"No one in any administration, be it Sweden, UK, or the United States has given any stated reason by way of freedom of the press for not pursuing Assange.
Glenn Greenwald on November 16, 2018 wrote "As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom" https://theintercept.com/2018/... where he cites this Washington Post article by Sari Horowitz from November 25, 2013 "Julian Assange unlikely to face U.S. charges over publishing classified documents" https://www.washingtonpost.com... which includes this quote from teh then DoJ spokesperson: “The problem the department has always had in investigating Julian Assange is there is no way to prosecute him for publishing information without the same theory being applied to journalists,” said former Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller. “And if you are not going to prosecute journalists for publishing classified information, which the department is not, then there is no way to prosecute Assange.”
So we have had a stated reason for nearly five years.
A lot of people here seem to be confused about the basis for extradition: it's about a charge in the country the person is being extradited TO, not a charge in the country they are being extradited FROM. Any charge in the country being extradited from has nothing to do with the extradition, and may in fact interfere with extradition as that country may want to process their charge first.
He was in the UK at the point in time when the issue of whether he would be extradited to Sweden and whether that was a precursor to being chain extradited to the USA came up.
"he's a publisher and protected by freedom of the press."
And this is the stated reason why the Obama Administration was not pursuing Assange when everyone was spinning crazy conspiracy theories about extradition via Sweden. Seems rather quaint these days, when the White House Press Secretary will outright post doctored videos of a journalist to implicate them in a physical assault.
"Because if they charge him, he has to see out the charges first and, if found innocent of the charges, they no longer have reason to extradite him to the USA"
A charge for rape that was claimed to have happened in Sweden would never be grounds to extradite from Sweden to the USA. If charged for a crime in the USA he could have been extradited form the UK more easily than from Sweden.
The claim that the charge in Sweden was purely a setup for extradition to the USA never made any sense.
(Note that I am making no claim about the validity of the rape charge in Sweden, just about the supposed connection between a charge in Sweden and an extradition to the USA.)
Except when the story was concocted that Sweden was trying to get Assange from the UK so the USA could extradite from Sweden, the USA wasn't trying to get him. This article says that these preparations started in the past year.
"The reason they can get away with it is because the 'taxes' part of the additional fees varies by region and government. Since it varies it can't be a flat advertised price."
There is no obligation to make the customer pay taxes and fees individually on top of the prices as opposed to including them in the price. As an example, my T-Mobile $60 per month wireless plan results in me being billed exactly $60 per month. Any taxes and fees are paid out of that $60 dollars.
Out of all places on the Internet I want at least/. to admit *that's what the phrase scientific law means*. From Wikipedia: "Each scientific law is a statement based on repeated experimental observations that describes some aspect of the Universe."
"physics simply doesn't allow it to exist."
There are plenty of laws for things that don't exist. For example, in a rotating frame of reference there are three fictitious forces (Euler, Coriolis, and centrifugal) that each have well-defined laws to describe their effects.
In early America History, there was little effort spent on uphold foreign intellectual property claims. For example: Samuel Slater was granted US patents on textile machinery that he copied from British mills that he had worked in. At the time it was illegal to export those designs from the UK. Mark Twain was famously a proponent of perpetual copyright, on the premise that intellectual property is property and thus a limited term is a taking of that property, but he took that position only in his later years once he had a significant corpus that might be valuable after he died. When he was younger and consumed more writing than he produced he was quite in favor of cheap books printed in the US that paid no royalties to foreign writers.
"The difference is 7.7 vs 7.6mm. That is hardly what I'd call a meaningful difference. "
I mentioned the iPhone 5 just to point out where on the downward trend last had this same thickness. The thickness bottomed out at the iPhone 6 and has been getting thicker since them.
"That's fine but it is both A) inefficient and B) doesn't transmit data"
Those are also criteria you did not previously list.
OP was specifically referring to battery-containing *cases* that did not use a pass-though connector. Your reference to charging *pads* is a bit of a non-sequitur. In particular, the case maintains alignment.
"I suppose you'd argue against evacuating the entire building when there's a fire, too. "
Turns out, in multi-story buildings this is exactly what happens. "In a typical scenario, the occupants of the fire floor and the floors immediately above and below it should immediately use the exit stairs" https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Ed...
It is funny that you call out Apple when they trend for iPhones has been towards increasing thickness for the past four years. The iPhone X is thicker than the iPhone 5.
"make a decent interface for a battery case that doesn't involve a clumsy and bulky pass through of the USB port."
"There are a lot of us (myself included) who wouldn't mind a modestly thicker device in exchange for a bigger battery, better camera, etc. "
iPhone battery capacity has been trending up for for the past nine years. iPhone Camera sensor size (not pixel count but physical size) is also trending up.
"It would be trivial to allow people to add the audio jacks to the case "
That doesn't prove that he was part of the problem, just that he hears a lot of patent cases. What do his plaintiff vs. defendant rulings look like? Are the overturn rates different than for other judges.
People love to claim how East Texas is friendly towards patent plaintiffs, except that district doesn't actually have the highest rate of finding for patent plaintiffs.
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Sorry, the WaPo journalist was Sari Horwitz, not Horowitz
"No one in any administration, be it Sweden, UK, or the United States has given any stated reason by way of freedom of the press for not pursuing Assange.
Glenn Greenwald on November 16, 2018 wrote "As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom"
https://theintercept.com/2018/...
where he cites this Washington Post article by Sari Horowitz from November 25, 2013 "Julian Assange unlikely to face U.S. charges over publishing classified documents" https://www.washingtonpost.com... which includes this quote from teh then DoJ spokesperson:
“The problem the department has always had in investigating Julian Assange is there is no way to prosecute him for publishing information without the same theory being applied to journalists,” said former Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller. “And if you are not going to prosecute journalists for publishing classified information, which the department is not, then there is no way to prosecute Assange.”
