Brazil President Pledges Solidarity with WikiLeaks

2010-12-20 Thread Jon Louis Mann
WALL STREET JOURNAL DECEMBER 10, 2010, 3:19 P.M. ET Brazil President Pledges Solidarity with WikiLeaks By JEFF FICK RIO DE JANEIRO--Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva offered his support to embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday, pointing the finger of blame directly

Transparency, Wikileaks and Julian Assange

2010-12-17 Thread Keith Henson
Given the name of this list, it surprises me that there has not been more discussion about recent events. Keith ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Transparency, Wikileaks and Julian Assange

2010-12-17 Thread Charlie Bell
What's to discuss? The bloke committed treason. (Against a country he's not a citizen of, and merely be being in charge of an organisation that receives and publishes material provided by whistleblowers, which is mostly checked and redacted for personal or currently sensitive details... but

Lula de Silva and WikiLeaks

2010-12-17 Thread Jon Louis Mann
Leaked U.S. cables, following Lula de Silva's eight years as president of Brazil, show him cooperating with Washington and double-crossing fellow leftists.

Re: Lula de Silva and WikiLeaks

2010-12-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Jon Louis Mann wrote: Leaked U.S. cables, following Lula de Silva's eight years as president of Brazil, show him cooperating with Washington and double-crossing fellow leftists. Double-crossing is an exageration... Brazilian president-elect Dilma Rousseff is an economist, former

RE: Facebook is evil, why it must be eradicated [was: Wikileaks?]

2010-12-08 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Dan Minette wrote: All the billions that g*vernments invest all the time to make mothers breastfeed, and those sociopaths and perverts create a Social Network that criminalizes it. They should be exiled to Antarctica. Actually, it doesn't, Alberto. Facebook is free, last time I looked.

Re: Wikileaks?

2010-12-07 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Or maybe it's everyone and their dog trying to access their new Facebook profile page: (...) Why do people join Facebook, when it's owned by sociopaths and perverts? Alberto Monteiro ___

Re: Wikileaks?

2010-12-07 Thread Dave Land
On Dec 7, 2010, at 3:44 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Or maybe it's everyone and their dog trying to access their new Facebook profile page: (...) Why do people join Facebook, when it's owned by sociopaths and perverts? Well, of course the sociopaths and perverts to which you refer are not

Facebook is evil, why it must be eradicated [was: Wikileaks?]

2010-12-07 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Dave Land wrote: Why do people join Facebook, when it's owned by sociopaths and perverts? Well, of course the sociopaths and perverts to which you refer are not on my friends list, so they don't have any meaningful impact on my Facebook experience. I mean own in the sense of ownership,

Re: Facebook('s policy on breastfeeding) is evil, why it must be eradicated [was: Wikileaks?]

2010-12-07 Thread Dave Land
On Dec 7, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Dave Land wrote: Why do people join Facebook, when it's owned by sociopaths and perverts? Well, of course the sociopaths and perverts to which you refer are not on my friends list, so they don't have any meaningful impact on my

Re: Facebook is evil, why it must be eradicated [was: Wikileaks?]

2010-12-07 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Dec 7, 2010, at 5:44 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Why do people join Facebook, when it's owned by sociopaths and perverts? and then wrote: It's not the people that join that are sociopaths and perverts, it's the people that control the site that are sociopaths and perverts. Only a

Re: Facebook is evil, why it must be eradicated [was: Wikileaks?]

2010-12-07 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Bruce Bostwick wrote: It's not the people that join that are sociopaths and perverts, it's the people that control the site that are sociopaths and perverts. Only a sociopath and pervert can think that breastfeeding is pornography. It's disrespectful to breastfeeding (and to pornography

RE: Facebook is evil, why it must be eradicated [was: Wikileaks?]

2010-12-07 Thread Dan Minette
Only a sociopath and pervert can think that breastfeeding is pornography. It's disrespectful to breastfeeding (and to pornography too, but wfc?) All the billions that g*vernments invest all the time to make mothers breastfeed, and those sociopaths and perverts create a Social Network that

Re: RE: Facebook is evil, why it must be eradicated [was: Wikileaks?]

