Assange stiffs his bail-posting 'friends'

[zzm9980]

An entertaining read:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... ds-newsxml

How long does it take to make such a simple decision? I can't imagine there is too long of a queue for asylum seekers to Ecuador that Mr Assange is waiting in.

[JR8]

I reckon they're still weighing up the international fall-out of having him operating from Ecuador.

Oh, and plus, there is no way for him to get out of the embassy without being arrested. Unless they make him Ecuadorian, give him diplomatic status and immunity... but that would be a pretty wingy-dingy thing to do.

[zzm9980]

I reckon they're still weighing up the international fall-out of having him operating from Ecuador.

Oh, and plus, there is no way for him to get out of the embassy without being arrested. Unless they make him Ecuadorian, give him diplomatic status and immunity... but that would be a pretty wingy-dingy thing to do.

Couldn't they stick him inside a diplomatic pouch?

[JR8]

If he wants to spend the journey in a box in the unpressurised cargo hold of a plane


p.s. Reminds me of a Velvet Underground song from long long ago. The guy in the box ends up getting a knife through the head when the addressee attempts to open it.

Edit to Add:
Velvet Underground - The Gift
http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/36381/

[Strong Eagle]

If he wants to spend the journey in a box in the unpressurised cargo hold of a plane

All cargo holds are pressurized. Even the freighters with up and down cargo holds.

[JR8]

If he wants to spend the journey in a box in the unpressurised cargo hold of a plane

All cargo holds are pressurized. Even the freighters with up and down cargo holds.

Issit? Do they heat it too? As sometimes my bag comes out and the contents are cold.


p.s. You can send some pretty funky stuff via Dip Bags, but I've not heard of them being used for live people

[zzm9980]

Pets travel in cargo holds, so I imagine he would be ok albeit a bit chilly.

And once he was in the air, I'm sure they could let him out of the bag

[Strong Eagle]

If he wants to spend the journey in a box in the unpressurised cargo hold of a plane

All cargo holds are pressurized. Even the freighters with up and down cargo holds.

Issit? Do they heat it too? As sometimes my bag comes out and the contents are cold.

'Tis true. The cross section of an aircraft is cylindrical... if the cargo area under the passenger floor were not pressurized, it would cause the passenger floor to collapse into the cargo area due to the pressure differential.

As for temperatures, pressurized air is drawn from the engine compressor stage... it is hot... needs to be air conditioned to cool it down... which takes energy... so if anything is cool in the cargo area, it's probably because of where it is located, not the actual air temperature, which will be the same as in the passenger compartment.