EU would not cooperate they are happy to work with China against the USA's interests.

NK is China. But for Mao's invasion of NK at the end of the Korean War there would be no such thing as NK.

NK is their baby -- all of the harm and evil that has flowed from there is China's responsibility.

Come on now. Those Big IT corps that support and enable the Iranian internet black-out are probably all big supporters of net neutrality.

They would never help a dictatorship limit access to the internet? It would go against their sacred principles of open and unfettered access to the Internet.

Oh, Nevermind. It is just all about the money for those guys too.

Koreans, etc. just come to America on tourist visas. Work a few months under the table and then go home. In the Bellevue, WA bust that these emails are related to, all of the sex-worker so-called victims left town immediately after it was announced to go work somewhere else.

If cops and local do-gooders were interested in helping victims they would go after American street prostitutes and backpagers. Not the review board sex-work industry. Review boards have real communities that make the business safer for workers and clients alike. Taking out review board communities, harms the economy, harms the local "normie" community, wastes local police resources, and so on.

It is fascinating and a little horrifying to watch hardcore feminists and hardcore conservatives join together to relentlessly fight against stuff that men like. Next, up banning sex-robots. Because if men like it - it must be Evil.

Do you think that is his only argument?

If you had any familiarity with law practice in the US you might not be so WTF.

In the US generally you include everything that you can think of in your early filings. The defense attorney probably has 20 other "boring" arguments why his client should not be convicted. If you don't get all your arguments (defenses in this case) in your initial filings it is unlikely you can bring them up later.

Here, this argument is raised because the lawyer might want to mention it to a judge or jury. It is part of the classic "he didn't know it was so evil" or "it can't possibly be as evil or pervasive as the government contends, since Amazon never gave a class about it, look they give classes about other things that are Evil, but not this, so this might not be so Evil after all, amiright?" defense that is common to include in criminal cases.

I am not kidding.

Calling them "trafficked" gets local LE access to sweet Federal grant money.

This whole case was a scam,

Shutting down a sex-worker review/reference site increases the risk for non-trafficked sex workers. The so-called victims in the TRB bolted so they could get back to work somewhere else. They sex-trafficked themselves right out of town.

Our year-old Roku works fine with Youtube. No glitches no crashes, even when it is left on all night long.

Reissue serial numbers: USRE43500; USRE43528; and USRE43529. Searchable on google.

SecureAplus has white-listing as well as anti-virus.

My wife's computer and my daughter's computer were always becoming malware infested. Since using SecureAPlus with the whitelist restriction turned on we haven't had any problems. Now whenever a non-whitelisted program tries to run, they full-stop until I check it out. Plus the AV allegedly runs using multiple AV engines in The Cloud.

Sheesh. Talk about #fakenews

Obama ran unopposed for State Senator campaign in 1996 because the machine disqualified his primary opponents. The Chicago Board of Elections (e.g., the machine) ruled that 62% of the signatures that his opponents submitted with their nominating petitions were invalid.

http://stoneformayor.com/obama...

Twitter has become a partisan hack site rather than a communication platform -- as is their right. Likewise, it is my right to have deleted my account. No worries.

I like games like Hell diver and diablo 3 for couch-coop fun. Split screen is too distracting for me - never liked it.

I guess we almost agree.

There really is no such thing as a software patent. Patent applications are rejected in the US all the time for trying to claim abstract ideas. Many of these applications are even more likely to be rejected in the EU, JP, and CN.

However, US patent applications that many folks here would characterize as "software patents" are often allowed in the US and many of them get allowed in EU, JP, and CN virtually unchanged.

I did a couple of internships/co-ops there. Fun place. Like a university but without regular classes -- oh and a lot more guns.

It is a giant government complex rife with waste and bloat no different than many other large government operations.

I remember when a tech in our lab was tasked to "spend" $250,000 in two-weeks with nothing costing more than $5000. He had fun.

EU does grant "software patents" (not that there is such a thing a "software patent") Many big software companies file patent applications for all their patents in US, EU, JP, DE, and China -- usually using the exact same application as they file in the US. http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Europ...