Did you miss the part where Assange offered, through his lawyer, several times, to be interviewed by these prosecutors before he had left Sweden? And they weren't interested?
There's no reason for them to go after him now, other than this:
Did you miss the part about him being told to make himself available for questioning if needed? Or him leaving the country after having been told to keep in contact with the Swedish authorities?
Since he, no doubt, read in the papers recently that a judge had been asked to request Interpol to bring him in for questioning, he should have had enough sense to get his lawyer and show up on his own, rather than waiting for the EU equivalent of the Feds to be sent after his ass....
The Judge may in fact believe it causes significant damage to share a song, he also probably makes quite a bit of money so 27750 dollars seems like an adequate punishment to him, but its clearly excessive for any person that makes less than 60,000 a year. He is mistaken simply because he hasn't heard the whole truth and is not this woman's peer.
If you read Alito's comment (even the part listed above), you might notice that he was in favour of hearing the case.
Your comment rather suggests the opposite. Which, in turn, suggests that you shouldn't let your prejudices blind you so often....
india is aligned with usa in most respects. it has HUGE economic ties, and the main boost of his economy is from doing business with u.s. that leaves out 1 bn china, and 250 mil russia. along with satellites it would make at most 1.5 bn. out of 7.
If India's economic ties are enough to make them "dominated by the USA", then surely China's (even larger) economic ties with the USA produce the same result. Ditto Russia's economic ties.
Note that it makes just as much sense to say that the USA is dominated by China due to their economic ties....
Although it's very nice to have documentation that, for example, the US is threatening Iran at Saudi Arabia's request.
Post hoc ergo proper hoc is a fallacy. Assuming that because the Saudis asked for something that that's why we're doing it is idiotic. Especially given our long-standing opposition to anyone who isn't a nuclear power becoming one.
the rest of the world is dominated by united states. maybe, 80% of the world population, lives under the 'protectorate' and 'world policing' of united states.
Including those well-known American lackeys China and India.
Wait, they're not? How odd, since they have, between them, 40% of the world's population...
In other words, you're delusional if you think "80% of the world population, lives under the 'protectorate' and 'world policing' of united states"....
So as far as I know he is currently a formal suspect, even accused of the crime.
No. What he is is wanted for questioning by the prosecutor. It seems he was told to stay in touch with the prosecutor in case they wanted him to answer more questions. Alas, it also seems he left the country instead. So now the prosecutor wants Interpol to arrest his ass and bring him back to Sweden to (a) answer some more questions, and (b) probably be arrested for fleeing the country....
Our government said it was to take out factories, but we intentionally aimed at civilians, killing hundreds of thousands of noncombatants.
Well, no. We caused about 66,000 noncombatant casualties at Hiroshima.
And this must be offset by the fact that Hiroshima was removed from the list of possible conventional bombing targets so that we'd be able to get a better estimate of the effects of the atomic bombing (if your city has been bombed regularly for two years, it's hard to tell whether any given pile of rubble was caused by the A-bomb or one of the other bombs dropped there). Which means Hiroshima was spared probably half a dozen B-29 raids that would likely have caused moderately massive casualties (little know detail outside students of WW2 - there were more people killed in a single firebomb raid on Tokyo than in BOTH atomic bombings combined)..
None of the other non-gas giants has a moon anywhere near as big as our satellite. Asimov explored this in Foundation and Earth, where the Earth was fairly unique in the galaxy.
So, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. One has a large moon. Which is pretty close to 1/4 of them.
Thar only 1/4 of our four samples has a large moon in no way implies that that one sample is "fairly unique in the galaxy".
Also, tidal forces probably played a part in the development of life. I think it's more likely that if we find extraterrestrial life, we'll find it on the satellite of a gas giant, not in a rocky small planet.
Pure conjecture based on no data at all. Yet. I wouldn't be surprised if you were guessing correctly here, but then I wouldn't be terribly surprised if we first found life in a gas giant's atmosphere, either.
That's basically why the Marines exist at all. That's their sole purpose - and why they don't have M1's (tanks).
The US Marines do have Abrams tanks, fyi. Which is, among other reasons, why the LCAC (Landing Craft, Air Cushion) is designed to be able to carry an Abrams.
