Which is why they refused to hand over Edward Lee Howard (the most major CIA defector to the USSR) after only a very brief preliminary investigation; it's simply banned to extradite for such crimes.
Does your handler dock your pay when you trip over your own bullshit? You've spent years repeating the lie that the Swedish government is powerless to stop a court from extraditing suspects to other countries.
Because the UK, nominally at least, doesn't extradite people to countries where the suspect could be tortured or executed. Whereas Sweden DGAF. And even if he's not extradited, it is perfectly reasonable to be reticent to subjecting one's self to Sweden's Star Chambers. Suspects can be held for long periods of time incommunicado on the whims of the prosecution.
I know he is wanted on a rape charge and has decided the appropriate response is to hide. There is no valid explanation.
Actually, that's your willful ignorance talking. Assange has offered to be interviewed by Swedish prosecutors in the UK, or even return to Sweden if the government promises not to hand him over to the United States. So far they refuse to do so, which tells you that rape is the last thing this is about.
If you really think you are so important the US government wants to off you, in whatever sense, then stand up like a man and take it.
Annnd there it is: the mindless authoritarianism. Assange is not a U.S. citizen, and has never operated on U.S. soil.
graduated Harvard magna cum laude with a degree in applied mathematics economics, and won some maths related awards in university. But yeah, go on hating him to hate him. That's very mature of you.
Very telling that every one of those accomplishments were from his school days and not in a professional setting.
However, 34 years of experience at one of the largest, most profitable companies ever
And promptly pissing away Microsoft's relevance the second he was put in charge of it. Microsoft still dominates in office suites and desktop operating systems, but has missed every boat on the mobile devices that are supplanting desktops and the Microsoft ecosystem.
Getting reimbursed for work-related calls is no different than getting reimbursed for using your car for work, as in driving to a conference or making deliveries, not driving to work.
Following that logic, they should also be required to help pay for my network at home, part of the cost of my desktop, and my work clothes, since they have required me to have all three.
Um....yeah? Do you wash the boss's car for free while ironing his socks while you're at it?
Thing is, red light cameras catch people who are entering an intersection on red, which is illegal, dangerous, and inconsiderate
Unless the yellow light times were deliberately shorted in order to write more tickets while making the roads LESS safe by increasing rear-end collisions. This is not news.
There is no question of balancing rights and improvement in traffic conditions.
But of course there is, and that's even allowing the conflation of going through an intersection that's just turned red with going through an intersection where the cross-traffic has already started.
There is ZERO evidence that a trial would not be fair.
Do something about that willful ignorance: read up on the Espionage Act, the torture of Chelsea Manning, and Obama's unlawful command influence. Then try again.
Compared to what other system? Russian courts? Mexico?
You'd take your chances at Russia or Mexico over genpop in Ft. Leavenworth for the rest of your life.
It has HDMI out using standard Micro USB which doesn't exist on the iPad, and which seems to be missing from a lot of Android offerings.
Dur wha? Video out on iDevices predates the iPhone, much less the iPad. You do need an adapter cable, but until the Surface gets a full HDMI port you'll still need an adapter.
or extend your display.
Now there's an actual distinction and a difference.
Not fluff, just a bit anti-climatic after resolving both the situation on Earth and the Shadow War. The telepath war was a BFD but it took time to build up the story.
Let's see... I want to spend ã10 on some music. So I go to the iTunes Store. Find a song that I like, click on buy, and I'm asked to enter the password for my AppleId.
That's what online Shopping Carts are for. Or when buying stuff on Newegg do you click the "Checkout" button for each individual item?
No, seriously, what part of "there is no place in Gaza that isn't close to civilians" do you not understand? You look at a map and at population densities.
Your finely thought out and worded retort (summary: "I'm not, you are!"), along with your completely irrelevant and dysfunctional comparison to the unjustifiable attacks of 9/11 provide insight into why you hold the position of being an apologist for terrorists, and lead me to suspect the you have blah blah blah blah blah
You could have just said "yes, I'm a depraved racist because civilian deaths are only justifiable when they happen to be brown people" and saved yourself a lot of typing.
Big non sequitur. Again, claiming that Israel is responding to Hamas rockets is a falsehood when even Israeli officials admit it's the other way around.
The point isn't that Hamas hasn't fired any rockets, the point is the claim that Israel is responding to rocketfire is a falsehood, when even Israeli officials admit it's the other way around.
if hamas had tanks and were strapping women and children to the front of them, would you still consider it a warcrime for israel to shoot the tanks? it's hyperbole, but i'm pretty sure it's analagous in the right ways.
Was Israel using "human shields" by having uniformed, active duty soldiers using buses for transportation? You know, the buses hit by suicide bombers....or does the "human shields" line only apply to brown people of certain religions?
Projection much? Should the Israelis give up any and all human rights before the recognize the right of the Palestinians to exist? You're also flatly ignoring the fact that Arabs living in the West Bank are living under a system of Apartheid, which denies them the right to travel or vote, whether or not they accept the legitimacy of European immigrants taking their land by force.
