If the FBI wanted Hilary to win, why did they tank her campaign at the last minute by revealing the big nothingburger Weiner laptop reveal, yet not a peep announced or leaked about the Trump campaign investigation which had been ongoing?
I've listened to interviews with Comey - particularly one on "Fresh Air", and his trying to rationalize why he reported the re-opening of the Clinton investigation while not mentioning that the Trump campaign was also under investigation, was a really unconvincing tapdance.
While I believe he is basically a principled individual, he really fucked up big time with that one, he understands that he really fucked up, and has a guilty conscious about his part in placing the current crop of criminals in charge.
Would it have changed the outcome? Who can say? But it is hard to imagine that it didn't help Trump and his merry band of swamp drainers.
He represented the party as a whole a lot better than Goldwater did. Millions of "Rockefeller Republicans" voted for Johnson, and Goldwater lost in an historic landslide.
That might be true, but your idea that we are nostalgic for Nixon is simply wrong. The entire body of work of Goldwater shows him to be a defender of individual liberties - which is why many crypto conservatives revile him to this day. He was pro-choice and anti-fundamentalist, he was supportive of gays. He also understood that without compromise, there is no governance.
His philosophy was more geared toward freedom of the individual, rather than state sponsored intrusion. But on matters of actual conservatism, he was correct. His downfall was his tendency toward snarky one-liners.
That is something to be nostalgic for, not Nixon's criminal legacy.
Could we just dig out Eisenhower and put him into office again? Even as a corpse he's more competent than #Tweety.
Ike could work. What happened to the Republican Party is that they pandered to and encouraged the party of permanent opposition, and blind angry opposition. This leaves their members open to manipulation. Which is why I've called them Crypto - Conservatives for a couple of decades now. From the NeoCons to now rabidly supporting a group who implement decidedly non-conservative policy and lawlessness as a core competency.
I'll bet he was taking those $1500 worth of pens and selling them on eBay.
Either that or giving them away would be a crime. There are very strict limits on the value of souvenirs that can be handed out. Usually defined as the value of a baseball cap or coffee mug. Exceeding that value is considered a potential bribe.
Yes, the leftists pushed him out, with their massive political power in the current Government.
Fucking moron.
Him being gone has nothing to do with leftists, that corrupt shitstain simply crossed a threshold where it was realized that he would start becoming a liability to get *any* middle voters. Pruitt is an example of Trump filling the swamp, and he won because he promised to some desperate people who really didn't like him very much to drain it. He'll need those people if he wants 2020, and if the republicans want 2018.
What is unfortunate is that people like makerfixer actually support criminals as long as they pretend to be against those "lefties" that he has a white hot hate for. note - for criminals like makerfixer, a leftie is anyone who disagrees with him or his god on earth who he licks the boots of.. Funny how a far left idea like tarriffs - which are a form of price control - is now a right wing touchstone. And actual criminals like pruitt are defended as patriotic right thinking Americans.
I like the whole "look at his expensive pens" deal, I don't want the EPA administrator handing a $.50 pen to his worldwide counterparts left over from a job fair.
That is a very specific and spelled out crime. And your willingness to accept criminal actions by lawmakers is just an example of the abandonment of law and order by the party that used to run on it.
Pretty much makes you a criminal in my book. I support actual law and order, and punishing criminals to the maximum extent possible -
You can bitch about lefties all you want. If a lefdt winger is law abiding, then they deserve to live peacefully. A right winger like yourself who suports lawlessness is a person who needs to be with other criminals. I'm not a leftie either. WhAt is it like to support crime?
I clearly remember that while you didn't necessarily agree with what the GOP did, they at least believed in family and had a sense of basic decency.
It is a true sign of how far we have come when we get nostalgic about the good ole' days of Dick Nixon.
More like Barry Goldwater. Nixon was definitely a crook who deserved more than what he got.
The problem of casting a wide net is that Nixon did not represent the GOP as a whole. And when the Republicans at the time became convinced of his crimes, they were ready to boot his ass out of office.
