Also, thinking on what you said, I disagree that wanting non-subscription people to use Fedora was a Bad Thing(tm).

Nobody was "forced" into Fedora. Fedora was a way of testing out packages upstream, getting feedback, working out any edge case issues, before packaging them up into something that people were depending on for their supported infrastructure. The companies paying for support didn't want to pay for being the testing ground for new technologies: they wanted a stable, dependable platform for their own infrastructure.

I worked there from 2005 till 2015.

Red Hat was great right up until they hired leadership that didn't care about F/OSS and was more interested in making the company something another company (IBM) would want to buy. I was there for 10 years and saw the slow loss of that underlying spirit during that time...

Wasn't this how the zombies in Romero's original Night of the Living Dead get created? A Venusian probe crashing back to Earth?

I think the only thing going on is the news drumming up and exaggerating viewer response to the ad for a cheap talking point...

What do you mean by 106a? UCMJ 106a is about unauthorized ribbons, etc.:

https://mymilitarylawyers.com/...

Thanks, Obama.

It was a means to disenfranchising black voters after Reconstruction. By making felons ineligible to vote, and by increasingly prosecuting blacks for bullshit reasons, the white majority was able to keep them off the voting rolls.

And YOU need to learn historical context.

The platforms for the RNC and DNC switched in the 1960s over civil rights. The Dixie Democrats ran from the more progressive part of the DNC and into the waiting arms of the white elitist RNC when the progressives in the DNC made civil rights a part of their platform.

From what state did the senator who did that filibuster come? West Virginia.

What party represents that state in general? Capito (R) and Manchin (D).

And before you claim they're 50/50: Manchin represents the old sort of Dixie Democrats that the other southerns states used to be -- the kind that were progressive for almost anything EXCEPT when it came to giving equal rights to non-whites.

And that's where they get you!

Right. IANAL, but my understanding is that US currency is of unlimited exchange; i.e., a vendor can't refuse to accept cash.

You're comparing apples and oranges.

For most countries, if the crime is illegal in BOTH the country where you reside AND the country affected (like in this case with Assange) then most countries are extradition agreements to allow you to be punished for that crime.

So it doesn't matter that Assange never came to the US to illegally access any computer system. The two counties have treaties that allow for extraditing someone being indicted between countries.

Except his activities involved illegally (by US law) accessing computers (on US soil) to retrieve information without permission. That puts his crimes under US jurisdiction.

So the answer is a resounding no.

That's all I ask. His every tweet is something negative, an attack or an accusation that someone is mistreating/maligning/abusing him.

Has he nothing to contribute?