So your solution is that the Israelis roll over and succumb to Hamas rocket fire and tunnel attacks instead?
No, the solution is to not repeat Bibi's Bullshit Propaganda that is debunked if you bother to check with Israeli officials or media. Not only had Hamas faithfully held to the cease fire since 2012 - despite constantIDFattacks - it was arresting those who had.
because Hamas was also attacking Egyptian soldiers in support of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood's violent resistance to it's overthrow
So now Hamas are also bad people for resisting a violent coup to overthrow an elected government and the resulting, brutal junta? Gotcha.
Gazans have made enemies with both their neighbours with persistent violent action and that's led to their isolation
You left out the Short Skirt while explaining how they were Asking For It. Do you have any posts that aren't sagely repeating western propaganda as if it were fact?
Checkpoints. Well, once upon a time there were no checkpoints and people were free to move about. Then the Arabs started taking advantage of this freedom to enter Israeli cities with explosive belts and blow up buses. Hence the checkpoints.
Lets see...first, you're ignoring the Israeli violence that precipitated the bus bombings. Secondly, uniformed Israeli soldiers used those buses for transportation. Using Israeli reasoning, that makes the buses valid military targets (since the IDF bombs anything they claim has anything to do with Hamas) and the Israeli government a bunch of soulless terrorists for using the bus passengers as "human shields".
Sea/air ports. All was open and free until Hamas started firing rockets at Israel and importing weapons from Iran.
Lets see...that's a lie. Even Israeli official will tell you that Hamas had, unlike Israel, been observing a cease fire prior to IDF dropping bombs on Gaza. Not only that, Hamas was arresting those who were firing rockets.
Continued occupation of their land. Sorry to inform you, but there has never been such a thing as "Palestinian Land"
Sorry to inform you, but that's a pile of racist bullshit. Just because the people of Palestine didn't have a flag doesn't mean there hasn't been a place called Palestine or a Palestinian people.
The Arab cities in the West Bank are under their own civil control, no one is confiscating land from Nablus.
Other than the constant land confiscations for "parks" or "building code violations", to make way for taxpayer-funded apartments for squatters. Oh, and there's that little system of Apartheid, of course: no right to vote, no right to travel on "Jewish roads", no right to intermarry, and so on.
In recent centuries the land (which the Romans named Palestine as a propaganda tactic - perhaps the most successful in history) was under Turkish rule, British mandatory rule, Jordanian and Egyptian military occupation, and today Israeli occupation in the West Bank.
So if the Romans, the Turks, the British or the Egyptians had wiped out the "continuing Jewish presence" in the area, you would have been okay with that because said Jews were under the thumb of another empire and had no flag of their own? Do you guys think through these talking points at all before regurgitating them?
Hamas rules over 100% of Gaza, and Israel isn't occupying or confiscating any of that
Israel utterly dominates the borders of Gaza, travel to and from Gaza, and what goes into or out of Gaza. Remember when they murdered Americans and Turks for bringing the well known terrorist weapons of food, medicine and shoes to the people living in Gaza? Guess what, Slick, that makes it an occupation.
Perhaps you should ask your leaders why, when Israel repeatedly offered to withdraw from almost the entire West Bank in exchange for peace, they refused, launching more and more horrific terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens.
Big Lies, again. All of Israel's territory grabs in the West Bank and Jerusalem are illegal and always have been. All of them. Despite that, Palestinians were willing to make massive concessions in return for their own state and and end to Apartheid. Israel kept moving the goalposts and taking all the water, though.
Perhaps you should also ask your leaders why, in 1967, w
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Does your handler dock your pay when you trip over your own bullshit? You've spent years repeating the lie that the Swedish government is powerless to stop a court from extraditing suspects to other countries.
When those governments are known for ignoring their own Constitutions in order to torture, imprison or even kill innocent people, dumbass.
Because the UK, nominally at least, doesn't extradite people to countries where the suspect could be tortured or executed. Whereas Sweden DGAF. And even if he's not extradited, it is perfectly reasonable to be reticent to subjecting one's self to Sweden's Star Chambers. Suspects can be held for long periods of time incommunicado on the whims of the prosecution.
Actually, that's your willful ignorance talking. Assange has offered to be interviewed by Swedish prosecutors in the UK, or even return to Sweden if the government promises not to hand him over to the United States. So far they refuse to do so, which tells you that rape is the last thing this is about.
Annnd there it is: the mindless authoritarianism. Assange is not a U.S. citizen, and has never operated on U.S. soil.
Very telling that every one of those accomplishments were from his school days and not in a professional setting.
And promptly pissing away Microsoft's relevance the second he was put in charge of it. Microsoft still dominates in office suites and desktop operating systems, but has missed every boat on the mobile devices that are supplanting desktops and the Microsoft ecosystem.
