This whole investigation was based on a false pretense. Backed up by ZERO evidence. The whole investigation was 100% Clinton backed opposition research against Trump.
The conservative website "The Washington Free Beacon" already admitted eight months ago that it hired (funded by a "major Republican donor", no less) the research firm that produced the infamous dossier before it ever made it into the hands of the Democrats. But I guess even Republican admissions are Fake News when they don't agree with your agenda.
What I really want is to control my TV from my Home Automation server in response to other events (since the HDMI-CEC on Samsung TVs is next to useless).
Agreed. I'd very much to have a means to control my Fire TV from my home automation server (without using the kludgey ADB hack), but they have it locked behind an undocumented, encrypted API that AFAIK is currently only supported by Google and Amazon apps.
I think what CR calls a "security vulnerability" I'd call an "Open API".
We have lots of Congressional oversight! The problem seems more that the "oversight" in question is currently done by a group of plutocrats who recently declared the crimes of pedophilia, sexual assault, obstruction of justice and treason (although NEVER abortion) are actually pretty okay as long as they further their agenda.
My understanding of the situation is that _Equifax_ was hacked. To my knowledge the Social Security Administration, whose official policy is that you should never give your ID number to anyone/except/ the SSA, had nothing to do with this breach.
So while your statements about government being the problem, not using enough security, etc. may well be justified, they had little to do with the actual damages here.
In "macroeconomic terms," retired people continue to provide economic value to a society. For example, providing "free" child care services for their grandchildren (since typically now both parents must work to stay afloat) -- child care being one of the biggest expenses a working family can face. And that's just one example... retired folk frequently volunteer their time toward many different sorts of "economically invisible" endeavors. And, of course, they continue to be consumers, which gives us poor working folk something to do.
Just because retired people don't receive W2's from their corporate overlords doesn't mean they don't contribute to the economy.
The process for creation of laws is in the Constitution, and it demands that the congress, not the executive, crreate laws. Rulemaking is a deliberate end-run around the Constitution to allow the executive to make shit up.
The legislative branch granted these rule-making powers to the executive branch by passing legislation, which was then duly signed by _a conservative_ president, and subject to the rule-making process outlined therein. So now when THIS generation's Nixon decides those same 30+-year-old rules don't apply to it, you're calling butthurt by finger-insertion?
The tech giants -- Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc. -- did not depend on an infusion of cash from governments to become leaders.
Surely you'd agree Microsoft, Amazon, Google, et al benefited from the approx. $125M (equivalent to ~$750B in 2017 dollars) government investment in a moonshot project called "ARPANET"?
Wait, but I thought corporate 'persons' are job creators, whose taxes must be cut for the benefit of jobless Americans! If these "people" aren't willing to lose a little money to create jobs in America, then I may start to consider the possibility the trickle-down conservatives *may* have been wrong, all along!
Lumping SS & Medicare shows you haven't taken time to understand what's going on.
Social Security is insolvent, but it only needs a minor "nudge"... SS could be made solvent until something like 2070 if we simply removed the upper income limit. Can I get a flat-taxer up in here to explain why people should NOT stop paying Social Security after $106,000? Remember, even those who "pay no federal income tax" fully pay into Social Security and Medicare and at higher rates than millionaires.
Medicare, on the other hand, is, along with the Bush tax cuts, the source of nearly ALL of our future budget deficits. Health care is a problem we can solve, though; we just have to put aside the dogma and negotiate. Health care, public or private, is not a budget-buster for ANY other industrialized nation, and we're supposedly the most awesomest one. All we need is some leadership.
Finally, don't forget a large/reason/ for the entitlement programs getting out of control, is the US's shifting demographic. Millions of voters who paid into the system their whole lives will make sure your cries to "cut Social Security" will never fly. And everybody needs to eat.
The real problem, here, is that our political system has two sides, one of which shuns evidence-based reason as heresy. Maybe you can guess the outcome... S&P has, already.
Larger government may be better able to contain corporations, but the end result of that is that the citizen is raped by federal power.
You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. What exactly is a free society to do?
I can't speak for everyone, but the giant bureaucratic power I'd rather have running my life is the one which apportions its representation per-citizen, instead of per-dollar.
I don't agree with your statement Obama's priorities have changed. Was I dreaming when he was on TV 2 days ago, saying we need to cut the deficit? What's under debate is HOW.
