I suspect the next step will be either to attempt to tie him with a terrorist organization, claim he's actually working for a "bad" country's intelligence service or leadership (and this is just part of their plot to besmirch the U.S.'s sterling reputation), or to link him to another murder/rape/child-molesting.
I already knew before these fake charges emerged that they would engage in this sort of character assassination. They certainly won't stop now (until he's dead, behind bars, or neutralized somehow).
As for why he's wanted, the two women in question seem to have no connections to those who oppose Wikileaks -- at least one of them is associated with a group that's highly critical of the US, and the other is or was part of the Swedish Wikileaks support organization (and is definitely not a plant).
Yes, because no intelligence agency would ever think of hiring people to infiltrate an organization before bringing it down.
The incidents *supposedly* occurred in August. But the women in question didn't turn up at the police station until a week after he released his first batch of Iraq War leaks. I'm sure the timing was just a coincidence, of course.
That's an excellent moral argument. You should ask the U.S. Congress to put it into actual law. Good luck getting them to listen to you without any big money to donate to their reelection campaigns.
Perhaps they *should* be, but they're not. In the U.S. at least, if you're claiming anything published after 1923 as being in the "public domain," you better damn well be able to prove it. The copyright on pretty much anything published after 1923 is either owned by someone or could easily be recaptured by a company if there is any money to be made (see It's a Wonderful Life for a good example).
Actually, with AT&T and the cableco's having a pretty solid monopoly on the broadband market, I doubt they're losing a lot of sleep over this. Unless MS is planning on running fiber to my house, the telcos and cablecos will still be the gate-keepers. In my neighborhood, Comcast is the only option for decent broadband. So this certainly wouldn't help *me* bypass my cable company.
My cable company is the only ISP in my area that offers a decent broadband speed. So how exactly is this supposed to help me circumvent my cable company again?
NASA: We've discovered that extremophiles can survive in space! Reporter: Didn't we already know that? NASA: No, we just strongly suspected it. But this proves that life could exist outside of earth. Reporter: But you haven't actually seen any life outside of earth yet? NASA: Well no...but it *could* be there Reporter: Again, didn't we already know that? NASA: Look, do you want to help us justify our budget, or just nitpick?
Except we're not really on the verge of proving any such thing. Every "discovery" along these lines so far has been nothing more than glorified speculation. Life *could*, life *might*, it's *possible* that... Here is some ambiguous evidence--it could mean this, but it could just as easily mean nothing at all.
Their announcements, and certainly the hype that follows, are usually more speculative fiction these days than actual meaningful scientific discovery.
Obviously that bastard could care less about all the bankers who will lose their livelihoods as a result of this information being made public. He's nothing but a traitor to the free market--and probably a communist, socialist, fascist, muslim, Nazi, child molesting rapist too!
NASA Administrator: We're putting a man on Mars! Reporter: When? NASA Administrator: 2055! Reporter: Long after your administration is gone and no longer around to be held accountable for any long-forgotten promises? NASA Administrator Yep! Reporter: What if 2055 comes along and we're no closer then to Mars than now? NASA Administrator: Well, you'll have to ask the NASA administrator about it then. Reporter: What if you're still alive and we ask you? NASA Administrator: I'll blame him. Reporter: Do you have anything to offer besides vague promises today? NASA Administrator: I have this cool animation. Reporter: Ooh, pretty. NASA Administrator: In conclusion, keep giving us money.
In NASA's defense, they always have some great animation to go along with their press conferences. It's the only deliverable they consistently produce.
Methinks you might want to expand your range at the bottom a bit. I suspect it will be something along the lines of "We've discovered evidence that some precursor to life may have been present on this extraterrestrial body--or may not, depending heavily on your interpretation of some very ambiguous data."
Yes, that's why every famous person becomes a rapist immediately upon achieving fame. No matter how many decades they spend as an innocent person, never hurting anyone; every guy just needs a slight dash of fame to become a sexual predator.
Besides, if the CIA had just trumped this up, surely someone would have seen it coming beforehand.
