Yeah, a lot of stuff about Hillary is fabricated. And likewise, a lot of stuff about Trump is fabricated. In both cases, though, what we have video of actually coming out of their mouths is sufficient.
Hillary, I am convinced, is an enemy of the Constitution. There are a lot of anti Second Amendment "quotes" attributed to her which are completely made up. However, her proposal to implement something like Australia's gun laws -- which were, indeed, outright bans and confiscation -- is completely contrary to the to clear and declarative words of the Constitution. If she wants to repeal the Second Amendment, fine, get the votes for it and do it. But if "The Right of the People... Shall not be infringed" can be abolished without the amendment to make it constitutional, then what possible protection do you imagine might exist for other rights which are the more weakly stated "Congress shall make no law." Not to mention rights that are emanations conjured out of penumbras.
Think about that. "Your Guys" are not forever and always going to be the ones running Washington DC. NEVER advocate giving "your guys" powers that you would be uncomfortable seeing in the hands of the "other guys."
I don't know if Hillary has learned anything from the email server thing. Her response has been one part "I didn't do anything wrong" and one part "I didn't do it nobody saw me do it you can't prove anything." Anybody who has ever held any sort of security clearance knows full well what would have happened to them if they had done what she did. Ask anyone who has ever held a clearance to access TS/SAP stuff what would happen to them. The FBI Director, in declining to recommend prosecution, added a statement that basically said "But nobody else had better try this, because they will suffer consequences, because they are not Hillary Clinton."
I absolutely abhor having anyone in public office who thinks they are above the law. And that goes exponential when the top law enforcement officials of the country agree that, yes, they are above the law.
I'm deciding on which of my "A Plague on Both Your Parties" vote I'm going to indulge in this year. Both candidates are absolutely unacceptable in a "I don't care who they're running against" sense.
Of course, since I'm in a state that's going to give all its electoral votes to Hillary no matter what, I can afford to stick to my principles without any consideration of it making any difference in the outcome. I won't judge the decisions of anyone whose situation is different.
One advantage a Trump administration would have over a Clinton administration is that it would be short. Trump does not seem to have any more capacity to understand that laws apply to him than Hillary does... maybe even less. However, Trump is hated by most of the news media, most of the Republicans in the House and Senate, and all of the Democrats. The very first thing he does that can be construed as a "high crime or misdemeanor", and impeachment in the House proceeding to removal from office by the Senate will proceed at Warp Factor 10.
Hillary, by contrast, the Democrats will not vote to remove her even if she's performing daily human sacrifices to Cthulhu on the White House lawn.
This. If I had mod points right now, I'd use one instead of replying. I am pretty thoroughly horrified by the Obama presidency (and it's not because of his skin color; there is no white person on the face of the Earth that I would even briefly consider voting for if he or she were running against Thomas Sowell) and find the prospects of either a Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump presidency even more horrifying, which I didn't think was possible.
Too much of the interaction on the Internet has been turned over to not very bright grammar-school ranting.
I mean, terrorists are a pretty stupid and unimaginative bunch, by and large. I can think off the top of my head of a dozen far more terrorizing and destructive (and far easier to accomplish) things they could be doing if they had any brains and imagination. The whole OMG ENCRYPTION OMG OMG BAN IT stuff just manages to get encryption on the terrorists' radar, and "Doh... uncriptun... might wanna use some of that."
From the limited information, it looks like this is probably dependent on a centralized server somewhere doing the authentication. I would much prefer a system that is entirely between you and whatever sites you log into, with no central server to go down and take all your logins with it. SQRL seems like a pretty good approach. (But we're probably going to get stuck with a hundred different competing incompatible systems.)
My pipe dream, assuming I ever get around to doing it:
Open-source PBX software running on an AWS or Azure instance, or some such.
Calls from my extensive whitelist, which automatically includes every number I call, ring straight through.
Most others go to a message like this: "Hello?" repeated a few times until voice is heard. When the voice stops, "Who may I say is calling?" Wait until voice stops, then "This is an answering service, do you wish to leave any other message?" The point of all this being to try to get an agent to the phone for the usual predictive dialing, or at least get some information about the caller, without being too grossly annoying to legitimate callers that don't happen to be on the whitelist yet.
