Two governments have killed more people than any business.
I'm proud to live in a country that takes due process very seriously and I know my government wouldn't be reading my email without a good reason. Governments are not all the same; comparing Rwandan revolutionaries to respected world leaders like the US and Britain is both asinine and irresponsible. The recent Wikileaks documents haven't indicted the US government; they've vindicated it. If the biggest scandal we can come up with is the Secretary of State using spies on the head of the UN, you know we run a pretty tight ship.
I'm a little confused, you would be ok with the Federal Government routinely snooping on your email w/o a warrant, so long as they don't prosecute you based on the contents of your email?
Where did I say without a warrant? The parent story says that the government needs a warrant in order to search your inbox.
Let's see...America = land of the free, home of the brave, defender of the weak and leader of the free world. Google = baits people into using its services so they can steal and sell their personal data.
Not a good idea without a safety net of some kind. If you have business-class internet it's risky; if you have residential internet it's downright stupid.
Notice they said an Internet Service Provider's servers, not a small business, or a large enterprise, or a non-profit, or government of any kind. How many people do you know that still use the Email service that comes with their ISP?
Some people just don’t like facts. Not my problem.
Oh, you mean like yourself? People do studies to obtain facts; they don't get them from shooting their mouth off at statistical sources they don't like. That is the exclusive domain of an intellectual infant such as yourself.
Moreover, what the hell does this have to do with Liu Xiaobo?
And if you don't like my sources, and don't think that studies are relevant, that's your problem. The fact is that many/most rapes go unreported for various reasons.
I'm not going to chase down more statistics for you just so you can shoot them down. Every study I've seen reports roughly between half and 80%. Take it or leave it. I don't care either way.
Some people will always cry conspiracy theory. And, equally, some people will always say that if the allegations have been made, they must be true. I don't agree with either standpoint.
Hence my italicizing of the word "possibility." And by "some people" I didn't mean you in particular.
Sure. Could just be that he spent 39 years not being a rapist only to begin his rapist career a couple of weeks after releasing a huge stash of classified materials that embarrassed the most powerful government in the world.
It could be, yes. Power does go to people's heads, after all. Did you know 70% of all rapes go unreported? Could just be the first time someone spoke up.
Of course, Liu Xiaobo could have spent 54 years not being caught for molesting children, only to have his victims finally come forward around the same time he is to accept the Nobel Prize.
I'm sure as far as you're concerned, China and the US are on the same level as far as governance go, despite the very documents that Assange is leaking providing overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Are you willing to accept that the whole thing has escalated beyond a point that would have happened under any other circumstances and that this wasn't rape?
I'm willing to acknowledge the possibility, yes. It's just interesting to me that people are willing to accept their own interpretations of events as fact. Assange could have shot three policemen unprovoked in broad daylight and people would still scream character assassination.
If you *really* want to discredit Liu Xiaobo, just recruit a couple of women to say he raped them
So easy. Is anyone even remotely willing to acknowledge the slightest possibility that Assange may be, in fact, a scumbag, and that raping women is just something that scumbags do?
That's why you use a different credit card every month. You might get a rejection every once in a while, but the only people who will notice the charge are those that don't use their cards very often in the first place.
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Two governments have killed more people than any business.
I'm proud to live in a country that takes due process very seriously and I know my government wouldn't be reading my email without a good reason. Governments are not all the same; comparing Rwandan revolutionaries to respected world leaders like the US and Britain is both asinine and irresponsible. The recent Wikileaks documents haven't indicted the US government; they've vindicated it. If the biggest scandal we can come up with is the Secretary of State using spies on the head of the UN, you know we run a pretty tight ship.
I'm a little confused, you would be ok with the Federal Government routinely snooping on your email w/o a warrant, so long as they don't prosecute you based on the contents of your email?
Where did I say without a warrant? The parent story says that the government needs a warrant in order to search your inbox.
Somebody with points please mod this troll down.
Let's see...America = land of the free, home of the brave, defender of the weak and leader of the free world.
Google = baits people into using its services so they can steal and sell their personal data.
Tell me how that's trolling, exactly?
Really? Google doesn't have the power to prosecute you based on the contents of your e-mail, and deprive you of your liberty.
I trust the federal government to uphold due process more than I trust Google to abide by its terms of service.
My address is [my first name]@[major provider]. It's ancient and I plan on keeping it.
Wow! I want an email provider and DNS service that allows brackets and spaces!
This would apply to hosted services, free or paid, as well, such as Gmail or Yahoo.
Maybe I'm being ridiculous, but I'd be more comfortable with the federal government reading my mail than Google.
Not a good idea without a safety net of some kind. If you have business-class internet it's risky; if you have residential internet it's downright stupid.
Notice they said an Internet Service Provider's servers, not a small business, or a large enterprise, or a non-profit, or government of any kind. How many people do you know that still use the Email service that comes with their ISP?
Some people just don’t like facts. Not my problem.
Oh, you mean like yourself? People do studies to obtain facts; they don't get them from shooting their mouth off at statistical sources they don't like. That is the exclusive domain of an intellectual infant such as yourself.
Moreover, what the hell does this have to do with Liu Xiaobo?
Go fuck yourself. It won't be rape, after all, because you can't refuse consent.
Allow me to repeat myself. http://www.thewomenscenterinc.org/sexual.htm
And if you don't like my sources, and don't think that studies are relevant, that's your problem. The fact is that many/most rapes go unreported for various reasons.
I'm not going to chase down more statistics for you just so you can shoot them down. Every study I've seen reports roughly between half and 80%. Take it or leave it. I don't care either way.
http://www.thewomenscenterinc.org/sexual.htm
Some people will always cry conspiracy theory. And, equally, some people will always say that if the allegations have been made, they must be true. I don't agree with either standpoint.
Hence my italicizing of the word "possibility." And by "some people" I didn't mean you in particular.
Sure. Could just be that he spent 39 years not being a rapist only to begin his rapist career a couple of weeks after releasing a huge stash of classified materials that embarrassed the most powerful government in the world.
It could be, yes. Power does go to people's heads, after all. Did you know 70% of all rapes go unreported? Could just be the first time someone spoke up.
Of course, Liu Xiaobo could have spent 54 years not being caught for molesting children, only to have his victims finally come forward around the same time he is to accept the Nobel Prize.
I'm sure as far as you're concerned, China and the US are on the same level as far as governance go, despite the very documents that Assange is leaking providing overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Are you willing to accept that the whole thing has escalated beyond a point that would have happened under any other circumstances and that this wasn't rape?
I'm willing to acknowledge the possibility, yes. It's just interesting to me that people are willing to accept their own interpretations of events as fact. Assange could have shot three policemen unprovoked in broad daylight and people would still scream character assassination.
If you *really* want to discredit Liu Xiaobo, just recruit a couple of women to say he raped them
So easy. Is anyone even remotely willing to acknowledge the slightest possibility that Assange may be, in fact, a scumbag, and that raping women is just something that scumbags do?
I've never paid more than $150 for a six-core processor.
Kind of like how you can't use a whitelist with Gmail.
That's why you use a different credit card every month. You might get a rejection every once in a while, but the only people who will notice the charge are those that don't use their cards very often in the first place.
Damn. You beat me to it.
It's not like you're going to hand your credit card details over to someone like this, right?
Let's seeee. If you're already in the business of botnets and malware, odds are you can get your hands on a stolen credit card fairly easily...
Fuck your couch.
*slaps head*
I'm talking on P2P filesharing. I don't know anything about the "pirate scene."