The announcement today means that Assange was completely 100% wrong.
Forget this week - the 2001 case of Sweden handing people over to the CIA to be tortured makes all of Assange's fears entirely reasonable. Anyone who claims otherwise is either woefully ignorant of relevant events or is purposely turning their brain off, and accept more BS from the same sort of people that lied you into Iraq. That one example of shenanigans is more than enough, but there are plenty more where that came from. And each one doubles the willful ignorance involved, like that old story about a kid getting a grain of rice from a greedy king, except each day that grain of rice would double:
There's the fact that Assange was questioned and cleared to leave Sweden by investigators, only for another, more politically motivated prosecutor to step in. And get an INTERPOL warrant. For a couple of women who asked for an STD test.
There's the fact that Sweden has refused for years to either interview Assange remotely, or to send investigators to interview him in London - as they've done dozens of other times since Assange took refuge in the embassy.
There's the fact that Sweden has refused Assange's offer to return to Sweden if they promise not to hand him over to the United States. A promise that would be easy to make, given America's fondness for torture. Speaking off...
There's the fact that Obama had Chelsea Manning tortured with a year and a half of solitary confinement.
There's the fact that the UK has spent millions of pounds to watch one person for...jumping bail. And pressured Sweden to keep up the investigation instead of dropping it.
Then there's the fact that Sweden went to great lengths to nab a founder of the Pirate Bay from a non-extradition country - and as soon as he was on Swedish soil, interrogated him at length without a lawyer for an alleged crime in another country. Which meant it was their plan to do so all along. And as soon as his Swedish sentence was up, deported him to said other country (Denmark).
And that's off the top of my head, there's probably some more I'm forgetting. But you're already at an entire kingdom's worth of willful dumbfuckery, based facts that have been readily available for years.
Throwing money at the homeless problem has not solved it.
Why do you have to throw money at your fridge this week, when you spent perfectly good money on groceries last week? Why do you have to keep throwing money at your car in the form of taking it to the gas station? Expecting your car to run on perpetual motion based on a one-time payment is as sensible as expecting poverty to disappear based on some food stamps and some public housing.
In the meantime, every tax that we spend just makes government more intrusive in our lives
Yup. Providing free housing, medical care or education is exactly the same thing as the NSA spying on everyone's communications, because gubbmit.
The point was perfectly clear the first time. You have a pathological need for Assange to be a "crappy human being" - despite the lack of any reasoning or evidence whatsoever - because if he's not, then you sir, are the piece of crap masquerading as a human. You and every other tool engaging in mindless character assassination.
You, on the other hand, have gone out of your way to make it personal for no visible reason. Kindly go fuck your hat.
Says the ratfucker who has nothing but baseless personal smears.
Here's a thought... he shouldn't have broken the law then they wouldn't be after him.
Here's a better though....stop buying the transparent pretext for arrest. If Sweden was serious about investigating an alleged rape (really the women only went to the state to ask for an STD test, not to press charges) then they could have sent investigators to question Assange in the UK or remotely via Skype other other video conferencing, as Assange has offered to do. As they've done dozens of other times in other cases since Assange has sought asylum.
Assange has also promised to return to Sweden if they promise not to hand him over to the United States. A promise Sweden could have easily made, given Obama's prolonged torture of Chelsea Manning, and Sweden being a signatory to the UN Convention Against Torture. Which forbids prisoners being handed over to regimes that engage in it.
Why do people think it would be easier to extradite from Sweden than from the UK?
What would be the pretext in the UK? Assange isn't accused of committing any crimes there and thus they would have no reason to detain or question him. Even now, as the Trump DOJ is proving all of Assange's fears to be completely rational and his haters to be assholes, a foriegn state doing a snatch-and-grab on the CIA's say so in broad daylight would force people to pay attention. And the UK has denied extradition to the USA based on how brutally America treats it's prisoners. Prisoners like Chelsea Manning, who was tortured with solitary confinement for a year and a half.
As opposed to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning on an alleged crime (even though he was questioned and given permission to leave by a prosecutor) and that government has had no problems giving people to the US to be tortured.
The recent encouraging developments involved the Ecuadorian government being led by a president who campaigned as a socialist but ended up being a CIA toady
Exactly. It's tough to think of someone who comes off as more slimy and repulsive than Julian Assange.
Really. You use that to describe Assange, who's revealed war crimes and corrupt secrets from both parties in the USA and nations around the world, and not someone like Sean Hannity or Rachael Madcow, who's paid $30,000 to alternate between McCarthyism and gaslighting.
