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This doesn't really answer your parent's question, does it? If you use TFA or RTFA make sure you do it properly, it's rude.
Agreed. Not only does it not answer my question, it's against the HN guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .
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This doesn't really answer your parent's question, does it? If you use TFA or RTFA make sure you do it properly, it's rude.
Yes, it does. Explicitly and clearly. With a direct quotation. What more could you ask for?
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Agreed. Not only does it not answer my question, it's against the HN guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .
How is it against the HN guidelines?
So when I read "TFA", I thought "come on, dude, that's a bit patronizing, it's a valid question, fair shake of the sauce bottle, mate". I think a few other people thought the same way, too.
Personally I believe that there are no stupid questions (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853740) and we shouldn't diss questions stupid or otherwise.
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This doesn't really answer your parent's question, does it? If you use TFA or RTFA make sure you do it properly, it's rude.
Yes, it does. Explicitly and clearly. With a direct quotation. What more could you ask for?
The exact source.
There's a world of difference between Julian's assertion of "a US blogger" versus a link to the original source (which jacquesm supplied). Perhaps we're living in the wikipedia generation, but it's quite concerning that people on Hacker News automatically consider assertions to be as credible as original sources!
I mean, seriously, Julian makes a statement about how his son has received kidnapping threats, and people just swallow it without questioning? I'm not saying that I think Julian is lying (and having seen jacquesm's link, it seems like he wasn't), but I think it's incredibly important for anyone wishing to critically analyse current affairs to view all claims, on all sides of the debate, with a skeptical mind.
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As European countries come England is the hardest to get in and out of and it's not like Julian Assange is not going to be recognized on sight by half a million people at least by now. The boats all leave from ports where there are customs inspections, crew and captains who would all not be too happy giving shelter to a fugitive, international airports need a pass by immigration and the chunnel does too. Lots of ille…
You can quite literally get into a yacht anywhere on the coast and sail away. Nobody will stop you. I've done it many times.
Actions speak louder than words: http://readersupportednews.org/julian-assange-petition
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"Apart from crazy people like..." Hmm, I didn't realize Newt Gingrich was crazy. I wonder if your list of crazy people includes virtually everyone not in your preferred political party. "Yet we're to believe that a single private in the military could possibly have judged the impact of what he was handing to Wikileaks" Err, you take thousands of documents labeled "private" or "secret" and release them to the media an…
Yes, when you imply that thousands of Americans are guilty of giving material aid to an active enemy of the United States (a federal crime) because they've donated money to someone who posted documents that were handed to him --- when you, in effect, suggest that the New York Times is an accessory to an act of war on the United States ("act of war", by the way, being Newt's own words) --- yeah, I get to call you a cr…
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So you apply to the government for a job and in your job application, you put your address, social security number, telephone number, your personal references, etc. Then the government does a background check on you including your credit history, transcripts of interviews with your friends and family, copies of sealed court records, and copies of medical records obtained to qualify for employer insurance. One country…
You are conflating the right to personal privacy with the need for government transparency, they are two entirely different subjects.
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I was there as a US Army NCO. I'm not afraid, I'm simply pointing out that there are people that despise the West, and it's bad enough that we have to take it from them...we shouldn't have to take it from our own people too. I didn't say Wikileaks is or should be illegal...I asked where we draw the line. I don't think Wikileaks is a benefit, that's all. I think it has the potential to do good, but the way he's releas…
I'm simply pointing out that there are people that despise the West, and it's bad enough that we have to take it from them...we shouldn't have to take it from our own people too. Despise is perhaps too strong a word, particularly in regards to "our own people". But regardless, what if there are very good reasons to despise the West? Everything the West does is not ok simply because you and I live in it. A good portio…
“Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”
I didn't say we were perfect, but let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. The truth is always somewhere in the middle.