The foreign office sent a letter pointing out they have a legal route to arresting Julian in the embassy. It's not quite the same as threatening to sent the paratroopers in.
Nope, it's called abusing your authority and quite possibly putting the world at risk because suddenly no one is safe in embassy's anymore. Shit, if the UK can decide to stop giving diplomatic status to a foreign embassy because they granted political asylum to someone, then no one will ever be safe in any embassy again.
He offered to answer questions over the phone or videoconference, and was turned down. The Swedes have made it quite clear that they're demanding his physical presence.
Of course they do. Cops are like that also. Why? Because if they have him physically, they don't need to ask question, they are going to lock him up and throw him in jail. For the rape charge? No. They are using that as a pretext to get him in their possession.
This is what is going to happen:
1. They manage to get him back to Sweden, where we will find out if they are only going to question him, or if he'll end up being locked up and given to the U.S. Government.
2. He manages to stay out of Sweden, but still ends up dead. (Murdered of course).
3. He gets to go to the embassy, but then the UK really does pull diplomatic status away from the Embassy, which then starts a big protest by every other country that isn't a U.S. pawn about the sovereignty of Embassy's. Could lead to some UK, maybe even some US Embassy's being burnt down to the ground.
4. Sweden decides to drop the charges because win or lose, it's going to look really bad on Sweden.
You can't get any cheaper then free, if you are eligible of course. Do NOT know if the phone is unlocked, but unlike Assurance Wireless http://www.assurancewireless.com/Public/Welcome.aspx the phone uses a sim card, so you can buy a better phone then the cheap one they give ya.
But hey, it's free, I use it. Why the hell should I pay any money monthly for the extra bullshit I don't use?
Always thought it was a bad idea. I was helping a buddy of mine get some online game going, and the place (EA Games) wants your email address as your log in ID. But my buddy, is like, "why do they want my email's password?" I try to explain, "They don't. They want you to use your email as your log in info, but make a new password." I'm pretty sure he used the same password as his email password. And honestly, that is way too easy to do like that.
It was space aliens. Ancient civilizations were all developed by space aliens who came to Earth for some unknown reason, and decided to teach us everything.
Actually it seems they came down for raw materials and "created/evolved" the "humans" to be the work force. They got what they wanted, and left. We just built ourselves up since then.
Google has had my phone number for years. To my knowledge I've yet to receive a single call that originated from Google or someone to whom Google gave my phone number.
I'm all for identifying evil as evil, but it would be nice to have some actual evidence before making the accusation.
What I find funny is I have a googe voice account, and I have a gmail account and oddly enough, they are both the same account, yet I still get Google asking for my phone number. Seriously google, you have all my phone numbers already. Not sure why you are so stupid about it though...
I'm not growing the marijuana for recreational purposes, it's part of my computer. I choose the mighty cannabis because it's a hardy stock that can grow most anywhere and of course, it helps me sleep.
I see this as a good thing. First, as long as the ads aren't obnoxious, it will get a little money for the uTorrent team. Second, it will help encourage legitimate use of torrents. One of the knock on torrents and why they are so often throttled and blocked is that they are a tool for piracy. While there are currently legitimate uses, I would suspect that 95% or more of usage is for piracy. If these ads expose more people to legitimate torrent content and help get the legitimate use up, that is a good thing all around.
First off, how do the Ads make them money? click thru or by people viewing them?
And um, I'm 100% sure you are just throwing out 95% like you are an expert. Are you? No?
Okay, first off, downloading copyrighted material isn't stealing.
Second, while a lot of piracy happens using bittorrent, a LOT of legal businesses use it also. For example, The Internet Archive is now online via Bit Torrent. http://bt1.archive.org/hotlist.php
I already had to add an extra power circuit in my living room to accommodate my Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, OnLive console, Valve console, Atari 2600, Region 1 blu-ray player, Region 2 blu-ray player, Laserdisc player, VCR, DVR, POW, laptop, Apple Mini, 100-speaker sound system, and 300" 4D TV.
