I've worked with pharmarsists. Haven't met a single one that would not take his oath of silence on patient matters very seriously.
Medical profession is not for everyone. One of the reasons is that you need to be able to segregate patient information and never divulge it even to those who are close to you.
I meant at release to the public. Ones that paid. Should've been more clear. I always compared to closed beta people for reasons stated at the bottom of the post.
Also, you don't have a clue what you're talking about. There is nothing. Let me repeat that. Nothing. Not a single thing. That you can do on elementalist to match warrior's damage output with greasword. It is mathematical impossibility. In fact, when we raised the question with the Izzy, if I recall correctly his answer was "that is not elementalist's niche". I seriously doubt he changed his mind on that. He's not that kind of a person. The only thing you can do is take specific skillset with really long cooldowns and blow them all at once. That will give you about as much damage as warrior will get for using his low cooldown hundred blades without any extras.
Kinda funny considering that the single biggest spike damage in GW1 was always on elementalists, as well as biggest pressure damage bar none.
If it's one of yours "killed by four griffins" warrior though. Yeah. But that's not about classes. That's about putting a shitty player vs a decent one. I can probably beat one like that right now if I could be bothered to update the game and log into it, even though I haven't played the game since about a month or two since release other than occasional log in to see how my guild is doing.
I also remember the weapon builds. Lightning hammer was a 15 minute diversion for me, more so than other non-elite elemental weapons. It's utter shit beyond one gimmick because of cooldowns on the skills blocking effective rotation, and it's pretty much a dead weight in PvE grind as low damage in comparison to being able to employ your standard D/D rotation, but it had some comedy value. Elemental greatsword was a lot more fun, both visually and damage wise, but it has the same problem.
You see, I broke my back trying to make elementalist work around release. It was my first class in GW1, and I really liked them. It was flashy, high damage and high risk class in GW1. It was fun. In GW2 it's a low damage support class only. It's like being a GvG flag runner ele... in PvE. High amount of utility, shitty damage output.
Then I said fuck it, and leveled my warrior and let the ele rot ever since. Because useless support class is indeed useless for uses other than WvW ranged AoE spamming. I was doing the same damage with warrior around lvl10 that I was doing on elementalist at 20. It was hilarious when I went for it and had that huge "eureka" moment of realizing at just how broken class balance is when quests I blitzed with warrior and then recalling "wait, I remember killing this bunch of critters take so much longer on elementalist..."
It could be that Izzy got his head out of his ass and tried to fix elementalists after all. I don't know as I haven't played the game in a long time - and Izzy is known for hugely overshooting buffs and nerfs pretty much always. But at the time when I left, the word from him was "elementalists are fine, they have their support niche and they shouldn't be doing too much damage in PvE because they have all that utility, if you don't like it you should be playing something like a warrior or a sin".
(I was one of the top players in GvG and HoH in GW1 for about two years, and as a result know a lot of people who were in closed beta and had direct communication with Izzy, so I could pass my questions through them).
The fact is that they made a game for a reviewer/casual player who'd play for the honeymoon period of early game and quit, and then occasionally come back, hopefully put some money to buy to win elements to catch up and get quickly bored and leave again. And they succeeded. It's a game that does exactly that - make you want to quit after just a little while of playing.
In my case, the only problem was that there are so many games to choose from that there is zero desire to ever come back, much step on the same rake again by giving them any more money.
P.S. The fun part: I left around the time they were releasing the first new dungeons. The common LFG message was "Looking for more players, no elementalists". For a very good reason.
He was in the beta, before they decided to nerf the hell out of him. That's when I played the necro last. He used to pretty much one shot you with all of his abilities, and his bigger trash about three shot you if they connected. And that's with necro's HP pool. Things like elementalists just fell in a couple of hits tops.
In general, that is the theme of the game. GW1, with everything nerfed. Complexity? Nerfed. Difficulty? Nerfed. Economy? Nerfed (B2P almost anything up to and including legendaries). The only thing that got "buffed" was the art, due to superior graphics engine. It was a joke for a while that if we could take WoW's complexity, stick it into GW2's presentation with TERA's fast paced but complex combat style, we'd have a perfect game.
