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arenean Donating Member (230 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 08:43 AM
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Live Q&A with Julian Assange
Source: Guardian

The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, will be live online from 1pm (UT) today to answer readers' questions about the release of more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-julian-assange-online
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Mika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 08:47 AM
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1. What time is 1pm UT in the US eastern time zone?
Edited on Fri Dec-03-10 08:48 AM by Mika
:shrug:

:hi:
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 08:59 AM
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2. Here's your answer:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=time+zone+converter
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activa8tr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 09:02 AM
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3. 8 Am Eastern US Time n/t
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activa8tr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 09:05 AM
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5. UT is the same as GMT, (Greenwich Mean Time) and is
5 hours ahead of Eastern USA in winter (standard US) time, 4 hours ahead in days of Daylight Savings time
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RogueBandit Donating Member (168 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 09:03 AM
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4. already done ... here's link
Here's the transcript

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-wikileaks
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RogueBandit Donating Member (168 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 09:42 AM
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7. Quite interesting, actually
Live right now ... keep refreshing your browser at that link to see more answers.

His group did purposely use Amazon Cloud because they thought it might be suffering some lack of free speech:

Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in jurisdictions that we suspected suffered a free speech deficit in order to separate rhetoric from reality. Amazon was one of these cases


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-wikileaks
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 09:07 AM
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6. Dang, I can just imagine all the scurrying around in the Cyber Defense Command.
:popcorn:
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