So I have to ask....is your willful dumbfuckery powered by fusion?
Being both an asshole and paranoid didn't mean he was wrong.
Him being right the entire time makes you and every other Assange hater the asshole. Y'all are like a sniveling pack of high school cheerleaders, finding excuses to keep calling the unpopular girll a slut when you know she's never been on a date much less had sex. Does it make you feel proud to lick CIA boots stained with blood from all over the world?
Repetitions for the willfully obtuse, Trebeck: Lack of medical schools isn't the problem - the six figure cost in becoming a doctor is. First, you run into the same problem arguing supply and demand as those who blame the high cost of higher education in the United States on easy student loan money: if that were the case, more private and public institutions would sprout up to compete for that said money and students, bringing costs back down. But that's never happened, and costs only continue to go up.
Second, no amount of medical schools are going to reduce most of the costs involved. They aren't going to make the profession any less complex or any less ever-changing and in need of up to date information. They aren't going to make cadavers free for purchase at your corner drug store. They aren't going to make getting an MD a four year degree. They aren't going to make the equipment less expensive. You might be able to teach an engineering course using century-old math textbooks, as the fundamental theories of calculus haven't changed since centuries before that, but that's not the case for medicine which is constantly updated.
Corporatist propaganda. Most medical malpractice is never brought to court, and actual frivolous lawsuits being awarded actual serious money are as rare as spotting Big Food riding the Loch Ness Monster.
Fake news. Not going to court doesn't mean there isn't a payoff. "Actual serious money" is a nebulous term at best, especially when it happens thousands of times.
Hand waiving. Try watching the Hot Coffee documentary with your blinders off. Cases like Colin Gourley abound, where damages were awarded short of compensatory damages, and even then were reduced under tort "reform" caps. No case can be called frivolous until all the facts are presented.
This happened to several members of my family in the 1800's. Instead of paying 20-30% in income tax to the government to take care of the invalid, they paid 20-30% of their income to take care of their invalid relatives.
As that's never happened (paying 30% of income in taxes for senior care) that sounds like a Libertarian riding his anti-sixteenth amendment hobby horse. Comment is further detached from reality as families don't typically consist of people having 5-10 kids anymore, and working children of retirees weren't paying five figures a year in education costs for their own children at the same time as they took care of their own parents.
People keep talking about this as a looming disaster, instead of an even that was planned for more than 30 years in advance.
The Social Security trustees forecast that the ratio of workers to beneficiaries reaches 2.2 by 2035 when the baby-boom generation will have largely retired.
By 2035 baby boomers will largely be dead and not collecting any benefits.
So why do people always ask this asinine question? Lawyers in a class action pay all of the costs and take all of the risks. Don't like it - hire you own damn lawyer. Secondly, if the choice is between letting the money that was ripped off from you stay in the hands of the thieves that stole it, or giving it to some party that didn't harm you - or hell burn it in a pile in the street - what are you going to chose?
So, still no example of an equivalent product selling for less money (or offering much better specs). If Apple sucks so bad that would be easy for you to do....
Whines the hater with completely irrational feelings towards a company who's products he's free not to buy. And whines some more about valid arguments when he can't provide an example to back up his assertion.
Were you dropped on the head on the child, early and often? All the things I mentioned have had an infinitely greater effect on worker wages than any number of immigrants.
Let me know about this universe you live in where the laws of economics are repealed what's it called Earth-Venezuela ?
Let me know where there was an economic boom time in the United States when there wasn't immigration, dipper-shit.
But witnessing the loss of Paradise by fire, I also know that human kindness is so much more prevalent and way more powerful. The outpouring of people opening their homes to people, and pets is a constant reminder that most people are good and decent when times get tough.
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Err no. The overwhelming cause of the stagnation of wages over the past 40+ years is allowing an unlimited amount of legal and illegal immigration of people willing to work for slave wages.
Nonsense. Immigrants didn't kill unions. Immigrants didn't force CEO's to take home 500 times as much as one of their workers. Immigrants didn't force offshoring, temping, H1B's, a stagnant minimum wage, or force corporations into making their workers take massive benefit cuts while securing massive golden parachutes for their executives. Etc, etc.
The horrible money-extracting system American people call "heathcare" is at the source of your situation.
Insurance is a ripoff, but it's not suppressing people's wages. H1B's are, by increasing the size of the labor pool so corporations can pay their work force less money.
Sounds like a typical lazy apple cultist cop-out. But then apple zealots dont seem big on educating themselves especially since the original poster is an apple shill that often makes bullshit statement about apple with providing any proof therefore...