And if I wanted a challenge, I'd play a game that allowed for complexity that would make such a challenge interesting. These games are luckily plentiful, so that I don't have to pick up the terrible turd wrapped in pretty packaging that was GW2.
And in the end, the one thing that pissed me off the most is just how deliberate this particular bait and switch was. The early content was specifically designed to woo the reviewers. Up to about lvl30 on first playthrough, it was a honeymoon, everything felt interesting and every few levels you discovered something new. Then you hit 30 and realize that you basically finished the game. There is literally nothing else except for a lot of grind with pretty vistas ahead. No depth of gameplay, no skill required. Nothing. If you ever played any MMO at decent level, you instantly noticed the complete lack of any depth after you got your skill bars filled. It was a game made for reviewers - not players. And it worked, it sold tons of copies. And now it's pretty much dead, as it deserves to be, populated mostly by botters endlessly grinding gold to combat B2W caused inflation.
As I said before, if you want a game that is aimed at casual play, you're better off with F2P options. If you want a game with depth, there are several games on the market, including F2P ones that have far more depth than GW2. If you want a pretty game and don't care about gameplay at all, then you should look at GW2, as it's still one of the most if not they most beautiful game out there.
P.S. Your friend discovered that basic of the basic, D/D, + blast finisher + autocrit bolt finisher + immunity shield + elite elemental is the best way to go to PvE... in february 2013? Those of us with more than half a clue were playing that since hitting 30. It's pretty much the only build that does enough damage to be tolerable to grind PvE with. It's also super boring to the point where I ended up macroing pretty much the entire thing into six G-buttons on my old G15 keyboard.
Of course it is. You're absolutely right. In now way did I participate in the early release, or be among the first people in the game to get to 80. In no way did I play though most areas of the game long before most people. In no way was I among the first to get those organised zergs in WvW, or hook up with some GW1 oldies to see if we could make anything reasonable out of the dumbed down clusterfuck that is "structured PvP". And in no way to do I have any kind of understanding of depth of combat. Hell, I didn't solo that hilarious "omg raid boss" lvl15 behemoth about 2 days after release 100% to 80% (until people started showing up in the swamp) on a necro for lulz because I was getting bored. Would've probably killed him, except that back then you couldn't stick conditions to the boss himself, so condition specced necro was pretty crap to actually deal damage to the boss. Though that was probably about the hardest it got, considering that lvl80 "world raid boss" stuff like the frost dragon usually just got mindlessly zerged, and the fun was in the fact that you actually could dump those utterly boring 5+5 skills on your bar and use different skills due to location and boss specific weapons available.
Want to know what people like me did? We min maxed, which in a game as shallow as GW2 required no effort whatsoever. Run in, hundred blades, go to next mob. Dumbass that rolled sin had to dance, though if he did it right, he just had his burst. Only problem with sin was the downtime to gather resource. Or dumbass that was me and that rolled ele had to dance, kite, etc. Warrior? Nah. Hundred blades baby. PvE or "structured" clusterfuck of PvP. Doesn't matter. Immobilize, charge in, hundred blades. Lots of corpses. Especially brokenly fun when you have a team that is used to guild wars 1 style "synchronise to about 0.1 seconds" spiking.
Fun times. For about couple of hours. Completely demolished when we realized that that was it. We peaked. Combat was far too shallow to engage anyone with enough braincells to grasp that most of the stuff on your bar was just a filler you rotated though waiting for the few meaty skills to come back.
Because in the end, that PR "anecdote" of yours? That's it. There was no depth beyond that basic interaction between skills, and all you had was 2 weapons with 5 skills, one heal skill, three utilities and an ultimate on huge cooldown. It was like they went for DOTA-style skill play, only without the depth of DOTA-style games. And while this shallow stuff grabbed those "who didn't play it to 80", as in reviewers, those of us who did bear the grind to 80 (and I was stupid enough to bear it twice hoping for something better in the end, shame on me) saw it for it was - a PR stunt of a game, aimed at those who gaze lovingly as stuff at lvl11, get bored at 20 and quit at 30. For that kind of player, GW2 is awesome.
