Here's an idea.. Get sick, stay home! If you wan to medicate at home, knock yourself out. Just don't come to work and avoid going out in public.
Employers should be *actively* looking though their employees and sending home those who are sick. Have a fever? Go home. Don't come back until at least 24 hours w/o a fever. Take your laptop, work from home. Day Care's should have the *same* policy for workers and children, don't come in if you had a fever in the last 24 hours.
I'm serious, this *should* be a matter of law. I know that it won't fix everything, but it sure will slow down a virus if folks would be careful. I live with a person who has a compromised immune system. Getting a virus is a *serious* deal for us and may someday kill them. We have to be extremely careful and I just hate it when I have to deal with people who are obviously ill in public.
The problem is getting everyone to agree to the change. (or at least a lot of the people)...
Your first statement is usually right. The *only* way where you can get away with changing the CC&R's without 100% of the lot owners agreeing to it is *if* the existing CC&R's have a way to edit them that doesn't require everybody to agree. I've read a lot of CC&R's in my area and I've NEVER found one that allowed modifications so I'm assuming that is extremely rare.
Excellent advice with which I totally agree, even if our legal positions are different. Retain a lawyer, take HIS advice and while you are waiting for him to show up, stay out of the way of a search.
If the warrant says "search the residence located at for drugs, drug paraphernalia, evidence of drug trafficking and large amounts of cash related to.." and the safe is in the house, you either open it when they ask, or you get charged with obstruction and they call the locksmith to drill it. You don't have to (and I highly recommend you never) consent to a search, but if they have a warrant you may not obstruct the search. Further, I recommend that you follow any orders given you by law enforcement when they are detaining you. You can object to anything you believe to be illegal, but if they insist, promptly comply. Leave the legal wrangling over the rules of evidence to the lawyers. After all, it it turns out to be an illegal search, ALL the evidence they might find and anything that comes from that gets tossed.
But your point that they are limited to what the warrant says is true. Unless of course they just happen to see something during a legal search, then they can collect that evidence too, even if it's not related to the warrant. (I.e. They can be looking for evidence of a murder under a warrant, and if they happen upon evidence of drug trafficking, say a couple of kilos on the kitchen table, scales and baggies filled with white powder, it's OK to collect that too, as long as the police are engaged in a legal search to start with. )
So for this guy, they had a warrant to search the USB drive, he refused to supply the key to decrypt it and got charged with obstruction. That's a valid charge.
In 5 years this will hit everyone and if Windows 9 and Windows 10 turn out to be cloud and metro based suckfests this might be a viable move.
Metro has to go... That interface SUCKS on a desktop and may be one of the top reasons the PC is dying. Where I get the reasons they did it, I really HATE (did I mention I really dislike) metro. It's horrible and the windows 8.1 update didn't help. And just in case I didn't make it clear, I completely and totally dislike metro on a desktop. Like green eggs and ham, "Metro makes me sick sick sick, and I do not like it, not one little bit." IMHO...
Which points out one little understood fact.. The police can legally lie to you if they want. So don't answer questions without following your lawyer's advice.
Yea, right.. How about "Don't do anything wrong" and "if you can't do the time don't do the crime"?
If you depend on encryption to hide evidence, you are a fool on at least two fronts. 1. They will charge you with obstruction for not giving them the key, 2. Why are you keeping incriminating evidence in the first place? Just DON"T keep it laying around, encrypted or not.
IF you insist on doing illegal things, then I suggest you come up with a way to obfuscate that there is evidence of wrong doing even there. Hide it in other files which are NOT encrypted and are in plain sight. Don't put them on an encrypted drive in a directory named "My Illegal things" or some other foolishness. Remember you *can* be held in contempt or be charged with obstruction for withholding decryption keys or destroying evidence, but you DON'T have to tell them WHERE to look or WHAT to look for.
It's like when they are searching your house on a warrant. You don't have to offer up where you have hidden something, but if they ask you to open the safe, you have to open it. Same with computers and encryption, if they ask you for the keys, you have to give them the keys, but you DON'T have to tell them where evidence is.
I would consider it his fifth amendment right not to be forced to self incriminate. It's the prosection's duty to prove his guilt, so make them do their job. I don't care if he's guilty of other charges; he still has the same rights as everyone else.