I take it you have some evidence that it was "pretty unique", as opposed to "fairly common"? If our solar system is any guide, it happens to 1/4 of all rocky planets....
I personally believe that taxes should go back to the 1950s model, but no congresscritter is going to vote themselves into a 90 percent tax bracket.
Just did some quick checking. Using the 1960 tax brackets (chosen because that would represent what was in effect toward the end of the '50's), most of us (the employed fraction of us, anyway) here on/. would be paying between 65% and 75% of our income as Federal income taxes.
Yeah, I'm sure you'd be delighted to be paying 2/3 of your pay to the Feds, on top of your SSA/Medicare taxes.
Asimov... Generally he foresaw one big computer. There's even an intro he wrote for a short story compilation in which he talks about it, from the perspective of 20 years or so after writing.
He says "Basically I didn't see miniaturisation coming, so I missed out on computers becoming small or ubiquitous". So he thought of computers occupying whole cities, planets or even systems. I *think* that's the situation in the story you mention too. One huge computer.
True enough. "The Last Question" was about one honking big computer. Well, several increasingly large computers over the course of the story.
That said, what makes the internet what it is is the (mostly) unfettered access to it that pretty much everyone has, no, matter where they are, not the number of CPU's.
Obama got hit pretty hard in part because, although he cut taxes, he wasn't conspicuous enough about it, and so people just assumed they had gone up.
Obama did NOT cut taxes. What happened was that they adjusted withholdings so you kept more of your paycheck. So that come April you'd have to write a check to the IRS rather than getting one from them.
On the other hand, he did NOT raise taxes either. Though I expect the Democrats to try to raise taxes (by allowing the Bush-era tax cuts to lapse - yes, that raises taxes) during December, if they can find a way to make it look like the Republicans' fault.
Observe how the "futurists" of the 60s focused on the automobile and such, while basically didn't see the mobile phone or the equivalent of the internet.
Of course, Bob Heinlein had his characters using mobile phones in the 50's and 60's. Between Planets opened with the main character receiving a phone call while riding a horse in the back end of nowhere. Space Cadet had the main character receiving a phone call while standing in line for processing into the Patrol, while another character mentioned leaving his phone in his luggage so his mother couldn't worry at him...
Closest to the internet I can recall was Asimov's "The Last Question", which had characters connected (various input/output methods, from voice to direct neural feed) to world- (and later galaxy- and universe-) wide computer systems.
Borrowing so you can build user-owned roads, farms, factories, hospitals and schools seems exactly like it would improve a lot of things in the future for any country which does it.
In the USA, the government isn't actually in the business of building farms and factories. We leave that to private individuals.
Hospitals? There are some that are built by the government, some that aren't. Other than VA hospitals, I can't think of any that are built by the Federal government, by the by.
Roads? Yes, the government handles that. With the gasoline taxes, pretty much entirely - the revenue from gasoline taxes matches pretty closely the outlays for the maintaining/upgrading roads.
So, pretty much none of your "good borrowing" is done by the Federal government, which doesn't seem to have slowed down the borrowing rate by the Federal government...
By 2030, the Federal Government will have little more revenue than to pay entitlements and interest on debt, nothing for it's official functions.
2030? It's almost there now. In the 2010 Federal Budget, there are $2184 billion in mandatory spending (entitlements, interest) and $2381 billion in revenues.
All but $197 billion of our tax revenues this past year went to entitlements and interest, leaving the trillion-odd dollars spent on the "official functions) to be almost entirely paid for by increasing the national debt.
How is the waste dealt with in an aircraft carrier. How do aircraft carriers and submarines avoid unplanned criticality excursions?
Sadly, I spent ten minutes writing a detailed answer to your question, then had to delete it upon realizing that I had no clue how much of what I was writing was still classified.
Had a cat once that got very upset with me over something, don't remember what anymore. So that night, he crept into my bedroom, under the bed, and took a dump in both of my shoes.
Still can't figure out how he got his butt over the shoes to do that....
My mother still tells the story of when she was a girl they had a cat that learned to use the toilet on it's own because that's what the humans used. He would even come find one of them afterwards to flush the toilet for him.
My brother, who keeps both dogs and cats, tells me that you can train a cat to use the toilet quite easily - put saran wrap or something similar over the toilet bowl, sprinkly a little cat litter on the saran wrap, show that cat the litter on the toilet. Takes no more than a day, and you can take away the saran wrap forever, and the cat will use the toilet just fine.
