The woman that he is alleged to have raped has tried to drop the case that she was persuaded to bring.
In most of the world, if a woman does not want to bring a case, the suspect has nothing to answer. What he may have done does not seem to have offended her sufficiently for her to want a court case.
The prosecutor that has managed to bring this case is alleged to be a shill for the USA.
Assange has performed a huge service for the USA, Australia, the UK and loads of other places by bringing to light the crimes of those who see themselves as our betters. That is his real "crime"
The USA did not "build the internet". Various companies and governments all over the world built various parts of it.
The USA did fund the development of stuff like TCP/IP and then acted in a civilised manner and opened it up to everyone.
What most "users" call the internet was actually invented at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee. He also acted in a civilised manner and opened it up to everyone,
The USA has continually re-proved that it is not fit to run the internet. Mega Upload is just the latest example. Pushing your horrendous copyright and patent messes onto all of us is even worse.
Anyone who considers the ITU "little known" is not well enough informed to make any useful statements or judgements on this matter. Please sit down and read up on politics, world affairs and technology first.
Some of the best officers I remember, or have heard of very often asked for rather than directly ordered things. It was more a case of "Please take your unit up there and do X." Afterwards there was "thank you".
If things got "stressful" the please and thank yous ceased but they returned as soon as normal communication volumes and speeds returned."
They may have included all the request words but they were orders none the less. They were in a position of power and politeness is a good way of ensuring co-operation. There are plenty lesser powers who feel they have to order everything. As they climb up society (or the ranks) they seem to become nicer.
Just because they are called "requests" does not mean that you have much leeway whether it is a captain telling people to head into danger or a suited spook asking for information that the owners might object to. You just have to do it.
I started my schooling (not nursery/kindergarten) in Scotland at 4 although I understand that England and Wales do it a year later. We do not follow the same academic pattern that most/. readers in the USA will be familiar with.
Younger people are known (by insurers and police anyway) to be prone to driving faster. They seem to work on the principle that nothing bad happens to them.
Stories of wartime included the 30somethings diving into cover at every event. People 10-15 years younger mocked them.
With less experience, people do not believe things will happen to them We older codgers know it does and take precautions.
If you call your Democrats that, it makes me wonder if you have ever seen a Socialist.
Let me give you a clue here. Socialists are not the same as marxists are not the same as communists.
If you had socialists in power, there is no way you would not have universal health care by now. Your health spending would be somewhere under half what it is now and you wouldn't have 50 million without any health care.
Eastern Europe during that bad days of the Soviets may not really have been socialism but if you like to call it that, be aware that they allowed a lot more gun ownership than Western Europe does now. If people have guns but no tanks and armoured vehicles they can think they can defend themselves. What is happening in Syria shows how well that works...
Their homicides will go down as the number of guns around drops. Maybe there will be more knifings and other violence. This will be less likely to kill people,
Look around the world. Are the homicide rates lower in the USA than the UK?
Get it into your heads people don't kill people. Guns kill people.
How many deaths do you think occur from drive-by punchings? Someone with a knife can kill you if you are close to them. An adequate rifle user could do this at a couple of hundred metres. Any fool can do it with a handgun at 2 or 3.
Unfortunately, the USA has a hugely disproportionate say on what happens on the parts of the internet that the rest of the planet uses.
Cut off your citizens from the rest of the planet, like Iran, China etc if that is what makes your corporations richer but stop forcing your frankly bizarre legal system upon the rest of us.
I have to tell you the reason any of our "socialism"
At least you acknowledge that socialism is a terrible idea that has a been the single most catastrophic failure in human history.
No. What he is acknowledging is that uninformed people think that he lives in a socialist country. A more accurate description if somewhere with universal healthcare is civilised
I am in the UK and anything based in the USA, or controlled by US companies is by default insecure.
Sorry guys but anything your spooks think they can get away with fooling around with is not suitable for anything remotely confidential. That won't stop some crook who happens to work stealing it, as happened in NZ but we have to at least try.
And that is before we get into your commercial 'confidentiality' practices...
Perhaps you guys might consider offshoring your secure storage to somewhere with some decent Information Governance regulations.
Our press and conservatives required that this happen. Our press is controlled by the same person that controls your Fox "news" and our conservatives are so right wing that they are the most right-wing mainstream party in Europe.