The special list. The very special list. This one, as much AI as can be cheaply (i.e. free as in beer) brought to bear on the problem of sounding just like a real person, maybe a bit gullible, and interested in the product, but just... not... quite... convinced to say "Yes". Try to get robots to alert human agents "We've got a live one!" and waste the absolute maximum possible amount of their time that technology can accomplish.
The one I despise most of all is the "male enhancement product" quack ad which shows someone holding a geoduck clam in a disturbingly suggestive manner. What Has Been Seen Can Not Be Unseen.
Exact quote: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump said. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."
More plausible readings of this are that maybe the Russians already have this in the dump of Hillary's mail server they already have. Or, as Trump said later, it's a joke. Maybe a bit of both.
(Please do not willfully misconstrue my quoting of the factual quote as support for the Tangerine Troglodyte. Trump's bad enough; making fake crap up about him is only going to make some people doubt the real crap.)
They're like cockroaches... Endless stream of gullible people freaking out over some "news" story from one of these idiotic sites and spamming warnings of The Dire Threat To Our Precious Bodily Fluids or whatever.
I use NoScript on Linux, and got "Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 13,318 tested so far." It'll be interesting to see how unique that stays after a larger number of samples are collected, but that's fairly impressive.
Does anyone think, if there is a President Trump, that both the Republican and Democrat leadership won't have Articles of Impeachment pre-written, just fill in the blanks? With all the bridges to the rest of the GOP that Trump has napalmed, he would be impeachment bait, big-time. He'd have to watch his step very carefully, or he'd be bounced onto the sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue so hard the cement would crack.
Carter leaked information about the stealth bomber for political gain.
Some people want to drop that down the memory hole, but I remember the controversy at the time. (Yes, I'm old. Ooooold.)
Compare with the Johnson/Goldwater campaign in 1964. Goldwater advocated bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail to block North Vietnamese resupply of their forces in South Vietnam. LBJ went off on a "OMG reckless irresponsible gonna start WWIII WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!" tear, complete with TV ad of little girl picking daisies getting vaporized because of Barry Goldwater.
Even though LBJ was, in fact, bombing the Ho Chi Minh trail, and Goldwater knew it. But the fact that it was being done was classified Top Secret, and Goldwater honored his commitment to not reveal what he'd found out in a classified briefing. And may well have lost the election because of it.
An interesting question is, who this Top Secret classification was intended to keep the information from. It was not exactly a secret to the Cambodians or the NVA supply convoys that they were getting bombed. They were unlikely to keep this a secret from the Russians. No, the only people kept in the dark by this were the U.S. public.
Just wondering. To the extent I know their political orientation, they are all quite partisan Democrats.
One tech person who was interviewed on Leo Laporte's "Triangulation" podcast a few weeks ago had an interesting perspective. Basically, there's a lot of very bad stuff entrenched in Washington DC that needs to get broken. The candidate most likely to break stuff is Trump; hopefully, he'll break more stuff that needs breaking than stuff that needs to not be broken.
Me, I'm probably going to vote Libertarian; I won't vote for either of the D or R <obscene characterization redacted>."
I don't believe in a savior. Hillary is terrible, but Trump is a real real bad joke. He isn't even conservative. He is just playing a bunch of morons for attention.
It's a choice between Chaotic Evil and Neutral Evil.
One possible advantage to Chaotic Evil is that it's possibly less likely to be effective in the implementation of Evil.
Plus, with all the bridges to the rest of the Republican Party that Trump has napalmed, he'll be an impeachment magnet. Half the Republicans and all the Democrats will be aching and itching for any excuse to remove him from office. In contrast, the Democrats would not vote to remove Hillary if she turned the traditional White House Lawn Easter Egg Roll into sacrificing the little kids to Cthulhu.
I'm still not voting for him. I'm looking at third parties. The New Whig Party (yes, that is a thing) seemed interesting, but I have serious problems with parts of their platform. I might just go with my usual "A Plague on Both Your Parties" vote, and vote Libertarian, though I have some serious problems with Gary Johnson, too. But then, in Calipornia, I can afford to indulge my conscience without worrying about it affecting the outcome; the Democrat candidate is going to get over 60% of the vote even if it's a bucket of banana slugs.
(Though, in preference to either the D or R candidate, I'd happily vote for a bucket of banana slugs.)
