Indeed. Think about the Bible, where God tells all sorts of horrible stories about the devil.

The Devil has been quite silent on the matter.

I think we can see who's being the bigger person here, and who's the whiny bitch.

Brilliant. So an American high school student watches the bullets fall from his friends clip as he fires on a random teacher, and thinks "I shall call it Gravity, yo."

Well that's just brilliant. After two weeks of cable releases from Wikileaks, the rest of the world can look forward with confidence to the US invasion of Wikipedia.

Because human beings stating flat-out that something is impossible, only for Nature to say "Fuck you, human", is more common than you think.

It's only less common today because we're not quite as arrogant as we used to be.

Such blatant hypocrisy hasn't stopped the courts from siding with the corporations against the consumer in the past.

This is more about setting the precedent that piracy is wrong, not about the merits of this particular case.

Wait...what? I thought they were going after him for alleged rape.

Like that has anything to do with it.

They want to treat him like a terrorist because of the most recent leak.

You have enough idiots claiming the guy should be shot, assassinated, charged with treason (even though he's not American), and all sorts of other things which both fail to recognise that American law doesn't blanket the globe, and American due process should make bullet-to-the-brain an impossible solution.

Right-wing fruitbats... They'll demand Assanges blood, but still try to use the leaks to criticise the Obama administration.

"not unique" is not a synonym for normal.

It is absolutely despicable, but unfortunately, despicable prosecutorial conduct has become a regular feature in American jurisprudence.
Particularly, when you can describe the accused in terms like "terrorist" or "enemy combatant".

On the contrary, businesses, corporations, private tyrannies, they have all shown time and time again that they will destroy lives, towns, environments, etc... all for the sake of the bottom dollar. They are utterly ruthless and amoral. If corporate personhood were actually embodied in a single person, it would be a sociopathic pathology. We NEED the government as the only entity big enough, to reign in these sociopaths. This would happen, if government actually represented the people (the ideal) but until that day, business will have to content itself with spending large-ish sums of money on lobbyists to buy the government it needs.

All that means is that they want to treat him like a terrorist. It's not that unique a request.

They don't repeat themselves, do they?

Someone who really cares about you will tell you the truth, even if it hurts.

Alright then, here's some truth.

There are three stages to losing your sense of patriotism.
1) When you realise the present, is not what you believed it to be. (ie America is not #1 in everything, tortures people, has faults, whatever.)
You are at stage 1, as are most political activists. (i.e. we have been a great nation, and can be again)

2) When you realise the past, is not what you believed it to be. (The abuses against other countries or the American people, are not a new thing. History is full of examples, but most people don't know their own history.)

3) When you realise the future, will not be what you believed it to be. (Repressive laws don't get rolled back. Authority does not relinquish power.)

The Berne Convention would seem to only require 50 years protection or the length in the country of origin, whichever is the lowest.

The link you supplied does not even remotely say that.

That's typically a product of training. We don't have much experience with it, because we don't need it.

But take an aborigine, and ask him to estimate how far something is, and you'll get a good accurate answer, even if it's not in feet and inches.

If I choose not to have any replacement offspring (and as a slashdot member, that 'choice' may be taken out of my hands anyway) will you let me live forever?

Note : Afghani's weren't responsible for 9/11. Saudis were. How do we repay Saudi Arabia? With cash, obviously.

The 5 steps above? That's how you create the terrorists of the next 20-30 years.