Sorry only "non-biased" wiki-leaks links are approved as facts for people like that.

Consider this (1st day of advanced Psychology class our teacher told us this):
Imagine you're in a bus, with all your friends and your family, everyone you've ever known and loved.
Then consider you're walking out of the bus taking a leak, but when you walk out someone goes into the bus with a machine gun and fires away and kills everyone except you.
What would your reaction be? (Consider all the blood and gore of everyone you love?).
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Now consider this, that its your sister that is the one accusing Assange for the rape - would you still only look at his lawyers side of the story?

Stop being so fucking subjective, I thought all "Wiki-leak" supporters where looking for the truth, but it's obviously just the same shit as everyone else but with another leader.
Disgusting.

Fucking a sleeping person is legal where you are from? It's a fucking miracle that you have computers and internet there.

Why would this be a troll? This just proves that people on /. are subjective idiots.

Someone mod this up even more. Fucking tools nowdays without objective view.

What if he really did rape these two girls? Will you still hold him in high regard?

pokemon is still popular.

Thank you AC, said what I wanted but very well formulated. It's not like I hate the US for having horrible internet connections, in fact I love the US - but defending something when you're growing into an Ancient (yes a dinosaur) while the rest of the world is moving rapidly forward. It's not like there isn't any cashflow in the US.

"connecting everyone" You don't need to have everyone running on Fibre. Also by your "calculations" it would be cheaper per citizen with fibre per state than for finland.

5,4 million people in Finland, say that everyone pays 10% taxes (while in reality its about 30%). 313,802,00 people in the US, say that everyone pays 10% taxes (while in reality it's about 16% lawl). I'm quite sure that woud cover the costs of fiber. PS, Norway put their fiber in their old sewer system, you know after upgrading Oslo to make it more humane and down to the standards of the year 2000? How about the US who's not even close to as old as us Nordic countires, our building placements, roads, cities etc where made several hundreds of years ago while yours are quite new in that aspect - therefore you should have an easier and cheaper time to dig down that intarwebs

How about preparing for the fucking future? How's life gonna be when the US is up to 100/100MB lines, when the rest of the world is up at 1TB. Seriously crying about the fiber costs is ridicolous. Size of NYC: 468.48 sq mi (1,213.4 km2) Size of Sweden: 528 447 km That's the 57th largest country in the world. We have no lack of Fiber. That's just twice the size of Sweden, now stop talking crap. Americans are quick on the bullet talking about how wealthy your country is (while infact it's not) and you buy tons of superflous shit, but you can't drag fibre from a backbone? I'm quite sure you just swallowed some companys bullshit talk. The difference in size is easily countered by the wealth in NYC vs Sweden. What's paying for that "huge pipe" you're saying? How about the country itself? Or perhaps the carriers? If you dig down fibre in Sweden to your house from the main line, you sign a contract to stay loyal to that company for 100 years (due to the expensive costs). I would assume the US companies to put that on 200 years and triple the cost of fibre, but it's deffo possible.

Sweden: 5 years ago anything less than 10/10 MB ADSL was worthless. Sweden today: anything less than 100/100MBs fiber is unacceptable. In fact I have a friend on trial with a 1/1TB line (that's 1000MBs folks!) So yeah, with the US resources and money I would expect you guys to be on Par with Sweden (Note population of about 9million) and Japan~~~ Oh and your Turbo3G that you call 4G = Lawl, we're having 50/50MB/s at sweetspots with our 4G-dongles.

If you're trying to explain something "technical" to a user and they don't get it - it just means you're not good enough at tech. The base line to know if you're good at something within IT (and probably everything) is: If you can explain it at the level of a 5 year old you have good knowledge abotu it. If you can't explain it at the level of a 5 year old you're not good enough - you just THINK you're good because some book/teacher/forum told you how to do something.

I work as an IT Consultant for Commercial Companies, I can assure you Google has customers.

He should've just sold the iPad to the kid, have the TSA take it at airport sec (unless it was an ugly kid they usually only search the hot ones) so we could bitch more at /. bout TSA instead of US laws/Apple etc...

It is true that in our brilliant minds TBP isn't doing anything illegal. However they still got deemed as doing illegal shit according to the Swedish Court system (not saying it's right). These are facts, and due to one country saying it's illegal it's going to pop up in more countries... Once the snowball starts rolling you know