I've always given two weeks notice. I've been involved in layoffs a few times. Even when asked to pack up and leave right away, I at least got the traditional two weeks pay as severance (the company was circling the drain at that point, and was out of business a year later). One, I actually got about three months notice that my job was going away, and spent that time transitioning email from the Unix systems over to the Exchange servers that they were moving to. (They already had a full staff of Exchange administrators.) One place, I got like four months severance in exchange for signing the "Promise you won't sue us for laying off a 55+ year old employee" agreement.
If a company asked me to do something illegal or seriously unethical... yeah, I'd refuse, and walk out the door right then if necessary. Ditto unreasonable hazards to life and limb, like that incredible story in a previous message here, where some psycho was threatening people with a knife and the boss said "just keep your head down and avoid him." I think in that case, I'd probably have gone to HR with a document in writing saying "I am not going back while that psycho is there, and I'm not real keen on that boss, either."
But in general, being a professional and acting like one has paid off pretty well for 40+ years of working.
Look at a picture of the Board of Directors of the NRA. There are several non-white people on the Board. Roy Innis, the founder of the old-school civil rights organization CORE (Congress On Racial Equality") used to be on the NRA board; he may still be.
Compare with the pure lily whiteness of the entire Board of Directors of the Huffington Post.
Live365 was far and away my favorite service. Eclectic stations programmed by individuals. Alas, the massive increase in licensing feeds killed it back in January.
Be sure you hat is tin foil. Aluminum foil has been proven to amplify and focus the mind control rays. There's a reason genuine tin foil is so hard to find.
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Yeah, a lot of stuff about Hillary is fabricated. And likewise, a lot of stuff about Trump is fabricated. In both cases, though, what we have video of actually coming out of their mouths is sufficient.
Hillary, I am convinced, is an enemy of the Constitution. There are a lot of anti Second Amendment "quotes" attributed to her which are completely made up. However, her proposal to implement something like Australia's gun laws -- which were, indeed, outright bans and confiscation -- is completely contrary to the to clear and declarative words of the Constitution. If she wants to repeal the Second Amendment, fine, get the votes for it and do it. But if "The Right of the People ... Shall not be infringed" can be abolished without the amendment to make it constitutional, then what possible protection do you imagine might exist for other rights which are the more weakly stated "Congress shall make no law." Not to mention rights that are emanations conjured out of penumbras.
Think about that. "Your Guys" are not forever and always going to be the ones running Washington DC. NEVER advocate giving "your guys" powers that you would be uncomfortable seeing in the hands of the "other guys."
I don't know if Hillary has learned anything from the email server thing. Her response has been one part "I didn't do anything wrong" and one part "I didn't do it nobody saw me do it you can't prove anything." Anybody who has ever held any sort of security clearance knows full well what would have happened to them if they had done what she did. Ask anyone who has ever held a clearance to access TS/SAP stuff what would happen to them. The FBI Director, in declining to recommend prosecution, added a statement that basically said "But nobody else had better try this, because they will suffer consequences, because they are not Hillary Clinton."
I absolutely abhor having anyone in public office who thinks they are above the law. And that goes exponential when the top law enforcement officials of the country agree that, yes, they are above the law.
If that were the sort of Law of Nature you seem to be asserting it is, we'd still have the Federalist and Whig parties.
I'm deciding on which of my "A Plague on Both Your Parties" vote I'm going to indulge in this year. Both candidates are absolutely unacceptable in a "I don't care who they're running against" sense.
Of course, since I'm in a state that's going to give all its electoral votes to Hillary no matter what, I can afford to stick to my principles without any consideration of it making any difference in the outcome. I won't judge the decisions of anyone whose situation is different.
One advantage a Trump administration would have over a Clinton administration is that it would be short. Trump does not seem to have any more capacity to understand that laws apply to him than Hillary does... maybe even less. However, Trump is hated by most of the news media, most of the Republicans in the House and Senate, and all of the Democrats. The very first thing he does that can be construed as a "high crime or misdemeanor", and impeachment in the House proceeding to removal from office by the Senate will proceed at Warp Factor 10.
Hillary, by contrast, the Democrats will not vote to remove her even if she's performing daily human sacrifices to Cthulhu on the White House lawn.
