He spoke to the prosecutor involved in the case before he left Sweden and asked them if they wanted to speak with him. They didn't, as the had decided that there was not a case to answer. It was only later that it was revived.
Bear in mind that in Assange had consensual sex with both of these women, and that it was only later they decided that they thought he acted improperly and lodged a complaint. I have heard it said that this was after they realised that he was sleeping around.
While I do think that punching an alien invader in the face is a great way to let them know they are not welcome, I can't help feeling that the rest of your post is, to put it politely, a complete crock of shit.
Gaddafi, Mubarak, Ben Ali and Assad were all pretty much yesterdays men by the time Obama decided he would jump ship to the other side. just like Saddam was best of buddies until he wasn't. The same will apply to the Saudi royal house when the winds of change reach them, regardless of who is in power. That is just sensible politics.
I would doubt that this debt would be collectable if he moved to another EU country, so that would be the sensible thing to do. Many Australian graduates do so to avoid paying back their Uni loans, and they are a couple of orders of magnitude smaller than this one.
You can't really be serious about Vodafail can you? I got out of a contract for two phones 9 months early because they failed to deliver an acceptable service - hell, we even got a letter from the CEO of the company saying that they had oversubscribed their services. And I know I was not the only one that did so via the help of the telco ombudsman.
Optus is better, but still woeful internet speed over mobile in metro areas due to overselling of bandwidth. And once you get in to the country it gets very patchy.
As far as I know those are the only three networks, with all other players in the market reselling one of the above.
And deny us the enjoyment of such gems as "the virus... it cannot be stopped"
I used to be in a fiction writers support group. This story reads like the sort of stuff one of the participants used to bring along. So bad it is funny.
You seem to have assumed that human-level intelligence is a natural progression. A combination of selective pressures lead to the development of human brains. There is no guarantee that expanding brain size would benefit any particular species enough to select for it.
On the question of genetic engineering it into cats, well, provided the cranial capacity will support human-level intelligence, 2000 years is probably a factor of a hundred out. I would be very surprised if we can't do something like this within twenty or thirty years.
Guantanamo Bay certainly is part of Cuba. It is just that the US has a perpetual lease on the land to be used for coaling and naval stations following a treaty in 1903. The lease does not mention being able to us it as a prison camp.
Not surprisingly the Cuban government believe the treaty to be invalid due to the fact that it was signed under pressure and also that they are not sticking to the terms of the treaty.
The US should really vacate Guantanamo and return it to Cuban control. Like that is going to happen...
I have thought this about the money mules used to get money from various bank scams. If a bank subject to such attacks encouraged their staff to act as money mules, let the attack take place, and then not release the funds, it would have a big impact on the operation. By allowing the money mule emails to hit their targets (the gullible) you are aiding their business.
On a similar note I have a way of burning the time of those offering email marketing lists. I always respond saying my company is interested, but that I am not the right person and they need to speak to.... and give them the contact details of the previous marketing list spam I got.
Same with marketing phone calls. Far better to get them to hang on while you 'check the spuds' and waste two minutes of their time rather than simply tell them to fuck off.
You missed the part where a patent is examined by patent office for similar patents. At least in Australia. The work I am working on came up with three, all of which I consider to be as obvious as the patent that I am working on - I didn't make the call to get it patented by the way.
My biggest problem with patents is that in theory I can be sued for damages for creating software that infringes on a patent that I have never heard of. To me this a fundamental breach of my liberty and is patently absurd. What makes matters worse is that a patent is judged novel at the time of creation. By the time I come to code my software the solution could be bloody obvious to everyone in the business, even if they haven't seen the patent.
WW2 brought many advances. Jet engines, radar, cryptography, rockets, atomic power. The demise of European empires.
Which in turn lead to the world we live in. Cheap air fares, safe air travel, the internet (which would be hampered without cryptography), satellites, nuclear power, the embryonic colonisation of space, and independent states.
However much one may despise the WW2 Germans, and not all of them were Nazis by a long way, the era was a massive period of technological advance, and the way the US and Russia snapped up the scientists that survived is an indication of how their system was able to promote scientific progress, however odious one may feel their views were.
Not an apologist by the way, but I think the world has painted a whole nation with the sins of a political party. After all, no one would regard all Cambodians as Khmer Rouge.
Incidentally, did you notice that using "one" was far less inflammatory than "you". I love the English language, especially the archaic bits? If everyone on the interwebs used one rather than you we would have a lot less flaming. I know what you are thinking..... one would say that wouldn't one...
It is easy. Software patent = evil. I challenge anyone on./ to come up with anything software-wise unique that is really worthy of protection for 25 years.
In fact forget the software-wise. To me something worthy of a patent that lasts n years should not be obvious for that n years.
Which is why all patents are bullshit. Just like all other IP.
Was talking to a patent lawyer today. Yes I did wash my hands afterwards. Anyway he tells me that in theory ANYONE who uses something that has been patented, whether they knew it was patented or not (i.e. just wrote a program to do the bleeding obvious) is potentially infringing in said patent.