Both of these nasty groups are overjoyed at the financial problems in the Eurozone.
I work in IT in a (UK) hospital. We are extremely "enthusiastic" about security. We were thinking about this sort of thing some time ago and then it was decided at the top that we would ban Skydrive immediately and other clouds have been added to our list since.
This is not always well received but this is the nice thing about policies. They apply to everyone and the higher they come from, the less can some manager make an "exception" where they see the need.
Someone is given 60 seconds to make a suggestion that would change the world. Has nobody else never had to take part in a debate? This is a mental exercise or entertainment not a serious statement of intent. The previous week, the speaker suggested that as people took too many crummy digital pictures, we should all be limited to one picture per day.
Go and listen to the article and get some context before criticising what we can all agree would be a seriously bad idea.
The British military got my fingerprints and a blood sample over 30 years ago. (Yes I am a bit older than many people here). I wasn't given extra special clearance, just a rifle.
What would the figure be if they removed all the people who admit to using Linux etc. I think that the BSA and fellow criminals consider FOSS to be theft and "piracy".
Perhaps the numbers are 7% of people actually use non-free software without paying for it and 50% of people do not use any Free software.
The number of people, even those running Windows, who are not using any open source software is shrinking all the time. I have come accross the most un-technical people using GIMP or Open Office.
I have a light fitting above my head. It is designed for 5 small screw in incandescents. It used to burn out about one a week. Last year - about September, I replaced the lot with CFLs and they have been working since. The light is slightly different but it is now there.
I am not only using less power but the bulbs are lasting a lot longer on my doubtless dodgy home wiring and saving me money that way.
I take it, that is their explanation to the court, If that isn't deeemed to be a valid explanation to the courts for people being done over by their corporate friends (RIAA etc), why should the courts accept it here?
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The woman that he is alleged to have raped has tried to drop the case that she was persuaded to bring.
In most of the world, if a woman does not want to bring a case, the suspect has nothing to answer. What he may have done does not seem to have offended her sufficiently for her to want a court case.
The prosecutor that has managed to bring this case is alleged to be a shill for the USA.
Assange has performed a huge service for the USA, Australia, the UK and loads of other places by bringing to light the crimes of those who see themselves as our betters. That is his real "crime"
The USA did not "build the internet". Various companies and governments all over the world built various parts of it.
The USA did fund the development of stuff like TCP/IP and then acted in a civilised manner and opened it up to everyone.
What most "users" call the internet was actually invented at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee. He also acted in a civilised manner and opened it up to everyone,
The USA has continually re-proved that it is not fit to run the internet. Mega Upload is just the latest example. Pushing your horrendous copyright and patent messes onto all of us is even worse.
Anyone who considers the ITU "little known" is not well enough informed to make any useful statements or judgements on this matter. Please sit down and read up on politics, world affairs and technology first.
Some of the best officers I remember, or have heard of very often asked for rather than directly ordered things. It was more a case of "Please take your unit up there and do X." Afterwards there was "thank you".
If things got "stressful" the please and thank yous ceased but they returned as soon as normal communication volumes and speeds returned."
They may have included all the request words but they were orders none the less. They were in a position of power and politeness is a good way of ensuring co-operation. There are plenty lesser powers who feel they have to order everything. As they climb up society (or the ranks) they seem to become nicer.
Just because they are called "requests" does not mean that you have much leeway whether it is a captain telling people to head into danger or a suited spook asking for information that the owners might object to. You just have to do it.
I started my schooling (not nursery/kindergarten) in Scotland at 4 although I understand that England and Wales do it a year later. We do not follow the same academic pattern that most /. readers in the USA will be familiar with.
The image I have of the US does not include 2KW covering the average home. It might do for the 96% of the planet outside the USA though...
They allow environmentalists in Texas?
Younger people are known (by insurers and police anyway) to be prone to driving faster. They seem to work on the principle that nothing bad happens to them.
Stories of wartime included the 30somethings diving into cover at every event. People 10-15 years younger mocked them.
With less experience, people do not believe things will happen to them We older codgers know it does and take precautions.
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Is that what is referred to as a "straw man" argument? I can't remember.
It certainly is completely irrelevant. Very few people in 1650 went into piracy because of lack of global warming. People have been killed by guns.
Socialist Democrats
If you call your Democrats that, it makes me wonder if you have ever seen a Socialist.
