Does the US have an extradition treaty with Venezuela?
"President Chavez emphasized that terrorist Luis Posada Carriles should be extradited to Venezuela, according to the extradition treaty between governments in Caracas and Washington."
The US courts seem to think that he's under threat of torture if he is returned, although the Amnesty International report doesn't state that much that is hugely controversial for Venezuela (and the US has no qualms about shipping folks to worse destinations).
True - but in all the hubbub about al-Magrehi there's a lot of hidden sub-texts that made that hubbub all the louder:
Maybe I should have phrased it differently. When I mentioned the hubbub I meant all the voices against his release with shouts about there being deals made. A lot of Americans opposed his released, when as you say there are questions as to his guilt, but there's no outcry from Americans for the government to hand over another accused terrorist.
Although I note that the treaty excludes political crimes (including assassination of political folks), crimes that come with them a death penalty, or life imprisonment (unless assurances are given), crimes committed outside the statute of limitations, folks who've applied for asylum (decision deferred until proceedings complete), and their own citizens. Quite a readable document, surprisingly! (not that I'm saying his lawyers have argued that he's exempt).
But, yes, I agree that there are some double-standards on the part of the US authorities - but then the relationship with Venezuela in 1922 (when the treaty was written) was probably different to what it is now....
The US has hardly any grounds to demand extradition when it won't extradite Cuban-born Venezuelan Luis Posada Carriles to stand trial for blowing up Cubana Flight 455. Venezuela has been demanding his extradition.
Does the US have an extradition treaty with Venezuela? If not, then why should they extradite him, particularly if there is reasonable grounds to suspect he might become a victim of human rights abuses as the Wiki intimates? (I'm not defending him - I know nothing about the events he has apparently been convicted of in Venezuela)
And despite refusing to do so, he was arrested for illegally entering the US.
A separate crime - although the wiki states the charges were dropped, so there's no cause for throwing him out of the country (whether he is supposed to be tried in the US for any terrorist crimes is yet another issue)
Despite all the hubbub about Scotland freeing the Libyan who was found guilty of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103, I bet most people never heard of Luis Posada Carriles.
Falcon
True - but in all the hubbub about al-Magrehi there's a lot of hidden sub-texts that made that hubbub all the louder:
a) most importantly, it's not entirely clear that he actually was guilty. The key witness testimony is somewhat shaky, and there's all sorts of documents that cast doubt on his guilt - even some of the relatives of the victims admit that. The whole story was not presented at trial
b) a lot of the hubbub was around the political chicanery that surrounds the release - key to this, IMHO, is a £500M deal with BP for oil exploration rights. For some reason, the UK govmt is getting all cosy with Gaddafi - rumours of training of troops, medical staff and all sorts of other things are going on. A lot of the speculation is pointing the finger at (Sith) Lord Mandelson, who is a slimy bastard at best.
in the event criminals wanted by the U.K. are in the U.S., the U.K. can (and does) seek extradition too: we're countries on friendly terms that are already very cooperative,
Unfortunately it's not quite as cut & dried as that - there's that ratification of a treaty that has already been commented, for a start.
I think that the present case is that if the US wants to extradite, it does not need to actually present evidence to a UK court about the crime in question, whereas when the UK wants to extradite, we would pretty much have to show at least probable cause to a US court
That may not be wholly accurate, but the situation is certainly not even-handed - it's a lot easier for the US to get an extradition from the UK than it is for the UK to get extradition from the US. I'm not even sure if the un-ratified treaty will address that, either (and I'm rather confused that a treaty can be in force when only ratified by one of the parties involved in it, but then IANAL)P
except it also covers satellite and cable, and I think Messrs Murdoch & Branson might have a different opinion as to who maintains their infrastructure
Not forgetting that anyone purchasing equipment capable of receiving TV broadcasts must give a name & address which the retailer is obliged to pass on to the licensing folks.
The license is to receive broadcast channels, not to own receiving equipment. You can own a TV and not have a license legitimately, as long as you never connect an aerial to it, or, if using a computer, never connect to "as it shows over the air" type services.
It is perfectly legit to use iPlayer-style catch up services (i.e. on demand) without a license. Info here
They do for some categories of household, and have done for the last decade. I took advantage of this in my first house to get essentially free rolls of loft insulation (as there was no way I'd pay someone to just go up there and unroll it, so I used the entire subsidy on the insulation, rather than an installation service).