The difference is that today's Republicnas are the very definition of cowardice, and will not stand up to the man who now defines their ideology, so it will be up to the American people to elect politicians who have a backbone.
Is Slashdot taking a turn to rampantt festering assholism? While I usually try not to comment on stupid articles, this one is worthy of Jezebel or Infowars if not in topic, in sheer base worthlessness.
Is this what Slashdot has come to? I wonder if the writer got a little treat from some woman he was trying to impress?
I wish any of the mobile OSen was good enough to be a fan of, to be honest.
I was expecting Android to be like Linux[1], and I've been rather disappointed.
[1] INb4 the aspies: no it isn't, unless you can't tell the difference between an egg and an omelet.
Ain't that the truth! MacOS and Linux are closer to each other than Linux and Android. Now people are really gonna go nuts.
But yeah it seems a shame that the operating systems on the phones couldn't have been made compatible with the desktop OSs respectively.
That's about all the typing for me today - I ran a wood chisel through my hand, and one handed typing sucks. Fortunately it hit bone and not tendons. Still made a bloody mess in the garage and kitchen.
We have entered the age where "normal" people claim that no one has a right to anything. This is why I believe that the great culling is set to begin. Some outfit is going to come along and mke 1930's-40's Germany and USSR look like Doctors without Borders.
aside from climate change this is the biggest issue facing the human race this century. We've built a civilization around the notion that if you don't work you don't eat and we're about to run out of work. Productivity gains are already biting into wages. If minimum wage had kept pace with inflation it'd be > $20/hr. Instead it's about half what it was in the 70s inflation adjusted.
We'll settle it the way humans always settle things - we'll have a nice big war, with the twist that the goal will be to eliminate the surplus population. We won't be told that though, it will probably be one of the regular casus belli reasons.
Almost certainly the biggest part of the culling will be done by weaponized AI.
Come on - The headphone adapter being abuse is a little bit of a stretch. Kind of specious the concept of me having to sped 800 some dollars on dongles, when I haven't spent anyting other than whatever cost of purchasing the phone. My iphone 7 came with the dreaded thing, and I only used it once to check out the ear buds. They were nice, but I don't go wireless to wear the ultimate wired dongle - the wired headphones.
I suspect that you are an Android fan, and if you want that headphone jack, and if you demand to be tethered to your wireless phone, then there are plenty of non-Apple options for you.
A whole lot of us simply use Bluetooth, and experience wireless wireless. Your calling the dongle abuse is a non-starter for many (most?) of us.
and we have some fucking idiot president in the USA who, just like you, anonymous coward, wants to get all uppity and "protect america's rights"... by starting a trade war?? i mean wtf?? are you high? are you smoking crack??
The problem of course, is that the time to retaliate against China was a long long time ago. Maybe the latest possible window was early in Bush # 1's presidency.
Trying to reset the clock to the 1950's simply will not work almost 70 years later
Somewhere, some how, some people in the US seem to think that the USA can force the rest of the world to kowtow to our economic might, that we can to put up tarriffs, which were once considered economic suicide, but have somehow magically transformed into Republican dogma, and a true lynchpin of the free market.
Who knew that other countries could put up tarrifs on US goods in retaliation for US tarriffs? This reaction is truly the telltale sign that Republican rule has taken America to a place where any respect is gone.
It seems like you were unable to read past the 14th word I wrote. You may need to adjust your screes size or locate the scroll bar. Anyone who works on systems for any period of time knows that each OS has its pain points. I pointed out that I was able to mitigate the main complaints with Windows 10 and I made it work for the employees here. No getting beaten daily. No random reboots. No unplanned for UI changes. The same goes for macOS, LINUX, and older systems like HPUX and tru64. You find the pain points and mitigate them. I'm happy and the other employees are happy. Seems to work for us.
Yes - I understand that some folks have learned to work with Lucas Electric systems on old Sports cars. Your mitigation and fussing and farting to make W10 "operable" then defending it as "learning to deal with it" then claiming that those who don't share your views "need a hug" - I stand on my point, You are suffering from Stockholm syndrome. If you believe that Windows 10 is every bit as trouble free as those other OS', you are suffering from Stockholm syndrome .