Yes, because at the age of 39, after leading a life completely devoid of any crime worse than hacking, he suddenly decided to become a violent sexual predator on the same week he started releasing caches of classified U.S. government documents. There is nothing even remotely suspicious about that or its timing. And anyone who says otherwise is clearly a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist who probably thinks we never landed on the moon either.
You are one naive motherfucker if you think that there is ANY body of humans in the world that decides ANYTHING "purely on the basis of law(s)" with no political or economic influence. Last time I checked, the EU had not achieved some utopia where courts are completely unbiased and objective and no corruption or political influence exists.
Sounds like YOU'RE the one who's bought into the propaganda.
That's fine, but you're NOT going to be a whistleblower if that's your attitude. Whistleblowers are ALWAYS called evil criminals by the powers they're exposing. Governments ALWAYS claim that any leaks that they don't approve of kill people. If you're going to agree with them, that's fine. But don't pretend you're going to be a whistleblower and tow the government line at the same time. You CAN'T do both.
I live in a city (not even out in the boonies or anything), and I have exactly two options for broadband: AT&T's shitty 3mbps DSL, and Comcast's 7mbps cable. And if I go with AT&T, I can't even watch my Netflix videos in HD.
Not sure what part of the U.S. you live in where you have all these other options (does Philly really have all those?), but you're definitely the exception, not the rule.
No, those aren't ghettos the Israelis are forcing the Palestinians into--they're fun camps. Happy, happy fun camps. And Israelis aren't killing Palestinian civilians en masse. All those guys are just on vacation somewhere. They'll probably be back soon.
I think possible dog molester MBHkewl is right. Much as I disagree with MBHkewl's alleged disgusting lifestyle, I think it's possible, just possible, that we're seeing an obvious case of character assassination here. And I urge readers to overlook the fact that MBHkewl purportedly rapes innocent puppies long enough to consider that he may have a point.
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I suspect the next step will be either to attempt to tie him with a terrorist organization, claim he's actually working for a "bad" country's intelligence service or leadership (and this is just part of their plot to besmirch the U.S.'s sterling reputation), or to link him to another murder/rape/child-molesting.
I already knew before these fake charges emerged that they would engage in this sort of character assassination. They certainly won't stop now (until he's dead, behind bars, or neutralized somehow).
Obviously the fame went to his head and he thought he could get away with it.
As for why he's wanted, the two women in question seem to have no connections to those who oppose Wikileaks -- at least one of them is associated with a group that's highly critical of the US, and the other is or was part of the Swedish Wikileaks support organization (and is definitely not a plant).
Yes, because no intelligence agency would ever think of hiring people to infiltrate an organization before bringing it down.
The incidents *supposedly* occurred in August. But the women in question didn't turn up at the police station until a week after he released his first batch of Iraq War leaks. I'm sure the timing was just a coincidence, of course.
That's an excellent moral argument. You should ask the U.S. Congress to put it into actual law. Good luck getting them to listen to you without any big money to donate to their reelection campaigns.
Perhaps they *should* be, but they're not. In the U.S. at least, if you're claiming anything published after 1923 as being in the "public domain," you better damn well be able to prove it. The copyright on pretty much anything published after 1923 is either owned by someone or could easily be recaptured by a company if there is any money to be made (see It's a Wonderful Life for a good example).
Actually, with AT&T and the cableco's having a pretty solid monopoly on the broadband market, I doubt they're losing a lot of sleep over this. Unless MS is planning on running fiber to my house, the telcos and cablecos will still be the gate-keepers. In my neighborhood, Comcast is the only option for decent broadband. So this certainly wouldn't help *me* bypass my cable company.
My cable company is the only ISP in my area that offers a decent broadband speed. So how exactly is this supposed to help me circumvent my cable company again?
I can see that:
NASA: We've discovered that extremophiles can survive in space!
Reporter: Didn't we already know that?
NASA: No, we just strongly suspected it. But this proves that life could exist outside of earth.
Reporter: But you haven't actually seen any life outside of earth yet?
NASA: Well no...but it *could* be there
Reporter: Again, didn't we already know that?
NASA: Look, do you want to help us justify our budget, or just nitpick?
Except we're not really on the verge of proving any such thing. Every "discovery" along these lines so far has been nothing more than glorified speculation. Life *could*, life *might*, it's *possible* that... Here is some ambiguous evidence--it could mean this, but it could just as easily mean nothing at all.