If you take a human being of very low intelligence, and throw a stick and ask them to go get it for you, s/he'll trot off happily, pick it up, bring it back to you, and possibly drool in the process.
Note, for reference, that dogs "fetch" because they've been bred to retrieve game that you've killed. Which breeding required a disruption between the "go get food" and "eat food" instincts of a wild dog/wolf.
In other words, dogs are the way they are because we've twisted their instincts into something useful to us.
That was what I was wondering about. Cats have convinced us to keep them around and feed them without them having to do anything for us, that seems pretty smart. Whereas we seem to expect dogs to do tricks, work and reciprocate. Cats sort of get by just by being cute and not having to contribute anything else.
Historically, we kept cats to keep down the vermin that tried to eat our grains supplies.
In other words, we didn't domesticate cats because they were cute, nor did we expect that they'd not contribute anything.
If the money supply increases at the rate of economic growth, no inflation is taking place, and prices are neither increasing or decreasing.
Inflation happens when the money supply increases relative to the economic growth. So prices get higher, and you get less stuff for your dollar.
The only thing good about low inflation is that it is easier to make happen than zero inflation.
And if you must change the money supply relative to the supply of "stuff to buy with money", it's better (slightly) to err on the side of low inflation than low deflation.
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Did you miss the part about him being told to make himself available for questioning if needed? Or him leaving the country after having been told to keep in contact with the Swedish authorities?
Since he, no doubt, read in the papers recently that a judge had been asked to request Interpol to bring him in for questioning, he should have had enough sense to get his lawyer and show up on his own, rather than waiting for the EU equivalent of the Feds to be sent after his ass....
If you read Alito's comment (even the part listed above), you might notice that he was in favour of hearing the case.
Your comment rather suggests the opposite. Which, in turn, suggests that you shouldn't let your prejudices blind you so often....
If India's economic ties are enough to make them "dominated by the USA", then surely China's (even larger) economic ties with the USA produce the same result. Ditto Russia's economic ties.
Note that it makes just as much sense to say that the USA is dominated by China due to their economic ties....
Post hoc ergo proper hoc is a fallacy. Assuming that because the Saudis asked for something that that's why we're doing it is idiotic. Especially given our long-standing opposition to anyone who isn't a nuclear power becoming one.
Or did the Saudis make this request in 1959?
Including those well-known American lackeys China and India.
Wait, they're not? How odd, since they have, between them, 40% of the world's population...
In other words, you're delusional if you think "80% of the world population, lives under the 'protectorate' and 'world policing' of united states"....
No. What he is is wanted for questioning by the prosecutor. It seems he was told to stay in touch with the prosecutor in case they wanted him to answer more questions. Alas, it also seems he left the country instead. So now the prosecutor wants Interpol to arrest his ass and bring him back to Sweden to (a) answer some more questions, and (b) probably be arrested for fleeing the country....
Well, no. We caused about 66,000 noncombatant casualties at Hiroshima.
And this must be offset by the fact that Hiroshima was removed from the list of possible conventional bombing targets so that we'd be able to get a better estimate of the effects of the atomic bombing (if your city has been bombed regularly for two years, it's hard to tell whether any given pile of rubble was caused by the A-bomb or one of the other bombs dropped there). Which means Hiroshima was spared probably half a dozen B-29 raids that would likely have caused moderately massive casualties (little know detail outside students of WW2 - there were more people killed in a single firebomb raid on Tokyo than in BOTH atomic bombings combined)..
So, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. One has a large moon. Which is pretty close to 1/4 of them.
Thar only 1/4 of our four samples has a large moon in no way implies that that one sample is "fairly unique in the galaxy".
Pure conjecture based on no data at all. Yet. I wouldn't be surprised if you were guessing correctly here, but then I wouldn't be terribly surprised if we first found life in a gas giant's atmosphere, either.
The US Marines do have Abrams tanks, fyi. Which is, among other reasons, why the LCAC (Landing Craft, Air Cushion) is designed to be able to carry an Abrams.
I take it you have some evidence that it was "pretty unique", as opposed to "fairly common"? If our solar system is any guide, it happens to 1/4 of all rocky planets....
