Southern France/Northern Spain is not a total wilderness. That level hunger after a two day detour implies a serious level of poor planning.

Well, it was their second tour of the Pyrenees. They have come back almost every year since 2001 and learned from their mistakes.

In practice people that object to the taxes just move away.

They have the resources to do so, but How many low tax, high status countries are there to live in? How many people are free from all community, familial relationships that moving abroad had no social costs?

For Scandinavians doing e.g. banking the UK has previously been a good option.

Some do, but changing countries is not that easy.

Yes. Since then humanity has developed agriculture and become reliant on a stable climate to produce the calories need to sustain our enormous population. Sadly human activity has thrown the systems massively out of equilibrium. Such rapid climate change is going to seriously impact your and my lifestyle.

PHP is far from insignificant in 2020.

Some thoughts.

Fortran (especially modern Fortran) is quite well designed. PHP seems to be missing.

We don't need to exhaust it. We only need to exhaust the easy to find sources.

Potentially. It depends on the facts of the case as well as the guarantees around execution and torture'

But in any case if the US wants suspects extradited from western countries they should abolish the death sentence and stop torturing prisoners.

> in any case if the US wants suspects extradited from western countries they should abolish the death sentence and stop torturing prisoners.

Personally I agree with that, but that doesn't impinge on the "politically motivate" crime issue, does it?

What crime? This is politically motivated punishment.

I believe the alleged crime is espionage. Espionage seems typically to have had a political motive historically. Does that mean that all such espionage charges should lead to denied extradition requests?

Some interesting context

> "Fitzgerald [barrister for the defence] stated that all major authorities agreed there were two types of political offence. The pure political offence and the relative political offence. A 'pure' political offence was defined as treason, espionage or sedition. A 'relative' political offence was an act which was normally criminal, like assault or vandalism, conducted with a political motive. Every one of the charges against Assange was a “pure” political offence. All but one were espionage charges, and the computer misuse charge had been compared by the prosecution to breach of the official secrets act to meet the dual criminality test. The overriding accusation that Assange was seeking to harm the political and military interests of the United States was in the very definition of a political offence in all the authorities."

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Vanessa_Baraitser#Political_extr...

When the basis for the charge is political rather than factual like this one. Then usually yes.

I'm confused. "Political" and "factual" do not seem to be contradictory notions. The seem to be orthogonal, to me.

The USA started an illegal war. Assange exposed some of the war crimes (for which no one has faced justice). The USA wants revenge.

They are acting like a banana republic and this extradition request should be treated as such.

> Yeah, it's kind of like the classic "break one law at a time" rule. If you're hauling drugs, don't speed. Getting away with just the one thing is hard enough.

I wonder if not speeding is enough to give police officers a reason to make a drugs search in some places.

Lol.

Czech here, I was stopped by the police once in the night on an empty 4-lane road doing exactly the speed limit. They breathalyzed me, looked at the zero and one of them said: "you know, when someone keeps the limit at midnight on this stretch of the road, they are usually drunk".

Next time a cop stops you for speeding, just explain, "I was speeding so you wouldn't be worried that I was drunk."

and you said: Why would I drink when I have 50 Kilos of coke in the trunk that would be stupid.