Gary McKinnon

Can anyone explain to me, in nice simple English, why we shouldn't be extraditing a convicted hacker to the country where he commited the crime?  It really does seem like an open and shut case to me, and I'm baffled why some people seem to think it's wrong.

I'm clearly missing something - can someone explain it to me?

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Race to the finish

Note - the final question isn't just in reference to the question above - it's about _all_ potentially offensive statements.

[Poll #1437698]

Free Will

I was intrigued to finally read Conway's Free Will Theorem and am amused to note that he gets all the way through it before deciding that as he feels like he has free will, therefore he has it, and this means that therefore individual particles have free will.  Which has to be one of the biggest examples of _almost_ thinking logically I've ever seen.

In addition:

and a biblical argument against Free Will that I was amused by.

All courtesy of The Old New Thing.