Here's the current qualification criteria - looks like they now only target low income households
You could argue that Scientology has no converts from just reading their texts because their texts have been locked up away from non-initiates all these years. Christianity, Judaism, Islam and all the other whacko cults that have been around for thousands of years with vast numbers of adherents have had plenty of time with their "public domain" religious texts - it just demonstrates the danger of Open Source and the benefits of DRM:-)
You only get to read the Scientologists text with a valid license key (aka lobotomy)
They're totally the same, except that Patton was a very public figure, who commanded thousands of men and was immortalized in an Oscar winning movie, while Turing was a spook.
A shame this film didn't win awards, then:) (yes, I know it's not directly about Turing)
They're totally the same, except that Patton was a very public figure, who commanded thousands of men and was immortalized in an Oscar winning movie, while Turing was a spook.
A shame this film didn't win awards, then:) (yes, I know it's not directly about Turing)/P
In the UK there is "gardening leave" for when you are made redundant/handed in notice and you work in a sensitive job - basically you are still paid (and not allowed to start work for the other company) but you do no work.
The alternative is to work your notice period.
The above is only for "amicable" partings - if you're fired, expect to get ushered out asap and then a box is delivered to you.
Within the next 25 years, cellphones will become at least twice as fast.
That long? More like 2 years or 18 months (aka Moore's law applied to cell phones). It's not that difficult, but places a strain on the battery and heat dissipation.
At least one person, someone, somewhere, who has the power to decide these things, will get the brilliant and innovative idea of putting a frigging NTP client on a phone so I don't have to set the clock myself [and adjust for DST]. Heck, maybe it can be NTP++ that uses GPS info to determine my timezone too.
Re-write this to "Networks should wake up and enable time synch" - it's a feature within GSM and has been for a while. Many's the time I've roamed and had my clock updated. Many's the time I've returned home and had to do it manually.
We will all move to using skype instead of voice calls and twitter instead of SMS. Or perhaps Google Talk and email, but that's probably just me being naive and wishful.
Literary humour works in different ways to visual humour - there are plays on words within narrative that are not possible within audio/video, and there are things that work better on TV/radio - a good conversion between the two mediums works with this (have you seen the Sky TV adaptations of two of the discworld books? Remarkably good, and on quite a small (in Hollywood terms) budget).
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You could always try one of these - no need for the bulky treadmill. Or you could see if these folks have progressed any further.
Does the US have an extradition treaty with Venezuela?
"President Chavez emphasized that terrorist Luis Posada Carriles should be extradited to Venezuela, according to the extradition treaty between governments in Caracas and Washington."
I guess I could have Googled it quite easily :-(
The US courts seem to think that he's under threat of torture if he is returned, although the Amnesty International report doesn't state that much that is hugely controversial for Venezuela (and the US has no qualms about shipping folks to worse destinations).
True - but in all the hubbub about al-Magrehi there's a lot of hidden sub-texts that made that hubbub all the louder:
Maybe I should have phrased it differently. When I mentioned the hubbub I meant all the voices against his release with shouts about there being deals made. A lot of Americans opposed his released, when as you say there are questions as to his guilt, but there's no outcry from Americans for the government to hand over another accused terrorist.
Although I note that the treaty excludes political crimes (including assassination of political folks), crimes that come with them a death penalty, or life imprisonment (unless assurances are given), crimes committed outside the statute of limitations, folks who've applied for asylum (decision deferred until proceedings complete), and their own citizens. Quite a readable document, surprisingly! (not that I'm saying his lawyers have argued that he's exempt).
But, yes, I agree that there are some double-standards on the part of the US authorities - but then the relationship with Venezuela in 1922 (when the treaty was written) was probably different to what it is now....
The US has hardly any grounds to demand extradition when it won't extradite Cuban-born Venezuelan Luis Posada Carriles to stand trial for blowing up Cubana Flight 455. Venezuela has been demanding his extradition.
Does the US have an extradition treaty with Venezuela? If not, then why should they extradite him, particularly if there is reasonable grounds to suspect he might become a victim of human rights abuses as the Wiki intimates? (I'm not defending him - I know nothing about the events he has apparently been convicted of in Venezuela)
And despite refusing to do so, he was arrested for illegally entering the US.
A separate crime - although the wiki states the charges were dropped, so there's no cause for throwing him out of the country (whether he is supposed to be tried in the US for any terrorist crimes is yet another issue)
Despite all the hubbub about Scotland freeing the Libyan who was found guilty of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103, I bet most people never heard of Luis Posada Carriles.
