I don't think parent ever claimed that.
The veracity of the leaked information is not in question.
It's the rather suspicious removal of past leaks, many of which were from other countries, that is the issue.
If indeed they purposely removed those documents what guarantee do the public have of future non-US leaks?
No.
Leaking US documents is not anti-US
However, pulling documents leaked from other governments in favor of more US documents is evidence of anti-US agenda.
If all the past leaks were still available, no argument could be made against Assange.
I'm surprised at how many people have not been keeping up with the wikileaks site, and yet speak so supportively
No, the issue is they had documents from other countries before, and now they are no longer available.
Some here bring up the excuse that it saves bandwidth, but they only had maybe 10000 articles, a few hundred pdf and jpegs.
The bandwidth requirement on that is maybe 1/100th of what is required for the hundreds of thousands of documents now available.
There is no excuse to not keep those documents around.
As for the language issue, wikileaks says they were founded by Chinese dissidents, so there should be no issue.
I am Chinese-American, and I can and have read all the Chinese files that were previously available, as I'm sure many Chinese-Americans have done.
There is no issue of language. It's not an excuse.
You mean a sudden jolt of ego from world-wide fame *wouldn't* lower a man's private inhibitions and cause him to behave inappropriately, even illegally?
Hey, as long as we're speculating...
When's the last time you've been to wikileaks? I challenge you to find a document from a country other than the US right now on the wikileaks.org domain. Go, try. Oh they used to have plenty, but they've all been removed. It's all US documents all the time now.
Nuanced speech and tact? This is Slashdot, aspie capital of the internet! Look around, +5 Insightful for naive idealistic platitudes. -1 Troll for every realist. You're the rare one who happened to have escaped the mod persecution.
An agency such as yours must treat all the information it has with equal priority -- it is the only way to be neutral and unbiased. Otherwise you risk undermining the confidence of people everywhere -- the same people you rely on to effect the tangible changes that we all desire. Herein now lies the current problem with wikileaks.org. You have at some point taken your previous database entirely offline. Before you became well known you were a nexus of information on nations around the globe. Now, there is access only to Iraq Diaries and Afghan Logs. A google search on wikileaks for Asia, Africa, and Europe reveals thousands of documents previously linked to that are now inaccessible. These must be restored immediately.
>you will find a much more equitable distribution of leaks on the site. that may have been so in the past, but if you go to wikileaks today there is nothing on there besides Iraq and Afghanistan. Other countries, no documents, no links, nothing.
I completely agree. As a Chinese-American I was really hoping for some more files on China. They used to have documents regarding censored words, directives for broadcasting media, and even evidence on Olympic age fraud. They also had a HUGE archive of stuff on Africa. But now if you go to wikileaks.org you'll only find Iraq and Afghanistan logs. All the documents on other countries are gone. You can still google for "china site:wikileaks" and see the old links but none are accessible anywhere.
It seems the entire focus has shifted towards the USA, which I find is a blatant symbol of bias. Those other documents didn't take much space, and if they can host 400000 files they can host the rest. Why are the other countries gone? I won't support wikileaks until they're back.
Islam contributed nothing, just as Christianity contributed nothing. It was Muslim mathematicians, astronomers, chemists, and architects in the early centuries CE who contributed to civilization. These people of knowledge and ingenuity made their contributions IN SPITE of the superstitious beliefs of their times not as a result of them. And furthermore, regarding your comparison of the US to Muslim countries, I reject your assertion that we are headed in the same direction to a dark age of religious rule mainly on the grounds that in the US we have so many people like myself who have experienced secularism and will fight tooth and nail to never go back to an era of rule by superstition. Citizens in most muslim countries have never tasted such secularism and they are far less likely to fight for it.
Looks like a moderate like me, who happened to like Obama more than any other 2008 candidate, deserves a -1 troll for pointing out the laughable and fallacious thinking that underlies shooting-the-messenger type of ad hominem attacks that are so predictable in any article critical of Democrats. Because saying so makes it obvious I'm a conservative wacko. I used to come here because Slashdot was a place of critical thought, it was a rung far up from the likes dkos and freep, and far less susceptible to the group think in alternet and digg. Guess that time has gone.
When I read the summary, lil ol' cynical me though "I bet some Obama fan is going to disregard the article and trot out the ad hominems to rack up some cheap +1 insightfuls" I guess I shouldn't be disappointed in being right. You're at 1 now, so good luck with your comment score.
Search google (.cn.hk or otherwise) through a Chinese ISP and you will get server timeouts with forbidden phrases like "tiananmen 4.6". If you keep doing it the entire domain is blocked for you for 10 to 15 minutes. Confirmed it myself in July of this year.
The casings are different but the cells inside are all standardized. Laptop batteries are made of multiple cylindrical lithium ion cells just a bit larger than AA batteries. Cell phone batteries are made of multiple flat rectangular lithium ion cells the size of a nickel.
Shanghai and Hangzhou are major cities with tens of millions of people in each of them. They're huge financial centers around 120 miles apart. We would only be comparable if you kept L.A. in place and moved New York city to where San Diego is.
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People who want to see them.
You don't care about all leaks equally?
But why remove the previous leaks? He doesn't have to keep publicizing them, but why remove them ?
I don't think parent ever claimed that.
The veracity of the leaked information is not in question.
It's the rather suspicious removal of past leaks, many of which were from other countries, that is the issue.
If indeed they purposely removed those documents what guarantee do the public have of future non-US leaks?
No.