You are also proving that you will put up with whatever amount of shit Microsoft will give you. A subset of Stockholm syndrome.
The only surprise from a civics perspective is that they risked Contempt of Congress with their CEO. But he's rich
No need to say anything more. The party that has already been helped by Facebook is in contact for more donations, and information on those who would oppose them. They are already chanting "One of us!, ONE OF US!" as they have hit the holy grail of money, and weaponizable data.
... Windows fans, long abused by Microsoft, , will defend them vociferously, like the guy I was replying to who was saying that 'you get used to it". I guess that's true.
I would also include a lot of Apple enthusiasts when describing this sort of thing.
I'll bite - what abuse do Apple enthusiasts take other than the blind white hot hatred of Windows fans?
I've owned, used and supported Windows and, Mac, for years, and more recently Linux. Very little to complain about on the OSX/MacOS side, other than the old but functioning Final Cut Studio Suite being made non-functional. But 10+ year old software? Meh.
Stockholm Syndrome is when you start to identify with whoever is harming you? The old example is of Patty Hearst, who was kidnapped by a group of kooks that called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. She ended up participating in their crimes, after starting to identify with them. Windows fans, long abused by Microsoft, , will defend them vociferously, like the guy I was replying to who was saying that 'you get used to it". I guess that's true.
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If the FBI wanted Hilary to win, why did they tank her campaign at the last minute by revealing the big nothingburger Weiner laptop reveal, yet not a peep announced or leaked about the Trump campaign investigation which had been ongoing?
I've listened to interviews with Comey - particularly one on "Fresh Air", and his trying to rationalize why he reported the re-opening of the Clinton investigation while not mentioning that the Trump campaign was also under investigation, was a really unconvincing tapdance.
While I believe he is basically a principled individual, he really fucked up big time with that one, he understands that he really fucked up, and has a guilty conscious about his part in placing the current crop of criminals in charge.
Would it have changed the outcome? Who can say? But it is hard to imagine that it didn't help Trump and his merry band of swamp drainers.
Please explain what Nixon did wrong.
He didn't give your parents birth control.
Nixon did not represent the GOP as a whole.
He represented the party as a whole a lot better than Goldwater did. Millions of "Rockefeller Republicans" voted for Johnson, and Goldwater lost in an historic landslide.
That might be true, but your idea that we are nostalgic for Nixon is simply wrong. The entire body of work of Goldwater shows him to be a defender of individual liberties - which is why many crypto conservatives revile him to this day. He was pro-choice and anti-fundamentalist, he was supportive of gays. He also understood that without compromise, there is no governance.
His philosophy was more geared toward freedom of the individual, rather than state sponsored intrusion. But on matters of actual conservatism, he was correct. His downfall was his tendency toward snarky one-liners.
That is something to be nostalgic for, not Nixon's criminal legacy.
Could we just dig out Eisenhower and put him into office again? Even as a corpse he's more competent than #Tweety.
Ike could work. What happened to the Republican Party is that they pandered to and encouraged the party of permanent opposition, and blind angry opposition. This leaves their members open to manipulation. Which is why I've called them Crypto - Conservatives for a couple of decades now. From the NeoCons to now rabidly supporting a group who implement decidedly non-conservative policy and lawlessness as a core competency.
How am I supporting a criminal? Do you know what a criminal is?
You.
They are the Eggmen,
I am the Walrus! Koo Koo ka Joo! ah Koo Koo ka Joo!
I'll bet he was taking those $1500 worth of pens and selling them on eBay.
Either that or giving them away would be a crime. There are very strict limits on the value of souvenirs that can be handed out. Usually defined as the value of a baseball cap or coffee mug. Exceeding that value is considered a potential bribe.
