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Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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Post by queuebert »

catapart wrote: post #74
throwaway48540 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's still a human. He just shared songs on the the internet. He's treated like a war criminal.

He didn't "share songs on the internet". He created a site where you can upload anything with complete privacy and anonymity. And then used it for racketeering, allegedly, which is where the government interest starts. The RIAA/MPAA want their pound of flesh, too, and it gave plenty of fertile ground for the US DOJ to build a case around so that they could get discovery and find out what they were really trying to ge…

This is the clear-headed take. As a point of clarification, I don't believe Dotcom has anything to do with Mega anymore, and the service Mega has gone legit and provides quite a nice a service similar to Tresorit -- end-to-end encrypted cloud storage.

Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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Post by oroup »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #115
roenxi wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They might make sense if in the long term we build out a nuclear deterrent? We'd need a handful of deep water submarines with big missiles on them. Although I expect that it'll turn out they're designed wrong for that or something. Other than that I can't see what situation they'd be useful in practice though. If we get into a war with Indonesia, China or the like that is the end. There will be no winners and we'll e…

> if a country can't defend itself with diplomacy then it is in a lot of trouble. You are absolutely correct. I wish more folks understood this.

Diplomacy works _because_ you have the means to defend yourself. If they can fight and you can’t, why will they bother talking to you?

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Post by lmpdev »

josefresco wrote: post #32
tedk-42 wrote: post #21

As an Aussie observer, I'm seeing more US influence in our region. With some 'diplomacy', Julian Assange was brought home after near 15 years fighting for BS extradition charges. The news and politicians in Australia follow almost lock step with whatever our US overlords allow us to say. It's been more of a thing lately with them trying to secure the pacific away from China's sphere of influence and the biggest 'dumb…

In your opinion why is the submarine deal/F-35 program "totally useless" for Australia? Are you saying it's the wrong equipment? Too expensive? Not needed?

Not OP but another Aussie

I’d sat it’s too good

Effectively trading the last of our sovereignty for overkill submarines

The threat of China exists yes but I think the French subs we had lined up would have been adequate

Especially as the US will likely send their nuclear subs our way when/if Sino-American tensions escalate again

I mean we’re effectively already an American outpost with many permanent US bases/facilities

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Post by chx »

tedk-42 wrote: post #21

As an Aussie observer, I'm seeing more US influence in our region. With some 'diplomacy', Julian Assange was brought home after near 15 years fighting for BS extradition charges. The news and politicians in Australia follow almost lock step with whatever our US overlords allow us to say. It's been more of a thing lately with them trying to secure the pacific away from China's sphere of influence and the biggest 'dumb…

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Post by lmpdev »

scrapcode wrote: post #66
tedk-42 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not needed. It's tax payer money down the toilet. But hey I'm a pacifist and will be told that I'm a weak man who will lead to the downfall of civilisation so oh well.

Well, ya know - it could be. Not needed until they are... risk management. Most should hope that their weapons are never "needed."

They’re still redundant though

If we’re heading to regional war, US nuclear subs will be here regardless

Even Darwin is a massive permanent US base

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tedk-42 wrote: post #21

As an Aussie observer, I'm seeing more US influence in our region. With some 'diplomacy', Julian Assange was brought home after near 15 years fighting for BS extradition charges. The news and politicians in Australia follow almost lock step with whatever our US overlords allow us to say. It's been more of a thing lately with them trying to secure the pacific away from China's sphere of influence and the biggest 'dumb…

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