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  1. Re:Best fucking part on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You Assange stans really think he's some sort of James Bond supervillain, don't you? There are no charges against him, he doesn't even run Wikileaks any more. He's looking for a ticket to the US so he can be a Fox News contributor.

  2. Re:Best fucking part on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No public request.

    There is no such thing as a "private" extradition request, because by definition they have to be presented in a foreign court

    You have an active imagination about the life and times of Julian Assange. This isn't some Tom Cruise movie.

  3. Re:Not sure what to think.... on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The practical effect is the same:

    But "pardon" and "commutation" are legal terms. And the legal difference is enormous.

    Manning will definitely lose her right to own a gun and voting rights.

  4. Re:Best fucking part on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No. The "funny" part will be if he surrenders to the Brits, who hand him over to the USG rather than Sweden. Thus proving the rape allegations were a farce, a mere pretext to get him arrested and extradited to the United States.

    Maybe you missed it the first time: there is no US extradition request for Julian Assange.

    Your Assange fanfic could be a little more believable. Keep working on it.

  5. Re:I wonder if Trump will pardon Bernie Madoff on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump could also reduce Madoff's sentence to time served. Then, put him in charge of his business empire.

    Trump would never do that for a competitor.

  6. Re:Best fucking part on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    "Earlier this month, WikiLeaks said it would agree to a US extradition request for the site's founder, Julian Assange, if Obama granted clemency to Manning. It was not immediately clear if WikiLeaks would make good on its promise."

    The funny part is that there has been no US extradition request for Julian Assange. So basically, he didn't offer anything. It was just a way to keep his name in the news.

  7. Re:Woohoo! on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully some hero uses their second amendment right to bring justice to this traitor.

    You shouldn't talk about the President-Elect that way.

  8. Re:Not sure what to think.... on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Since when is a sentence commuted a pardon?

    Since the alt-Right media doesn't know the difference between a commutation and a pardon.

    I was listening to the radio on my way home tonight and all the right-wing jackoffs were saying "pardon" like it was some kind of mantra.

  9. Re:Related Links? on Porn Pirates Exploit Well-Known Loophole To Upload Raunchy Videos On YouTube (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Meanwhile, good luck finding stories about the DisruptJ20 people who were caught plotting to gas people with butyric acid

    Here's why you don't see those stories:

    https://boingboing.net/2017/01...

    Because all of those "DisruptJ20" people turned out to be James O'Keefe.

  10. Re: Honestly, Fuck Trump on Study Finds Link Between Profanity and Honesty (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 2

    Nope. Not even with your dick.

    But would you pee on him? I might be persuaded if the money was right.

  11. Re:Wouldn't this imply he was honest? on Study Finds Link Between Profanity and Honesty (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 0

    Anyhow, I hope you're not planning to be one of the #DisruptJ20 people who are about to get busted for trying to use acid to attack the inauguration.

    No, I have nothing to do with James O'Keefe.

    https://boingboing.net/2017/01...

  12. Honestly, Fuck Trump on Study Finds Link Between Profanity and Honesty (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    n/t

  13. Jimmy Iovine was one of the most powerful record executives during the period when record labels were all sleeping on the digital revolution that was about to overtake them.

    Why would anyone, especially Apple, give a job to someone who was so clueless about technology and popular culture?

  14. Re: He cheated OTHER players on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Donald Trump *cough*

    Far be it from me to make this political, but yeah.

  15. Re: He cheated OTHER players on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    The judge made a ruling based on the law. The law is on the side of the casinos. Yet another of many ways that the casino stacks the deck against you.

    Of course casinos always win. Nobody with a casino loses money, unless they're really clueless or trying to cheat more powerful players.

    I mean, can anyone think of someone so stupid and/or crooked that they lost money owning a casino?

  16. Re:Bad headline on Thousands Of Cubans Now Have Internet Access (ap.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm in Missouri and I pay ~$450.00/mo rent for a two bedroom apartment.

    And it has wheels if you ever need to move it.

  17. Re:The Russians killed CeeLo Green on Faulty Phone Battery May Have Caused Fire That Brought Down EgyptAir Flight MS80 (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    FAKE NEWS!

    We still don't have any proof of life that Ceelo Green is alive after that horrible phone explosion. Just a bunch of lies from the lib media.

  18. Re:There will be no train on California's Bullet Train Hurtles Towards a Multibillion-Dollar Overrun (latimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes, there are some studies that purport to show that; they are misleading.

    And I bet you have some proof or explanation about why they are "misleading".

    You can't just look at net influx/outflux of federal dollars to see whether a state or city benefits from federal spending.

    Guess not.

  19. Re:There will be no train on California's Bullet Train Hurtles Towards a Multibillion-Dollar Overrun (latimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There is one group of people that benefits from this, namely developers, home owners, and commuters in the Bay Area.

    There is another group of people that pays for this, namely state and federal tax payers.

    The Bay Area produces a hell of a lot more in tax revenue to the state and country than it uses. You should be thanking them. If they want to spend their tax money this way, who are you to say they shouldn't?

    If you want to complain, complain about states like Kentucky, Alabama, Montana, Mississippi that are costing those of us that live in productive cities a fortune keeping them in mobility scooters, oxycontin and Confederate flags.

  20. Re:India = a bad place for vacations on 'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes. And I didn't seen any raw sewage floating in any bodies of water there, either.

    In Nevada, the raw sewage walks upright.

  21. Re:Indians: if their food doesn't kill you, their on 'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    History lesson from someone that can't spell 3rd grade terms...?

    His first language is Floridian.

  22. Re:India = a bad place for vacations on 'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Given how many good, interesting, and quite safe places there are to travel in the world, you'd
    have to wonder why people want to go to a shithole like India.

    Have you ever been to Nevada?

  23. Re:Welcome to India on 'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com) · · Score: 2

    Stay out of Nevada, too.

  24. Raising the minimum wage to $100,000 for foreign tech workers is good.

    Raising the minimum wage to $15/hr for Americans is bad.

    Welcome to Donald Trump's America.

  25. Re:The Russians killed CeeLo Green on Faulty Phone Battery May Have Caused Fire That Brought Down EgyptAir Flight MS80 (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    WTF?

    Nah, man. It's for real.

    https://youtu.be/avdufhXL4ow