This. If I had mod points right now, I'd use one instead of replying. I am pretty thoroughly horrified by the Obama presidency (and it's not because of his skin color; there is no white person on the face of the Earth that I would even briefly consider voting for if he or she were running against Thomas Sowell) and find the prospects of either a Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump presidency even more horrifying, which I didn't think was possible.
Too much of the interaction on the Internet has been turned over to not very bright grammar-school ranting.
I mean, terrorists are a pretty stupid and unimaginative bunch, by and large. I can think off the top of my head of a dozen far more terrorizing and destructive (and far easier to accomplish) things they could be doing if they had any brains and imagination. The whole OMG ENCRYPTION OMG OMG BAN IT stuff just manages to get encryption on the terrorists' radar, and "Doh... uncriptun... might wanna use some of that."
From the limited information, it looks like this is probably dependent on a centralized server somewhere doing the authentication. I would much prefer a system that is entirely between you and whatever sites you log into, with no central server to go down and take all your logins with it. SQRL seems like a pretty good approach. (But we're probably going to get stuck with a hundred different competing incompatible systems.)
My pipe dream, assuming I ever get around to doing it:
Open-source PBX software running on an AWS or Azure instance, or some such.
Calls from my extensive whitelist, which automatically includes every number I call, ring straight through.
Most others go to a message like this: "Hello?" repeated a few times until voice is heard. When the voice stops, "Who may I say is calling?" Wait until voice stops, then "This is an answering service, do you wish to leave any other message?" The point of all this being to try to get an agent to the phone for the usual predictive dialing, or at least get some information about the caller, without being too grossly annoying to legitimate callers that don't happen to be on the whitelist yet.
The special list. The very special list. This one, as much AI as can be cheaply (i.e. free as in beer) brought to bear on the problem of sounding just like a real person, maybe a bit gullible, and interested in the product, but just ... not ... quite ... convinced to say "Yes". Try to get robots to alert human agents "We've got a live one!" and waste the absolute maximum possible amount of their time that technology can accomplish.
The one I despise most of all is the "male enhancement product" quack ad which shows someone holding a geoduck clam in a disturbingly suggestive manner. What Has Been Seen Can Not Be Unseen.
A person in the street brandishing a knife at a distance is nowhere near the threat that a loaded gun is in the same hands.
21 feet.
I believe that is the number. At 21 feet, a person with a knife who you are holding a gun on can charge and stab you before you can shoot them.
Quibbles about the exact number of feet aside (it's not off by more than a couple of feet) that is just the fact. It may seem odd, but it's true.
Exact quote: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump said. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."
More plausible readings of this are that maybe the Russians already have this in the dump of Hillary's mail server they already have. Or, as Trump said later, it's a joke. Maybe a bit of both.
(Please do not willfully misconstrue my quoting of the factual quote as support for the Tangerine Troglodyte. Trump's bad enough; making fake crap up about him is only going to make some people doubt the real crap.)
They're like cockroaches... Endless stream of gullible people freaking out over some "news" story from one of these idiotic sites and spamming warnings of The Dire Threat To Our Precious Bodily Fluids or whatever.
I use NoScript on Linux, and got "Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 13,318 tested so far." It'll be interesting to see how unique that stays after a larger number of samples are collected, but that's fairly impressive.
Does anyone think, if there is a President Trump, that both the Republican and Democrat leadership won't have Articles of Impeachment pre-written, just fill in the blanks? With all the bridges to the rest of the GOP that Trump has napalmed, he would be impeachment bait, big-time. He'd have to watch his step very carefully, or he'd be bounced onto the sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue so hard the cement would crack.
His Kind? What is he... an alien? Is he apart of the underground gathering of Crab People plotting to rule the world?
*gasp!* THAT'S IT!! It all makes sense now. ALL of it!!!
Carter leaked information about the stealth bomber for political gain.
Some people want to drop that down the memory hole, but I remember the controversy at the time. (Yes, I'm old. Ooooold.)
Compare with the Johnson/Goldwater campaign in 1964. Goldwater advocated bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail to block North Vietnamese resupply of their forces in South Vietnam. LBJ went off on a "OMG reckless irresponsible gonna start WWIII WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!" tear, complete with TV ad of little girl picking daisies getting vaporized because of Barry Goldwater.
