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I KNO RITE?!

Not yet, no - the hearing was in relation to an extradition. They don't get to ask him to turn up at court for no reason. The reason is the EAW. If the EAW is invalid the result of the hearing should be "fuck off Sweden"

Ah right - so they asked him to go voluntarily to save bothering with a hearing. Gotcha.

Maybe we can arrange some sort of swap with them - We send over Assange, they send back the Swedish Bikini Team.

Yup. As if anyone ever says "yeah, ok".

So if he hasn't been charged with anything in the UK, does that mean if the extradition request is rejected, he's free to go?

Yup. He's not accused of anything here.

It's not immediately obvious on what basis the judge has had him remanded in custody, under the circumstances. I'm sure legal keyboard warrior MaliA may be able to tell us.

ALSO!



Fit Sarah Beeny?

Nah, she takes a bigger collar

I'd leak her wiki.

I'm not sure she's hot enough to put up with being prosecuted for rape afterwards.

Don't shag her mate the next day then.

Wise words for all Beexers currently living in Sweden, there.

Pic pls.

Like who?

"when she said did I fancy joining her for some midnight fishing I thought she meant something else, officer"

"Everything was going fine until the hook wen't through the condom..."

Heh.

http://www.ding.net/wikileaks/234867.txt

Also, looks like the US are going for Espionage as the charge. Interesting choice, as it's not covered under their extradition treaties with either us or Sweden.

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The fact that they feel the need to explain what a show trial is saddens and depresses me.

Remember, a first year uni student would be born in 1992

Labour didn't start burning the history books until 2001, so that's no excuse.

Fuck sake.

The stuff about the release of Megrahi* is a bit interesting.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/de ... bie-bomber
*The man who may or may not have been the Lockerbie bomber.

I know!

"Uni". Bleurgh.

Jesus, not old enough to remember Dr Alban or 2 Unlimited.

I weep for the future of this country.

Amazing how so many students talk about how they had an atari/nes/snes/megadrive/master system/meaga drive though isn't it.*

I remember back in the day (1995) how there would be 15 kids all gathered round the one playstation 1 belonging to the only kid we knew lucky enough to own one - much like those pictures you see of a room full of people all watching the queen's coronation. Speaking of TVs, you only got to play any console when parents were not about because unless you had trendy parents a house would only have one TV (and possibly a tiny black and white one in the kitchen and after half an hour squinting at sonic on that you would give up, or your mum would want to put her soaps on.)


*No, no you didn't, in fact I'm in my 30s and I'm just about old enough to have been randomly bashing buttons on a NES, first console I was old enough for was the master system 2 my gran won at bingo.

/I hate teenagers rant

True, but a lot of the youngsters would've had a hand-me-down console from an older sibling or uncle or similar. That's why I was still a speccy user until 1992.

ah but the oh god I feel old truth is someone born in 1992 would have been 8 years old when the playstation 2 came out and the big brother hand me down console for that generation was the N64. This is console gaming of course, I have no clue about the PC timeline.

You assume that everyone always buys the latest console straight away. The Master System was still on sale well into the 90s. I reckon a few thrifty parents might have picked up a late model in *checks* 1996 (jiminny cricket, 1996!) for a younger kid. The first console I ever owned was an XBOX1. Mainly because my parents were poor (and tight).

*has teenage strop over never owning a Nintendo*

Related: Did everyone know that Sega made a few computers in Japan?


This baby grew up to be the Master System

Someone born in the early 90s could quite possibly have a dad who is into console games. My daughter was born in 1993. I don't think there's been a console released since then she hasn't had full access to, many of which I still have.

I'm sure there are a few who genuinely remember what it is that they are professing a fondness for, however I suspect they are a small in number compared to the number of hipster douchebags who blabber on about it because it's seen as trendy.

I had a tv in my room plugged into various spectrums and megadrives over the years, starting from the late eighties. My parents were in no way trendy or rich!

Late 80s, eh? Dad had a BBC Micro which I played on a lot, and then he got a CGA 286. My younger brother got a SNES at some point (must have been a while after it was released...), and then I got a second hand N64 which was solely used for Goldeneye. I think I still have it.

