Sorry, I don't give a flying fuck about that guy Assange but I have to intervene here: that idea that screwing a girl in Sweden who's asleep makes you guilty of rape is revolting bullshit that need to stop being thrown around. This entire thing has been discussed on reddit for instance here. As I wrote there:

The relevant part of the Swedish criminal code has been translated here and the wording makes it perfectly clear that what is punished as rape is the fact of having sex with someone, knowing that the person would not consent to it should this said person be aware of what was going on (e.g., said person was asleep, passed out, etc).

Basically this is a perfectly common and sensible definition of rape, that is probably valid in any western country, and does obviously not include things like making love to a girl you're in bed with while she's asleep, especially if she doesn't ask you to stop when she awakes. The Swedes are not crazy and it is ludicrous to attribute them insane laws like that.

Please for the love of the flying shit stop repeating such ridiculous nonsense this is hurting my gulliver.

I used to fancy on the idea of a 0.1% tax on any stock or financial product held for less than 1 month, or possibly 1 week. Would it make sense? I have the feeling it would rid us of any kind of speculation in a very short time and would possibly bring finance back to its true use, which is to provide funds to the economy. What would the drawbacks of such a system be?

This is going to be even funnier when a swatted fly falls into the printer and misprints your name. The potential consequences may be hilarious really.

Even that part is not obvious, with vaccines like MMRV which may delay the outbreak of diseases to adulthood instead of keeping it restrained to childhood as it was. But slahshdotters don't like complex answers. It's so much more comfortable when everything can be expressed in terms of radioactive bananas.

Viruses are not decidedly living nor dead as far as we can tell. They are more like parasites to living cells but cannot be defined as living by themselves as they do nothing a living being does (in particular eating). They are "deactivated" in a vaccine, i.e., they have their most "toxic" part removed.

Also you should not have been downvoted for asking a genuine question.

You're making way too much sense for slashdot. The guys here like to fancy they can think but still it has to remain simple! Radioactive bananas are ok.

But I thought vaccines were perfectly safe and anybody doubting the dogma was a hopeless idiot?

Going after those producing it is going to be even more efficient.

I think this is a very bad interpretation of the theory of evolution.

Please somebody point me to anything even vaguely comparable to the masterpiece that DirectoryOpus is on Windows. That will be the day when I switch to Linux on the desktop.

I do wank as much as I want and nobody needs to know anything about it, wife included. She's not interested in it anyway, no more than she's interested in the stench of my shit. I'm perfectly comfortable with it. May I humbly suggest that you and your likes go fuck yourselves?

Thanks for the interesting - and seemingly quite needed - clarification.

Interesting thoughts, but you should fix your shift key.

Beg your pardon, you definitely can if he's black.

Nuclear proponents (or should I say "nuclear islamists"?) have been so much more cold-headed and rational lately.