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Assange™ to present own TV show

Conspiracy Theory # 2743

I don't know the English system but in America, the Supreme Court sits en banc. Has the week-ends off and, oh yeah, they can watch tv after dinner.

Their take-away from the Julian Assange Hour could determine the outcome of his ordeal. The best evidence of Jullian Assange's character is Julian Assange, himself. Sometimes that witness is never called to the stand. If I weren't a card carrying paranoid schizophrenic, I'd say that some of JA's influential friends and lawyers have told him that I'd he did an interesting show, it might get some judicial revue during some judicial pop corn and judicial peanuts.

The judges will won't be taken in by JA. But we will all see a side of him no one has ever seen, including me and a few of you.

Julian Assange up close and in your face on tv.

Juror jailed for looking up rape defendant on Google

Trial by Jury

The only evidence a jury can consider is that heard in the courtroom where it can be objected to and cross-questioned. If anybody here got pinched, I don't think he'd want the jury to consider evidence in a tabloid that a juror got his lunch time fish and chips wraped up in.

Harsh sentence? Perhaps they could play for new juries a 10 minute video of jurors scrubbing floors while serving time for disobeying a judge's orders.

Redmond campaigns for gay marriage rights

"ignoring those bits of the Word that don't fit"

Do you mean defining a *day* before the Earth existed and rotated on its axis -- while orbiting around the Sun which didn't exist either?

"And there was morning and there was evening the first day"

Huh?

"Have they no refuge or resource?"

Russia and NASA plan to COLONISE the Moon

And expose the large black monolith?

Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?

HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.

Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL, I really have to pee bad. Oh, boy.

HAL: Why didn't you bring a bottle, Dave?

'Hannibal' leaks '100,000 Facebook logins'

@ ratfox

Are you suggesting these Levantine hackers are sitting at their computers pissing in bottles so they will not miss any of the action near Be'er Sheva or before beer thirty?

The SECRET FACEBOOK OF POWER used by global premiers at G20

Is this a valid reason for "secrecy"?

To prevent the population from panicking?

It's highly likely that the remaining 60-odd invites were parcelled out to the global premiers,

And the chief central bankers of those countries that still have central banks. The chiefs of the ECB and the NCBs.

What will they discuss besides those tiresome balance of payments?

Simple. how much fiat currency every nation gets to print that month. Or, if they don't print, how much the ECB should credit their accounts. If the US prints a trillion in 2012, and the M3 of your currency is about 20% of the dollar's M3, you get to print $200 billion. As most of the nations are bankrupt, what better way to pay for science projects than by printing currency. And pay for Social Security, defense weaponry, environmental projects, etc.

When we get to Mars, it will be on a Stairway of printed currency.

How cool is that, Robert Plant?

The Zimmerman Document

delays the entrance of the US into WWI. But not the outcome.

Megaupload kingpin found in panic room when arrested, say cops

As it happened

Kim was having the moat cleaned and the sharks and alligators were in dry dock.

Terra Incognita

As you know the world was in serious trouble long before the last quarter of 2008, when we were all let in on the collapse of the global economy.

I don't believe the economic collapse is the prime cause of what we are seeing today, but a symptom of what we're eventually going to have to face.

Whatever the case, because the US is the greatest, if not the only superpower, other nations have consented to the US leading them out of this terra incognita. And that includes accepting the long arm of American law. If the US can't persuade another country to charge and try alleged criminals of American laws, it will extradite them to friendlier courtrooms in America or abroad.

What are the NZ gun laws?

Can a foreigner, granted residency, with prior convictions elsewhere, own a gun in NZ?

I'd like to know before I prejudge this case, if you don't mind.

NASA close to approving first sci-fi flick shot in space

flick wasn't the word I saw....

You probably still had G-spots on your mind when you read the title.

McDonald's punters offered sex in exchange for Chicken McNuggets

"you can get a 12 inch there."

I think she wanted something to eat, not something to look at.

Just a PR stunt by McDonalds

to get quasi respectable sites like el reg to post these *adverts* and titillate their horn dog commentators, who start frequenting far-flung Golden Arches looking for love between the buns.

The Register to publish other sites' blacked-out content in SOPA protest

theodore: "I needed that."

Glad to be of service. "Tis a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done".

Drooling Seniors, too,

who can't remember the 9 letter word for the thing that opens a can. Sure, they'll remember it tomorrow, but if they want to use it in an email right now, they need wikipedia. 24/7.

American search team fails to find women's G-spot

Wasn't there some cannibalism going on too?

Or were they just pretending to chew?

It's a trick perpetuated by women

to keep men down there, rummaging around with their instruments, looking for it.

(buffing nails). "That's not it, honey, try a little further in and up.". "That's much better. (puts down nail buffer and runs fingers through partner's comb over)

UK student faces extradition to US after piracy case ruling

14 months In Big House for similar crime.

(Jan 20, 2012)

NinjaVideo Co-Founder Sentenced To 14 Months

Matthew David Howard Smith, 24, was sentenced to 14 months in prison for his role in founding NinjaVideo.net, the Justice Department said in a press release:

At sentencing, U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga also ordered Smith to serve two years of supervised release following his prison term, to pay $172,387 and to forfeit to the United States five financial accounts and various computer equipment involved in the crimes. Smith pleaded guilty on Sept. 23, 2011, to conspiracy and criminal copyright infringement.

If extradited, one year in the pokey for O'Dwyer, not five.

@ SleepyJohn

If you need a criminal lawyer.....

" That ignorance was no defence under the law."

That ignorance used to be only for the laws of your own country. Today, we must not be ignorant of the laws of 200 countries. Or we could be extradited or kidnaped to a country with a 10th century legal code.