Let me give you a clue here. Socialists are not the same as marxists are not the same as communists.
If you had socialists in power, there is no way you would not have universal health care by now. Your health spending would be somewhere under half what it is now and you wouldn't have 50 million without any health care.
Eastern Europe during that bad days of the Soviets may not really have been socialism but if you like to call it that, be aware that they allowed a lot more gun ownership than Western Europe does now. If people have guns but no tanks and armoured vehicles they can think they can defend themselves. What is happening in Syria shows how well that works...
Their homicides will go down as the number of guns around drops. Maybe there will be more knifings and other violence. This will be less likely to kill people,
Look around the world. Are the homicide rates lower in the USA than the UK?
A very quick google takes me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate and the rate per 100,000 head of population is about 4 times higher in the USA.
Get it into your heads people don't kill people. Guns kill people.
How many deaths do you think occur from drive-by punchings? Someone with a knife can kill you if you are close to them. An adequate rifle user could do this at a couple of hundred metres. Any fool can do it with a handgun at 2 or 3.
Unfortunately, the USA has a hugely disproportionate say on what happens on the parts of the internet that the rest of the planet uses.
Cut off your citizens from the rest of the planet, like Iran, China etc if that is what makes your corporations richer but stop forcing your frankly bizarre legal system upon the rest of us.
I have to tell you the reason any of our "socialism"
At least you acknowledge that socialism is a terrible idea that has a been the single most catastrophic failure in human history.
No. What he is acknowledging is that uninformed people think that he lives in a socialist country. A more accurate description if somewhere with universal healthcare is civilised
smartphone != iPhone
iPhone = iFashionAccessory
The size of that tiny mote is moot anyway.
I am in the UK and anything based in the USA, or controlled by US companies is by default insecure.
Sorry guys but anything your spooks think they can get away with fooling around with is not suitable for anything remotely confidential. That won't stop some crook who happens to work stealing it, as happened in NZ but we have to at least try.
And that is before we get into your commercial 'confidentiality' practices...
Perhaps you guys might consider offshoring your secure storage to somewhere with some decent Information Governance regulations.
We never have gray skies.
We often have grey ones.
It is actually a very good idea. You and I might be capable of controlling what tracking cookies we allow. Most people are not.
Our press and conservatives required that this happen. Our press is controlled by the same person that controls your Fox "news" and our conservatives are so right wing that they are the most right-wing mainstream party in Europe.
Both of these nasty groups are overjoyed at the financial problems in the Eurozone.
I work in IT in a (UK) hospital. We are extremely "enthusiastic" about security. We were thinking about this sort of thing some time ago and then it was decided at the top that we would ban Skydrive immediately and other clouds have been added to our list since.
This is not always well received but this is the nice thing about policies. They apply to everyone and the higher they come from, the less can some manager make an "exception" where they see the need.
7.62 NATO
I heard the programme. I get it as a podcast.
Someone is given 60 seconds to make a suggestion that would change the world. Has nobody else never had to take part in a debate? This is a mental exercise or entertainment not a serious statement of intent. The previous week, the speaker suggested that as people took too many crummy digital pictures, we should all be limited to one picture per day.
Go and listen to the article and get some context before criticising what we can all agree would be a seriously bad idea.
The British military got my fingerprints and a blood sample over 30 years ago. (Yes I am a bit older than many people here). I wasn't given extra special clearance, just a rifle.
I presume that they still have them somewhere.
What would the figure be if they removed all the people who admit to using Linux etc. I think that the BSA and fellow criminals consider FOSS to be theft and "piracy".
Perhaps the numbers are 7% of people actually use non-free software without paying for it and 50% of people do not use any Free software.
The number of people, even those running Windows, who are not using any open source software is shrinking all the time. I have come accross the most un-technical people using GIMP or Open Office.
I have a light fitting above my head. It is designed for 5 small screw in incandescents. It used to burn out about one a week. Last year - about September, I replaced the lot with CFLs and they have been working since. The light is slightly different but it is now there.
I am not only using less power but the bulbs are lasting a lot longer on my doubtless dodgy home wiring and saving me money that way.
I take it, that is their explanation to the court, If that isn't deeemed to be a valid explanation to the courts for people being done over by their corporate friends (RIAA etc), why should the courts accept it here?