If you actually wanted something beyond that, you were SOL.
P.S. Your anecdote is an exceptionally obvious piece of PR bullshit, as it started with "warrior and paladin could not deal wit hit". Warrior and paladin together can deal with pulling half a zone that is several levels above them and then AoE slaughter the entire bunch. You don't even have to know what you're doing beyond "lol reflect" and "lol hundred blades". Four griffons? Right. Because just clearing them all in about four seconds with hundred blades while pally gives you retaliation is excessively hard.
Maybe we shouldn't, considering that they had exactly one faulty model (barracuda 7200.11), which they replaced in about six months with with 7200.12 which did not have the problem. It died in exact same way (controlled failed in a specific way). I had that drive, and it died in that exact way. It was promptly replaced by a 7200.12 that I use to this day. My parents still have a pair of seagate's 7200.7s that have been working for almost a decade under heavy RAID load. No problems. That is average seagate quality - they just tank on.
7200.11 was the one and only time that seagate had an unreliable non-matrox inherited drive with significant failure rate. Ever. OCZ has a spectacular failure rate that far exceeded even that shitty drive from seagate on average, and it has it both on their SSD drives and on their RAM when they were still selling it.
It was because they were cheap. Very cheap. Unfortunately they were also very unreliable, and if there's one thing that people do not forgive, it's losing their data.
As a result, it's a pretty terrible idea to be the maker of cheap, unreliable storage.
That's not a seam. That's the back part of the phone, which is replaceable. They're gunning for the setup where various different back panels will be made for the phone, which are paired with the phone though a digital connectors. Some of the ideas I've been hearing so far is things like a sliding keyboard backpanel and so on. The "seam" is where this back panel is connected to the phone itself.
It is a well known statistical fact that a large spike in "new driver" accidents comes around a year after they get their license, because they become "completely confident in their driving abilities", which is something that has little basis in reality. So you have a self centered idiot who thinks he's an ace driver driving in a way that would actually require one, but who isn't. And accidents start to happen. A lot.
Add to that the whole "texting" issue they are afraid of with the new drivers, and they are afraid (and with a good reason) that they are going to have a massive increase in accidents.
A lot of people just don't like it. Some aren't used to it. I sometimes watch those russian dashcam videos, and they have a whole category where some taxi drivers insist that their fare must use seat belts (these are usually former race drivers who lost someone they cared for in an accident). The arguments are between "what the fuck" and "how stupid is this" level of sad hilarity.
But reality is that until it becomes a widespread and generally accepted as "right" way to drive/get driven in a car, there will be a lot of people to resist using them. It's likely that your current attitude is a product of being raised in environment where seat belt usage was deemed more acceptable than before because it was originally made mandatory.
I'd be much more worried about no lack of work for emergency medical workers and undertakers as related to potential massive increase of incidents these people will cause.
No, femnazi is actually an appropriate term to describe that particular form of swedish feminism. They act very much like nazis to the point of advocating suppression and even eradication of males from all aspects of society save servitude. This is not some right winged US based PR bullshit, but sad reality of some aspects of modern swedish feminism, which evolved from one of the most tolerant societies on the planet. Which is really damn sad, as Sweden is among the best places to live in today.
And again, no sane legal system would ever apply to this case. Sorry, "potentially not wearing the condom with proof of used condom" is not going to equal "nth degree RAPE" anywhere. Not even in Sweden.
1. Made those claims a week after the case. 2. Brought in a used condom as evidence. That is a WEEK AFTER IT HAPPENED. She saved the condom they used. As evidence. It was so fucked up that the officer taking a statement took a photo copy of the condom. You can't make that stuff up. It reads just as hilariously stupid as it was. 3. The claims were made after this woman "compared notes" with another female activist, to find out that she wasn't the only one shagging with Assange.