No. The USA is the second Rome.

And England devolved back into Britianna.

One might have thought my 8 other comments on this topic...

would have precluded my having to announce my sarcasm on the one you object to. My bad.

The quality of mercy is not strained. The High Court best remember that.

If he's incarcerated in the US, how will his parents visit him?

A convicted murderer would have more visitations than this Internet pirate.

AC's object all sublime...

He will achieve in time —

To let the punishment fit the crime —

The punishment fit the crime;

And make each prisoner pent

Unwillingly represent

A source of innocent merriment!

Of innocent merriment!

Flogging through the fleet. All hands on deck and watching the punishment.

Our Golden Age of Slavery was so-so **sarc**

Now we're into boot-licking satrapies.

Pro-Israel hackers threaten tit for tat after credit card leak

"You wouldn't know wise if it bit you."

I know anger and the memorization and regurgitation of talking points isn't wisdom. Nor is glibness without originality. You accuse mhenriday of having anti-Semitic and and anti-Yank chips on his shoulder whilst you range around el reg with pro-Israeli, pro-Yank chips as big as the Ritz.

Then you accuse him getting "far off topic," after which you post: "Of course, the Japanese also had development programs for biological weapons (which they tested on the Chinese) and intended using them on West Coast US cities. The Germans had their "Amerika-Bomber" project for attacks on the US, including plans to drop atomic bombs on New York (the Ju390 prototype is claimed to have made a proving flight to within 12 miles of New York in 1944), and an extended-range version of the V2 on the drawingboard. The latter project was delayed by by the Allied bombing of Peenemunde, which delayed the program by about six weeks though it killed only two key rocket scientists.". Yep, that's right on topic.

When are self-proclaimed intellectuals such as yourself going to learn the door swings both ways, and that aggressive bullying costs them more support than they get? Are you such a fool to think I care what you think.

And btw you are so bereft of sound judgement, you could not admit that the Dreyfus/Manning comparison was perfectly fine for the discussion. You had to go to the gay place to try to tear it down. I let you have the last word then, but now I am reclaiming it. In that case you were just a nerdy high school sophomore whining that you were right.

There is help for your condition, Matt Bryant, and it's not too expensive.

Matt

Well, I hope you're right. The proof will be in the chelo kabab.

I think you might like to see this site.

http://www.foothilltech.org/rgeib/english/orwell/primary_sources/nuremberg.html

I know there's an historically accurate statement here...

>>"projects like the conventionally-dropped atom bomb, which did much more to end the War than the V2 rocket <<

But we can save it for another day. :-)

>>"On the other hand, the Iranian scientists are doing nothing new, they're simply copying technology from other countries and following far behind in the footsteps of the much more advanced West."<<

I agree with you but I'm not put at ease by it. Without rocket expertise, aren't they going to spend their time developing ways of triggering nuclear devices welded between the double hulls of tankers and false backs of containers? We'd have a better shot at an Iranian ballistic missile than a beat up tramp steamer.

I'm surprised you agree.

Scientists, like valuable military officers, are now legitimate targets in times of war or prewar (in other words, all the time). My point was where are we headed, if our best boffins can be assassinated on a hunch or a whim by declared or undeclared enemies? Does it bode well for our future?

No doubt, the Germans had quite a jump on the Allies in the field of rocketry. The flight of the German rocket scientists From the *eastern* to the *western* front at the end of the war is amusing. During the war (like the Iranian physicist) we tried to kill them. After the war we wanted to make sure they landed on our side and we rewarded them quite well. The evil miscreant working on the Plutonium Petard for them is now the avuncular, absent minded professor working for us. (A Hate- Love relationship, no?). This explains why 7 billion people are schitzophrenic.

I wasn't serious about the Groucho glasses. I don't think they were around till the late '50s. :-)

So the Japanese had every right to enter the US in '43 -'45

wearing Groucho glasses (typically consisting of black horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, large plastic nose, and bushy moustache), and eliminate the scientists who invented the Atomic Bomb under the Manhattan Project:

Robert Oppenheimer, David Bohm, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Emilio Segre, James Franck, Enrico Fermi, Klaus Fuchs and Edward Teller. And you're cool with that?

Tell that to Mrs Teller.

'Space Monkey' craze: Texan students 'get high' by choking each other

I almost died from choking myself.

It was when swallowing goldfish came back in the '60s. I got one that was too big and its dorsal fin caught on my pharynx.

I saw the white light.

Apple wants to OWN YOUR VERY SOLE

But there already is a sensor in my trousers.

(Local Group blushes.)

Phages: The powerful new bio-ammo in superbug war

Blogophages

They guard against trolls.

I have to go now.

Boffins quarrel over ridding world of leap seconds

@ Stoneshop

My physics teacher rolled his eyes at me plenty when he was still spry. All my teachers did.

"It's inertia"

I'm cool with inertia. Thanks for the heads up

It all depends

how fast the earth's rotation slows down, no?

I am more worried that gravity will drag us down into the dust as the centrifical force generated by the earth's spin is reduced.

<sigh> We all end up there anyway.

Wikipedia to shut down Wednesday in SOPA protest

Bipartisanship can only exist

when lobbyists create a vacuum of payola. Which isn't very often.

So you could read that as "Preventing Real Online Threats to etc.

Most graduates of Titipu City College read it exactly like that.

The one time that I would expect BiPartisanship

Bipartisanship is so last century

Barclays axes 422 UK IT staff

"The brass want to live in Europe"

Maximilian and Carlota might agree. Cecil Rhodes might not.

Footie club sacks striker for homophobic tweet

Another Advert.

Anus Ajar?

Padlockyourarse with Pridelock.

Keep dignity in and trouble out.