So in short you didn't really have any useful advice, just spite, that for some reason some people think is "insightful."

Reminds me of this old article:

Bringing Up A Surplus 68000 Board - Micro Cornucopia, p. 28

I miss that magazine and the old Byte.

Because you won't develop hardware skills? You won't have the satisfaction of building your own?

When asked for advice you'll get the best recommendation scientists have at the time it's given. Hopefully it isn't actually completely wrong, backwards, missing a key piece of the puzzle, or just plain lethal. It will always be subject to revision, and in 50 years you might get the exact opposite advice. And that is before we get to misunderstandings by the public, or the results of dumbing down the recommendations to make them more easily understood but not completely correct any more.

Eggs? Coffee? Butter v margarine? Vitamin supplements? ....

Having said that, we need to keep at it with the best tools science has since it is the best way forward and has been proven many times despite being wrong at times.

Now about "global warming" ....

It doesn't matter how thin you slice that, it is still baloney.

The boring truth about those Julian Assange smears

It's fine that you agree, but what about everybody else? If I stop posting then much of what's left on varous topics will be bad arguments and non-factual "facts." Nobody should want that, it doesn't help anybody. I'll keep posting to benefit everybody else even if you agree with me.

I still post under the same user name. You replied to someone else under the foolish assumption that nobody else could hold views that might be considered similar to my own in some fashion despite the fact that tens of millions of Americans hold similar views.

I find your little hateful rants a source of amusement, a demonstration of your impotent rage, and proof of your hatred of pluralism and democratic principles. Of course I do leave open the possibility that you are simply unmedicated.

Doesn't that work both ways? Maybe you could make a suggestion that the Slashdot editors post a notice about what views will be considered acceptable for any particular discussion. They should also post what the music will be since that will be choir practice, not a discussion. How often do you learn things from a choir? There are many people that share my views, just not many that post on Slashdot for its international audience.

First, that post wasn't a response to me. Second, posting bad arguments and opinions contrary to the facts "hundreds of times" doesn't make them good arguments or factual. I can be persuaded, but you have to be right to do it. Maybe you've heard that two wrongs don't make a right? Well neither does ten thousand wrongs make a right.

Those records are considered ordinary business records. That question has been to the Supreme Court before. The government doesn't legally need a warrant to get them.

That's not building a case. Care to do that?

He hasn't been questioned by the current prosecutor. The trial, if any, would follow charges, and those would follow questioning by the current prosecutor. Not complicated.

Why bring him back to Sweden? You don't suppose it could be due to the likelihood of going forward with a trial, do you? That's hard to do if Assange isn't there. I also seem to recall someone posting that a clock starts ticking once he is actually charged - speedy trial and all that - and Assagne could run out the clock by staying in the embassy.

Sorry, but no. Those claims are often made against specific people, so where is that presumption of innocence?

Ecuador is playing games. They know how the Swedish legal system works and are exploiting people's ignorance of the order in which the steps occur. First comes the interview, then the charges. They know that. Like I wrote, Ecuador is playing games if they actually stated that.

For some reason that presumption rarely seems to be honored for the people that Assange steals or traffics in secrets from. Same goes for Snowden.