The legal line in the US is clear. Protection from Self incrimination and warrant-less search and seizures are indeed rights, but that does not extend to hiding or destroying evidence. If they have a warrant to search, you *must* comply to the search or it's obstruction of justice. Just like they can arrest and charge you for obstruction if you attempt to physically prevent a lawful warranted search, they can arrest and charge you with obstruction for refusing to give them passwords. If a Jury will find you guilty of obstruction or not is an open question, but they *can* charge you.
Self incrimination is where you are required to testify about evidence or provide evidence for which law enforcement has no warrant. You are NOT required to take the stand in a trial and testify to or deny anything, but you also must NOT obstruct the discovery and collection of evidence.
But, I would highly recommend you consult a lawyer before you answer *any* question from law enforcement. In the USA, if you are not actually under arrest, answering any question beyond who you are and providing ID is not necessary or consenting to any searches due to the 5th amendment protections. Where answering questions and allowing searches may not hurt you, they can NEVER help you so it's best to to avoid them. If you are under arrest, then ALWAYS request your lawyer be present (and take their advice) before answering any questions. Remember, in the USA, law enforcement *can* legally lie to you and try to trick you, so just don't answer questions or consent to searches.
Finally, NEVER OBSTRUCT a search or detainment, legal or not and follow any commands given. You can (and should) respectfully protest a search and you can and should repeatedly ask "Am I free to leave now?" while answering any questions with "Respectfully Officer, you know I am not required to answer that question, Am I free to leave now?" Leave any questions about "was that search legal" for later.
If Google is beating us with a stick, I'll take it any day of the week over the Microsoft/Apple stuff we were running.
Here here! Go with Chromebooks.
Microsoft/Apple are a bunch of money grabbing shakedown artists. Have you seen what it costs to buy licenses for their stuff?
I don't begrudge software vendors a profit on their creations, but shesh, you are going to spend north of $1K to get hardware, OS, Office (with outlook) on a managed network for just ONE seat. THEN, the way things work, you won't get support and you will have to re-up the software every year. Enough for me thanks! I'll take my beatings from Google too.
Bad planning is all too common especially when the eventual demise is a year or more away. You are talking a long term plan when management is in tactical mode trying to make the numbers for the quarter. If you are there talking about the sky falling in 4 years, you WILL be ignored. It's the nature of how publicly traded companies run. Remember that the last 5 years have been a *serious* problem world wide economically. Most companies are struggling to keep afloat without just throwing in the towel and everybody is dying waiting for any sign of recovery, which so far has not been really seen.
In a business down turn, where you are downsizing, EVERYTHING is tactical and strategic planning is out the door, like the last wave of RIFed off employees. The quickest way to get to follow all those people you used to work with out the door is to start making noise about spending money. Especially if you are in executive management hired and fired by the board. Best you can hope for is to pull the golden parachute rip cord before the chickens come home to roost and let the next poor soul who gets your job deal with it. Even in the best of times, many companies struggle with the "manage to quarter" mentality. It's always about stock price NOW not years down the road.
I for one am not surprised that a lot of companies have buried their heads in the sand and ignored this XP EOL date. So don't castigate the guy describing the problem he faces for not planning ahead. Seems to me, he's on top of the problem and fully knows what needs to be done, but he's not been given the necessary mandate and resources to actually get the problem fixed and work a viable plan. It's not HIS lack of planning, but a result of management choosing the expedient over what is best in the long term.
So, this article is saying that the NSA has hardware that must be physically installed or connected to a computer that allows them to interact with said computer 8 miles away? What's the big deal with that? There is a whole host of things I can do if you let me have physical access to your computer.
Seriously, I don't see an issue here, nor do I see anything ground breaking. Yes, wireless devices are getting smaller and smaller, I've seen extremely small blue tooth adapters, WiFi adapters and even key loggers which where capable of covertly being installed. WiFi and BlueTooth can go a LONG way using high gain antennas on one end or the other of the link. I have a 2.5 mile link using a cheap commercially available 26db gain antenna that uses only standard WiFi (WRT54) equipment that I run on my part 95 license. It has issues when it rains, but it works most of the time. Imagine what you can do with purpose built hardware, antennas, preamps and the like.
If you are surprised by this, you must have your head in the sand or be extremely ignorant of how computers and RF work. That there is somebody who can plugin a USB device and then access your computer remotely is certainly NOT a surprise to most of us.