Falcon
True - but in all the hubbub about al-Magrehi there's a lot of hidden sub-texts that made that hubbub all the louder:
a) most importantly, it's not entirely clear that he actually was guilty. The key witness testimony is somewhat shaky, and there's all sorts of documents that cast doubt on his guilt - even some of the relatives of the victims admit that. The whole story was not presented at trial
b) a lot of the hubbub was around the political chicanery that surrounds the release - key to this, IMHO, is a £500M deal with BP for oil exploration rights. For some reason, the UK govmt is getting all cosy with Gaddafi - rumours of training of troops, medical staff and all sorts of other things are going on. A lot of the speculation is pointing the finger at (Sith) Lord Mandelson, who is a slimy bastard at best.
in the event criminals wanted by the U.K. are in the U.S., the U.K. can (and does) seek extradition too: we're countries on friendly terms that are already very cooperative,
Unfortunately it's not quite as cut & dried as that - there's that ratification of a treaty that has already been commented, for a start.
I think that the present case is that if the US wants to extradite, it does not need to actually present evidence to a UK court about the crime in question, whereas when the UK wants to extradite, we would pretty much have to show at least probable cause to a US court
That may not be wholly accurate, but the situation is certainly not even-handed - it's a lot easier for the US to get an extradition from the UK than it is for the UK to get extradition from the US. I'm not even sure if the un-ratified treaty will address that, either (and I'm rather confused that a treaty can be in force when only ratified by one of the parties involved in it, but then IANAL)P
except it also covers satellite and cable, and I think Messrs Murdoch & Branson might have a different opinion as to who maintains their infrastructure
Not forgetting that anyone purchasing equipment capable of receiving TV broadcasts must give a name & address which the retailer is obliged to pass on to the licensing folks.
It is perfectly legit to use iPlayer-style catch up services (i.e. on demand) without a license. Info here
Can't imagine this lasting very long, though
Some folks will buy all sorts of weird shit
Num lock: always on
Caps lock: RARELY ON :)
Scroll lock: never on
Just turned them all on and it would seem that CAPS is brighter than NUM is brighter than SCROLL
Maybe it's the housing...
They do for some categories of household, and have done for the last decade. I took advantage of this in my first house to get essentially free rolls of loft insulation (as there was no way I'd pay someone to just go up there and unroll it, so I used the entire subsidy on the insulation, rather than an installation service).
Here's the current qualification criteria - looks like they now only target low income households
What, like the HTC Hero that's been available since July? (see orange.co.uk) Apparently they're also looking at the upcoming Motorola Android phone
Anyone know if his music is any good?
Apparently so. Some of the items in his album list have AllMusic ratings, and they're up in the 4* area
Surely not?
You can legally obtain the Operating Thetan documents, too
Might need an interpreter, though, to make sense of it all - and that's where the brainwashing will begin...
You only get to read the Scientologists text with a valid license key (aka lobotomy)
err - believe it, here's Norway. Sweden is not so hot, but still good. Finland is very good, too.
If the operator has poorly written contracts then you may well walk away from them with your free phone - all it takes is a change to your T&Cs
Whatever a politician says is, as it always has been, a lie.
FTFY
They're totally the same, except that Patton was a very public figure, who commanded thousands of men and was immortalized in an Oscar winning movie, while Turing was a spook.
A shame this film didn't win awards, then :) (yes, I know it's not directly about Turing)
They're totally the same, except that Patton was a very public figure, who commanded thousands of men and was immortalized in an Oscar winning movie, while Turing was a spook.
A shame this film didn't win awards, then :) (yes, I know it's not directly about Turing) /P
Indeed they are
The alternative is to work your notice period.
The above is only for "amicable" partings - if you're fired, expect to get ushered out asap and then a box is delivered to you.
Lucky termite. Does it then use the ignition source to light a thermite waistcoat in a "suicide-data-deletion" bid?
Here's a humble guess, a hope and another guess:
That long? More like 2 years or 18 months (aka Moore's law applied to cell phones). It's not that difficult, but places a strain on the battery and heat dissipation.
At least one person, someone, somewhere, who has the power to decide these things, will get the brilliant and innovative idea of putting a frigging NTP client on a phone so I don't have to set the clock myself [and adjust for DST]. Heck, maybe it can be NTP++ that uses GPS info to determine my timezone too.
Re-write this to "Networks should wake up and enable time synch" - it's a feature within GSM and has been for a while. Many's the time I've roamed and had my clock updated. Many's the time I've returned home and had to do it manually.
We will all move to using skype instead of voice calls and twitter instead of SMS. Or perhaps Google Talk and email, but that's probably just me being naive and wishful.
Try this network then
You could always learn to read with timing... :-)
Literary humour works in different ways to visual humour - there are plays on words within narrative that are not possible within audio/video, and there are things that work better on TV/radio - a good conversion between the two mediums works with this (have you seen the Sky TV adaptations of two of the discworld books? Remarkably good, and on quite a small (in Hollywood terms) budget).