Yes, the leftists pushed him out, with their massive political power in the current Government. Fucking moron. Him being gone has nothing to do with leftists, that corrupt shitstain simply crossed a threshold where it was realized that he would start becoming a liability to get *any* middle voters. Pruitt is an example of Trump filling the swamp, and he won because he promised to some desperate people who really didn't like him very much to drain it. He'll need those people if he wants 2020, and if the republicans want 2018.
What is unfortunate is that people like makerfixer actually support criminals as long as they pretend to be against those "lefties" that he has a white hot hate for. note - for criminals like makerfixer, a leftie is anyone who disagrees with him or his god on earth who he licks the boots of.. Funny how a far left idea like tarriffs - which are a form of price control - is now a right wing touchstone. And actual criminals like pruitt are defended as patriotic right thinking Americans.
I like the whole "look at his expensive pens" deal, I don't want the EPA administrator handing a $.50 pen to his worldwide counterparts left over from a job fair.
That is a very specific and spelled out crime. And your willingness to accept criminal actions by lawmakers is just an example of the abandonment of law and order by the party that used to run on it.
Pretty much makes you a criminal in my book. I support actual law and order, and punishing criminals to the maximum extent possible -
You can bitch about lefties all you want. If a lefdt winger is law abiding, then they deserve to live peacefully. A right winger like yourself who suports lawlessness is a person who needs to be with other criminals. I'm not a leftie either. WhAt is it like to support crime?
I clearly remember that while you didn't necessarily agree with what the GOP did, they at least believed in family and had a sense of basic decency.
It is a true sign of how far we have come when we get nostalgic about the good ole' days of Dick Nixon.
More like Barry Goldwater. Nixon was definitely a crook who deserved more than what he got.
The problem of casting a wide net is that Nixon did not represent the GOP as a whole. And when the Republicans at the time became convinced of his crimes, they were ready to boot his ass out of office.
The difference is that today's Republicnas are the very definition of cowardice, and will not stand up to the man who now defines their ideology, so it will be up to the American people to elect politicians who have a backbone.
True, the GOP of my youth was one of unfettered freedom of economy, what's left today is unfettered kleptocracy.
I have a dream that the Ghost of Barry Goldwater comes back and beats the entire Republican Party with the jawbone of an ass.
See subject: Your MASSIVE FAIL in this life is you're nothing more than a chattering little do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" online & you know it...
There was a young man from Nantucket
Who carried his balls in a bucket
He saw a dead deer, and he said - "I'm no queer"
"But just the same I think I'll make some Venison Sausage."
What did you think I was going to write?
This means that a big fat payment to the Lord of the US is in order. Pay the price, and all will be well
Is this what Slashdot has come to? I wonder if the writer got a little treat from some woman he was trying to impress?
I wish any of the mobile OSen was good enough to be a fan of, to be honest.
I was expecting Android to be like Linux[1], and I've been rather disappointed.
[1] INb4 the aspies: no it isn't, unless you can't tell the difference between an egg and an omelet.
Ain't that the truth! MacOS and Linux are closer to each other than Linux and Android. Now people are really gonna go nuts.
But yeah it seems a shame that the operating systems on the phones couldn't have been made compatible with the desktop OSs respectively.
That's about all the typing for me today - I ran a wood chisel through my hand, and one handed typing sucks. Fortunately it hit bone and not tendons. Still made a bloody mess in the garage and kitchen.
We have entered the age where "normal" people claim that no one has a right to anything. This is why I believe that the great culling is set to begin. Some outfit is going to come along and mke 1930's-40's Germany and USSR look like Doctors without Borders.
aside from climate change this is the biggest issue facing the human race this century. We've built a civilization around the notion that if you don't work you don't eat and we're about to run out of work. Productivity gains are already biting into wages. If minimum wage had kept pace with inflation it'd be > $20/hr. Instead it's about half what it was in the 70s inflation adjusted.
We'll settle it the way humans always settle things - we'll have a nice big war, with the twist that the goal will be to eliminate the surplus population. We won't be told that though, it will probably be one of the regular casus belli reasons.
Almost certainly the biggest part of the culling will be done by weaponized AI.
There's the dongle tax for starters.