So this "reporting" by the NY Times is just sensationalism designed to sell papers (or collect access fees to their website). This kind of thing has been possible for decades using off the shelf hardware. One would have to assume the NSA (or it's predecessors) has been creating purpose built custom hardware for years before that.
Remember that the *claim* here is that the IRS with it's sorting criteria, had an effect on a presidential election by suppressing one side's views over another side. The effect of the investigation delays is undeniable and obviously slanted IMHO. Clearly it impacted one side over the other in the election. That the *eventual* results of these investigations didn't mirror the initial sort criteria, only adds to my claim that the criteria where politically motivated and intended to help sway the election. So we are not claiming there is an issue with the *final* results, only that the delays imposed are the problem. But of course, the left wants to change the issue to something else.
The administration's attempt to explain this away, really doesn't work, if you look at the net result at the time of the election. Clearly the IRS sorting disadvantaged one side over the other. Which is exactly what I understood from the right wing pundants at the time this all came out and what the bulk of them have been saying about this. It's always been about the delays caused by the extended investigations and not about the eventual decisions. In fact, when this story first broke, the final decisions hadn't yet been made in many cases in a group of cases which obviously where biased so there was no way to argue a bias in final approvals. It's always been about the delay and not final decisions.
So you believe the administration's story on this? Man, you sure you want to do that? I call your attention to the following things coming from this administration...
1. Benghazi was a riot caused by a You-Tube video... It wasn't.
2. If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.. Not exactly true for everybody.
3. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.. This won't be true for everybody either..
4. It will save a family of 4 $2,500 a year. There has been negative cost savings (costs are going up).
5. This will be the most transparent administration in history.. That didn't happen....
6. I will have a laser like focus on creating jobs. Less people are working now than when he took office.
7. If you make less than $250,000/year your taxes will NOT go up! Mine went up by at least 2% and I don't make even $150K
Never claimed the IRS rules where only hitting conservative groups. If you read closely, I'm claiming that the sorting rules where biased towards and caused more right leaning groups to get additional scrutiny than left leaning ones.
BTW... I didn't hear any of the more popular right/conservative talk show hosts claim that there was zero effect on the left leaning groups either. They all where clear that the sort criteria caught both right and left groups. But it is also clear that the majority of the applications which where delayed by further review where conservative/right groups, which I believe was the intent IMHO.
So, the net result was a suppression of conservative/Right groups. As intended IMHO.
Ok, what about the IRS thing? What press reported on that? Who got fired for that? Where's the outrage? Few, nobody and nowhere.
Where's the outrage for the Benghazi "It was that You-Tube video" full court press on the press foisted on us by a Democratic Administration just before the election? They didn't care about that.
There is Bias in reporting, and generally it runs to the left in the dominate media. There are exceptions to the rule(Fox News for example) but remember primarily the bias is to the left.
Let me fix this for you... "The Press will point out the nasty stuff your appointees do.."
At this point, nobody is saying they have proof that Christie knew and approved the traffic study. Until proof emerges, all you have is innuendo. Innuendo which the press on the left are having a field day with, which really makes this a witch hunt because Christie is the apparent front runner on the R side.
Depends on what you think their "job" was. Stopping mostly conservative groups from getting their non-profit tax status by "investigating them closer" then I guess they accomplished their task. LOL And this really wasn't a "short cut" it was singling out certain groups for a more detailed review which seems to be adding to the work load to me.
Look, it may not have been *everybody's* intent to obstruct mostly right leaning groups, but that was the net result. But there are those who knew full well that was going to be the results of the policy.
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Considering that good food and cooking are some of the great pleasures in life, no thanks! I find the concept pretty depressing, actually.
Ahh.. So you "live to eat", lucky you. "Eat to Live" folks are the target market for this product.
Personally, I switch between "Eat to program" and "program to eat" depending on my mood and my interest in the current project myself..
Who says he didn't sell it twice? Of course the black market might put a hit on him for it if they had enough bitcoin...
You are "on target" eh?
FOOD SERVICE should absolutely be strict about this and not just because somebody might catch a cold or the flu.
I know you are poking fun, but seriously, do *YOU* want somebody who has the flu handling your food? Um... Not me!
Here's an idea.. Get sick, stay home! If you wan to medicate at home, knock yourself out. Just don't come to work and avoid going out in public.