My point is that there is no way in hell that any country other than Sweden would try to prosecute anyone for any kind of rape based on these kinds of claims. If they did, they could prosecute anyone, and I do mean ANYONE including babies and geriatrics for same kind of rape. In fact, even Sweden, where woman are known to give lectures on how to use rape accusations as a weapon against ex-boyfriends isn't trying to prosecute him for rape.
You on the other hand listed several levels of punishment, only available in the insane punishment land of US by the way and no way any of that would ever be applicable in Sweden (just FYI) and completely ignored the fact that any sane prosecutor in US, who's action would be NEEDED to make such a case would ever try to prosecute a man for any kind of rape based on these claims/evidence.
To divert the discussion away from this fact and into listing consequences for actual rape, as if he were prosecuted to brutally assaulting this woman, is a pretty huge and very obvious misrepresentation of the entire case. Why would you do it?
I find it quite disturbing that this was not caught on sooner. Shouldn't they take a look at his past cases to see if his fairly obvious bias impacted them as well?
Nope. The allegation was never that of rape. It was an allegation of the fact that he did not use a condom.
The fact that she came to the police a week after, and her main piece of evidence... was a USED CONDOM got her all but laughed out until a certain prosecutor, known for her femnazi links decided to get some fame.
You're going to have to give me examples of how this is "third degree rape". Present examples where a man was convicted in a similar case, using that kind of evidence. Thank you.
The organizations that handled the whole "extraordinary rendition" for example. As well as various alphabet-soup agencies that can present complex legal arguments in front of kangaroo courts to explain in great detail why they don't have to care about particular laws.
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I've worked with pharmarsists. Haven't met a single one that would not take his oath of silence on patient matters very seriously.
Medical profession is not for everyone. One of the reasons is that you need to be able to segregate patient information and never divulge it even to those who are close to you.
I meant at release to the public. Ones that paid. Should've been more clear. I always compared to closed beta people for reasons stated at the bottom of the post.
Also, you don't have a clue what you're talking about. There is nothing. Let me repeat that. Nothing. Not a single thing. That you can do on elementalist to match warrior's damage output with greasword. It is mathematical impossibility. In fact, when we raised the question with the Izzy, if I recall correctly his answer was "that is not elementalist's niche". I seriously doubt he changed his mind on that. He's not that kind of a person.
The only thing you can do is take specific skillset with really long cooldowns and blow them all at once. That will give you about as much damage as warrior will get for using his low cooldown hundred blades without any extras.
Kinda funny considering that the single biggest spike damage in GW1 was always on elementalists, as well as biggest pressure damage bar none.
If it's one of yours "killed by four griffins" warrior though. Yeah. But that's not about classes. That's about putting a shitty player vs a decent one. I can probably beat one like that right now if I could be bothered to update the game and log into it, even though I haven't played the game since about a month or two since release other than occasional log in to see how my guild is doing.
I also remember the weapon builds. Lightning hammer was a 15 minute diversion for me, more so than other non-elite elemental weapons. It's utter shit beyond one gimmick because of cooldowns on the skills blocking effective rotation, and it's pretty much a dead weight in PvE grind as low damage in comparison to being able to employ your standard D/D rotation, but it had some comedy value. Elemental greatsword was a lot more fun, both visually and damage wise, but it has the same problem.
You see, I broke my back trying to make elementalist work around release. It was my first class in GW1, and I really liked them. It was flashy, high damage and high risk class in GW1. It was fun. In GW2 it's a low damage support class only. It's like being a GvG flag runner ele... in PvE. High amount of utility, shitty damage output.
Then I said fuck it, and leveled my warrior and let the ele rot ever since. Because useless support class is indeed useless for uses other than WvW ranged AoE spamming. I was doing the same damage with warrior around lvl10 that I was doing on elementalist at 20. It was hilarious when I went for it and had that huge "eureka" moment of realizing at just how broken class balance is when quests I blitzed with warrior and then recalling "wait, I remember killing this bunch of critters take so much longer on elementalist..."