Their announcements, and certainly the hype that follows, are usually more speculative fiction these days than actual meaningful scientific discovery.
Obviously that bastard could care less about all the bankers who will lose their livelihoods as a result of this information being made public. He's nothing but a traitor to the free market--and probably a communist, socialist, fascist, muslim, Nazi, child molesting rapist too!
I hear he wasn't even born in the U.S.
Well, we could do that. Or we could stop kidding ourselves and cut their funding altogether.
Or we could keep doing what we're doing now--just throwing the money away with no hope of it ever returning an actual result.
NASA Administrator: We're putting a man on Mars!
Reporter: When?
NASA Administrator: 2055!
Reporter: Long after your administration is gone and no longer around to be held accountable for any long-forgotten promises?
NASA Administrator Yep!
Reporter: What if 2055 comes along and we're no closer then to Mars than now?
NASA Administrator: Well, you'll have to ask the NASA administrator about it then.
Reporter: What if you're still alive and we ask you?
NASA Administrator: I'll blame him.
Reporter: Do you have anything to offer besides vague promises today?
NASA Administrator: I have this cool animation.
Reporter: Ooh, pretty.
NASA Administrator: In conclusion, keep giving us money.
"NASA finds extraterrestrials...Little Grey Men With Probes," Says Slashdot Poster RsG!
In NASA's defense, they always have some great animation to go along with their press conferences. It's the only deliverable they consistently produce.
I can definitely see why someone would put their life at risk by snitching on criminals, for that kind of reward. They could live like a king!
That's even more than I could get for finding that lost dog!
Methinks you might want to expand your range at the bottom a bit. I suspect it will be something along the lines of "We've discovered evidence that some precursor to life may have been present on this extraterrestrial body--or may not, depending heavily on your interpretation of some very ambiguous data."
Yes, that's why every famous person becomes a rapist immediately upon achieving fame. No matter how many decades they spend as an innocent person, never hurting anyone; every guy just needs a slight dash of fame to become a sexual predator.
Besides, if the CIA had just trumped this up, surely someone would have seen it coming beforehand.
Yes, because at the age of 39, after leading a life completely devoid of any crime worse than hacking, he suddenly decided to become a violent sexual predator on the same week he started releasing caches of classified U.S. government documents. There is nothing even remotely suspicious about that or its timing. And anyone who says otherwise is clearly a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist who probably thinks we never landed on the moon either.
You are one naive motherfucker if you think that there is ANY body of humans in the world that decides ANYTHING "purely on the basis of law(s)" with no political or economic influence. Last time I checked, the EU had not achieved some utopia where courts are completely unbiased and objective and no corruption or political influence exists.
Sounds like YOU'RE the one who's bought into the propaganda.
That's fine, but you're NOT going to be a whistleblower if that's your attitude. Whistleblowers are ALWAYS called evil criminals by the powers they're exposing. Governments ALWAYS claim that any leaks that they don't approve of kill people. If you're going to agree with them, that's fine. But don't pretend you're going to be a whistleblower and tow the government line at the same time. You CAN'T do both.
I live in a city (not even out in the boonies or anything), and I have exactly two options for broadband: AT&T's shitty 3mbps DSL, and Comcast's 7mbps cable. And if I go with AT&T, I can't even watch my Netflix videos in HD.
Not sure what part of the U.S. you live in where you have all these other options (does Philly really have all those?), but you're definitely the exception, not the rule.
No, those aren't ghettos the Israelis are forcing the Palestinians into--they're fun camps. Happy, happy fun camps. And Israelis aren't killing Palestinian civilians en masse. All those guys are just on vacation somewhere. They'll probably be back soon.
One group of religious fanatics with nukes keeps another group of religious fanatics from getting nukes. Yeah, that makes me feel so much better.
I think possible dog molester MBHkewl is right. Much as I disagree with MBHkewl's alleged disgusting lifestyle, I think it's possible, just possible, that we're seeing an obvious case of character assassination here. And I urge readers to overlook the fact that MBHkewl purportedly rapes innocent puppies long enough to consider that he may have a point.