Employers should be *actively* looking though their employees and sending home those who are sick. Have a fever? Go home. Don't come back until at least 24 hours w/o a fever. Take your laptop, work from home. Day Care's should have the *same* policy for workers and children, don't come in if you had a fever in the last 24 hours.
I'm serious, this *should* be a matter of law. I know that it won't fix everything, but it sure will slow down a virus if folks would be careful. I live with a person who has a compromised immune system. Getting a virus is a *serious* deal for us and may someday kill them. We have to be extremely careful and I just hate it when I have to deal with people who are obviously ill in public.
A report (pdf) on bed-bugs.co.uk says the device "...clearly fails to perform to the manufacturers specification and procedures."
Obviously, the device is running buggy firmware.
Oh great.. Now I have to clean my late afternoon coffee off the keyboard. Well played AC... Wish I had mod points...
Remind me NOT to drink coffee and read /.
Stuff that anti-matters.
You mean "dash" "Slash" "dot" right? Chroot jail for you!
The problem is getting everyone to agree to the change. (or at least a lot of the people)...
Your first statement is usually right. The *only* way where you can get away with changing the CC&R's without 100% of the lot owners agreeing to it is *if* the existing CC&R's have a way to edit them that doesn't require everybody to agree. I've read a lot of CC&R's in my area and I've NEVER found one that allowed modifications so I'm assuming that is extremely rare.
just do what your lawyer tells you to do.
Excellent advice with which I totally agree, even if our legal positions are different. Retain a lawyer, take HIS advice and while you are waiting for him to show up, stay out of the way of a search.
If the warrant says "search the residence located at for drugs, drug paraphernalia, evidence of drug trafficking and large amounts of cash related to.." and the safe is in the house, you either open it when they ask, or you get charged with obstruction and they call the locksmith to drill it. You don't have to (and I highly recommend you never) consent to a search, but if they have a warrant you may not obstruct the search. Further, I recommend that you follow any orders given you by law enforcement when they are detaining you. You can object to anything you believe to be illegal, but if they insist, promptly comply. Leave the legal wrangling over the rules of evidence to the lawyers. After all, it it turns out to be an illegal search, ALL the evidence they might find and anything that comes from that gets tossed.
But your point that they are limited to what the warrant says is true. Unless of course they just happen to see something during a legal search, then they can collect that evidence too, even if it's not related to the warrant. (I.e. They can be looking for evidence of a murder under a warrant, and if they happen upon evidence of drug trafficking, say a couple of kilos on the kitchen table, scales and baggies filled with white powder, it's OK to collect that too, as long as the police are engaged in a legal search to start with. )
So for this guy, they had a warrant to search the USB drive, he refused to supply the key to decrypt it and got charged with obstruction. That's a valid charge.
In 5 years this will hit everyone and if Windows 9 and Windows 10 turn out to be cloud and metro based suckfests this might be a viable move.
Metro has to go... That interface SUCKS on a desktop and may be one of the top reasons the PC is dying. Where I get the reasons they did it, I really HATE (did I mention I really dislike) metro. It's horrible and the windows 8.1 update didn't help. And just in case I didn't make it clear, I completely and totally dislike metro on a desktop. Like green eggs and ham, "Metro makes me sick sick sick, and I do not like it, not one little bit." IMHO...
Which points out one little understood fact.. The police can legally lie to you if they want. So don't answer questions without following your lawyer's advice.
Yea, right.. How about "Don't do anything wrong" and "if you can't do the time don't do the crime"?
If you depend on encryption to hide evidence, you are a fool on at least two fronts. 1. They will charge you with obstruction for not giving them the key, 2. Why are you keeping incriminating evidence in the first place? Just DON"T keep it laying around, encrypted or not.
IF you insist on doing illegal things, then I suggest you come up with a way to obfuscate that there is evidence of wrong doing even there. Hide it in other files which are NOT encrypted and are in plain sight. Don't put them on an encrypted drive in a directory named "My Illegal things" or some other foolishness. Remember you *can* be held in contempt or be charged with obstruction for withholding decryption keys or destroying evidence, but you DON'T have to tell them WHERE to look or WHAT to look for.
It's like when they are searching your house on a warrant. You don't have to offer up where you have hidden something, but if they ask you to open the safe, you have to open it. Same with computers and encryption, if they ask you for the keys, you have to give them the keys, but you DON'T have to tell them where evidence is.
