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Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com)
More than 80 TLS certificates used by US government websites have expired so far without being renewed, leaving some websites inaccessible to the public. From a report: NASA, the US Department of Justice, and the Court of Appeals are just some of the US government agencies currently impacted, according to Netcraft. The blame falls on the current US federal government shutdown caused by US President Donald Trump's refusal to sign any 2019 government budget bill that doesn't contain funding for a Mexico border wall he promised during his election campaign. This has resulted in hundreds of thousands of government workers being furloughed across all government agencies, including staff handling IT support and cybersecurity. As a result, government websites are dropping like flies, with no one being on hand to renew TLS certificates.
Often it seems that one of Trump's top motivations is to piss on the democrats, without concern for what it does to anyone who is not a hard core supporter of his. If we could get someone on Fox & Friends to say that the most dramatic thing he could do to piss off the democrats at this point would be to resign - leaving Pence in charge - he just might do it. Pence is not a great guy either but he's at least reasonably intelligent and honest enough to not stare into a camera and lie his ass off (yet). Just tell trump about the sweetheart deal Nixon got when he resigned and Trump might go for it. Hell if he goes out willingly he could still get lifetime secret service protection for him and his family for the rest of all their lives, saving him many millions of dollars.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
One appears to be a test domain, one expired before the shutdown and the third does not resolve publicly and the article says the org was not affected by the shutdown.
If your certs are about to expire(30-60 days out) and you are not planning for it, especially when they will be failing around the end of the year with Christmas and new years, that is just an example of you being a poor system administrator.
America elected Trump
Actually, no. Fewer people voted for Trump than voted for Hillary, period. Even with a seemingly historic election we still had a rather appallingly low voter turnout in 2016 (less than 2/3 of eligible voters), hence more people who could have voted didn't bother voting than turned out to vote for Trump.
in part to fix immigration
As has been shown before, Trump has held almost every position on almost every issue at one time or another. Consistency is not his strength (one can debate what his strength actually is...).
72% of Americans believe illegal immigration is a problem.
Do you have a source for that? I found a study that basically said the opposite of that, where 72% said that illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay if certain conditions are met. That's a long ways from your claim.
globalists who want cheap slave labor
Considering the millions of dollars that Trump has refused to pay to people working for him over the years, it would seem that Trump himself should be in that camp. Or is it not "cheap slave labor" when it is money that is refused to American skilled workers?
leftists who want cheap votes
Going with that conspiracy again? Just because Trump says it is so doesn't make it the case.
If Mexican illegal immigrants voted majority Republican, they'd treat them the same way they treat Cuban refugees (who vote 80% Republican).
Keep peddling that conspiracy if you want...
You lost.
You do know there was an election in November 2018 as well, right?
America First
Tens of thousands of unpaid workers would like to challenge you on what that means.
Traitors get the rope.
Careful what you wish for there. The number of constitutional amendments that Trump has not openly spoken in opposition to grows shorter every month.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
So because a wall may help, but would not entirely solve the problem, we shouldn't do one at all? A locked door may help keep a burglar out of your home, but it won't entirely solve the problem so take your door off the hinges instead.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
With increasing public debt and destruction of many small businesses due to the tariffs. The illusory "good" economy is just another liberal pump-and-dump. It's not like the bills won't ever have to be paid.
I know why Democrats would have nominated Trump but I still can't figure out why Republicans tolerate him. There's only one explanation that makes any sense:
The liberals and conservatives have switched sides. Republicans are now the liberals, and Democrats are now the conservatives. And the liberals are up to their usual tricks.
Perhaps there is room on both sides to stop acting like children, and learn to work together.
One side is upholding the democratic process preserved by the house and senate, the other side is holding a government to ransom for his pet project like a dictator.
No. Not everything in the world should be compromised on. In fact quite the opposite. Not only should Trump NOT get his way but this stupid issue which allows the government to be shutdown through this legal process should be eliminated like other countries have done for the express purpose of preserving the democratic process.
Nope. Try again. That figure was the percentage of people who want modifications to the wall to support their effort. In total Homeland security actually wanted about 5 addition miles of wall and minor modifications to strategic places of the existing one.
NO ONE on the south supports the monument to Trumps ego, not even the Republican government overlooking the largest part of the Mexican border.
A lot of what Trump does is done impulsively. His number one apologist, Scott Adams, says that in business you need to make decisions quickly because the quicker you act, the quicker you can fix it if you made a mistake. He gave out a big tax cut to the corporations when other changes he had made seemed to be making the economy stronger. That I blame on impulse - do everything now, not later.
I'm not a huge Trump fan personally, but I do at least respect this line of reasoning. Sadly, we have a government that can't agree that water is wet, and a population so heavily divided that they would remain blue/red even if their own side was the one claiming that it wasn't. In that environment, Hillary would have done no better. Neither would Sanders.
Now, Obama wasn't exactly a president that seemed to consider definitive, decisive action as something he wanted to do as a matter of course. He was an excellent orator, and very personable, but he gave the appearance of wanting everybody to be on the same page, and a general unwillingness to play hardball with those who didn't. I can appreciate that sort of desire for compromise and bipartisan agreement...but he was never going to get the red team to agree, even if he did everything they wanted to the point where the blue team was upset at him for turning into a DINO.
Trump isn't unaware of this. It's why he has a Twitter feed that is a massive red herring, letting the talking heads on CNN and MSNBC be appalled at the not-nice things he says, only to actually make it a point to make decisive actions with the media too busy reading tweets to report news. Now again, I don't think his policies align well with my political leanings, but I do think that looking at the methods in isolation, Trump at least gives the appearance of being a bit more successful.
no it's not hard to ignore that, but it's not all Trump. most of those were going in the positive direction under Obama, and in fact have slowed slightly the past 2 years. (expand the graph from past 2 years that fox news hows to the past 10 and look at the data). Data doesn't just exist for the past 2 years. So, claiming Trumps success over Obama's policies, is kinda well.. short sighted. Also, since when is taxing the rich (something that was done up until Reagan, 1980 had a 70% tax bracket... so... that's excessive yes, but compared to the 40% of today, with more loopholes for the rich to dodge paying that).
Look at history, don't just echo Fox news. Also, what leftist rag? do you know what news source I use? of course you don't everything besides brietbart and fox is "Left" I'm not even left, I'm actually conservative, but I hate the bias most news sources have today. Conservative tax views should be looking at the true historical tax rates. the rich used to pay a shit ton more than they do now. instead they get to pocket it, and keep a 154 Billion warchest while paying their employees minimum wage of $7 per hr...
Used to be employers cared about employees. That's not a left/right thing, that's just common human decency.
Republicans didn't support the wall either. Why do you think Trump waited until Democrats had control of the House to push hard on this? With a Republican majority house and senate it would have just been an embarrassment to him. With a Democrat house, he can use it to score a few points with his base, but I'm not sure his judgement on when to call it quits is going to help him in the long run, as the tougher things get for government employees, the more support he's going to lose.