Come on - The headphone adapter being abuse is a little bit of a stretch. Kind of specious the concept of me having to sped 800 some dollars on dongles, when I haven't spent anyting other than whatever cost of purchasing the phone. My iphone 7 came with the dreaded thing, and I only used it once to check out the ear buds. They were nice, but I don't go wireless to wear the ultimate wired dongle - the wired headphones.
I suspect that you are an Android fan, and if you want that headphone jack, and if you demand to be tethered to your wireless phone, then there are plenty of non-Apple options for you.
A whole lot of us simply use Bluetooth, and experience wireless wireless. Your calling the dongle abuse is a non-starter for many (most?) of us.
and we have some fucking idiot president in the USA who, just like you, anonymous coward, wants to get all uppity and "protect america's rights"... by starting a trade war?? i mean wtf?? are you high? are you smoking crack??
The problem of course, is that the time to retaliate against China was a long long time ago. Maybe the latest possible window was early in Bush # 1's presidency.
Trying to reset the clock to the 1950's simply will not work almost 70 years later
Somewhere, some how, some people in the US seem to think that the USA can force the rest of the world to kowtow to our economic might, that we can to put up tarriffs, which were once considered economic suicide, but have somehow magically transformed into Republican dogma, and a true lynchpin of the free market.
Who knew that other countries could put up tarrifs on US goods in retaliation for US tarriffs? This reaction is truly the telltale sign that Republican rule has taken America to a place where any respect is gone.
China is not an ally. And ZTE was caught spying on both government and private owners of their products.
Wow - where you been keeping yourself, Jane?. I havent seen a post from you in a long time.
It seems like you were unable to read past the 14th word I wrote. You may need to adjust your screes size or locate the scroll bar. Anyone who works on systems for any period of time knows that each OS has its pain points. I pointed out that I was able to mitigate the main complaints with Windows 10 and I made it work for the employees here. No getting beaten daily. No random reboots. No unplanned for UI changes. The same goes for macOS, LINUX, and older systems like HPUX and tru64. You find the pain points and mitigate them. I'm happy and the other employees are happy. Seems to work for us.
Yes - I understand that some folks have learned to work with Lucas Electric systems on old Sports cars. Your mitigation and fussing and farting to make W10 "operable" then defending it as "learning to deal with it" then claiming that those who don't share your views "need a hug" - I stand on my point, You are suffering from Stockholm syndrome. If you believe that Windows 10 is every bit as trouble free as those other OS', you are suffering from Stockholm syndrome .
You are also proving that you will put up with whatever amount of shit Microsoft will give you. A subset of Stockholm syndrome.
The only surprise from a civics perspective is that they risked Contempt of Congress with their CEO. But he's rich
No need to say anything more. The party that has already been helped by Facebook is in contact for more donations, and information on those who would oppose them. They are already chanting "One of us!, ONE OF US!" as they have hit the holy grail of money, and weaponizable data.
... Windows fans, long abused by Microsoft, , will defend them vociferously, like the guy I was replying to who was saying that 'you get used to it". I guess that's true.
I would also include a lot of Apple enthusiasts when describing this sort of thing.
I'll bite - what abuse do Apple enthusiasts take other than the blind white hot hatred of Windows fans?
I've owned, used and supported Windows and, Mac, for years, and more recently Linux. Very little to complain about on the OSX/MacOS side, other than the old but functioning Final Cut Studio Suite being made non-functional. But 10+ year old software? Meh.
Is that an anagram of systemd something?
Stockholm Syndrome is when you start to identify with whoever is harming you? The old example is of Patty Hearst, who was kidnapped by a group of kooks that called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. She ended up participating in their crimes, after starting to identify with them. Windows fans, long abused by Microsoft, , will defend them vociferously, like the guy I was replying to who was saying that 'you get used to it". I guess that's true.
You eventually get used to hanging as well.
The XP you remember is SP2... SP2 worked pretty well, but at release? What a mess.
7 was ok, but do remember that 7 is actually Vista SP2.
No argument there. Unfortunately, W10 is not getting better.