2010-12-07 Thread trent shipley
A business decision that injures public health. On Dec 7, 2010 3:15 PM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote: Only a sociopath and pervert can think that breastfeeding is pornography. It's disrespectful to... Actually, it doesn't, Alberto. Facebook is free, last time I looked. I can choose to

RE: RE: Facebook is evil, why it must be eradicated [was: Wikileaks?]

2010-12-07 Thread Dan Minette
A business decision that injures public health. Were facebook the internet, you might have something. But, I just typed breastfeeding videos into google, and got a zillion hits, checked the first one, and found a site with over a score of videos. Some had nothing to do with public health;

Re: RE: Facebook is evil, why it must be eradicated [was: Wikileaks?]

2010-12-07 Thread John Williams
Ultimately, these sorts of issues are due to insufficient diversity. As long as there is a majority (or perhaps even a large uniform minority) who believe something strongly, there will be businesses or government policies that cater to this majority. Whether government representative or business

Re: Facebook is evil, why it must be eradicated [was: Wikileaks?]

2010-12-07 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Dec 7, 2010, at 4:25 PM, trent shipley wrote: On Dec 7, 2010 3:15 PM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote: Only a sociopath and pervert can think that breastfeeding is pornography. It's disrespectful to... Actually, it doesn't, Alberto. Facebook is free, last time I looked. I can

Re: Wikileaks

2010-12-06 Thread Charlie Bell
On 06/12/2010, at 8:46 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:29 PM, trent shipley trent.ship...@gmail.com wrote: How many secrets does Australia have that are worth leaking. Does a significant fraction of the World's population believe it is The Great Satan? Reminds me of

Re: Wikileaks

2010-12-06 Thread Charlie Bell
On 02/12/2010, at 10:29 AM, trent shipley wrote: How many secrets does Australia have that are worth leaking. Does a significant fraction of the World's population believe it is The Great Satan? They released the list of blacklisted domains that was itself secret... stupid policy.

Australia [was: Wikileaks]

2010-12-06 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Nick Arnett wrote: How many secrets does Australia have that are worth leaking. Does a significant fraction of the World's population believe it is The Great Satan? Reminds me of the story of the lady who was applying for a visa to enter Australia.  When the clerk asked her if she had a

Re: Australia [was: Wikileaks]

2010-12-06 Thread Charlie Bell
On 06/12/2010, at 10:39 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Nick Arnett wrote: How many secrets does Australia have that are worth leaking. Does a significant fraction of the World's population believe it is The Great Satan? Reminds me of the story of the lady who was applying for a visa to

WikiLeaks Founder Assange Vows Poison Pill If Arrested, Killed

2010-12-06 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
FWIW: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is threatening to go nuclear if he is killed or arrested, releasing a poison pill of secret documents even more devastating than the ones that already have sparked diplomatic chaos around the globe, according to the British tabloid The Daily Mail

Wikileaks?

2010-12-06 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Is someone running a DDoS attack on Wikileaks tonight (US time)? I'm getting a lot more slow and dropped connections on the Web tonight than usual, so I wondered if it's all over the Net or just here . . . ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman

Re: Wikileaks?

2010-12-06 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:06 PM Monday 12/6/2010, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Is someone running a DDoS attack on Wikileaks tonight (US time)? I'm getting a lot more slow and dropped connections on the Web tonight than usual, so I wondered if it's all over the Net or just here . . . Or maybe it's everyone

Re: Wikileaks

2010-12-05 Thread trent shipley
The Manhattan Project was spied on by the Soviets. On Dec 1, 2010 4:18 AM, Alberto Monteiro albm...@centroin.com.br wrote: Doug Pensinger wrote: I'm generally for transparency and haven't heard of anything yet that ... I think the worst source of embarassment is the use by .govs of

Re: Wikileaks

2010-12-05 Thread trent shipley
Wikileaks in the US. From the comments I have read on newspaper articles about Wikileaks here in Australia, I would think a majority of people here (maybe about 75%) are supportive. Personally, I think there is good and bad in what Julian Assange and his team are doing, but that the good

Re: Wikileaks

2010-12-05 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:29 PM, trent shipley trent.ship...@gmail.comwrote: How many secrets does Australia have that are worth leaking. Does a significant fraction of the World's population believe it is The Great Satan? Reminds me of the story of the lady who was applying for a visa to