Like Hatorade?
Getting reimbursed for work-related calls is no different than getting reimbursed for using your car for work, as in driving to a conference or making deliveries, not driving to work.
Um....yeah? Do you wash the boss's car for free while ironing his socks while you're at it?
People who repeat this talking point don't understand republics or democracies.
Unless the yellow light times were deliberately shorted in order to write more tickets while making the roads LESS safe by increasing rear-end collisions. This is not news.
But of course there is, and that's even allowing the conflation of going through an intersection that's just turned red with going through an intersection where the cross-traffic has already started.
Do something about that willful ignorance: read up on the Espionage Act, the torture of Chelsea Manning, and Obama's unlawful command influence. Then try again.
You'd take your chances at Russia or Mexico over genpop in Ft. Leavenworth for the rest of your life.
Dur wha? Video out on iDevices predates the iPhone, much less the iPad. You do need an adapter cable, but until the Surface gets a full HDMI port you'll still need an adapter.
Now there's an actual distinction and a difference.
Have you considered Colon Blow to treat that uptight pedantic Hatorade?
Not fluff, just a bit anti-climatic after resolving both the situation on Earth and the Shadow War. The telepath war was a BFD but it took time to build up the story.
butterfingers. posting to undo a downmod that was supposed to be an upmod.
That's what online Shopping Carts are for. Or when buying stuff on Newegg do you click the "Checkout" button for each individual item?
Why the fixation on a propaganda video when the issue is there is no place in Gaza far from people?
No, seriously, what part of "there is no place in Gaza that isn't close to civilians" do you not understand? You look at a map and at population densities.
You could have just said "yes, I'm a depraved racist because civilian deaths are only justifiable when they happen to be brown people" and saved yourself a lot of typing.
Big non sequitur. Again, claiming that Israel is responding to Hamas rockets is a falsehood when even Israeli officials admit it's the other way around.
The point isn't that Hamas hasn't fired any rockets, the point is the claim that Israel is responding to rocketfire is a falsehood, when even Israeli officials admit it's the other way around.
I'll imagine, for five seconds, that this willfully ignorant talking point making the rounds wasn't debunked propaganda. Nope. can't do it.
Was Israel using "human shields" by having uniformed, active duty soldiers using buses for transportation? You know, the buses hit by suicide bombers....or does the "human shields" line only apply to brown people of certain religions?
Projection much? Should the Israelis give up any and all human rights before the recognize the right of the Palestinians to exist? You're also flatly ignoring the fact that Arabs living in the West Bank are living under a system of Apartheid, which denies them the right to travel or vote, whether or not they accept the legitimacy of European immigrants taking their land by force.
No, the solution is to not repeat Bibi's Bullshit Propaganda that is debunked if you bother to check with Israeli officials or media. Not only had Hamas faithfully held to the cease fire since 2012 - despite constant IDF attacks - it was arresting those who had.
So now Hamas are also bad people for resisting a violent coup to overthrow an elected government and the resulting, brutal junta? Gotcha.
You left out the Short Skirt while explaining how they were Asking For It. Do you have any posts that aren't sagely repeating western propaganda as if it were fact?
Lets see...first, you're ignoring the Israeli violence that precipitated the bus bombings. Secondly, uniformed Israeli soldiers used those buses for transportation. Using Israeli reasoning, that makes the buses valid military targets (since the IDF bombs anything they claim has anything to do with Hamas) and the Israeli government a bunch of soulless terrorists for using the bus passengers as "human shields".
Lets see...that's a lie. Even Israeli official will tell you that Hamas had, unlike Israel, been observing a cease fire prior to IDF dropping bombs on Gaza. Not only that, Hamas was arresting those who were firing rockets.
Sorry to inform you, but that's a pile of racist bullshit. Just because the people of Palestine didn't have a flag doesn't mean there hasn't been a place called Palestine or a Palestinian people.
Other than the constant land confiscations for "parks" or "building code violations", to make way for taxpayer-funded apartments for squatters. Oh, and there's that little system of Apartheid, of course: no right to vote, no right to travel on "Jewish roads", no right to intermarry, and so on.
So if the Romans, the Turks, the British or the Egyptians had wiped out the "continuing Jewish presence" in the area, you would have been okay with that because said Jews were under the thumb of another empire and had no flag of their own? Do you guys think through these talking points at all before regurgitating them?
Israel utterly dominates the borders of Gaza, travel to and from Gaza, and what goes into or out of Gaza. Remember when they murdered Americans and Turks for bringing the well known terrorist weapons of food, medicine and shoes to the people living in Gaza? Guess what, Slick, that makes it an occupation.
Big Lies, again. All of Israel's territory grabs in the West Bank and Jerusalem are illegal and always have been. All of them. Despite that, Palestinians were willing to make massive concessions in return for their own state and and end to Apartheid. Israel kept moving the goalposts and taking all the water, though.