He, probably, did do it — but the evidence, likely, stems from surveillance placed on him illegally.
Uh-huh, so why are we defending him?
and the danger of having the suit thrown out because the entire investigation was a Fruit of the Poisonous Tree [wikipedia.org], the feds hinted to local police, who've built their own evidence from scratch.
So, the Trump administration is pushing the prosecution of this guy? Is that your assertion?
At bottom, my concern is that you're doing a fair amount of mental jujitsu to try to come up with a conspiracy scenario where this statutory rapist second amendment hero is set free because you think disseminating the plans for 3D-printed guns means he should never be held accountable for any crimes he commits.
Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the best one: he bought a prostitute from a website that specializes in extra-young girls and he committed rape. Running away to Taiwan and pretending to be a 30 year-old student doesn't make him look particularly innocent. Also, he reportedly visits Southeast Asia a lot, which makes me suspicious that he's doing a little pedophilia sex tourism. He got a taste for young meat over there and thought he'd do it at home and got his dick caught in a wringer.
Now the hardest, that seems almost impossible to battery inventions, part starts: to get it on the store shelves.
Yes, this is why it is impossible to buy batteries in stores today. If they could ever get batteries that could be sold in stores, it might be possible someday to have portable electronic devices. Think of the possibilities!
Because 3d printing threatens gun manufactures, not because it threatens 2A?
You're getting warmer. Follow that path of logic and soon, you will learn that the entire 2A advocacy movement exists only to benefit the arms manufacturers, not to protect anyone's rights or safety. In fact, until recently the National Rifle Association was mainly concerned with firearms safety and even supported gun control. Now, they're just using you.
I would not be surprised to find out that the FBI set him up with this girl and tipped off local law enforcement precisely to destroy Wilson.
Yes, and the moon landing was staged and pizzagate is real. And the FBI mind-controlled Cody Wilson to go to a website that specializes in extra-young prostitutes just so they could set him up.
But this is where your logic breaks down. Why would the attorney general of the state of Texas think Cody Wilson was a problem? Why would they target him. The attorney general of Texas is a 2A absolutist. Why would he have a problem with someone who wants people to be able to 3D-print their own firearms?
Start at the beginning. First answer why the state of Texas would consider Wilson a problem. Go from there, and you might discover an uncomfortable truth about small-"L" libertarians, and that is small-"L" libertarianism in the United States is an idea so good that they need a police/surveillance state to enforce it.
That's the point of so many laws, many of them conflicting. So many Federal laws alone that they've been unable to count them. It's been said that the average person commits three felonies a day..
Strat, it was a Texas law that got Cody Wilson in trouble. Conservative, freedom-loving, libertarian, come-and-take-it Texas. I know you have an axe to grind, but this wasn't the federal government to blame.
When someone breaks a state law and then flees, the state sends a request to the state department to extradite (or in cases where the accused has skeedaddled to a country without extradition, yank his passport). The federal government has no choice in this matter. The State of Texas made the decision to charge, and to arrest, and they will be the ones prosecuting.
But I guess it is easier to ignore the fact that the age of consent varies from state to state, country to country and try to trivialize the issue with a flippant sound bite then have a rational discussion if it is too low or too high.
Whether it's too low or too high is one discussion. Whether states should be allowed to make their own laws is a second discussion. Both of those are worthwhile discussions, with people of good faith making points on both sides. .
But no matter how you come down on those questions, Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed broke the law by buying an underage prostitute on a website that specializes in very young girls and then sexually assaulting her. After that, he ran away to Taiwan like a little bitch, knowing there is no extradition treaty, which suggests he's not generally ignorant of laws. Now, people may think he deserves a break because he's some libertarian, second amendment hero, but the fact is, the state of Texas is saying he's a rapist, and I always thought libertarians and second amendment activists believe individuals should be held accountable for their actions.
I highly doubt the State of Texas would have ginned up some conspiracy to bring charges against Cody Wilson. These aren't federal charges, after all. The far right-wing attorney general of Texas would probably have rather given him a medal, except he just had to go and fuck someone underage, so now he pays the price. Sometimes, I a creep is just a creep, whether it's a 17 year old who tries to rape a drunk 15 year old at some rich prep school party or a libertarian gun hero who gets off on underage girls. Not everything that doesn't go the way you'd like is a conspiracy.
Yes to Google. They've got their hands in too many pies. Force them to be broken into the search engine/Gmail, Android & Chrome, YouTube, and all the other shit they do. No to Twitter and Facebook, because all they do is their websites. If they get into anything outside of that, then force them to spin off those other units.
Generally, I'd say that any large corporation ought to be broken up if they are involved in multiple connected enterprises. But if their business is just one thing, then no.
Ill never understand the AC hate here, esp. considering it's a tech site with a penchant for privacy.