I would consider it his fifth amendment right not to be forced to self incriminate. It's the prosection's duty to prove his guilt, so make them do their job. I don't care if he's guilty of other charges; he still has the same rights as everyone else.
The legal line in the US is clear. Protection from Self incrimination and warrant-less search and seizures are indeed rights, but that does not extend to hiding or destroying evidence. If they have a warrant to search, you *must* comply to the search or it's obstruction of justice. Just like they can arrest and charge you for obstruction if you attempt to physically prevent a lawful warranted search, they can arrest and charge you with obstruction for refusing to give them passwords. If a Jury will find you guilty of obstruction or not is an open question, but they *can* charge you.
Self incrimination is where you are required to testify about evidence or provide evidence for which law enforcement has no warrant. You are NOT required to take the stand in a trial and testify to or deny anything, but you also must NOT obstruct the discovery and collection of evidence.
But, I would highly recommend you consult a lawyer before you answer *any* question from law enforcement. In the USA, if you are not actually under arrest, answering any question beyond who you are and providing ID is not necessary or consenting to any searches due to the 5th amendment protections. Where answering questions and allowing searches may not hurt you, they can NEVER help you so it's best to to avoid them. If you are under arrest, then ALWAYS request your lawyer be present (and take their advice) before answering any questions. Remember, in the USA, law enforcement *can* legally lie to you and try to trick you, so just don't answer questions or consent to searches.
Finally, NEVER OBSTRUCT a search or detainment, legal or not and follow any commands given. You can (and should) respectfully protest a search and you can and should repeatedly ask "Am I free to leave now?" while answering any questions with "Respectfully Officer, you know I am not required to answer that question, Am I free to leave now?" Leave any questions about "was that search legal" for later.
All of them except the hard drive, which I replaced 10 years ago when I rand out of space.
It's a laptop, there isn't any upgrading it. Oh, the battery and the charger, but none of those have anything to do with XP.
Yes, I'm cheap, but if it works for what I want it to do, why spend money to upgrade when I have to pay for the kid's college?
If Google is beating us with a stick, I'll take it any day of the week over the Microsoft/Apple stuff we were running.
Here here! Go with Chromebooks.
Microsoft/Apple are a bunch of money grabbing shakedown artists. Have you seen what it costs to buy licenses for their stuff?
I don't begrudge software vendors a profit on their creations, but shesh, you are going to spend north of $1K to get hardware, OS, Office (with outlook) on a managed network for just ONE seat. THEN, the way things work, you won't get support and you will have to re-up the software every year. Enough for me thanks! I'll take my beatings from Google too.
Bad planning is all too common especially when the eventual demise is a year or more away. You are talking a long term plan when management is in tactical mode trying to make the numbers for the quarter. If you are there talking about the sky falling in 4 years, you WILL be ignored. It's the nature of how publicly traded companies run. Remember that the last 5 years have been a *serious* problem world wide economically. Most companies are struggling to keep afloat without just throwing in the towel and everybody is dying waiting for any sign of recovery, which so far has not been really seen.
In a business down turn, where you are downsizing, EVERYTHING is tactical and strategic planning is out the door, like the last wave of RIFed off employees. The quickest way to get to follow all those people you used to work with out the door is to start making noise about spending money. Especially if you are in executive management hired and fired by the board. Best you can hope for is to pull the golden parachute rip cord before the chickens come home to roost and let the next poor soul who gets your job deal with it. Even in the best of times, many companies struggle with the "manage to quarter" mentality. It's always about stock price NOW not years down the road.
I for one am not surprised that a lot of companies have buried their heads in the sand and ignored this XP EOL date. So don't castigate the guy describing the problem he faces for not planning ahead. Seems to me, he's on top of the problem and fully knows what needs to be done, but he's not been given the necessary mandate and resources to actually get the problem fixed and work a viable plan. It's not HIS lack of planning, but a result of management choosing the expedient over what is best in the long term.
Insert carbon paper here.....
So, this article is saying that the NSA has hardware that must be physically installed or connected to a computer that allows them to interact with said computer 8 miles away? What's the big deal with that? There is a whole host of things I can do if you let me have physical access to your computer.
