No qualms about the Ecuadorian embassy. I think the Ecuadorian government was duped into providing him haven though because all they've got to show for it is less space in the embassy and all his upkeep.

The guest that came to dinner.. And stayed..

I love ACs who don't know what the fuck they're talking about. In the case of Assange and has been demonstrated, he's into self promotion. Now RT (Russia Today) is about the only media outlet he has left and his story is becoming more lame. If he truly thought the charges were trumped up in Sweden, then fight them. Sweden's legal system isn't stacked against him and the whole paranoid illusion that the US Govt. was behind the charges should be proven in court. He chose to hid in the Embassy and stupidly, he's now an Ecuadorian house guest forever locked in there. So what he was afraid of, being imprisoned, has now happened to him and unlike any time he may have served in Sweden, he may still come out so 2 years in the Embassy, then whatever charges in Sweden + the bail/detainment skip he pulled in the UK. Any good attorney would be advising him to face the music and get it over with.

As for contributing, don't think that what Assange has ever done is contribute. The people who've given him the information are the true heroes, not this guy.

then let him face the charges a good lawyer can do wonders

He's in self-imposed exile and he made it worse on himself by running into the Ecuadorian embassy in the first place. Somebody needs to tell this twit that life is unfair, get used to it.

The Feds and State governments get a lot of revenue from Alcohol taxes. They don't have an interest in curtailing its consumption.

Actually psychologists call drinking a form of self-medication. Again, having gone through this with my step dad I'm pretty familiar with all of the patterns. Also since your not probably a Paleo Sociologist I doubt you probably knew to any degree with our fore-bearers did, which was probably took things out in an aggressive manner like destroying a village or raping a few women. If you can't find your vice one way you'll find it another.

There are substances, alcohol being one of them, that are addictive and by their nature make it difficult to quit. The fact is because it's accessible and legal there's little control other than having the money to buy it. Cigarettes are the same way and although I've never had the habit I have an 86 year old father who has smoked since he was 12, and despite having died on the way to the hospital for cardiac arrest and being resuscitated he still smokes at least one pack a day. That after having a quad bypass. I've lost two uncles, one aunt and a couple of cousins to lung cancer yet I never saw any of them stop and say "wait I shouldn't smoke" nope, they kept on doing it so it wasn't a matter of will power alone and any substance with an addictive property will get some portion of the population hooked.

Having had an alcoholic step dad and grandfather I can say there's many reasons that people drink. Mostly it's one because they want to and if they don't have alcohol they'll use something else smoking, drugs whatever may be available. Alcohol allows people to self medicate and avoid things in life or help to forget things in life, like the fact that their lives didn't turn out as planned. For others it's just an activity because others are doing it around them and they can't stop because they get addicted to it.

Sanford and Son episode: "Half the calories of regular beer. Humm, that means I can have two." - Fred G. Sanford (Redd Foxx)

I was thinking Burrito too.

Which one is he? Diana? Mary? or Florence?

Once code is checked in and goes through the standard build process, that's where this is expected to occur because in my experience it's the local environment where the developer does the coding that's the root problem. Why? Developers don't refresh their build environment because of the potential for other problems it may create. I had one gig to unfuck some code at a company a couple of years ago and found out that in order to set up a Dev environment in this place could take two weeks or more depending on what team you were on. You had to go through a script, download this, install that, change this.. A nightmare. Updating dependencies on a local desktop created panics amongst the developers who were reluctant to ever change anything they had which "was working" because you could spend days trying to fix what was broken. Naturally any time they migrated code into test or production (there was no build system) things failed there because of dependency related issues. Also depending on who the developer was, they naturally felt that bypassing the Test/QA cycle was a job perk.

I found dozens of dependencies on desktops that were out of date, deprecated or had major vulnerabilities and that went for the production systems as well. It was bad all the way around from a best practices perspective. Daily production crashes were the norm, the VP of Dev had a monitor on his desk so he could "troubleshoot" production problems it was that bad.

Yes there's shops like this that are still out there.

That's not the right use. of "Freedom isn't Free"

Unless the draft and amendment to the US Constitution and have the states ratify it. No I can't see them doing this. Of course in the future, the SCOTUS may review another case about some guy who was convicted on what they found on his phone without a warrant yada yada yada..

That's another silly constitutional matter, so Awlaki needs to just come forward with his lawyers and.. Oh wait, he's dead so he can't.