Sounds like typical lazy Hateboi projection. Y'know, if Apple sucks so bad and there are so many equivalent products for far lower prices, it would be easy for you to find one...but all you got is Hatorade.
No problem - I wish I'd come up with it, but thus the citation. The context was Hitchens debating creationists and getting fed up with them saying 'XYZ is true because the Bible says so!'
One could easily find a sandwich bun 7" in diameter (I live in the Midwest US, where pork tenderloin patties are typically the size of a dinner plate!)
Wow, the literal use of fishing jargon by an infamous troll.
What, Hitchens? That the guy was a racist warmonger does nothing to change the fact that his simple quote is a direct, easy answer to the lazy people who say "don't believe me? Google it!"
Besides, this is Slashdot. If you don't build your own computers, you shouldn't be here. Perhaps Facebook or Twitter is more your speed, son.
So, still no example of an equivalent product selling for less money (or offering much better specs). If Apple sucks so bad that would be easy for you to do....
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Ivanka didn't:
Set up a private email server in her own house the way Hillary did.
Send thousands of classified emails from said account.
Destroy thousands of pieces of evidence while under FBI investigation.
This is taking butthurt partisan false equivalencies to 11.
Forget this week - the 2001 case of Sweden handing people over to the CIA to be tortured makes all of Assange's fears entirely reasonable. Anyone who claims otherwise is either woefully ignorant of relevant events or is purposely turning their brain off, and accept more BS from the same sort of people that lied you into Iraq. That one example of shenanigans is more than enough, but there are plenty more where that came from. And each one doubles the willful ignorance involved, like that old story about a kid getting a grain of rice from a greedy king, except each day that grain of rice would double:
There's the fact that Sweden has refused for years to either interview Assange remotely, or to send investigators to interview him in London - as they've done dozens of other times since Assange took refuge in the embassy.
There's the fact that Sweden has refused Assange's offer to return to Sweden if they promise not to hand him over to the United States. A promise that would be easy to make, given America's fondness for torture. Speaking off...
There's the fact that Obama had Chelsea Manning tortured with a year and a half of solitary confinement.
There's the fact that the UK has spent millions of pounds to watch one person for...jumping bail. And pressured Sweden to keep up the investigation instead of dropping it.
Then there's the fact that Sweden went to great lengths to nab a founder of the Pirate Bay from a non-extradition country - and as soon as he was on Swedish soil, interrogated him at length without a lawyer for an alleged crime in another country. Which meant it was their plan to do so all along. And as soon as his Swedish sentence was up, deported him to said other country (Denmark).
And that's off the top of my head, there's probably some more I'm forgetting. But you're already at an entire kingdom's worth of willful dumbfuckery, based facts that have been readily available for years.
Why do you have to throw money at your fridge this week, when you spent perfectly good money on groceries last week? Why do you have to keep throwing money at your car in the form of taking it to the gas station? Expecting your car to run on perpetual motion based on a one-time payment is as sensible as expecting poverty to disappear based on some food stamps and some public housing.
Yup. Providing free housing, medical care or education is exactly the same thing as the NSA spying on everyone's communications, because gubbmit.
The point was perfectly clear the first time. You have a pathological need for Assange to be a "crappy human being" - despite the lack of any reasoning or evidence whatsoever - because if he's not, then you sir, are the piece of crap masquerading as a human. You and every other tool engaging in mindless character assassination.
Says the ratfucker who has nothing but baseless personal smears.
Here's a better though....stop buying the transparent pretext for arrest. If Sweden was serious about investigating an alleged rape (really the women only went to the state to ask for an STD test, not to press charges) then they could have sent investigators to question Assange in the UK or remotely via Skype other other video conferencing, as Assange has offered to do. As they've done dozens of other times in other cases since Assange has sought asylum.
Assange has also promised to return to Sweden if they promise not to hand him over to the United States. A promise Sweden could have easily made, given Obama's prolonged torture of Chelsea Manning, and Sweden being a signatory to the UN Convention Against Torture. Which forbids prisoners being handed over to regimes that engage in it.
What would be the pretext in the UK? Assange isn't accused of committing any crimes there and thus they would have no reason to detain or question him. Even now, as the Trump DOJ is proving all of Assange's fears to be completely rational and his haters to be assholes, a foriegn state doing a snatch-and-grab on the CIA's say so in broad daylight would force people to pay attention. And the UK has denied extradition to the USA based on how brutally America treats it's prisoners. Prisoners like Chelsea Manning, who was tortured with solitary confinement for a year and a half.
