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.

We did all of those things to the Germans and Japanese and none of them became terrorists

Someone needs to open a history book. No one promised the Germans and Japanese survivors that they would get more of the same.
America spent billions funding those countries rebuilding efforts after the war.

Flamebait? Really? You know it's the reactionary dismissal whenever someone points out that Americas actions *create* terrorists, that will forever prevent you from changing those actions. And thus, nipping the majority of terrorists in the proverbial bud.

Hmm, let's see....

Invade their country. (Check)
Bomb their country. (Check)
Kill thousands of their innocent civilians, men women and children. (Check)
Show no remorse for these acts. Indeed, be proud of them, and say the victims had it coming. (Check)
Tell the survivors that they are going to get the same. (Check)

How much research do you need? I thought America had drawn up this five-point-plan years ago.

are also "a benefit" to the customer, in terms of discounts. But again, your giving your data to the shop and anyone else they pass it to.

I don't use loyalty cards, I won't use this. If they want my data, let them break the law to get it, just like the government does.

Customers so desperate to be able to use a sucky service that they're willing to do the job a carrier ought to be doing... how many other businesses would *kill* to have that problem?

Ah, but they want the customer to pay *them* (the carriers) for the privilege of solving the carriers problem, not some upstart little company who has started selling boosters on Amazon.

Surely, a new level of greed.