Because people who are serious about tech figured out early on that completely anonymous online posting was mainly a refuge for vandals, trolls, and jackoffs, whereas pseudonymous interaction allows for the same protection, but your comments stay with you so they can be taken into account by those reading them.
Free speech has never meant speech without consequences.
I own an Austin Martin, an MG, two audis, a Benz and a classic landrover, not counting the motorcycles.
You can't even figure out how to make a Slashdot account, and we're supposed to believe you had the wherewithal to accumulate all those vehicles?
I'm guessing you're talking about toy model cars, unlike the totally real Koenigsegg and Bugatti Chiron sitting out in my driveway right now. One is for me and the other is for my wife, Morgan Fairchild, which whom I have had sex.
The stated principle, however, that everyone is innocent until proven guilty is universal. Or ought to be...
In the real world, parents need to make all sorts of decisions without adhering to the rules of evidence. If your daughter comes home and says a 17 year-old boy tried to rape her and held his hand over her mouth, you would quite rightly pick up the baseball bat you keep by the door and go have a talk with him. You don't wait until a court convicts him, nor do you do DNA tests on your daughter.
You are correct. Cody Wilson is a pedophile who has now been charged with sexually assaulting an underage girl, and Julian Assange is a rapist who has been ducking charges and hiding out from authorities for going on a decade now rather than just facing his accuser.
It all fits. You're making my case for me.
Had you really been a Liberal,
By "really a liberal", I assume you mean "Classical Liberal" which is how right-wing jackoffs, white supremacists and neo-nazis refer to themselves these days. Fuck no. Whatever they are, I'm the opposite.
Why do the Russians care about network neutrality?
They don't. They just want to start shit and disrupt civil society, and posting fake shit online is cheap and easy to do.
It's like asking why the Anonymous Coward does what he does on Slashdot. There is no why. It's just vandalism for the information age. Terrorism for those too cowardly to actually risk anything.
Oh I'm glad being a gun owner now makes you a child fucker seeing as one weirdo did some weirdo shit.
Don't mischaracterize what I said. I never suggested that owning a gun makes you a child fucker. I said that being a gun enthusiast, like being a child fucker, is one of the defining characteristics of right-wing jackoffs.
Oh! A rebuttal! I checked your link and they show a number with nothing to back it up. It says from 1-100 based on FBI data, and nothing else. I gave it a try and found this: Link [bestplaces.net] that shows Huston has 800% the violent crime rate of Chicago!
Look at your link again. It's not comparing Houston to Chicago, it's comparing Houston to Chicago Ridge, which is a tiny suburb of 14,000 people way outside Chicago. It's a bedroom community, and as someone who has lived in both Chicago and Houston, it makes complete sense that Houston would have 800% more violent crime than Chicago Ridge.
Slashdot Mirror
Uh-huh, so why are we defending him?
So, the Trump administration is pushing the prosecution of this guy? Is that your assertion?
At bottom, my concern is that you're doing a fair amount of mental jujitsu to try to come up with a conspiracy scenario where this statutory rapist second amendment hero is set free because you think disseminating the plans for 3D-printed guns means he should never be held accountable for any crimes he commits.
Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the best one: he bought a prostitute from a website that specializes in extra-young girls and he committed rape. Running away to Taiwan and pretending to be a 30 year-old student doesn't make him look particularly innocent. Also, he reportedly visits Southeast Asia a lot, which makes me suspicious that he's doing a little pedophilia sex tourism. He got a taste for young meat over there and thought he'd do it at home and got his dick caught in a wringer.
It sounds like Ecuador wants to be rid of this guy pretty bad.
"I know, let's make him the ambassador to Russia and see how long it takes for him to get a polonium cocktail."
"Or, we could take him to Dave & Busters and slip out while he's playing ski-ball."
"How about if we move our embassy and just not tell him?"
"No, the Russia thing sounds good. Let's go with that one."
What's your problem with Insane Clown Posse fans?
I give up. How many?
A Beowulf cluster of Bitcoin mining rigs, optimized for streaming AI and Deep Learning in the cloud. That sounds like a totally new paradigm.
I'm in for two.
But do you think it would be able to power the Bitcoin mining rig I'm thinking of building?
Yes, this is why it is impossible to buy batteries in stores today. If they could ever get batteries that could be sold in stores, it might be possible someday to have portable electronic devices. Think of the possibilities!
Absolutely. Should have happened a long time ago.
You're getting warmer. Follow that path of logic and soon, you will learn that the entire 2A advocacy movement exists only to benefit the arms manufacturers, not to protect anyone's rights or safety. In fact, until recently the National Rifle Association was mainly concerned with firearms safety and even supported gun control. Now, they're just using you.
Yes, and the moon landing was staged and pizzagate is real. And the FBI mind-controlled Cody Wilson to go to a website that specializes in extra-young prostitutes just so they could set him up.
Follow the white rabbit, Strat.