One side thinks we should raise taxes for a group of people who pay LESS THAN HALF in taxes what they paid 30 years ago (which partially explains how we got to this state in the first place). The other side thinks that we should continue cutting taxes for the rich... i mean, "job creators".
Of particular interest to me is the part of your quote where Obama talks about how interest payments take away money that can be better spent elsewhere. So, what's the primary devastating effect of this GOP-led hostage situation? A rise in interest rates.
So this guy can can call Obama a "racist slur" in a public message board because of his first amendment rights, yet the press refuses to exercise their same right to quote it?
Free speech is a double-edged blade. You can say whatever you like, but your rights do not immunize you from consequences. The press should quote this guy, word for word, but they don't because they're beholden to the sensitivities of puritan morons (or sponsors) who don't understand the distinction between an opinion and a quote.
This guy should have an opportunity -- by printing his literal, un-whitewashed words -- to stand by his convictions. Free speech hurts sometimes, and people need to realize there are consequences. The loss of individual free speech doesn't seem to be the issue, here; it's the/press/ that has me concerned.
I wonder how long it will be until we hear they let someone's house burn down due to a clerical error
Indeed. Imagine how much less expensive, less error-prone and faster the response would be if fire departments didn't have to pre-verify the currency of a homeowner's fire insurance policy, and could just indiscriminately rush to the scene and extinguish the fire?
This is just pie-in-the-sky thinking, but what if those poor homeowners organized into some local body deigned with special powers to mandate individuals to pay, up front, their equal share of fire protection services? Now I I'm just spitballing here, but we could call such a fictitious organization a Noobamian Sociofascislamic Biggubmint.
Pennsylvania's plates generally follow the format AAA-NNNN... but they are printed in A-Z, 0-9 order across the entire state. I was just reissued a plate last week and the first letter is "F". There are no "P" plates yet unless it's a vanity plate (and who would make a custom plate with a "random" number?). I can narrow your guess to FNH {2,3}161.
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This whole investigation was based on a false pretense. Backed up by ZERO evidence. The whole investigation was 100% Clinton backed opposition research against Trump.
The conservative website "The Washington Free Beacon" already admitted eight months ago that it hired (funded by a "major Republican donor", no less) the research firm that produced the infamous dossier before it ever made it into the hands of the Democrats. But I guess even Republican admissions are Fake News when they don't agree with your agenda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...
What I really want is to control my TV from my Home Automation server in response to other events (since the HDMI-CEC on Samsung TVs is next to useless).
Agreed. I'd very much to have a means to control my Fire TV from my home automation server (without using the kludgey ADB hack), but they have it locked behind an undocumented, encrypted API that AFAIK is currently only supported by Google and Amazon apps.
I think what CR calls a "security vulnerability" I'd call an "Open API".
We have lots of Congressional oversight! The problem seems more that the "oversight" in question is currently done by a group of plutocrats who recently declared the crimes of pedophilia, sexual assault, obstruction of justice and treason (although NEVER abortion) are actually pretty okay as long as they further their agenda.
My understanding of the situation is that _Equifax_ was hacked. To my knowledge the Social Security Administration, whose official policy is that you should never give your ID number to anyone /except/ the SSA, had nothing to do with this breach.
So while your statements about government being the problem, not using enough security, etc. may well be justified, they had little to do with the actual damages here.
In "macroeconomic terms," retired people continue to provide economic value to a society. For example, providing "free" child care services for their grandchildren (since typically now both parents must work to stay afloat) -- child care being one of the biggest expenses a working family can face. And that's just one example... retired folk frequently volunteer their time toward many different sorts of "economically invisible" endeavors. And, of course, they continue to be consumers, which gives us poor working folk something to do.
Just because retired people don't receive W2's from their corporate overlords doesn't mean they don't contribute to the economy.
The process for creation of laws is in the Constitution, and it demands that the congress, not the executive, crreate laws. Rulemaking is a deliberate end-run around the Constitution to allow the executive to make shit up.
The legislative branch granted these rule-making powers to the executive branch by passing legislation, which was then duly signed by _a conservative_ president, and subject to the rule-making process outlined therein. So now when THIS generation's Nixon decides those same 30+-year-old rules don't apply to it, you're calling butthurt by finger-insertion?
I don't get it.
The tech giants -- Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc. -- did not depend on an infusion of cash from governments to become leaders.