It could be that Izzy got his head out of his ass and tried to fix elementalists after all. I don't know as I haven't played the game in a long time - and Izzy is known for hugely overshooting buffs and nerfs pretty much always. But at the time when I left, the word from him was "elementalists are fine, they have their support niche and they shouldn't be doing too much damage in PvE because they have all that utility, if you don't like it you should be playing something like a warrior or a sin".
(I was one of the top players in GvG and HoH in GW1 for about two years, and as a result know a lot of people who were in closed beta and had direct communication with Izzy, so I could pass my questions through them).
The fact is that they made a game for a reviewer/casual player who'd play for the honeymoon period of early game and quit, and then occasionally come back, hopefully put some money to buy to win elements to catch up and get quickly bored and leave again. And they succeeded. It's a game that does exactly that - make you want to quit after just a little while of playing.
In my case, the only problem was that there are so many games to choose from that there is zero desire to ever come back, much step on the same rake again by giving them any more money.
P.S. The fun part: I left around the time they were releasing the first new dungeons. The common LFG message was "Looking for more players, no elementalists". For a very good reason.
He was in the beta, before they decided to nerf the hell out of him. That's when I played the necro last. He used to pretty much one shot you with all of his abilities, and his bigger trash about three shot you if they connected. And that's with necro's HP pool. Things like elementalists just fell in a couple of hits tops.
In general, that is the theme of the game. GW1, with everything nerfed. Complexity? Nerfed. Difficulty? Nerfed. Economy? Nerfed (B2P almost anything up to and including legendaries).
The only thing that got "buffed" was the art, due to superior graphics engine. It was a joke for a while that if we could take WoW's complexity, stick it into GW2's presentation with TERA's fast paced but complex combat style, we'd have a perfect game.
And if I wanted a challenge, I'd play a game that allowed for complexity that would make such a challenge interesting. These games are luckily plentiful, so that I don't have to pick up the terrible turd wrapped in pretty packaging that was GW2.
And in the end, the one thing that pissed me off the most is just how deliberate this particular bait and switch was. The early content was specifically designed to woo the reviewers. Up to about lvl30 on first playthrough, it was a honeymoon, everything felt interesting and every few levels you discovered something new. Then you hit 30 and realize that you basically finished the game. There is literally nothing else except for a lot of grind with pretty vistas ahead. No depth of gameplay, no skill required. Nothing. If you ever played any MMO at decent level, you instantly noticed the complete lack of any depth after you got your skill bars filled. It was a game made for reviewers - not players. And it worked, it sold tons of copies. And now it's pretty much dead, as it deserves to be, populated mostly by botters endlessly grinding gold to combat B2W caused inflation.
As I said before, if you want a game that is aimed at casual play, you're better off with F2P options. If you want a game with depth, there are several games on the market, including F2P ones that have far more depth than GW2. If you want a pretty game and don't care about gameplay at all, then you should look at GW2, as it's still one of the most if not they most beautiful game out there.
P.S. Your friend discovered that basic of the basic, D/D, + blast finisher + autocrit bolt finisher + immunity shield + elite elemental is the best way to go to PvE... in february 2013? Those of us with more than half a clue were playing that since hitting 30. It's pretty much the only build that does enough damage to be tolerable to grind PvE with. It's also super boring to the point where I ended up macroing pretty much the entire thing into six G-buttons on my old G15 keyboard.
Of course it is. You're absolutely right. In now way did I participate in the early release, or be among the first people in the game to get to 80. In no way did I play though most areas of the game long before most people. In no way was I among the first to get those organised zergs in WvW, or hook up with some GW1 oldies to see if we could make anything reasonable out of the dumbed down clusterfuck that is "structured PvP". And in no way to do I have any kind of understanding of depth of combat. Hell, I didn't solo that hilarious "omg raid boss" lvl15 behemoth about 2 days after release 100% to 80% (until people started showing up in the swamp) on a necro for lulz because I was getting bored. Would've probably killed him, except that back then you couldn't stick conditions to the boss himself, so condition specced necro was pretty crap to actually deal damage to the boss. Though that was probably about the hardest it got, considering that lvl80 "world raid boss" stuff like the frost dragon usually just got mindlessly zerged, and the fun was in the fact that you actually could dump those utterly boring 5+5 skills on your bar and use different skills due to location and boss specific weapons available.
