wouldn't it be more like "you drop the penny, I get a wish!", then panel 2 is little bro dropping the penny while older bro closes his eyes and makes the wish, then panel 3 older bro is all "it came true!" while little bro is dragged away
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, better
― pies. (gbx), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i suppose it WAS your bible fellowship, makes sense you'd be better at this than me
http://canvaspaint.org/30ac.pngi forgot the sheet.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 6 August 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://reason.com/archives/2010/08/06/julian-assange-wikijournalist
― Mordy, Monday, 9 August 2010 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
^ linked to from Sullivan, a case against calling Assange a journalist
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-10/a-western-crackdown-on-wikileaks/?update=1
― StanM, Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
huh
― How could you forget the crazy hooker? (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Turns out Wikileaks did, in fact, ask the DoD for help in redacting the leaked documents, and DoD refused. Greenwald is, of course, all over it.
― a mix of music (Lionel Ritchie) and kicks (my tongue) (Phil D.), Friday, 20 August 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Julian Assange wanted in Sweden for rape!?
http://translate.google.se/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.expressen.se%2FNyheter%2F1.2104976%2Fwikileaks-grundare-anhallen-for-valdtakt&sl=sv&tl=en
― StanM, Saturday, 21 August 2010 09:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Wiki twitter: "it's just a tabloid + distraction" - http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/21731365419
― StanM, Saturday, 21 August 2010 09:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice bit of character assassination.
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Spreading outside of Sweden by now - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11047025
― StanM, Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Pentagon (by the way, there's a mosque in there, did you know?) looking into persecuting WikiLeaks
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704488404575441673460880204.html?mod=WSJEUROPE_hpp_MIDDLEThirdNews
― StanM, Saturday, 21 August 2010 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Swedish rape warrant withdrawn http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316
― StanM, Saturday, 21 August 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Ridiculous. Way to martyr the guy.
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 21 August 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.internet-d.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Julian-assange-nyp.png
― k3vin k., Saturday, 21 August 2010 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
wow this whole thing is like
man
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Saturday, 21 August 2010 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
julian assange eats a cheeseburger - http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/cheeseburger1(1).jpg
― k3vin k., Saturday, 21 August 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
no wait, julian assange finishes cheeseburger, throws it away - http://www.13dots.com/reddragon/trashcan/final.gif
― k3vin k., Saturday, 21 August 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Huh:
http://www.fox40.com/news/capitolpulse/ktxl-news-soldierwikileaks0823,0,2298783.story
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 August 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
But but... I've heard that Assange eats live puppies!
― StanM, Monday, 23 August 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Countdown til "Assange is a Muslim".
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 23 August 2010 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
that's awesome; no one will pay attention tho i bet
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 24 August 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
All they have to do is say he's an Australian, surely that'll do it right? :D
― I used to lurk on some turtle forums (Trayce), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
haha an article i read today called wikileaks "stockholm-based". maybe that's true, technically
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 24 August 2010 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
The Pentagon said on Sunday it had a 120-member team prepared to review a massive leak of as many as 500,000 Iraq war documents, which are expected to be released by the WikiLeaks website sometime this month.Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan told Reuters the timing of the leak remained unclear but the Defense Department was ready for a document dump as early as Monday or Tuesday, a possibility raised in previous WikiLeaks statements.
Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan told Reuters the timing of the leak remained unclear but the Defense Department was ready for a document dump as early as Monday or Tuesday, a possibility raised in previous WikiLeaks statements.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 18 October 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I suppose they will do their usual thing of throwing whistleblowers in jail and trying to shut down Wikileaks, rather than bothering to investigate any of the crimes the documents might expose.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Monday, 18 October 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_0-KUaQl7k
― StanM, Saturday, 23 October 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^I don't understand this either - the NYTimes had an article that was totally about Julian Assange's personal life, I mean the guy just revealed that the US documented 100,000 deaths from the Iraq War and then lied about the fact that they documented those deaths... I mean are the large news outlets trying to smear him?
― jeevves, Monday, 25 October 2010 07:56 (thirteen years ago) link
sex sells, right?
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 October 2010 08:05 (thirteen years ago) link
also
1. it's a lot easier & more fun for lazy journalists to focus on a rape scandal than to sift through thousands of war documents2. it makes them feel like they're actually doing a job -- "asking the tough questions" -- rather than having to defer to someone who is doing it for them
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 October 2010 08:07 (thirteen years ago) link
are the large news outlets trying to smear him?
of course.
― sleeve, Monday, 25 October 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not really the story, but he is an extremely strange guy. it's not like they are making this stuff up.
― caek, Monday, 25 October 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
― sleeve, Monday, October 25, 2010 9:50 AM
wikileaks makes the major news outlets look ineffectual. also what j0rdan said
― am0n, Monday, 25 October 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Heh.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 October 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently what he does it very popular with veteran lefty journalists in the uk at least, who associate his politics with things they like, but the younger ones are a bit more creeped out because they have more direct experience of/dislike for libertarianism through the internet (which is still basically the only place you see it in the uk)
― caek, Monday, 25 October 2010 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
that interview is so very retarded. focusing on the eclipsing personality of assange and the rape rumours is obviously the perfect way for media to acknowledge the leaks as news without actually talking about them at all
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 25 October 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
an information dump of half a million documents which are about literally thousands of events is perhaps not the best way to get material covered (this is a point a lot of people who share wikileaks' presumed sympathies have made)
― caek, Monday, 25 October 2010 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's always easier to criticize. What would have been a better way then? 5 x 100,000 documents? (the second release would make those same people go "boring!")
― StanM, Monday, 25 October 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i haven't read the half million documents yet, so i don't know, but it seems like cooperating with journalists so that synthesised/digested stories are extracted and published in advance of the releases is a good idea PR-wise. if you don't do that then the release itself is the story. the newspapers wl cooperated with on the afghanistan release seem to either not have cooperated this time or not been given the opportunity and at the same time wl is being criticized by amnesty et al. they're not doing it right, and they're leaving gaps for stories about assange being a crank (which like i say, is not a lie).
― caek, Monday, 25 October 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
this guy is not terribly effective at drawing attention to the issues at hand - he's unable to redirect the debate from being about HIM and his methods to the contents of the documents he releases
― the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 25 October 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a suspicion among the people i know who've met him that he likes it that way (cyberpunk outfits, think he's morpheus, etc.). it's clear he's got a lot of the personality issues shared by libertarian hacker types (as alluded to in that nyt piece).
it's disingenuous of him to suggest the goal is just freeing information/generating debate. or if that's true, it's pretty unambitious/careless. it seems like he has real political preferences. and given that, it's not ad hominem to find faul with/write features about the figurehead when his M.O. works against generating supporting for those preferences.
― caek, Monday, 25 October 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
But when the story's about him instead of the revelations it's most distracting.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 October 2010 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
that's the joke
― caek, Monday, 25 October 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/23/obama-investigate-war-logs-torture
Nowak said it would be up to the Obama administration to launch an "independent and objective" investigation with a view not only to "bring the perpetrators to justice but also to provide the victims with adequate remedy and reparation".
― avoyoungdro's number (k3vin k.), Monday, 25 October 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/24/iraq-war-logs-us-iraqi-torture
― avoyoungdro's number (k3vin k.), Monday, 25 October 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
you know, I'm actually kind of psyched about this
― O'Donnell and the Brain (HI DERE), Monday, 25 October 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm sure there will be a full investigation, along with the indictment of top Bush Administration officials. And there will be fudge and ice cream.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Morbs this is one of those brief windows where we can all be psyched about the same thing imo
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link