Bingo give the man a cigar. A lot of has come out in the past day over this topic, and it is increasingly seeming to be another manufactured non-scandal.
The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 became law on November 26, 2014. She stepped down as Secretary Feb 1, 2013.
This is not insightful, nor is it even remotely connected to reality.
Most news networks are not controlled by the left wing. For starters, there isn't really any left wing in this nation.
And such as does exist, doesn't control the networks. The myth of the Left Wing Media exists only in the minds of RWNJs.
The networks are by and large corporatists and run by corporatists. Most of them still pay at least modest lip service to the old Fairness Doctrine, presenting two sides to things and striving for moderation, even when one side is completely illegitimate (such as the anti science nutters).
The two glaring exceptions are Fox and MSNBC.
Fox needs no further explanation, its the propaganda arm of the GOP.
MSNBC is also marketed admittedly to a specific side of the audience... But that's because the person who owns and controls it is a conservative who knows how to tap into a market. And even so, they still run several moderate and even conservative personalities (Joe Scarsbourugh), who are only "liberal" only in relation to the distorted definitions of the right. In fact, Morning Joe is the network's single biggest and most influential show (last I checked).
distinction without a difference: there still has to be some sort of indication both to the OS and to the User what a file is and how to handle it.
Whether this is accomplished via Icons, File Name Extensions, Tags, or any other sort of mechanism is ultimately irrelevant as they all accomplishes the same thing.
And they all still require the user (and the OS) to be at least somewhat intelligent. The only way to remove this basic requirement is to remove the User, which rather defeats the purpose.
ISIS may have come to the fore because of the vacuum, but don't make the mistake of thinking these groups are all the same.
They are not. Particularly in this case.
ISIS is an outgrowth of Al Qaeda in Iraq. But it's worldview is fundamentally different.
AQII was an insurgency. ISIS is not.
ISIS began attacking Bashar Asad's forces in Syria, but not because they supported the rebellion, but because it was to them the beginning of the building of the caliphate they believe in. And that's also were they first began alienating people as they also attacked other rebel group, or basically anyone who didn't support their quest for the caliphate.
Then they began moving into Iraq, again to seize the territory they believe to the sacred caliphate. They moved fast, taking advantage of the fact it always takes the west time to organize any sort of response. But they haven't made any progress since we've started engaging them in combat. They are actually losing now, as they have alienated everyone in the area. Everyone is fighting against them.
And they aren't waging an insurgency, but open conventional warfare. And because they are outmatched in terms of training, equipment, and numbers, that has led to their momentum being halted, and them losing ground. But they don't seem to case because they don't believe they can lose. So that also so far show no signs of converting to an insurgency. This isn't like the Taliban, who prior to our invasion was essentially the ruling party of Afghanistan, in charge of everything, but once we showed up they gave everything up and melted away, blending into the population to fight an insurgency.
No, ISIS is instead intent on meeting us and our coalition head to head. And as long as they continue to do so, they will continue to lose, their horrific videos and social media propaganda not withstanding.
again: we've bombing them since September. and they are actually losing at this point because they aren't running an insurgency, but instead conventional combat tactics. which leaves them very susceptible to our superior tech, training, and numbers.
remember: there actually aren't that many ISIS fighters. what they got, they got through surprise and the time it took us to organize a response. and they are all over in Iraq/Syria with no way or means of attacking the US let alone getting here. They aren't interested in fighting an insurgency or committing terror attacks because they truly believe their eventual victory has been ordained by God, therefore they have been fighting us, the Jordanians, the Kurd, and everyone else in open combat. Whether that will last, remains to be seen. But for now, they are not a threat outside the region they've claimed for themselves, and they are losing.
There is actually a growing consensus not only that Chamberlain did what he could, but that he also doesn't get enough credit, especially since a good bit of the common knowledge of the war's history came from Churchill himself and his books, who not only didn't like Chamberlain but had little reason to give him any credit (and was rather fond of giving himself a lot of credit*). The worldwide depression had hurt everyone, the Brits included. England wasn't ready for war. And Chamberlain wasn't "just an appeaser". So while he declared "peace in our time", which I honestly see as little more than basic politicking, he also upon his return began gearing up for the coming conflict. Chamberlain is the one that began the rebuilding of England's military and industrial forces, and if he hadn't done that when he did we may very well have lost England.
(*this is not to overly denigrate Churchill who was an exceptional wartime leader. but there is a reason he didn't stay in power long after the war.)