Last week my dog disappeared and I'm pretty sure he's somewhere behind my entertainment center. If anyone has some mountain climbing gear and a Jaws of Life, I would very much appreciate a hand.
Welcome to life!
Back in the day, like that Atari 2600, you had 2 screws you hooked the video game console thru, and god forbid you had 2 or 3 or so of those type of consoles. And we were happy for it.
Then they made the screw type that is most common with Cable TV. Still only had 1 input on the TV, but by then we had more consoles, shit, we were getting knee deep in the consoles by then. But still only 1 input. And yet, it was so much better then the previous arrangement, we loved it.
Then came the RCA jack inputs, Video and Audio (L & R). Now you had a choice. The old school screw connector, or the new composite video connector! woot!!! Still took years and years before they started including more then 1 of those composite inputs though. Shit, VCR's usually had 2 of them on them. Great improvement, plug and play baby!
Then came component, which for for SD TV's usually only had the 1 input, of course, it still had the other 2 common inputs also. Great Quality, sometimes plugging it in could be a pain if there was still a bunch of composite plugs (which there usually was).
Now, with LCD HD TV's I find on my TV, a Samsung, 6-8 different inputs. some of them can't be used at the same time, but most can. Not sure if my TV is special or not, but from what I've seen, most modern TV's have more inputs then older TV's. Oh, and the types of inputs? composite, S-Vid, Component, 15pin VGA, DVI, HDMI. Even got a usb plug somewhere.
And oddly enough, you can buy video switchers. For example, I have a commodore 1902 monitor that I connect my old consoles to. It has a split luma/chrom input (S-Video, but using 2 rca jacks). I use a GameStop video switcher for that. It lets me hook up, composite, s-vid, and component and network cables. So, it works great with my TV, since my TV has component inputs. But I don't use it with the TV. Old consoles look like shit on a 1080p 40" TV. Hence the Commodore monitor. Not sure if they make HDMI switchers, and not going to google it either.
But you make a good point, we are drowning in stuff we need to plug in for power, plug into TV's, plug into the Internet.
This is about Science Fiction. Most depressing SCIENCE FICTION books/stories you've read.
Yet, most of you idiots are going on about non science fiction books.
There is a difference between science fiction and non science fiction, yet most of you do NOT understand that.
This is depressing because I came here to hopefully learn about some new books that would be good to read, and I get stupid peeps talking about normal fiction books.
seriously peeps, science fiction. not fucking fiction.
Maybe it is me, but I don't really consider 1984 nor Brazil to be Science Fiction.
Not really much science in those fictional stories.
When I think of SciFi, I think of stories where science plays the dominate role, like space travel, advance techonology, and of course, shit with science in it.
Brazil is about Governments. Not science, but about political issues.
1984 is about Governments. Not science, but about political/social issues.
they are Fiction, yes. Science Fiction? I don't think so.
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The foreign office sent a letter pointing out they have a legal route to arresting Julian in the embassy. It's not quite the same as threatening to sent the paratroopers in.
Nope, it's called abusing your authority and quite possibly putting the world at risk because suddenly no one is safe in embassy's anymore. Shit, if the UK can decide to stop giving diplomatic status to a foreign embassy because they granted political asylum to someone, then no one will ever be safe in any embassy again.
He offered to answer questions over the phone or videoconference, and was turned down. The Swedes have made it quite clear that they're demanding his physical presence.
Of course they do. Cops are like that also. Why? Because if they have him physically, they don't need to ask question, they are going to lock him up and throw him in jail. For the rape charge? No. They are using that as a pretext to get him in their possession.
This is what is going to happen:
1. They manage to get him back to Sweden, where we will find out if they are only going to question him, or if he'll end up being locked up and given to the U.S. Government.
