Instead of paying billions failing to catch Assange, pay some of that to Assange so that we can find out who's responsible for failing so hard at catching Bin Laden.
'course, there's a certain risk that this info would embarrass the GOP echelon, so let's not risk it. In the name of national security!
Yeah, if I were him I'd avoid going anywhere right now. Homes aren't safe either, but they beat traveling. In fact, he probably is doing exactly that, considering he's cautious bordering on paranoid.
Still, even if it were easier to murder Assange than to make charges stick, it would very much add to Wikileaks' credibility, moral high ground and popularity. Assange is already a popular hero; making him a martyr as well would be a stupid move.
... since the unexpected end of the century in '99.
(What is actually surprising is that the internet still hasn't widely adopted IP6, and ISPs are now turning to ludicrous measures - NAT - to keep avoiding what makes sense.)
"They succeeded in creating problems for a limited number of our centrifuges with the software they had installed in electronic parts. They did a bad thing. Fortunately our experts discovered that, and today they are not able to do that anymore."
Is this an artifact of translation, or a side effect of trying to say as little as possible about classified research while still forming complete sentences?
"We cannot put the broken part in the machine. It would not smash the right tiny things together. Then the machine might break. That would be very bad."
Their legal team and/or cases sucked so much that they got their asses handed to them by untrained defendants using boilerplate this guy wrote.
So now they want to sue him directly, after he already owned them by proxy, with a case that seems even more hilariously unjustified. What are they going to pin on him? Selling standard legal advice?
As usual, many people are quick to defend these pricks, saying that if it weren't for them, everyone would be out of a job. Yes, the economy is in their power. Calling that a mutually beneficial relationship sounds like Stockholm syndrome.
If your very survival depends on receiving a living wage from a corporation that can simply choose to go away if it is asked to pay for the infrastructure it also uses, then you are not living a "dream" generously provided by altruistic corporations, but in slavery to organizations who can let you starve if they wanted to. Not only workers, even governments are forced to debase themselves before these corporations, lowering their living standard, their wage expectations, cutting their social system and their taxes bit by bit to compete with other countries that are forced to do the same.
Ireland, and the entire European Union at that, should make a stand against this and play hardball. The fact is that while corporations can move their production elsewhere, they do have to sell something eventually. A high-tech market requires a high-tech industry to flourish: If corporations leave the country, the economy goes to shit and nobody can afford the flashy gizmos these corporations are selling. Standardize the tax hike over all EU states, accompany it with an import tariff on technology not produced inside the country, and suddenly paying a little more corporate tax will seem like a much better alternative. The workers are not only their slaves, but also their customers.
They have time to do that to torrent search engines, but fortunately seem not to have thought of seizing Wikileaks' online presence in the name of national security. Yet?
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So the patent system is basically "dibs".
Instead of paying billions failing to catch Assange, pay some of that to Assange so that we can find out who's responsible for failing so hard at catching Bin Laden.
'course, there's a certain risk that this info would embarrass the GOP echelon, so let's not risk it. In the name of national security!
As long as they haven't tried to kill Assange, Sunde is probably safe. There are people the US government hates far more than the Pirate Bay.
(Unless, of course, the RIAA decides to start hiring... private contractors.)
Yeah, if I were him I'd avoid going anywhere right now. Homes aren't safe either, but they beat traveling. In fact, he probably is doing exactly that, considering he's cautious bordering on paranoid.
Still, even if it were easier to murder Assange than to make charges stick, it would very much add to Wikileaks' credibility, moral high ground and popularity. Assange is already a popular hero; making him a martyr as well would be a stupid move.
... since the unexpected end of the century in '99.
(What is actually surprising is that the internet still hasn't widely adopted IP6, and ISPs are now turning to ludicrous measures - NAT - to keep avoiding what makes sense.)
The house where I live is not on the ten-year-old aerial photo on Google Maps. Does this mean Streetview will soon show forest instead of my house?
Film at eleven.
When has that ever stopped a patent?
How do you rape a country?
More to the point, what do they want the warrant to be for: The leaks, or whatever he was accused of in Sweden?
Reducing the risk of collateral damage caused by technology. Collateral damage caused by poor judgement will become even more deadly.
"Yeah, that looks like an RPG. Or a camera. Fuck it; fire in the hole."
The lawyers.
Maybe a little easier. Not much. Israel and Pakistan already have nuclear weapons.
"They succeeded in creating problems for a limited number of our centrifuges with the software they had installed in electronic parts. They did a bad thing. Fortunately our experts discovered that, and today they are not able to do that anymore."
Is this an artifact of translation, or a side effect of trying to say as little as possible about classified research while still forming complete sentences?
"We cannot put the broken part in the machine. It would not smash the right tiny things together. Then the machine might break. That would be very bad."
Ironically, they will probably be saying this even if they live on the Mars colony.
How is making a noise faster than clicking a button would be?
You know... this Google... it's our competitor. We can't have that in your browser. Never mind that we don't even provide a competing search engine.
More powerful than we can possibly imagine, even.
That seems risky. You don't want to tempt them.
Ooh. But now I can understand why they get angry. It's like a legal DDOS, or really more of an anti-spam tar-pit.
Not only does the case get thrown out, the three other motions also suck up further legal resources, making their scam even less profitable.
You mean like an MP3?
This is the most surprised I have been all year!
Sure, it's nice to have reliable confirmation, but still, this was kind of an obvious one.
Their legal team and/or cases sucked so much that they got their asses handed to them by untrained defendants using boilerplate this guy wrote.
So now they want to sue him directly, after he already owned them by proxy, with a case that seems even more hilariously unjustified. What are they going to pin on him? Selling standard legal advice?
Yeah, good luck.
As usual, many people are quick to defend these pricks, saying that if it weren't for them, everyone would be out of a job. Yes, the economy is in their power. Calling that a mutually beneficial relationship sounds like Stockholm syndrome.
If your very survival depends on receiving a living wage from a corporation that can simply choose to go away if it is asked to pay for the infrastructure it also uses, then you are not living a "dream" generously provided by altruistic corporations, but in slavery to organizations who can let you starve if they wanted to. Not only workers, even governments are forced to debase themselves before these corporations, lowering their living standard, their wage expectations, cutting their social system and their taxes bit by bit to compete with other countries that are forced to do the same.
Ireland, and the entire European Union at that, should make a stand against this and play hardball. The fact is that while corporations can move their production elsewhere, they do have to sell something eventually. A high-tech market requires a high-tech industry to flourish: If corporations leave the country, the economy goes to shit and nobody can afford the flashy gizmos these corporations are selling. Standardize the tax hike over all EU states, accompany it with an import tariff on technology not produced inside the country, and suddenly paying a little more corporate tax will seem like a much better alternative. The workers are not only their slaves, but also their customers.
They have time to do that to torrent search engines, but fortunately seem not to have thought of seizing Wikileaks' online presence in the name of national security. Yet?
Wait... do you mean, like, go outside?