As opposed to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning on an alleged crime (even though he was questioned and given permission to leave by a prosecutor) and that government has had no problems giving people to the US to be tortured.
FTFY
Sorry to hear that you and reality aren't on speaking terms.
Really. You use that to describe Assange, who's revealed war crimes and corrupt secrets from both parties in the USA and nations around the world, and not someone like Sean Hannity or Rachael Madcow, who's paid $30,000 to alternate between McCarthyism and gaslighting.
So I have to ask....is your willful dumbfuckery powered by fusion?
Him being right the entire time makes you and every other Assange hater the asshole. Y'all are like a sniveling pack of high school cheerleaders, finding excuses to keep calling the unpopular girll a slut when you know she's never been on a date much less had sex. Does it make you feel proud to lick CIA boots stained with blood from all over the world?
Repetitions for the willfully obtuse, Trebeck: Lack of medical schools isn't the problem - the six figure cost in becoming a doctor is. First, you run into the same problem arguing supply and demand as those who blame the high cost of higher education in the United States on easy student loan money: if that were the case, more private and public institutions would sprout up to compete for that said money and students, bringing costs back down. But that's never happened, and costs only continue to go up.
Second, no amount of medical schools are going to reduce most of the costs involved. They aren't going to make the profession any less complex or any less ever-changing and in need of up to date information. They aren't going to make cadavers free for purchase at your corner drug store. They aren't going to make getting an MD a four year degree. They aren't going to make the equipment less expensive. You might be able to teach an engineering course using century-old math textbooks, as the fundamental theories of calculus haven't changed since centuries before that, but that's not the case for medicine which is constantly updated.
Hand waiving. Try watching the Hot Coffee documentary with your blinders off. Cases like Colin Gourley abound, where damages were awarded short of compensatory damages, and even then were reduced under tort "reform" caps. No case can be called frivolous until all the facts are presented.
As that's never happened (paying 30% of income in taxes for senior care) that sounds like a Libertarian riding his anti-sixteenth amendment hobby horse. Comment is further detached from reality as families don't typically consist of people having 5-10 kids anymore, and working children of retirees weren't paying five figures a year in education costs for their own children at the same time as they took care of their own parents.
People keep talking about this as a looming disaster, instead of an even that was planned for more than 30 years in advance.
By 2035 baby boomers will largely be dead and not collecting any benefits.
So why do people always ask this asinine question? Lawyers in a class action pay all of the costs and take all of the risks. Don't like it - hire you own damn lawyer. Secondly, if the choice is between letting the money that was ripped off from you stay in the hands of the thieves that stole it, or giving it to some party that didn't harm you - or hell burn it in a pile in the street - what are you going to chose?
So, still no example of an equivalent product selling for less money (or offering much better specs). If Apple sucks so bad that would be easy for you to do....
Whines the hater with completely irrational feelings towards a company who's products he's free not to buy. And whines some more about valid arguments when he can't provide an example to back up his assertion.
Were you dropped on the head on the child, early and often? All the things I mentioned have had an infinitely greater effect on worker wages than any number of immigrants.
Let me know where there was an economic boom time in the United States when there wasn't immigration, dipper-shit.
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Nonsense. Immigrants didn't kill unions. Immigrants didn't force CEO's to take home 500 times as much as one of their workers. Immigrants didn't force offshoring, temping, H1B's, a stagnant minimum wage, or force corporations into making their workers take massive benefit cuts while securing massive golden parachutes for their executives. Etc, etc.
Insurance is a ripoff, but it's not suppressing people's wages. H1B's are, by increasing the size of the labor pool so corporations can pay their work force less money.
Sounds like typical lazy Hateboi projection. Y'know, if Apple sucks so bad and there are so many equivalent products for far lower prices, it would be easy for you to find one...but all you got is Hatorade.
No problem - I wish I'd come up with it, but thus the citation. The context was Hitchens debating creationists and getting fed up with them saying 'XYZ is true because the Bible says so!'
Hmmm, tenderloin...
What, Hitchens? That the guy was a racist warmonger does nothing to change the fact that his simple quote is a direct, easy answer to the lazy people who say "don't believe me? Google it!"
Not even remotely close, Hateboi.
So, still no example of an equivalent product selling for less money (or offering much better specs). If Apple sucks so bad that would be easy for you to do....
Which is a motherboard, not a computer from an OEM. Any DIY computer will be cheaper than an OEM (i.e. not just Apple). So, got a real example?