ISIS is dumb. And because of that they are actually losing. No really. They are trying to use media and social media to prevent this image of them as this scary and violent group, but it's both backfiring, turning everyone against them, and a mask for for their losses.
They're aren't fighting an asymmetrical battle. They have essentially discarded or ignored the basic playbook of the past few decades. They are attempting to engage us in traditional and conventional methods, rather than an insurgency, which is why we, and the Jordanians and Kurds, are beating them back soundly. ISIS hasn't made or kept any gains since late September, when they lost their initial momentum the had built up through surprise and the time it took us to organize a response.
But then ISIS also isn't like the other militant groups in the past.
This is a group of True Believers.
They truly believe they are the inheritors of the caliphate, and that their victory is assured by God. And that belief has lead them to (so far) forgo an insurgency and instead fight conventional battles, conventional battles in the open in which they are getting stomped, because they are utterly assured of their eventual victory. And then there's the apocalyptic aspect of their beliefs. And that they are so violent and crazy that even Al Qaeda doesn't want anything to do with them; that they are alienating all their potential allies, turning friends into enemies (which is one BIG reason why we need to keep the RWNJ's from getting their way and turning this into a "war on islam" instead of a "war on extremists"...ISIS WANTS it to be a war on Islam).
This group may eventually realize that they are going to fall apart and be destroyed unless they change their tactics. But again, as a group of True Believers who doesn't accept the potential to lose as a real possibility, that change may not happen.
once again: you are wrong about independent agencies. we've been through this at least a dozen times. Congress absolutely has the power the to delegate, the same as the President does.
Just as no one could ever reasonably the President to personally oversee the enforcement of the entire body of law without delegation, no one could ever expect the Congress, 535 people, to personally be experts at every single topic and perform all necessary oversight. It take an entire agency to keep an eye on Wall Street, the SEC. It takes an entire agency to study the environment we live in and forge compromises between the needs of the public and the needs of industry, the EPA. I could run through the entire list, but there should be no need.
The only people who argue the point are unreasonable people who think a return to the agrarian society run by educated scholarly farmers envisioned by Jefferson is still a real possibility, ignoring all else that has happened in the past 200 years. The Constitution doesn't explicitly state that Congress can delegate, but it doesnt explicitily state a lot of things that we take for granted. The Founders were a lot of things, and varied a lot in ideology and opinion on strong or weak the government should be. But one thing they were not was stupid. And the idea that they expected us to adhere to the document like a holy writ verbatim for eternity was not part of the plan, as evidenced by the many clauses and phrases that are vague generalities and obviously exist solely for the purpose of expanding on the parts that are spelled out.
Parts like (and this is not an exhaustive list) the 9th Amendment, the process for amending the document, and most relevant to this topic, the Necessary and Proper Clause, also known as the "basket clause". Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18:
p>The Congress shall have Power... To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
IE, whatever it takes to run the country and enact the peoples will, they can do. Case closed. And there was a case, and it wasn't recent. McCulloch v Maryland, in 1819, a time when many of the Founders were themselves still alive, if not for much longer. And in that case the Courts established quite clearly that:
"First, the Constitution grants to Congress implied powers for implementing the Constitution's express powers, in order to create a functional national government. Second, state action may not impede valid constitutional exercises of power by the Federal government."
as indeed it must. Explicit powers are no good if they cannot be implemented due to the technicality that the prerequisites were not also explicitly stated. Again: the Founders were not stupid, but to take the opposite interpretation, an interpretation you seem to believe, is to imply that the Founders were in fact stupid.
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democracy's purpose is not the protection and preservation of the established status quo.
sorry to burst your bubble.
The law doesn't forbid the use of personal accounts.
But that's beside the point, as you can't break a law that wasn't even written, let alone put into effect, until after you left office.
The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 became law on November 26, 2014.
She stepped down as Secretary Feb 1, 2013.
http://mediamatters.org/resear...
It's actually old news.
The existence and use of her personal account has been known since 2013.
The question of why its being pushed as a scandal now...I couldn't tell you.
Except she didn't break the law.
You can't break a law that wasn't even written, let alone put into effect, until after you left office.
The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 became law on November 26, 2014.
She stepped down as Secretary Feb 1, 2013.
http://mediamatters.org/resear...
Bingo give the man a cigar.
A lot of has come out in the past day over this topic, and it is increasingly seeming to be another manufactured non-scandal.
The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 became law on November 26, 2014.
She stepped down as Secretary Feb 1, 2013.
http://mediamatters.org/resear...
This is not insightful, nor is it even remotely connected to reality.
Most news networks are not controlled by the left wing.