2. He manages to stay out of Sweden, but still ends up dead. (Murdered of course).
3. He gets to go to the embassy, but then the UK really does pull diplomatic status away from the Embassy, which then starts a big protest by every other country that isn't a U.S. pawn about the sovereignty of Embassy's. Could lead to some UK, maybe even some US Embassy's being burnt down to the ground.
4. Sweden decides to drop the charges because win or lose, it's going to look really bad on Sweden.
https://www.safelinkwireless.com/Safelink/
You can't get any cheaper then free, if you are eligible of course. Do NOT know if the phone is unlocked, but unlike Assurance Wireless http://www.assurancewireless.com/Public/Welcome.aspx the phone uses a sim card, so you can buy a better phone then the cheap one they give ya.
But hey, it's free, I use it. Why the hell should I pay any money monthly for the extra bullshit I don't use?
Always thought it was a bad idea. I was helping a buddy of mine get some online game going, and the place (EA Games) wants your email address as your log in ID. But my buddy, is like, "why do they want my email's password?" I try to explain, "They don't. They want you to use your email as your log in info, but make a new password." I'm pretty sure he used the same password as his email password. And honestly, that is way too easy to do like that.
It should all be considered a scam when someone says pay up or I'll take you to court/press charges/sue/threatens you.
>>>mummies used as literal firewood and train boiler fuel,
An urban legend started by Mark Twain.
And Mark Twain was an urban legend created by this guy: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
It was space aliens. Ancient civilizations were all developed by space aliens who came to Earth for some unknown reason, and decided to teach us everything.
Actually it seems they came down for raw materials and "created/evolved" the "humans" to be the work force. They got what they wanted, and left. We just built ourselves up since then.
Google has had my phone number for years. To my knowledge I've yet to receive a single call that originated from Google or someone to whom Google gave my phone number.
I'm all for identifying evil as evil, but it would be nice to have some actual evidence before making the accusation.
What I find funny is I have a googe voice account, and I have a gmail account and oddly enough, they are both the same account, yet I still get Google asking for my phone number. Seriously google, you have all my phone numbers already. Not sure why you are so stupid about it though...
Has Slashdot really devolved to the point where nobody even bothers correcting misuse of the word "hacker" anymore?
While I might love hacking a mars rover. That has no relation to breaking anyone's security.
What is the point? Even Unlimited means limited now.
There are plenty of deeply flawed people out there who would break it just to break something that was important, damn the consequences.
"Mommy and Daddy didn't love me, so fuck everyone!"
Yes, we call them politicians.
I'm not growing the marijuana for recreational purposes, it's part of my computer. I choose the mighty cannabis because it's a hardy stock that can grow most anywhere and of course, it helps me sleep.
Was Paul Ryan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Ones_%28TV_series%29#Rick) modeled after Rick?
They're even look-alikes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul3U_J37YCc
"Hands up, who likes me"
Hands all down.
that is funny.
I see this as a good thing. First, as long as the ads aren't obnoxious, it will get a little money for the uTorrent team. Second, it will help encourage legitimate use of torrents. One of the knock on torrents and why they are so often throttled and blocked is that they are a tool for piracy. While there are currently legitimate uses, I would suspect that 95% or more of usage is for piracy. If these ads expose more people to legitimate torrent content and help get the legitimate use up, that is a good thing all around.
First off, how do the Ads make them money? click thru or by people viewing them?
And um, I'm 100% sure you are just throwing out 95% like you are an expert. Are you? No?
STFU.
Interesting business model.
Okay, first off, downloading copyrighted material isn't stealing.
Second, while a lot of piracy happens using bittorrent, a LOT of legal businesses use it also. For example, The Internet Archive is now online via Bit Torrent. http://bt1.archive.org/hotlist.php
I have two questions for the XBMC Android folks:
1. Where can I donate? XBMC rocks and I'm long overdue :)
2. Where can I get fresh builds of the Android port? I can't wait to fire it up on my Google TV!
Google broke?
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Developing_XBMC_for_Android
https://github.com/xbmc/android
http://xbmc.org/theuni/2012/07/13/xbmc-for-android/
My TV only has so many inputs, you know.
