A Google data center does not enjoy any extraterritorial status so the police would just waltz in there and drag him out kicking and screaming, case closed. Embassies are tricky things and could cause a minor crisis(minor because Ecuador is a pretty minor concern for most nations)

I wonder what he thinks will happen after those 5 years, the Swedish statute of limitations for the crime he stands accused of is 10 years so there will still be a warrant for his arrest, so he will be jailed and sent to Sweden, if Sweden finds him innocent of the charges he will be sent back to the UK to face charges for skipping bail and the costs directly related to that presumably(which presumably would include the costs of the surveillance of the Ecuadorian embassy).
So Assange will impose his own 5 year sentence and then some justice system will then impose their prison sentence on him.

Personally I think the chances of him going "missing" on the way to Sweden is nonexistent, this has too high a profile, and the chance of him actually being extradited to the US from Sweden is also pretty much zero. So the Irony is that he's willing to impose a 5 year prison sentence on himself rather than serve the 2 years he would likely be sentenced to if found guilty in a Swedish court. PLus that is still likely to happen if he walks out after holing up in there for 5 years.

Yes I agree that time is his enemy, the Swedes are going to do absolutely nothing, a court has decided that there is sufficient cause for an arrest(and thus an arrest warrant was issued).
So in the eyes of the Swedish legal system until Assange is remanded into Swedish custody nothing more will happen unless statute of limitations runs out on the crime(which in this case is 10 years).
So the next milestone as far as the Swedish legal system is concerned is either when he is brought into custody or when the most severe of the crimes he is accused of is prescribed , and the time for that is 10 years, and only then will the case be brought up again, either to be moved forward or to be closed. And even if Assange lasts that long in the Ecuadorian embassy1 I'm sure the UK will want to talk to him about jumping bail and the costs that has come as a direct result of that.

So barring that Assange sits in the embassy for another 9 years the most likely way this will end is if either the Ecuadorian embassy decides that they've tired of housing him and that they've taunted somebody enough and decides to kick Assange out or if Assange voluntarily walks out of the embassy.

Because there are also long tons(Imperial) and short tons(U.S.) A long ton is 1016kg and a short ton is 907kg so it's not as redundant as you might think.

Except that at least in parts of the world the ToS does not constitute a legally binding agreement and thus unless they receive your permission by other means they're still not permitted to do these things

A very large part of that is because wartime research is obviously focused on producing a working device. Admirals and Generals don't want to hear about how peer reviewed your theoretical physics paper, they want to know when they'll be getting their operational nuclear device. They want to know how soon you can have a working prototype for showcasing and how soon after that it can be put into mass production. So they keep throwing money on research groups that can show a pretty enough powerpoint presentation and who can woo their audience.

Huge amounts of money were "wasted" during WW2 on projects that were never going to bear fruit within a reasonable time frame, for example the German transatlantic rocket propelled bomber. The inventor knew that it would not bear fruit in the next 20 years or so at least but he told Hitler and the generals that it would be operational soon and no peers were around to tell them otherwise, and so they threw money at him until they were defeated. It's one of the reasons Nazi Germany was defeated, they wasted huge amounts of resources on unfeasible or outright impossible projects such as the Landkreuzer P 1000 Ratte which was set to dwarf even the already incredibly impractical Panzer VIII Maus.

But yes actual scientific knowledge of value other than the resulting device(if a device was even produced) is created during wartime and when the war is over you can go about getting it peer reviewed and all the other niceties of traditional empirical research but when the war is in full swing the only thing anyone ever cares about is producing weapons, preferably working weapons.

That's because public transportation in most places is not wholly subsidized by taxpayer dollars, only partially and your ticket fare covers the remaining part.

Actually it's not, who do you think those 100 million users would blame if instead of youtube or google they get redirected to a page saying "due to the recent actions of Microsoft we have been forced to block all windows 8/windows 7 users, if you would like to access youtube or google again please mail the turds in Redmond and explain your unhappiness, you can reach them at this mail address:"

Nah Google can just use the same bullshit arguments that the **AA's use, Since those users have access to all the content on youtube you can therefore just multiply the number of users with the amount of content on youtube to reach a suitably ridiculous level of inflicted "damage". Google probably just needs there to be 1 Windows Phone user to successfully claim damages that would put MS out of business 10 times over.

Laws do not have to be possible to comply with or even logical, you still have to obey them the same. If complying with privacy laws concerning handling and collecting of sensitive data is impossible or prohibitively expensive the answer is easy, don't collect or handle the data at all, problem solved.
You can't just keep going in the same old track and claim that complying with the law is impossible or prohibitively expensive so you won't bother complying.

Only when the government requires you to do things you normally wouldn't do can you complain that it's impossible or prohibitively expensive.
If the government demands that you climb a 50 foot vertical flat glass surface you can complain that it's impossible but if the government merely says u can't use equipment X to climb up a 50 foot vertical glass wall your option is to either stop climbing 50 foot glass walls or find other permissible equipment that will let you do the task.

Lets not forget that Israel assassinated high UN officials who dared suggest the two state solution or any solution that didn't involve giving (what would come to be Israel) all the land. Yes this was before Israel was formed but David Ben Gurion rewarded the assassin by making him his closest adviser and confidante which cannot be seen as anything other than endorsement of the act.

Read the party manifest of Likud and the other right wing parties they formed a government with, they say very similar things to what the Hamas charter does only in much more politically correct terms. Instead of talking about eradication of a people they say that the greater Israel(which includes occupied areas or areas not under their control) is the god given birthright of the Jewish people and that no other people have a right to the land or to form a state within this area.

The past and current ruling parties of Israel uses very similar underlying rhetoric that Hamas does, only they do it in less politically and emotionally charged terms, they never had any intention of allowing the two state to become reality. When u spend the last 60 years oppressing a people can you be surprised that they want to eradicate every last one of the oppressors?

Google is usually just the intermediary and in that case they have to take down the content indicated the take-down notice, notify the owner of that content and if they reply that they don't believe the content infringes Google reinstates the content and passes the reply from the owner back the the notice sender.

In this case Google is the end recipient so they can just reply with a "no we don't believe that this infringes your rights and we won't take down the content. Shut up or take us to court, your move **AA." Then the **AA's can either take Google to court in a costly process that is in no way guaranteed to go their way or they can back down.
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Unfortunately yes, the burden of proof ought to be the same, beyond reasonable doubt, but unfortunately you only needs a "51%" likelihood to be found guilty in civil court

How about every competitor in the browser market for PC's? Microsoft is leveraging their dominant market share in the OS market to gain an advantage in the browser market. That is blatantly in contradiction with EU antitrust legislation and so they get punished. Opera obviously felt they were being hurt by Microsoft's actions, thats how this entire thing got started.