For starters, there isn't really any left wing in this nation.
And such as does exist, doesn't control the networks.
The myth of the Left Wing Media exists only in the minds of RWNJs.
The networks are by and large corporatists and run by corporatists.
Most of them still pay at least modest lip service to the old Fairness Doctrine,
presenting two sides to things and striving for moderation,
even when one side is completely illegitimate (such as the anti science nutters).
The two glaring exceptions are Fox and MSNBC.
Fox needs no further explanation, its the propaganda arm of the GOP.
MSNBC is also marketed admittedly to a specific side of the audience...
But that's because the person who owns and controls it is a conservative
who knows how to tap into a market. And even so, they still run several moderate
and even conservative personalities (Joe Scarsbourugh), who are only "liberal"
only in relation to the distorted definitions of the right. In fact, Morning Joe is the
network's single biggest and most influential show (last I checked).
There. Now you are slightly less dumb.
Technically the rules didn't apply to her... ...because she left office two years before the law went into effect.
Seems we have another manufactured non-scandal on our hands.
This is the 2nd thing I disable, immediately after displaying all file extensions and hidden files.
Bloody annoying is what that feature is.
distinction without a difference: there still has to be some sort of indication both to the OS and to the User what a file is and how to handle it.
Whether this is accomplished via Icons, File Name Extensions, Tags, or any other sort of mechanism
is ultimately irrelevant as they all accomplishes the same thing.
And they all still require the user (and the OS) to be at least somewhat intelligent.
The only way to remove this basic requirement is to remove the User, which rather defeats the purpose.
lets not over praise TOS and TNG.
they had their share of cheese and bad plotting too.
This is how out of touch a growing number of RWNJs are:
"Growing Number Of Conservatives Seem Utterly Unaware That Obama Is Attacking ISIS"
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...
the problem is in thinking that its only possible for poor, desperate people to become radicalized.
those rich kids are also often from families that are more secular and less orthodox.
disillusionment comes in many flavors.
ISIS may have come to the fore because of the vacuum, but don't make the mistake of thinking these groups are all the same.
They are not.
Particularly in this case.
ISIS is an outgrowth of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
But it's worldview is fundamentally different.
AQII was an insurgency.
ISIS is not.
ISIS began attacking Bashar Asad's forces in Syria, but not because they supported the rebellion, but because it was to them the beginning of the building of the caliphate they believe in. And that's also were they first began alienating people as they also attacked other rebel group, or basically anyone who didn't support their quest for the caliphate.
Then they began moving into Iraq, again to seize the territory they believe to the sacred caliphate. They moved fast, taking advantage of the fact it always takes the west time to organize any sort of response. But they haven't made any progress since we've started engaging them in combat. They are actually losing now, as they have alienated everyone in the area. Everyone is fighting against them.
And they aren't waging an insurgency, but open conventional warfare.
And because they are outmatched in terms of training, equipment, and numbers, that has led to their momentum being halted, and them losing ground.
But they don't seem to case because they don't believe they can lose. So that also so far show no signs of converting to an insurgency. This isn't like the Taliban, who prior to our invasion was essentially the ruling party of Afghanistan, in charge of everything, but once we showed up they gave everything up and melted away, blending into the population to fight an insurgency.
No, ISIS is instead intent on meeting us and our coalition head to head.
And as long as they continue to do so, they will continue to lose, their horrific videos and social media propaganda not withstanding.
again: we've bombing them since September.
and they are actually losing at this point because they aren't running an insurgency, but instead conventional combat tactics. which leaves them very susceptible to our superior tech, training, and numbers.
remember: there actually aren't that many ISIS fighters.
what they got, they got through surprise and the time it took us to organize a response.
and they are all over in Iraq/Syria with no way or means of attacking the US let alone getting here.
They aren't interested in fighting an insurgency or committing terror attacks because they truly believe their eventual victory has been ordained by God, therefore they have been fighting us, the Jordanians, the Kurd, and everyone else in open combat. Whether that will last, remains to be seen. But for now, they are not a threat outside the region they've claimed for themselves, and they are losing.
There is actually a growing consensus not only that Chamberlain did what he could, but that he also doesn't get enough credit, especially since a good bit of the common knowledge of the war's history came from Churchill himself and his books, who not only didn't like Chamberlain but had little reason to give him any credit (and was rather fond of giving himself a lot of credit*). The worldwide depression had hurt everyone, the Brits included. England wasn't ready for war. And Chamberlain wasn't "just an appeaser". So while he declared "peace in our time", which I honestly see as little more than basic politicking, he also upon his return began gearing up for the coming conflict. Chamberlain is the one that began the rebuilding of England's military and industrial forces, and if he hadn't done that when he did we may very well have lost England.