But this is where your logic breaks down. Why would the attorney general of the state of Texas think Cody Wilson was a problem? Why would they target him. The attorney general of Texas is a 2A absolutist. Why would he have a problem with someone who wants people to be able to 3D-print their own firearms?
Start at the beginning. First answer why the state of Texas would consider Wilson a problem. Go from there, and you might discover an uncomfortable truth about small-"L" libertarians, and that is small-"L" libertarianism in the United States is an idea so good that they need a police/surveillance state to enforce it.
Strat, it was a Texas law that got Cody Wilson in trouble. Conservative, freedom-loving, libertarian, come-and-take-it Texas. I know you have an axe to grind, but this wasn't the federal government to blame.
When someone breaks a state law and then flees, the state sends a request to the state department to extradite (or in cases where the accused has skeedaddled to a country without extradition, yank his passport). The federal government has no choice in this matter. The State of Texas made the decision to charge, and to arrest, and they will be the ones prosecuting.
Whether it's too low or too high is one discussion. Whether states should be allowed to make their own laws is a second discussion. Both of those are worthwhile discussions, with people of good faith making points on both sides. .
But no matter how you come down on those questions, Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed broke the law by buying an underage prostitute on a website that specializes in very young girls and then sexually assaulting her. After that, he ran away to Taiwan like a little bitch, knowing there is no extradition treaty, which suggests he's not generally ignorant of laws. Now, people may think he deserves a break because he's some libertarian, second amendment hero, but the fact is, the state of Texas is saying he's a rapist, and I always thought libertarians and second amendment activists believe individuals should be held accountable for their actions.
I highly doubt the State of Texas would have ginned up some conspiracy to bring charges against Cody Wilson. These aren't federal charges, after all. The far right-wing attorney general of Texas would probably have rather given him a medal, except he just had to go and fuck someone underage, so now he pays the price. Sometimes, I a creep is just a creep, whether it's a 17 year old who tries to rape a drunk 15 year old at some rich prep school party or a libertarian gun hero who gets off on underage girls. Not everything that doesn't go the way you'd like is a conspiracy.
Yes to Google. They've got their hands in too many pies. Force them to be broken into the search engine/Gmail, Android & Chrome, YouTube, and all the other shit they do. No to Twitter and Facebook, because all they do is their websites. If they get into anything outside of that, then force them to spin off those other units.
Generally, I'd say that any large corporation ought to be broken up if they are involved in multiple connected enterprises. But if their business is just one thing, then no.
Because people who are serious about tech figured out early on that completely anonymous online posting was mainly a refuge for vandals, trolls, and jackoffs, whereas pseudonymous interaction allows for the same protection, but your comments stay with you so they can be taken into account by those reading them.
Free speech has never meant speech without consequences.
You can't even figure out how to make a Slashdot account, and we're supposed to believe you had the wherewithal to accumulate all those vehicles?
I'm guessing you're talking about toy model cars, unlike the totally real Koenigsegg and Bugatti Chiron sitting out in my driveway right now. One is for me and the other is for my wife, Morgan Fairchild, which whom I have had sex.
Except there are no conservatives or libertarians running for anything. Not a single one, at least not at the national level.
How long do you think it'll be before some hackers prove this data can be de-anonymized?
In the real world, parents need to make all sorts of decisions without adhering to the rules of evidence. If your daughter comes home and says a 17 year-old boy tried to rape her and held his hand over her mouth, you would quite rightly pick up the baseball bat you keep by the door and go have a talk with him. You don't wait until a court convicts him, nor do you do DNA tests on your daughter.
I didn't realize Slashdot was a court of law.
You are correct. Cody Wilson is a pedophile who has now been charged with sexually assaulting an underage girl, and Julian Assange is a rapist who has been ducking charges and hiding out from authorities for going on a decade now rather than just facing his accuser.
It all fits. You're making my case for me.
By "really a liberal", I assume you mean "Classical Liberal" which is how right-wing jackoffs, white supremacists and neo-nazis refer to themselves these days. Fuck no. Whatever they are, I'm the opposite.
They don't. They just want to start shit and disrupt civil society, and posting fake shit online is cheap and easy to do.
It's like asking why the Anonymous Coward does what he does on Slashdot. There is no why. It's just vandalism for the information age. Terrorism for those too cowardly to actually risk anything.
I'm sure that 9 out of 10 child fuckers would say that it was all a "government setup"
Don't mischaracterize what I said. I never suggested that owning a gun makes you a child fucker. I said that being a gun enthusiast, like being a child fucker, is one of the defining characteristics of right-wing jackoffs.
Look at your link again. It's not comparing Houston to Chicago, it's comparing Houston to Chicago Ridge, which is a tiny suburb of 14,000 people way outside Chicago. It's a bedroom community, and as someone who has lived in both Chicago and Houston, it makes complete sense that Houston would have 800% more violent crime than Chicago Ridge.