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fit2rule
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Well, then its mis-trial time for Julian, because the claim made against him is that he illegally accessed state secrets and published them. However, the Gunship Video is evidence that he legally published the materials obtained - boost
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6y ago
Actually, its best left to the courts. Public opinion and support of Assange has already been diverted through malfeasance on the part of the US military. Omitting this video from their charges is an admission that this is not really abou
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>I'll probably regret asking, but why would it? Because it is evidence of a crime being committed - i.e. that Assange obtained secret military materials and then illegally published them. Assange is being held for extradition to fac
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fit2rule
6y ago
I miss Wikileaks. I'm looking forward to whatever replaces it coming online. It seems that Assange is headed for the grave - I wonder if the leaks will continue, anyway?
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Sibel Edmonds.
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The point is, the claimed moral authority over China's spying activities is a tribalist fallacy, because after all, when it comes to using the intelligence services of the state to usurp progress in other countries, America leads the w
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6y ago
Well, you can start your research into this goldmine of details about the USA's many stages of industrial espionage right here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage#Industria... Find out what Edward
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6y ago
Perhaps you've heard of the Crypto AG case, where the CIA infiltrated a foreign company and used its resources to spy on countless other countries, usurp intellectual property from foreign businesses, and used their moles in Crypto AG
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6y ago
Just so its clear, I'm not aligned with the collective view that Trump is a Putin agent - I think this is an excuse used to ignore America's true, real crimes, against humanity which occurred way before Trump came to power, and is
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Snowden is a patriot in my mind, and I'm no Trump supporter. Just because you associate Snowden with Trump, as per standard agitprop victim procedure, doesn't mean that you should ignore the very real criminal behaviour that Snow
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He was not charged with rape, and the women he consensually had sex with, did not make that claim either. They wanted the police to require him to have an HIV test - this was then transformed into a rape charge. Neither of the women invol
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6y ago
Pop quiz: who is supporting military operations over Yemen right now, resulting in millions of starving victims on the ground? (Hint: it isn't Putin.)
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6y ago
Physicians for Social Responsibility did a very interesting report on this a few years ago - the figures have risen steadily since, however: https://www.psr.org/blog/resource/body-count/ Focusing on Iraq alon
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6y ago
Cool. I look forward to America using its responsibilities to stop the genocide in Yemen that it has been so far supporting for the last few years in its alliance with KSA. "But the other kids do it too" is never going to wor
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Not really, no. This is a common justification that Americans use to excuse themselves for any responsibility for the crimes against humanity committed in their name, but anyone outside the American bubble knows that those refugees and war
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6y ago
Because he revealed evidence of one of the worst crimes committed by humanity in the last 100 years? 4 million innocent people murdered in illegal wars is a lot of blood on the hands of the American people. And, we all know how much they h
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>Who did they save through their efforts? More important to know than which Americans were 'saved' by the NSA's efforts, is: what are the names of the innocent people murdered by American forces, and why are we being preve
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6y ago
Societies which promulgate their values by murdering innocent people don't last long. Certainly you can see some fairly decent examples on the History Channel ...
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I've seen lots of 'music explained' types of sites, but if someone were to use their mad graphics skills to explain the geometric/arithmetic relationship between various components of music, I'd pay for it. There a
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ahem Julian Assange cough America is no better than China when it comes to repressing dissent. American military industrial pharmaceutical organisations are better at usurping insurrection and revolutionary movements, however.
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Your argument falls flat as soon as Americans start protesting the innocent lives lost in America's illegal wars - at this point, American censorship and attacks on independent thought match those of the PRC, even exceeding their capab
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6y ago
>What’s legal and what’s right are not the same thing, I look forward to Americans putting their war criminals in prison. Moral relativism doesn't help. For every company that has to comply with local laws, there is only one greate
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6y ago
I love this site - it is very informative. I wonder if anyone has done something similar for music - i.e. "Musical Geometry terms" ..
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6y ago
I look at my old AI Touchbook with some nostalgia. Seems like this PineTablet, at $US99, may just end up delivering on the promise. Lets see.
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And with Lua (and C, and C++) its pretty easy to manage the complexity. Just put things where they belong.
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>C is not well matched to CPUs + >depending on compiler optimizations + >Snabb uses LuaJIT .. quite tight code == You can write great C-based systems and avoid assembly if you a) know, always, what your compiler is doing and b) kno
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6y ago
Well, seems like the jury is still out in many quarters, but there is a secret Cold War going on around electromagnetic jamming tech, and the Russians have the lead: https://www.voanews.com/europe/russian-mystery-weapon
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I completely disagree. I've been programming since 1977, when I was 7 years old. My kids, now in their teens, have been coding since they were able to bang on one of my 8-bit machines, having a blast all the way to comprehension and
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Ah, no actually you really do mis-construe my position - to avoid an uncomfortable truth, perhaps. I believe the American people will forever be driven by this utterly violent, racist, intolerant turmoil, because they allow it to occur in t
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6y ago
My argument that something can and must be done about this, today, is of course going to be eternally defeated with the contradictory 'it has always been this way since forever' position. The point is, there is something that can
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