Even though LBJ was, in fact, bombing the Ho Chi Minh trail, and Goldwater knew it. But the fact that it was being done was classified Top Secret, and Goldwater honored his commitment to not reveal what he'd found out in a classified briefing. And may well have lost the election because of it.
An interesting question is, who this Top Secret classification was intended to keep the information from. It was not exactly a secret to the Cambodians or the NVA supply convoys that they were getting bombed. They were unlikely to keep this a secret from the Russians. No, the only people kept in the dark by this were the U.S. public.
Just wondering. To the extent I know their political orientation, they are all quite partisan Democrats.
One tech person who was interviewed on Leo Laporte's "Triangulation" podcast a few weeks ago had an interesting perspective. Basically, there's a lot of very bad stuff entrenched in Washington DC that needs to get broken. The candidate most likely to break stuff is Trump; hopefully, he'll break more stuff that needs breaking than stuff that needs to not be broken.
Me, I'm probably going to vote Libertarian; I won't vote for either of the D or R <obscene characterization redacted>."
Some friends in college, in one of their D&D games, came up with an alignment "Chaotic Chaotic." Maybe that's it... but there's Evil in there, too.
I don't believe in a savior. Hillary is terrible, but Trump is a real real bad joke. He isn't even conservative. He is just playing a bunch of morons for attention.
It's a choice between Chaotic Evil and Neutral Evil.
One possible advantage to Chaotic Evil is that it's possibly less likely to be effective in the implementation of Evil.
Plus, with all the bridges to the rest of the Republican Party that Trump has napalmed, he'll be an impeachment magnet. Half the Republicans and all the Democrats will be aching and itching for any excuse to remove him from office. In contrast, the Democrats would not vote to remove Hillary if she turned the traditional White House Lawn Easter Egg Roll into sacrificing the little kids to Cthulhu.
I'm still not voting for him. I'm looking at third parties. The New Whig Party (yes, that is a thing) seemed interesting, but I have serious problems with parts of their platform. I might just go with my usual "A Plague on Both Your Parties" vote, and vote Libertarian, though I have some serious problems with Gary Johnson, too. But then, in Calipornia, I can afford to indulge my conscience without worrying about it affecting the outcome; the Democrat candidate is going to get over 60% of the vote even if it's a bucket of banana slugs.
(Though, in preference to either the D or R candidate, I'd happily vote for a bucket of banana slugs.)
I've always given two weeks notice. I've been involved in layoffs a few times. Even when asked to pack up and leave right away, I at least got the traditional two weeks pay as severance (the company was circling the drain at that point, and was out of business a year later). One, I actually got about three months notice that my job was going away, and spent that time transitioning email from the Unix systems over to the Exchange servers that they were moving to. (They already had a full staff of Exchange administrators.) One place, I got like four months severance in exchange for signing the "Promise you won't sue us for laying off a 55+ year old employee" agreement.
If a company asked me to do something illegal or seriously unethical... yeah, I'd refuse, and walk out the door right then if necessary. Ditto unreasonable hazards to life and limb, like that incredible story in a previous message here, where some psycho was threatening people with a knife and the boss said "just keep your head down and avoid him." I think in that case, I'd probably have gone to HR with a document in writing saying "I am not going back while that psycho is there, and I'm not real keen on that boss, either."
But in general, being a professional and acting like one has paid off pretty well for 40+ years of working.
My bad, it's the Huffington Post Editorial Board. https://twitter.com/lheron/sta...
Look at a picture of the Board of Directors of the NRA. There are several non-white people on the Board. Roy Innis, the founder of the old-school civil rights organization CORE (Congress On Racial Equality") used to be on the NRA board; he may still be.
Compare with the pure lily whiteness of the entire Board of Directors of the Huffington Post.
Autism? What link? The study by ex-doctor and convicted fraud perpetrator Andrew Wakefield? That study?
And why would I want to attend one of her concerts?
And by the way.... Get off my lawn!
Live365 was far and away my favorite service. Eclectic stations programmed by individuals. Alas, the massive increase in licensing feeds killed it back in January.
Be sure you hat is tin foil. Aluminum foil has been proven to amplify and focus the mind control rays. There's a reason genuine tin foil is so hard to find.