Want to know what people like me did? We min maxed, which in a game as shallow as GW2 required no effort whatsoever. Run in, hundred blades, go to next mob. Dumbass that rolled sin had to dance, though if he did it right, he just had his burst. Only problem with sin was the downtime to gather resource. Or dumbass that was me and that rolled ele had to dance, kite, etc. Warrior? Nah. Hundred blades baby. PvE or "structured" clusterfuck of PvP. Doesn't matter. Immobilize, charge in, hundred blades. Lots of corpses. Especially brokenly fun when you have a team that is used to guild wars 1 style "synchronise to about 0.1 seconds" spiking.
Fun times. For about couple of hours. Completely demolished when we realized that that was it. We peaked. Combat was far too shallow to engage anyone with enough braincells to grasp that most of the stuff on your bar was just a filler you rotated though waiting for the few meaty skills to come back.
Because in the end, that PR "anecdote" of yours? That's it. There was no depth beyond that basic interaction between skills, and all you had was 2 weapons with 5 skills, one heal skill, three utilities and an ultimate on huge cooldown. It was like they went for DOTA-style skill play, only without the depth of DOTA-style games. And while this shallow stuff grabbed those "who didn't play it to 80", as in reviewers, those of us who did bear the grind to 80 (and I was stupid enough to bear it twice hoping for something better in the end, shame on me) saw it for it was - a PR stunt of a game, aimed at those who gaze lovingly as stuff at lvl11, get bored at 20 and quit at 30. For that kind of player, GW2 is awesome.
If you actually wanted something beyond that, you were SOL.
P.S. Your anecdote is an exceptionally obvious piece of PR bullshit, as it started with "warrior and paladin could not deal wit hit". Warrior and paladin together can deal with pulling half a zone that is several levels above them and then AoE slaughter the entire bunch. You don't even have to know what you're doing beyond "lol reflect" and "lol hundred blades". Four griffons? Right. Because just clearing them all in about four seconds with hundred blades while pally gives you retaliation is excessively hard.
7200.11? Nah, actually about the same failure rate.
So set one as high as you want for yourself and get off other people's lawns?
Maybe we shouldn't, considering that they had exactly one faulty model (barracuda 7200.11), which they replaced in about six months with with 7200.12 which did not have the problem. It died in exact same way (controlled failed in a specific way). I had that drive, and it died in that exact way. It was promptly replaced by a 7200.12 that I use to this day. My parents still have a pair of seagate's 7200.7s that have been working for almost a decade under heavy RAID load. No problems. That is average seagate quality - they just tank on.
7200.11 was the one and only time that seagate had an unreliable non-matrox inherited drive with significant failure rate. Ever. OCZ has a spectacular failure rate that far exceeded even that shitty drive from seagate on average, and it has it both on their SSD drives and on their RAM when they were still selling it.
In any computer part, a failure rate that causes catastrophic data loss with 1/5 chance is unacceptable.
They likely will buy some assets from the liquidation, but not others. As a result, they likely won't be bound by warranty agreements.
Better hope that it keeps doing that, chances are that your ability to exchange it under warranty may go up in smoke.
It was because they were cheap. Very cheap. Unfortunately they were also very unreliable, and if there's one thing that people do not forgive, it's losing their data.
As a result, it's a pretty terrible idea to be the maker of cheap, unreliable storage.
A fisherman. They're known to be a solitary crowd!
Yo-lla. Finnish for "dinghy". The joke being about getting away from Elop's "burning platform".
