charlesattlan

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by charlesattlan 16y ago
A good, if slightly out there, analogy would be Pepsi or some other company using its unfair financial position to use existing infrastructure to pipe its product instead of water. In this case the absurdity would be apparent, but when it c
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by charlesattlan 16y ago
I see bits like any other resource that gets piped to your home. It would be disgusting if some could pay extra to siphon off water, electricity or gas at the expense of others. There would be riots if access to water was subject to how muc
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by charlesattlan 16y ago
You do know there was a leak of Clinton telling her drones/diplomats to spy on anyone they could: biometric data, secure passwords, emails [1]. Even the UN was spied upon. Do not forget, Wikileaks is just a publishing company, people submit
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by charlesattlan 16y ago
If you read the whole transcript then you will find that he does indeed want "your" company secrets. He believes in markets but insists they cannot function without good information to highlight bad competitors. This allows the good endeavo
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by charlesattlan 16y ago
I am hearing this example too often. It is far from an intelligent response and reminds me of the meta contrarian [1]. An equally flippent and useless retort would be here: fragme69. There's the launch code; what use is it to you? It might
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by charlesattlan 16y ago
Assange himself would agree that the emmotional impact was strengthened and has said so in his interviews: his aim is to get the biggest political impact to honour the courage of the submitter. The full video was an hour long if I recall an
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by charlesattlan 16y ago
I'll concede bad journalism on my part; my post was rushed and not accurate. The important part is the following taken from the official European Human rights on rights to a fair trial (6.3): "Everyone charged with a criminal offence has th
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by charlesattlan 16y ago
This article stinks. Someone seeking means nothing. Juilan's official response: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/71lsqt The main point is that it is against EU legislation for arrest warrants to be made public. Every attempt at contacting t
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by charlesattlan 16y ago
How do you protect against an arms race scenario? He hit me, I'll hit him harder; and repeat. I would agree a mostly anonymous attack can be rebuked without much consequence (unless he pulls a knife), but what about for the occasions where