Just did some quick checking. Using the 1960 tax brackets (chosen because that would represent what was in effect toward the end of the '50's), most of us (the employed fraction of us, anyway) here on /. would be paying between 65% and 75% of our income as Federal income taxes.
Yeah, I'm sure you'd be delighted to be paying 2/3 of your pay to the Feds, on top of your SSA/Medicare taxes.
True enough. "The Last Question" was about one honking big computer. Well, several increasingly large computers over the course of the story.
That said, what makes the internet what it is is the (mostly) unfettered access to it that pretty much everyone has, no, matter where they are, not the number of CPU's.
Obama did NOT cut taxes. What happened was that they adjusted withholdings so you kept more of your paycheck. So that come April you'd have to write a check to the IRS rather than getting one from them.
On the other hand, he did NOT raise taxes either. Though I expect the Democrats to try to raise taxes (by allowing the Bush-era tax cuts to lapse - yes, that raises taxes) during December, if they can find a way to make it look like the Republicans' fault.
Of course, Bob Heinlein had his characters using mobile phones in the 50's and 60's. Between Planets opened with the main character receiving a phone call while riding a horse in the back end of nowhere. Space Cadet had the main character receiving a phone call while standing in line for processing into the Patrol, while another character mentioned leaving his phone in his luggage so his mother couldn't worry at him...
Closest to the internet I can recall was Asimov's "The Last Question", which had characters connected (various input/output methods, from voice to direct neural feed) to world- (and later galaxy- and universe-) wide computer systems.
In the USA, the government isn't actually in the business of building farms and factories. We leave that to private individuals.
Hospitals? There are some that are built by the government, some that aren't. Other than VA hospitals, I can't think of any that are built by the Federal government, by the by.
Roads? Yes, the government handles that. With the gasoline taxes, pretty much entirely - the revenue from gasoline taxes matches pretty closely the outlays for the maintaining/upgrading roads.
So, pretty much none of your "good borrowing" is done by the Federal government, which doesn't seem to have slowed down the borrowing rate by the Federal government...
2030? It's almost there now. In the 2010 Federal Budget, there are $2184 billion in mandatory spending (entitlements, interest) and $2381 billion in revenues.
All but $197 billion of our tax revenues this past year went to entitlements and interest, leaving the trillion-odd dollars spent on the "official functions) to be almost entirely paid for by increasing the national debt.
Sadly, I spent ten minutes writing a detailed answer to your question, then had to delete it upon realizing that I had no clue how much of what I was writing was still classified.
Suffice it to say it's not an issue.
Fleas on its tail?
Generally, it's called play. Just like when my cat does the same thing.
Had a cat once that got very upset with me over something, don't remember what anymore. So that night, he crept into my bedroom, under the bed, and took a dump in both of my shoes.
Still can't figure out how he got his butt over the shoes to do that....
My brother, who keeps both dogs and cats, tells me that you can train a cat to use the toilet quite easily - put saran wrap or something similar over the toilet bowl, sprinkly a little cat litter on the saran wrap, show that cat the litter on the toilet. Takes no more than a day, and you can take away the saran wrap forever, and the cat will use the toilet just fine.
Now if only they could be taught to flush....
Note, for reference, that dogs "fetch" because they've been bred to retrieve game that you've killed. Which breeding required a disruption between the "go get food" and "eat food" instincts of a wild dog/wolf.
In other words, dogs are the way they are because we've twisted their instincts into something useful to us.
Which is NOT the same as being stupid.
Historically, we kept cats to keep down the vermin that tried to eat our grains supplies.
In other words, we didn't domesticate cats because they were cute, nor did we expect that they'd not contribute anything.
Sounds normal for where I live. Well, other than the fact that it's usually more humid than that in summer. And a bit warmer....
Top Secret isn't even high as classification levels go. My wife and I both had TS clearances in the Navy, and we were just mid-level NCO's.
If the money supply increases at the rate of economic growth, no inflation is taking place, and prices are neither increasing or decreasing.
Inflation happens when the money supply increases relative to the economic growth. So prices get higher, and you get less stuff for your dollar.
The only thing good about low inflation is that it is easier to make happen than zero inflation.
And if you must change the money supply relative to the supply of "stuff to buy with money", it's better (slightly) to err on the side of low inflation than low deflation.