WikiLeaks

2010-12-02 Thread Jon Louis Mann
Where are the docs to prove that Soylent Green is really people?  -- Matt The film leaked it all, Matt!~) ...there is overwhelming sentiment against . Wikileaks in the US Wayne Eddy. There seems to be overwhelming sentiment against Wikileaks' release I was wondering how people

Re: WikiLeaks

2010-12-02 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Dec 2, 2010, at 7:51 AM, Jon Louis Mann wrote: Having consensual sex in Sweden without a condom is punishable by a term of imprisonment of a minimum of two years for rape. That strikes me as very strange indeed. is there more to that law than that? Does this apply only to extramarital

WikiLeaks

2010-12-02 Thread Jon Louis Mann
They teach you in the military that there are such things as illegal orders. I would argue that there should also be illegal secrecy. Keeping a war crime a secret would qualify. Doug Precisely. If that argument is not successfully made in his defence, then the USA is further down

Re: Wikileaks

2010-12-01 Thread Charlie Bell
On 01/12/2010, at 3:51 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote: There seems to be overwhelming sentiment against Wikileaks' release of confidential documents and I was wondering how people here (some of whom may have read Brin's Transparent Society) felt about it. Judging by how they do it - letting

Re: Wikileaks

2010-12-01 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Doug Pensinger wrote: I'm generally for transparency and haven't heard of anything yet that is beyond mildly embarrassing to the U. S. government. I do think where the safety of our troops is concerned confidentially is important, but that government secrets should have a relatively short

RE: Wikileaks

2010-12-01 Thread Dan Minette
What if this happened 70 years ago and Manhattan Project was leaked to the nazis (or even the soviets)? It was leaked to the Soviets. While Joe McCarthy was able to find 100% of the communist activists working for the Soviet Union in the United States (names kept in his locked briefcase),

Re: Wikileaks

2010-12-01 Thread Wayne Eddy
It is interesting to hear that there is overwhelming sentiment against Wikileaks in the US. From the comments I have read on newspaper articles about Wikileaks here in Australia, I would think a majority of people here (maybe about 75%) are supportive. Personally, I think there is good and bad

Re: Wikileaks

2010-12-01 Thread Damon Agretto
not able to safeguard their dirty laundry sufficiently... Damon. On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Wayne Eddy darkenf...@gmail.com wrote: It is interesting to hear that there is overwhelming sentiment against Wikileaks in the US. From the comments I have read on newspaper articles about Wikileaks

RE: Wikileaks

2010-12-01 Thread Dan Minette
I'm generally for transparency and haven't heard of anything yet that is beyond mildly embarrassing to the U. S. government. I do think where the safety of our troops is concerned confidentially is important, but that government secrets should have a relatively short shelf life in all cases.

Re: Wikileaks

2010-12-01 Thread Matt Grimaldi
. -- Matt From: Wayne Eddy darkenf...@gmail.com To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Wed, December 1, 2010 12:12:23 PM Subject: Re: Wikileaks It is interesting to hear that there is overwhelming sentiment against Wikileaks

WikiLeaks

2010-12-01 Thread Jon Louis Mann
. 23-year-old, Bradley Manning, a US army intelligence analyst, e-mailed former hacker, Adrian Lamo, bragging that he leaked the diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, along with a highly classified video of U.S. forces killing unarmed civilians in Baghdad. He is currently being held and charged

Re: WikiLeaks

2010-12-01 Thread Doug Pensinger
Jon wrote: Anyone with clearance to that level is personally responsible and signed an oath. 23-year-old, Bradley Manning, a US army intelligence analyst, e-mailed former hacker, Adrian Lamo, bragging that he leaked the diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, along with a highly classified video

Re: WikiLeaks

2010-12-01 Thread Charlie Bell
to WikiLeaks, along with a highly classified video of U.S. forces killing unarmed civilians in Baghdad. He is currently being held and charged with transferring classified national defense information to an unauthorized source. He faces court martial and up to 52 years in prison. Jon Mann

Wikileaks

2010-11-30 Thread Doug Pensinger
There seems to be overwhelming sentiment against Wikileaks' release of confidential documents and I was wondering how people here (some of whom may have read Brin's Transparent Society) felt about it. I'm generally for transparency and haven't heard of anything yet that is beyond mildly