So we have had a stated reason for nearly five years.
"What would be the pretext in the UK? "
The same as extraditing from Sweden.
A lot of people here seem to be confused about the basis for extradition: it's about a charge in the country the person is being extradited TO, not a charge in the country they are being extradited FROM. Any charge in the country being extradited from has nothing to do with the extradition, and may in fact interfere with extradition as that country may want to process their charge first.
He was in the UK at the point in time when the issue of whether he would be extradited to Sweden and whether that was a precursor to being chain extradited to the USA came up.
"he's a publisher and protected by freedom of the press."
And this is the stated reason why the Obama Administration was not pursuing Assange when everyone was spinning crazy conspiracy theories about extradition via Sweden. Seems rather quaint these days, when the White House Press Secretary will outright post doctored videos of a journalist to implicate them in a physical assault.
"It's not a crime if it's done outside the country, right?"
Where does the Internet happen?
"Because if they charge him, he has to see out the charges first and, if found innocent of the charges, they no longer have reason to extradite him to the USA"
A charge for rape that was claimed to have happened in Sweden would never be grounds to extradite from Sweden to the USA. If charged for a crime in the USA he could have been extradited form the UK more easily than from Sweden.
The claim that the charge in Sweden was purely a setup for extradition to the USA never made any sense.
(Note that I am making no claim about the validity of the rape charge in Sweden, just about the supposed connection between a charge in Sweden and an extradition to the USA.)
Except when the story was concocted that Sweden was trying to get Assange from the UK so the USA could extradite from Sweden, the USA wasn't trying to get him. This article says that these preparations started in the past year.
Why do people think it would be easier to extradite from Sweden than from the UK?
"The reason they can get away with it is because the 'taxes' part of the additional fees varies by region and government. Since it varies it can't be a flat advertised price."
There is no obligation to make the customer pay taxes and fees individually on top of the prices as opposed to including them in the price. As an example, my T-Mobile $60 per month wireless plan results in me being billed exactly $60 per month. Any taxes and fees are paid out of that $60 dollars.
"visited tha actual Target twitter account to see their tweets and replies and couldn't see where this tweet had been posted. The only inconsistency."
A promoted post will not necessarily appear in the account's tweets. For example, @Apple has zero tweets but plenty of promoted posts.
There's too much money tied to writing papers about the next end of Moore's Law for Moore's Law to be permitted to actually end.
Out of all places on the Internet I want at least /. to admit *that's what the phrase scientific law means*. From Wikipedia: "Each scientific law is a statement based on repeated experimental observations that describes some aspect of the Universe."
"physics simply doesn't allow it to exist."
There are plenty of laws for things that don't exist. For example, in a rotating frame of reference there are three fictitious forces (Euler, Coriolis, and centrifugal) that each have well-defined laws to describe their effects.
In early America History, there was little effort spent on uphold foreign intellectual property claims. For example:
Samuel Slater was granted US patents on textile machinery that he copied from British mills that he had worked in. At the time it was illegal to export those designs from the UK.
Mark Twain was famously a proponent of perpetual copyright, on the premise that intellectual property is property and thus a limited term is a taking of that property, but he took that position only in his later years once he had a significant corpus that might be valuable after he died. When he was younger and consumed more writing than he produced he was quite in favor of cheap books printed in the US that paid no royalties to foreign writers.
"The difference is 7.7 vs 7.6mm. That is hardly what I'd call a meaningful difference. "
I mentioned the iPhone 5 just to point out where on the downward trend last had this same thickness. The thickness bottomed out at the iPhone 6 and has been getting thicker since them.
"That's fine but it is both A) inefficient and B) doesn't transmit data"
Those are also criteria you did not previously list.
OP was specifically referring to battery-containing *cases* that did not use a pass-though connector. Your reference to charging *pads* is a bit of a non-sequitur. In particular, the case maintains alignment.
"I suppose you'd argue against evacuating the entire building when there's a fire, too. "
Turns out, in multi-story buildings this is exactly what happens. "In a typical scenario, the occupants of the fire floor and the floors immediately above and below it should immediately use the exit stairs" https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Ed...
Who closes Firefox voluntarily?
"(Apple I'm looking at you) "
It is funny that you call out Apple when they trend for iPhones has been towards increasing thickness for the past four years. The iPhone X is thicker than the iPhone 5.
"make a decent interface for a battery case that doesn't involve a clumsy and bulky pass through of the USB port."
There already are cases that use wireless charging instead of a pass-though connector, such as: https://www.ugreen.com/product...
"There are a lot of us (myself included) who wouldn't mind a modestly thicker device in exchange for a bigger battery, better camera, etc. "
iPhone battery capacity has been trending up for for the past nine years. iPhone Camera sensor size (not pixel count but physical size) is also trending up.
"It would be trivial to allow people to add the audio jacks to the case "
So trivial they already exist; for example: https://www.amazon.com/Headpho...
Basically, the things you want already exist.
There are sometimes delays in Japan, but they are very precise.
What part of that "photo backup service" isn't just a backup service?
Yahoo is designed to be a login provider to Yahoo. Flickr was owned by Yahoo at the time.
That doesn't prove that he was part of the problem, just that he hears a lot of patent cases. What do his plaintiff vs. defendant rulings look like? Are the overturn rates different than for other judges.
People love to claim how East Texas is friendly towards patent plaintiffs, except that district doesn't actually have the highest rate of finding for patent plaintiffs.
Not every statement is an opinion.
If the only factual statements you have are incorrect you cannot make any valid decisions.
If you cannot make any decisions you are not free.
"I'm not sure what more people could want them to do on this subject."
It seems like the loudest people expect to get a pony.