Leaking US documents is not anti-US
However, pulling documents leaked from other governments in favor of more US documents is evidence of anti-US agenda.
If all the past leaks were still available, no argument could be made against Assange.
I'm surprised at how many people have not been keeping up with the wikileaks site, and yet speak so supportively
No, the issue is they had documents from other countries before, and now they are no longer available.
Some here bring up the excuse that it saves bandwidth, but they only had maybe 10000 articles, a few hundred pdf and jpegs.
The bandwidth requirement on that is maybe 1/100th of what is required for the hundreds of thousands of documents now available.
There is no excuse to not keep those documents around.
As for the language issue, wikileaks says they were founded by Chinese dissidents, so there should be no issue.
I am Chinese-American, and I can and have read all the Chinese files that were previously available, as I'm sure many Chinese-Americans have done.
There is no issue of language. It's not an excuse.
You mean a sudden jolt of ego from world-wide fame *wouldn't* lower a man's private inhibitions and cause him to behave inappropriately, even illegally? Hey, as long as we're speculating...
Why a link from wikipedia? Why not just link to the leaks on wikileaks.org? Oh right, they've been removed.
I'd like to see you win a game of poker with you cards face up on the table.
That's just wikipedia, if you follow that link it points to a wikileaks document that has not been available for quite some time
The only documents you can now access are USA documents, which actually supports Fnkmaster's argument.
When's the last time you've been to wikileaks? I challenge you to find a document from a country other than the US right now on the wikileaks.org domain. Go, try.
Oh they used to have plenty, but they've all been removed. It's all US documents all the time now.
Nuanced speech and tact? This is Slashdot, aspie capital of the internet! Look around, +5 Insightful for naive idealistic platitudes. -1 Troll for every realist.
You're the rare one who happened to have escaped the mod persecution.
An agency such as yours must treat all the information it has with equal priority -- it is the only way to be neutral and unbiased. Otherwise you risk undermining the confidence of people everywhere -- the same people you rely on to effect the tangible changes that we all desire. Herein now lies the current problem with wikileaks.org. You have at some point taken your previous database entirely offline. Before you became well known you were a nexus of information on nations around the globe. Now, there is access only to Iraq Diaries and Afghan Logs. A google search on wikileaks for Asia, Africa, and Europe reveals thousands of documents previously linked to that are now inaccessible. These must be restored immediately.
>you will find a much more equitable distribution of leaks on the site.
that may have been so in the past, but if you go to wikileaks today there is nothing on there besides Iraq and Afghanistan. Other countries, no documents, no links, nothing.
I completely agree. As a Chinese-American I was really hoping for some more files on China. They used to have documents regarding censored words, directives for broadcasting media, and even evidence on Olympic age fraud. They also had a HUGE archive of stuff on Africa. But now if you go to wikileaks.org you'll only find Iraq and Afghanistan logs. All the documents on other countries are gone. You can still google for "china site:wikileaks" and see the old links but none are accessible anywhere.
It seems the entire focus has shifted towards the USA, which I find is a blatant symbol of bias. Those other documents didn't take much space, and if they can host 400000 files they can host the rest. Why are the other countries gone? I won't support wikileaks until they're back.
wanting to believe and actually believing are two different things. one of these requires evidence, and not just circumstantial.
Islam contributed nothing, just as Christianity contributed nothing. It was Muslim mathematicians, astronomers, chemists, and architects in the early centuries CE who contributed to civilization. These people of knowledge and ingenuity made their contributions IN SPITE of the superstitious beliefs of their times not as a result of them. And furthermore, regarding your comparison of the US to Muslim countries, I reject your assertion that we are headed in the same direction to a dark age of religious rule mainly on the grounds that in the US we have so many people like myself who have experienced secularism and will fight tooth and nail to never go back to an era of rule by superstition. Citizens in most muslim countries have never tasted such secularism and they are far less likely to fight for it.
Looks like a moderate like me, who happened to like Obama more than any other 2008 candidate, deserves a -1 troll for pointing out the laughable and fallacious thinking that underlies shooting-the-messenger type of ad hominem attacks that are so predictable in any article critical of Democrats. Because saying so makes it obvious I'm a conservative wacko. I used to come here because Slashdot was a place of critical thought, it was a rung far up from the likes dkos and freep, and far less susceptible to the group think in alternet and digg. Guess that time has gone.
When I read the summary, lil ol' cynical me though "I bet some Obama fan is going to disregard the article and trot out the ad hominems to rack up some cheap +1 insightfuls"
I guess I shouldn't be disappointed in being right. You're at 1 now, so good luck with your comment score.
purchase ad space in bulk and sell small parcels at markup? allows a manufacturer to outsource their sales/marketing department.
Search google (.cn .hk or otherwise) through a Chinese ISP and you will get server timeouts with forbidden phrases like "tiananmen 4.6". If you keep doing it the entire domain is blocked for you for 10 to 15 minutes. Confirmed it myself in July of this year.
Put a chink in that armor, and the US is finished.
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The casings are different but the cells inside are all standardized.
Laptop batteries are made of multiple cylindrical lithium ion cells just a bit larger than AA batteries.
Cell phone batteries are made of multiple flat rectangular lithium ion cells the size of a nickel.
Shanghai and Hangzhou are major cities with tens of millions of people in each of them.
They're huge financial centers around 120 miles apart.
We would only be comparable if you kept L.A. in place and moved New York city to where San Diego is.
No, you're either with the open source community or you're against it. lol
You're right, sudden fame could never change a person.