With 7 billion people on the planet, I think we all need to raise the bar on what constitutes unique. As part of my job recently I have examined loads of patents recently a particular area, and they are all quite similar, and also all quite similar to open standards. How they all got approved as inventions is a mystery to me. But not that different from the whole business of law really.
So all I need to do is come up with all the possible inventions of criminal masterminds. Then patent them.
So no taking over the world with a... oh fuck it, I was going so well and then I realised I never did like those marvel comics with their super heros and their criminal masterminds...
I worked for a taxation department for a while that had a no-data out policy. We also had some very clever programmers that wanted to work on stuff at home. One of them wrote a utility that turned any file into a base 64 encoded string that was broken up and emailed out. Another utility reconstructed the files.
Point is, when there is a need people will find a way, regardless of what you try to do to stop it.
In my experience people who do that are probably not focused enough on their job anyway. If it wasn't twitter/FB it would be getting up and nattering to co-workers or going to get a drink / toilet.
It may be they are not fully loaded with work, or just going through a re-energising phase. Or it may be that they hate their job. A good manager will monitor the situation to work out which one it is, and then take action.
There is nothing wrong with 7 year olds using computers. There is everything wrong with getting them to lug them about and expecting them to last more than a couple of months.
Kids are careless. My daughter, a high school student, got issued a school laptop last year. A 11 ish inch LCD Lenovo. She is pretty careful as they go, but a couple of weeks ago we had to replace the screen. She claimed to have no idea how it got destroyed. From talking to the school computer admin, there has been a massive number of screen, keyboard, HDD and motherboard problems - we are talking around the 100% mark. It is not as if this is a rough school either - it is academically selective.
My advice for primary school kids - stick to desktops. Failing that, buy the cheapest you can, because the quality of the screen is irrelevant if someone steps on your laptop or it falls off a desk.
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He spoke to the prosecutor involved in the case before he left Sweden and asked them if they wanted to speak with him. They didn't, as the had decided that there was not a case to answer. It was only later that it was revived.
Bear in mind that in Assange had consensual sex with both of these women, and that it was only later they decided that they thought he acted improperly and lodged a complaint. I have heard it said that this was after they realised that he was sleeping around.
While I do think that punching an alien invader in the face is a great way to let them know they are not welcome, I can't help feeling that the rest of your post is, to put it politely, a complete crock of shit.
Gaddafi, Mubarak, Ben Ali and Assad were all pretty much yesterdays men by the time Obama decided he would jump ship to the other side. just like Saddam was best of buddies until he wasn't. The same will apply to the Saudi royal house when the winds of change reach them, regardless of who is in power. That is just sensible politics.
The Subject says all I have to say.
I would doubt that this debt would be collectable if he moved to another EU country, so that would be the sensible thing to do. Many Australian graduates do so to avoid paying back their Uni loans, and they are a couple of orders of magnitude smaller than this one.
Julian Assange?
You can't really be serious about Vodafail can you? I got out of a contract for two phones 9 months early because they failed to deliver an acceptable service - hell, we even got a letter from the CEO of the company saying that they had oversubscribed their services. And I know I was not the only one that did so via the help of the telco ombudsman.
Optus is better, but still woeful internet speed over mobile in metro areas due to overselling of bandwidth. And once you get in to the country it gets very patchy.
As far as I know those are the only three networks, with all other players in the market reselling one of the above.
And deny us the enjoyment of such gems as "the virus ... it cannot be stopped"
I used to be in a fiction writers support group. This story reads like the sort of stuff one of the participants used to bring along. So bad it is funny.
You seem to have assumed that human-level intelligence is a natural progression. A combination of selective pressures lead to the development of human brains. There is no guarantee that expanding brain size would benefit any particular species enough to select for it.
On the question of genetic engineering it into cats, well, provided the cranial capacity will support human-level intelligence, 2000 years is probably a factor of a hundred out. I would be very surprised if we can't do something like this within twenty or thirty years.
"Outed"?
He carries a link to his odious ideology in his sig block, not really hiding it is he?
What happened to free speech?
"First they came for those I consider pieces of shit, and I did not complain..."
Eternal vigilance is not best served by denigrating those who do not share your views.
Strictly speaking a number of countries have used nuclear weapons. It is just that only one country has used them against an enemy target.
Guantanamo Bay certainly is part of Cuba. It is just that the US has a perpetual lease on the land to be used for coaling and naval stations following a treaty in 1903. The lease does not mention being able to us it as a prison camp.
Not surprisingly the Cuban government believe the treaty to be invalid due to the fact that it was signed under pressure and also that they are not sticking to the terms of the treaty.
The US should really vacate Guantanamo and return it to Cuban control. Like that is going to happen...
Funny, I too grew up on TOS. The whole family used to watch it after dinner.
But out of all of them I would probably rate Voyager top, TNG a close second, then DS9 and finally ENT, which was far to much like TOS for my liking.