I had a speccy 48k, a +2 and a +3. From the very first of them we had a tv to go with it, which was in my room. So it may well have been mid eighties, rather than late eighties, I was born in 76
Dad brought home a 12Mhz 286 from work, which was awesome!
Then I had a Megadrive, none of that Nintendo crap in my gaff

My cousin had a BBC, we used to play some sort of top down driving game for hours on end.

I begged my parents for a Speccy, as a mate had one and it looked better than the BBC. Then I asked for SAM Coupe after Cras got one (lucky escape) and then an Amiga. Still didn't get one. Still, it meant I spent more time on the PC and ultimately spent many a happy hour fiddling with autoexec.bat and config.sys to get Falcon 3 to work (needed 604k of basic RAM free, FFS).

I heard some comedian talking about this. He said something along the lines of "When I see some young kid walking down the street with a T-Shirt with SEGA on the front, I want to run up, grab him and shout 'I SUFFERED FOR YOU, YOU CUNT!'".

Which amused me.

You couldn’t make this up. (Bronwyn Bishop is MP for the Division of Mackellar, New South Wales, Australia, and is a member of the shadow (opposition) cabinet for the Liberal Party.)

Edit -- Curio has pointed out via Facebook that this is a fake account, albeit a really, really real-looking one. As you were.

Brilliant - "he should just be tortured".

Hmm, does she think he's got a big box of letters somewhere, presumably all on Embassy notepaper and sealed up with wax, or that he's swiped some actual cables, like those people you hear about getting electrocuted steal power lines for scrap?

Well, Assange is out on bail, subject to handing in his passport, wearing a tag, and obeying a curfew. Not sure when the extradition hearing is.

11th apparently.

Swap "90s" for "80s", and leave out "console", and that's just as true for me. My dad owned computers before I was even born. His interests in technology and games kept me in computers and consoles all my childrenhood, for which I was very fortunate and still grateful. My g.f. OTOH only had a hand-me-down Master System II and nothing else until she got her DS Lite. (No chance to play computer games in the '80s either, living in East Germany.)

I love the Ozzies! I was told a joke at lunch today referring to a an Australian parliament debate which was about something to do with legislation about a group called Country Members or something or other. Yes, it's going to get lost in the retelling, but the response apparently went something like this.

Country Member: Objection! I'm a Country Member!
Parliament: Yes. We remember

I originally heard that joke on Never Mind the Buzzcocks ages ago! About a member of the group "Big Country"

A second year student would only be 7 years younger than me. Some of my earliest memories are of the spectrum and the brand new, dead exciting Amiga 500. I was still playing my A1200 until its demise in 1999.

It's not that unlikely at all for students to really remember consoles and ting. Having it be some of your earliest memories would make a pretty big impression.

so not out yet then

His very very creepy online dating profile
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... htung.html

got to give comedy timing props it to whoever wrote that

Poor research or simple misleading, there - that "I am [WORD], [WORD], and [WORD]" part is a vestige of a previously obligatory feature where users had to use three words to describe themselves. When it was dropped (presumably because most people found it tedious and put in any old gibberish), the text was dropped from the header and automatically copied into the body text of the profile. They didn't tell people this, so a lot of people still have it there, having presumably never noticed it.



Oh please. If you were that easily put off, you would have left OKCupid after about an hour. Pretty much every profile on there is either ageingly dull ("I LYK POPULAR FILM #11, POPULAR BAND #223, INOFFENSIVE INTEREST #55b LOL") or is deliberately obscure and/or dark.



Again, misleading - loads of people put silly gibberish in there. Mine is "I'm sleeping with your wife". Doesn't mean anything as this is obviously trying to make out.




pfft, half the point of that site is the quizzes, most of which are rubbish about how much of a bummer or serial killer you "are", or WOULD I BONE U!!! quizzesesszesz.

In conclusion, the only story here is that, four years ago, he had a silly profile on a silly site where most people say silly things. Silly.