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Re:Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Pa... by chollida1 on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @02:50PM (#4480797)
> Ah, so the folks who were inexplicably sure that it had nothing to do with his Pirate Bay association were completely wrong.

I know that was probably an emotional response and the phrase "correlation does not imply causation" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus... ) gets thrown around here alot more than it should but that's a very strong statement to make.

Is it possible that it's true, yes. Is there evidence that makes it appear likely, not that I've seen. Maybe there will be more evidence coming up to help prove the swedes bribed the Cambodians to arrest him, but so far it looks like its way to soon to say this is definitely what happened.

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Re:Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Pa... by mcantelon on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @03:58PM (#4481158)
Yes, plausible deniability is present... the Swedish may have a soft spot for Cambodia's challenges. A list of Swedish foreign aid amounts and recipients would be interesting to compare this $59M with.
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Re:Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Pa... by sandstrom on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @07:04PM (#4481975)
Here is a list of Swedish foreign aid amounts dating back some thirty years:

http://www.openaid.se/en/countries

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Re:Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Pa... by chollida1 on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @04:57PM (#4481427)
as someone else pointed out. The $59M is over 2 years, and the foreign aid was decided on 6 months previous to this.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4480754

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Re:Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Pa... by mcantelon on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @05:36PM (#4481587)
Ah. I wonder how long he's been in Cambodia...
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Re:Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Pa... by tomjen3 on Thursday September 06, 2012 @01:13AM (#4482948)
That phrase is total and utter bullshit. Correlation does not prove correlation but it does make it significantly more likely.
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