I don't have any evidence to back it up but I know that copper theft is very common here (as it is in most of the US). A phone company guy once told me that they've started labeling the fiber to indicate that there is no copper so that copper thieves don't rip out a half a mile of the stuff only to realize it's useless to them.
...will be when they realize not everyone tht spelz lyk dis is a teenager.
On the upside, they could use that as a way to lay off people too lazy to spell "what", "are", "you" and other amazingly difficult words.
"Dear Mr. Smith,
GTFO, lol.
kthxbai,
Management" ... I'm stuck on 2007, aren't I?
Oh I know a project manager who types exactly like that. He's in his 50's and I believe he does it to try and look like he is young and hip. To me he looks like he is trying to be a teenage girl. It drives me insane. Use complete words and proper spellings please.