(*this is not to overly denigrate Churchill who was an exceptional wartime leader. but there is a reason he didn't stay in power long after the war.)
*prevent should be present.
dang autocorrect.
One thing is different this time though.
ISIS is dumb.
And because of that they are actually losing. No really. They are trying to use media and social media to prevent this image of them as this scary and violent group, but it's both backfiring, turning everyone against them, and a mask for for their losses.
They're aren't fighting an asymmetrical battle. They have essentially discarded or ignored the basic playbook of the past few decades. They are attempting to engage us in traditional and conventional methods, rather than an insurgency, which is why we, and the Jordanians and Kurds, are beating them back soundly. ISIS hasn't made or kept any gains since late September, when they lost their initial momentum the had built up through surprise and the time it took us to organize a response.
But then ISIS also isn't like the other militant groups in the past.
This is a group of True Believers.
They truly believe they are the inheritors of the caliphate, and that their victory is assured by God. And that belief has lead them to (so far) forgo an insurgency and instead fight conventional battles, conventional battles in the open in which they are getting stomped, because they are utterly assured of their eventual victory. And then there's the apocalyptic aspect of their beliefs. And that they are so violent and crazy that even Al Qaeda doesn't want anything to do with them; that they are alienating all their potential allies, turning friends into enemies (which is one BIG reason why we need to keep the RWNJ's from getting their way and turning this into a "war on islam" instead of a "war on extremists"...ISIS WANTS it to be a war on Islam).
This group may eventually realize that they are going to fall apart and be destroyed unless they change their tactics.
But again, as a group of True Believers who doesn't accept the potential to lose as a real possibility, that change may not happen.
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/23/8...
So I'm guessing that you're not aware that we've been bombing them since September.
We've been bombing them since September.
But thanks for playing anyway.
Sounds like real life modern politics / diplomacy.
once again: you are wrong about independent agencies.
we've been through this at least a dozen times.
Congress absolutely has the power the to delegate, the same as the President does.
Just as no one could ever reasonably the President to personally oversee the enforcement of the entire body of law without delegation, no one could ever expect the Congress, 535 people, to personally be experts at every single topic and perform all necessary oversight. It take an entire agency to keep an eye on Wall Street, the SEC. It takes an entire agency to study the environment we live in and forge compromises between the needs of the public and the needs of industry, the EPA. I could run through the entire list, but there should be no need.
The only people who argue the point are unreasonable people who think a return to the agrarian society run by educated scholarly farmers envisioned by Jefferson is still a real possibility, ignoring all else that has happened in the past 200 years. The Constitution doesn't explicitly state that Congress can delegate, but it doesnt explicitily state a lot of things that we take for granted. The Founders were a lot of things, and varied a lot in ideology and opinion on strong or weak the government should be. But one thing they were not was stupid. And the idea that they expected us to adhere to the document like a holy writ verbatim for eternity was not part of the plan, as evidenced by the many clauses and phrases that are vague generalities and obviously exist solely for the purpose of expanding on the parts that are spelled out.
Parts like (and this is not an exhaustive list) the 9th Amendment, the process for amending the document, and most relevant to this topic, the Necessary and Proper Clause, also known as the "basket clause". Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18:
p>The Congress shall have Power ... To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
IE, whatever it takes to run the country and enact the peoples will, they can do. Case closed.
And there was a case, and it wasn't recent. McCulloch v Maryland, in 1819, a time when many of the Founders were themselves still alive, if not for much longer. And in that case the Courts established quite clearly that:
"First, the Constitution grants to Congress implied powers for implementing the Constitution's express powers, in order to create a functional national government. Second, state action may not impede valid constitutional exercises of power by the Federal government."
as indeed it must. Explicit powers are no good if they cannot be implemented due to the technicality that the prerequisites were not also explicitly stated. Again: the Founders were not stupid, but to take the opposite interpretation, an interpretation you seem to believe, is to imply that the Founders were in fact stupid.
i suspect a fair bit is related to the color temp setting of their monitors as well.
i noticed that.
plus, half or more of the account settings seem to be missing.
Is this the "beta" I've been hearing about?
Not a fan, I must say.
I wanted to update my signature today, and under this new layout I can't seem to find it at all.
So.....pointing out that NN is the status quo...and that the GOP tried to co-opt the term...is now flamebait?
Stupid mods.