Seriously, I don't see an issue here, nor do I see anything ground breaking. Yes, wireless devices are getting smaller and smaller, I've seen extremely small blue tooth adapters, WiFi adapters and even key loggers which where capable of covertly being installed. WiFi and BlueTooth can go a LONG way using high gain antennas on one end or the other of the link. I have a 2.5 mile link using a cheap commercially available 26db gain antenna that uses only standard WiFi (WRT54) equipment that I run on my part 95 license. It has issues when it rains, but it works most of the time. Imagine what you can do with purpose built hardware, antennas, preamps and the like.
If you are surprised by this, you must have your head in the sand or be extremely ignorant of how computers and RF work. That there is somebody who can plugin a USB device and then access your computer remotely is certainly NOT a surprise to most of us.
So this "reporting" by the NY Times is just sensationalism designed to sell papers (or collect access fees to their website). This kind of thing has been possible for decades using off the shelf hardware. One would have to assume the NSA (or it's predecessors) has been creating purpose built custom hardware for years before that.
Nothing new to see here folks. Move along!
But these are facts. and they are undenyable.
Remember that the *claim* here is that the IRS with it's sorting criteria, had an effect on a presidential election by suppressing one side's views over another side. The effect of the investigation delays is undeniable and obviously slanted IMHO. Clearly it impacted one side over the other in the election. That the *eventual* results of these investigations didn't mirror the initial sort criteria, only adds to my claim that the criteria where politically motivated and intended to help sway the election. So we are not claiming there is an issue with the *final* results, only that the delays imposed are the problem. But of course, the left wants to change the issue to something else.
The administration's attempt to explain this away, really doesn't work, if you look at the net result at the time of the election. Clearly the IRS sorting disadvantaged one side over the other. Which is exactly what I understood from the right wing pundants at the time this all came out and what the bulk of them have been saying about this. It's always been about the delays caused by the extended investigations and not about the eventual decisions. In fact, when this story first broke, the final decisions hadn't yet been made in many cases in a group of cases which obviously where biased so there was no way to argue a bias in final approvals. It's always been about the delay and not final decisions.
So you believe the administration's story on this? Man, you sure you want to do that? I call your attention to the following things coming from this administration...
1. Benghazi was a riot caused by a You-Tube video... It wasn't.
2. If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.. Not exactly true for everybody.
3. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.. This won't be true for everybody either..
4. It will save a family of 4 $2,500 a year. There has been negative cost savings (costs are going up) .
5. This will be the most transparent administration in history.. That didn't happen....
6. I will have a laser like focus on creating jobs. Less people are working now than when he took office.
7. If you make less than $250,000/year your taxes will NOT go up! Mine went up by at least 2% and I don't make even $150K
Need I go on?
Never claimed the IRS rules where only hitting conservative groups. If you read closely, I'm claiming that the sorting rules where biased towards and caused more right leaning groups to get additional scrutiny than left leaning ones.
BTW... I didn't hear any of the more popular right/conservative talk show hosts claim that there was zero effect on the left leaning groups either. They all where clear that the sort criteria caught both right and left groups. But it is also clear that the majority of the applications which where delayed by further review where conservative/right groups, which I believe was the intent IMHO.
So, the net result was a suppression of conservative/Right groups. As intended IMHO.
Sarcasm? HMMM?
Ok, what about the IRS thing? What press reported on that? Who got fired for that? Where's the outrage? Few, nobody and nowhere.
Where's the outrage for the Benghazi "It was that You-Tube video" full court press on the press foisted on us by a Democratic Administration just before the election? They didn't care about that.
There is Bias in reporting, and generally it runs to the left in the dominate media. There are exceptions to the rule(Fox News for example) but remember primarily the bias is to the left.
Let me fix this for you... "The Press will point out the nasty stuff your appointees do.."
At this point, nobody is saying they have proof that Christie knew and approved the traffic study. Until proof emerges, all you have is innuendo. Innuendo which the press on the left are having a field day with, which really makes this a witch hunt because Christie is the apparent front runner on the R side.
Depends on what you think their "job" was. Stopping mostly conservative groups from getting their non-profit tax status by "investigating them closer" then I guess they accomplished their task. LOL And this really wasn't a "short cut" it was singling out certain groups for a more detailed review which seems to be adding to the work load to me.
Look, it may not have been *everybody's* intent to obstruct mostly right leaning groups, but that was the net result. But there are those who knew full well that was going to be the results of the policy.