Surely you'd agree Microsoft, Amazon, Google, et al benefited from the approx. $125M (equivalent to ~$750B in 2017 dollars) government investment in a moonshot project called "ARPANET"?
Wait, but I thought corporate 'persons' are job creators, whose taxes must be cut for the benefit of jobless Americans! If these "people" aren't willing to lose a little money to create jobs in America, then I may start to consider the possibility the trickle-down conservatives *may* have been wrong, all along!
Lumping SS & Medicare shows you haven't taken time to understand what's going on.
Social Security is insolvent, but it only needs a minor "nudge"... SS could be made solvent until something like 2070 if we simply removed the upper income limit. Can I get a flat-taxer up in here to explain why people should NOT stop paying Social Security after $106,000? Remember, even those who "pay no federal income tax" fully pay into Social Security and Medicare and at higher rates than millionaires.
Medicare, on the other hand, is, along with the Bush tax cuts, the source of nearly ALL of our future budget deficits. Health care is a problem we can solve, though; we just have to put aside the dogma and negotiate. Health care, public or private, is not a budget-buster for ANY other industrialized nation, and we're supposedly the most awesomest one. All we need is some leadership.
Finally, don't forget a large /reason/ for the entitlement programs getting out of control, is the US's shifting demographic. Millions of voters who paid into the system their whole lives will make sure your cries to "cut Social Security" will never fly. And everybody needs to eat.
The real problem, here, is that our political system has two sides, one of which shuns evidence-based reason as heresy. Maybe you can guess the outcome... S&P has, already.
Larger government may be better able to contain corporations, but the end result of that is that the citizen is raped by federal power.
You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. What exactly is a free society to do?
I can't speak for everyone, but the giant bureaucratic power I'd rather have running my life is the one which apportions its representation per-citizen, instead of per-dollar.
I don't agree with your statement Obama's priorities have changed. Was I dreaming when he was on TV 2 days ago, saying we need to cut the deficit? What's under debate is HOW.
One side thinks we should raise taxes for a group of people who pay LESS THAN HALF in taxes what they paid 30 years ago (which partially explains how we got to this state in the first place). The other side thinks that we should continue cutting taxes for the rich... i mean, "job creators".
Of particular interest to me is the part of your quote where Obama talks about how interest payments take away money that can be better spent elsewhere. So, what's the primary devastating effect of this GOP-led hostage situation? A rise in interest rates.
-- Yeah, that'll fix it.
So this guy can can call Obama a "racist slur" in a public message board because of his first amendment rights, yet the press refuses to exercise their same right to quote it?
Free speech is a double-edged blade. You can say whatever you like, but your rights do not immunize you from consequences. The press should quote this guy, word for word, but they don't because they're beholden to the sensitivities of puritan morons (or sponsors) who don't understand the distinction between an opinion and a quote.
This guy should have an opportunity -- by printing his literal, un-whitewashed words -- to stand by his convictions. Free speech hurts sometimes, and people need to realize there are consequences. The loss of individual free speech doesn't seem to be the issue, here; it's the /press/ that has me concerned.
"Racist slur?"
[Annoyed Grunt]
I wonder how long it will be until we hear they let someone's house burn down due to a clerical error
Indeed. Imagine how much less expensive, less error-prone and faster the response would be if fire departments didn't have to pre-verify the currency of a homeowner's fire insurance policy, and could just indiscriminately rush to the scene and extinguish the fire?
This is just pie-in-the-sky thinking, but what if those poor homeowners organized into some local body deigned with special powers to mandate individuals to pay, up front, their equal share of fire protection services? Now I I'm just spitballing here, but we could call such a fictitious organization a Noobamian Sociofascislamic Biggubmint.
Pilot 1: "I'll have the fish."
Pilot 2: "I would like the steak, please."
Now do it again without the second pilot.
Absolutely overstated! I mean, who really wants their phone to actually BEHAVE as a phone! Insanity, I tell you, insanity!
This guy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_teRloJf6yE
Pennsylvania's plates generally follow the format AAA-NNNN... but they are printed in A-Z, 0-9 order across the entire state. I was just reissued a plate last week and the first letter is "F". There are no "P" plates yet unless it's a vanity plate (and who would make a custom plate with a "random" number?). I can narrow your guess to FNH {2,3}161.