Just goes to show...
Also, it would be great to create a Thunderbird plug-in that could do it for you. Just drag the offending email to the plug-in and away it goes...
I have thought this about the money mules used to get money from various bank scams. If a bank subject to such attacks encouraged their staff to act as money mules, let the attack take place, and then not release the funds, it would have a big impact on the operation. By allowing the money mule emails to hit their targets (the gullible) you are aiding their business.
On a similar note I have a way of burning the time of those offering email marketing lists. I always respond saying my company is interested, but that I am not the right person and they need to speak to .... and give them the contact details of the previous marketing list spam I got.
Same with marketing phone calls. Far better to get them to hang on while you 'check the spuds' and waste two minutes of their time rather than simply tell them to fuck off.
You missed the part where a patent is examined by patent office for similar patents. At least in Australia. The work I am working on came up with three, all of which I consider to be as obvious as the patent that I am working on - I didn't make the call to get it patented by the way.
My biggest problem with patents is that in theory I can be sued for damages for creating software that infringes on a patent that I have never heard of. To me this a fundamental breach of my liberty and is patently absurd. What makes matters worse is that a patent is judged novel at the time of creation. By the time I come to code my software the solution could be bloody obvious to everyone in the business, even if they haven't seen the patent.
Or worse for that matter.
WW2 brought many advances. Jet engines, radar, cryptography, rockets, atomic power. The demise of European empires.
Which in turn lead to the world we live in. Cheap air fares, safe air travel, the internet (which would be hampered without cryptography), satellites, nuclear power, the embryonic colonisation of space, and independent states.
However much one may despise the WW2 Germans, and not all of them were Nazis by a long way, the era was a massive period of technological advance, and the way the US and Russia snapped up the scientists that survived is an indication of how their system was able to promote scientific progress, however odious one may feel their views were.
Not an apologist by the way, but I think the world has painted a whole nation with the sins of a political party. After all, no one would regard all Cambodians as Khmer Rouge.
Incidentally, did you notice that using "one" was far less inflammatory than "you". I love the English language, especially the archaic bits? If everyone on the interwebs used one rather than you we would have a lot less flaming. I know what you are thinking..... one would say that wouldn't one...
Learn German. They have a habit of combining words. Or just use Wearedataminingstuff until it enters the dictionary.
It is easy. Software patent = evil. I challenge anyone on ./ to come up with anything software-wise unique that is really worthy of protection for 25 years.
In fact forget the software-wise. To me something worthy of a patent that lasts n years should not be obvious for that n years.
Which is why all patents are bullshit. Just like all other IP.
Was talking to a patent lawyer today. Yes I did wash my hands afterwards. Anyway he tells me that in theory ANYONE who uses something that has been patented, whether they knew it was patented or not (i.e. just wrote a program to do the bleeding obvious) is potentially infringing in said patent.
With 7 billion people on the planet, I think we all need to raise the bar on what constitutes unique. As part of my job recently I have examined loads of patents recently a particular area, and they are all quite similar, and also all quite similar to open standards. How they all got approved as inventions is a mystery to me. But not that different from the whole business of law really.
So all I need to do is come up with all the possible inventions of criminal masterminds. Then patent them.
So no taking over the world with a ... oh fuck it, I was going so well and then I realised I never did like those marvel comics with their super heros and their criminal masterminds...
Interesting how even this can be spun into something positive. Unless you are are a company, that despite US law, does not equal a human being.
I worked for a taxation department for a while that had a no-data out policy. We also had some very clever programmers that wanted to work on stuff at home. One of them wrote a utility that turned any file into a base 64 encoded string that was broken up and emailed out. Another utility reconstructed the files.
Point is, when there is a need people will find a way, regardless of what you try to do to stop it.
In my experience people who do that are probably not focused enough on their job anyway. If it wasn't twitter/FB it would be getting up and nattering to co-workers or going to get a drink / toilet.
It may be they are not fully loaded with work, or just going through a re-energising phase. Or it may be that they hate their job. A good manager will monitor the situation to work out which one it is, and then take action.
There is nothing wrong with 7 year olds using computers. There is everything wrong with getting them to lug them about and expecting them to last more than a couple of months.
Kids are careless. My daughter, a high school student, got issued a school laptop last year. A 11 ish inch LCD Lenovo. She is pretty careful as they go, but a couple of weeks ago we had to replace the screen. She claimed to have no idea how it got destroyed. From talking to the school computer admin, there has been a massive number of screen, keyboard, HDD and motherboard problems - we are talking around the 100% mark. It is not as if this is a rough school either - it is academically selective.
My advice for primary school kids - stick to desktops. Failing that, buy the cheapest you can, because the quality of the screen is irrelevant if someone steps on your laptop or it falls off a desk.
And people wonder why Ireland has become the basket case of Europe.
The EU is very fond of harmonising the pain to its citizens. It should have a minimum corporate tax rate to ensure that companies pay their dues...