That's not a seam. That's the back part of the phone, which is replaceable. They're gunning for the setup where various different back panels will be made for the phone, which are paired with the phone though a digital connectors. Some of the ideas I've been hearing so far is things like a sliding keyboard backpanel and so on.
The "seam" is where this back panel is connected to the phone itself.
It is a well known statistical fact that a large spike in "new driver" accidents comes around a year after they get their license, because they become "completely confident in their driving abilities", which is something that has little basis in reality. So you have a self centered idiot who thinks he's an ace driver driving in a way that would actually require one, but who isn't. And accidents start to happen. A lot.
Add to that the whole "texting" issue they are afraid of with the new drivers, and they are afraid (and with a good reason) that they are going to have a massive increase in accidents.
A lot of people just don't like it. Some aren't used to it. I sometimes watch those russian dashcam videos, and they have a whole category where some taxi drivers insist that their fare must use seat belts (these are usually former race drivers who lost someone they cared for in an accident). The arguments are between "what the fuck" and "how stupid is this" level of sad hilarity.
But reality is that until it becomes a widespread and generally accepted as "right" way to drive/get driven in a car, there will be a lot of people to resist using them. It's likely that your current attitude is a product of being raised in environment where seat belt usage was deemed more acceptable than before because it was originally made mandatory.
I'd be much more worried about no lack of work for emergency medical workers and undertakers as related to potential massive increase of incidents these people will cause.
No, femnazi is actually an appropriate term to describe that particular form of swedish feminism. They act very much like nazis to the point of advocating suppression and even eradication of males from all aspects of society save servitude. This is not some right winged US based PR bullshit, but sad reality of some aspects of modern swedish feminism, which evolved from one of the most tolerant societies on the planet. Which is really damn sad, as Sweden is among the best places to live in today.
And again, no sane legal system would ever apply to this case. Sorry, "potentially not wearing the condom with proof of used condom" is not going to equal "nth degree RAPE" anywhere. Not even in Sweden.
The issue is that she:
1. Made those claims a week after the case.
2. Brought in a used condom as evidence. That is a WEEK AFTER IT HAPPENED. She saved the condom they used. As evidence. It was so fucked up that the officer taking a statement took a photo copy of the condom. You can't make that stuff up. It reads just as hilariously stupid as it was.
3. The claims were made after this woman "compared notes" with another female activist, to find out that she wasn't the only one shagging with Assange.
My point is that there is no way in hell that any country other than Sweden would try to prosecute anyone for any kind of rape based on these kinds of claims. If they did, they could prosecute anyone, and I do mean ANYONE including babies and geriatrics for same kind of rape. In fact, even Sweden, where woman are known to give lectures on how to use rape accusations as a weapon against ex-boyfriends isn't trying to prosecute him for rape.
You on the other hand listed several levels of punishment, only available in the insane punishment land of US by the way and no way any of that would ever be applicable in Sweden (just FYI) and completely ignored the fact that any sane prosecutor in US, who's action would be NEEDED to make such a case would ever try to prosecute a man for any kind of rape based on these claims/evidence.
To divert the discussion away from this fact and into listing consequences for actual rape, as if he were prosecuted to brutally assaulting this woman, is a pretty huge and very obvious misrepresentation of the entire case. Why would you do it?
Hmm, I thought it was text only. Must've missed that part. I stand corrected.
I find it quite disturbing that this was not caught on sooner. Shouldn't they take a look at his past cases to see if his fairly obvious bias impacted them as well?
Nope. The allegation was never that of rape. It was an allegation of the fact that he did not use a condom.
The fact that she came to the police a week after, and her main piece of evidence... was a USED CONDOM got her all but laughed out until a certain prosecutor, known for her femnazi links decided to get some fame.
You're going to have to give me examples of how this is "third degree rape". Present examples where a man was convicted in a similar case, using that kind of evidence. Thank you.
The organizations that handled the whole "extraordinary rendition" for example. As well as various alphabet-soup agencies that can present complex legal arguments in front of kangaroo courts to explain in great detail why they don't have to care about particular laws.
It's text only. Images and videos not included.