I already had to add an extra power circuit in my living room to accommodate my Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, OnLive console, Valve console, Atari 2600, Region 1 blu-ray player, Region 2 blu-ray player, Laserdisc player, VCR, DVR, POW, laptop, Apple Mini, 100-speaker sound system, and 300" 4D TV.
Last week my dog disappeared and I'm pretty sure he's somewhere behind my entertainment center. If anyone has some mountain climbing gear and a Jaws of Life, I would very much appreciate a hand.
Welcome to life!
Back in the day, like that Atari 2600, you had 2 screws you hooked the video game console thru, and god forbid you had 2 or 3 or so of those type of consoles. And we were happy for it.
Then they made the screw type that is most common with Cable TV. Still only had 1 input on the TV, but by then we had more consoles, shit, we were getting knee deep in the consoles by then. But still only 1 input. And yet, it was so much better then the previous arrangement, we loved it.
Then came the RCA jack inputs, Video and Audio (L & R). Now you had a choice. The old school screw connector, or the new composite video connector! woot!!! Still took years and years before they started including more then 1 of those composite inputs though. Shit, VCR's usually had 2 of them on them.
Great improvement, plug and play baby!
Then came component, which for for SD TV's usually only had the 1 input, of course, it still had the other 2 common inputs also. Great Quality, sometimes plugging it in could be a pain if there was still a bunch of composite plugs (which there usually was).
Now, with LCD HD TV's I find on my TV, a Samsung, 6-8 different inputs. some of them can't be used at the same time, but most can. Not sure if my TV is special or not, but from what I've seen, most modern TV's have more inputs then older TV's. Oh, and the types of inputs? composite, S-Vid, Component, 15pin VGA, DVI, HDMI. Even got a usb plug somewhere.
And oddly enough, you can buy video switchers. For example, I have a commodore 1902 monitor that I connect my old consoles to. It has a split luma/chrom input (S-Video, but using 2 rca jacks). I use a GameStop video switcher for that. It lets me hook up, composite, s-vid, and component and network cables. So, it works great with my TV, since my TV has component inputs. But I don't use it with the TV. Old consoles look like shit on a 1080p 40" TV. Hence the Commodore monitor. Not sure if they make HDMI switchers, and not going to google it either.
But you make a good point, we are drowning in stuff we need to plug in for power, plug into TV's, plug into the Internet.
And I'm jealous, I only can afford a 12" 4D TV.
This is about Science Fiction. Most depressing SCIENCE FICTION books/stories you've read.
Yet, most of you idiots are going on about non science fiction books.
There is a difference between science fiction and non science fiction, yet most of you do NOT understand that.
This is depressing because I came here to hopefully learn about some new books that would be good to read, and I get stupid peeps talking about normal fiction books.
seriously peeps, science fiction. not fucking fiction.
Maybe it is me, but I don't really consider 1984 nor Brazil to be Science Fiction.
Not really much science in those fictional stories.
When I think of SciFi, I think of stories where science plays the dominate role, like space travel, advance techonology, and of course, shit with science in it.
Brazil is about Governments. Not science, but about political issues.
1984 is about Governments. Not science, but about political/social issues.
they are Fiction, yes. Science Fiction? I don't think so.
Unless the various companies that lose the data are punished, nothing will change.
Create software to automatically kill the lawyers.
Probably the motivation for making skynet.
ah, yes... "the" corporations, much like "the" [insert racial stereotype here]
You might think corporations are people, but the sane people do NOT believe that.
So sorry, corporations can not find safe harbor under hate laws. Nice try though.
a political party isn't a government...
go back to school.
dude, the "political parties" are fronts for the corporations.
Pay fucking attention.
ignored by the Government.
Seriously, this is what they think is a good idea?
Time for change is right. I'm thinking we need a new system, the current one no longer represents the people.
I was a pirate once, till I took a bullet to the knee.
people get pissed enough to do something about it.
Can't wait.