After a one-year moratorium, the Chelan utility now wants to raise rates for high density users (more than 250kW per square foot) from 3 cents to 5 cents per kilowatt hour.
Increase the space of your Bitcoin 'farm'with non-electric consuming space - self-storage, indoor car parking, etc.
How much power per square foot does a bitcoin farm use?
...I suspect he gets special treatment, not that Twitter supports/agrees/condones his position, but if Twitter were to block a viable presidential candidate it would incur the wrath of his millions of supporters and potentially open itself up a legal challenge.
Further, the State Department has just declared that some of Hillary's emails contain information so sensitive that they cannot be released even now
Think about that - we have seen emails where selected words/passages are redacted... We have seen emails where sender/recipient identies are redacted... But the seven email threads from her insecure server are so sensitive we can't even know WHO she corresponded, let alone even a single word contained in those emails.
If only we could have seen those emails when she first got them, before they evolved Into classified emails!
(Personally, I think using a personal email server for official emails which even had the potential possibility of containing classified info is batshit stupid. But that doesn't justify jumping to conclusions.)
OK, I'll bite...
Rather than jump to conclusions, let's take a critical look at her claims:
"I was allowed to do it."
A claim totally unsupported by any law currently on the books.
"Didn't do anything previous Secretary's of State didn't also do."
Except they didn't - her claim is believable only if you think bypassing State Department emails is exactly the same as having emails that were sent to State Department email servers forwarded to a personal account - it isn't.
"I was so busy I didn't have time to think about what email I was going to use."
Right, it was easier to hire an outside contractor, but your own server, and put it in your bathroom than simply use a state department email server with taxpayer-funded 24 hour support and the highest levels of security.
"I never sent nor received anything marked classified."
That sounds like a good counter-argument, until you realize that it is technically impossible to send an email marked classified to an insecure server - once information is cut and pasted out of a secure environment to an insecure one (as we know Hillary directed at least one staffer to do) it loses it's confidential marking...
Don't leap to conclusions, but honestly consider her non-sensicsl claims.
First off, thank you for your extremely informative response - I appreciate it.
But I have a couple points I think we're glossed-over in your analysis:
A prosecutor would have to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Secretary Clinton knew, or had reason to know that the information in those emails was classified or should have been classified.
Hillary claimed to either personally (or caused her agent(s) to review each email on flash drive before she handed the flash drive to her lawyer. It would be very, very hard to argue ignorance of the contents of the drive, IMHO.
Hillary was required, as Secretary of State, to positively affirm she fully-understood what information is 'classified' irregardless of any markings (for instance, correspondence with a foreign leader, satellite imagery, documents detailing the identities of agents, etc.).
Hillary had no legal rights to retain copies of all her official emails once she left office - she was supposed to have signed a form to that effect (that she turned over all official correspondence, work products, etc.) when she left office.
She's been very careful to say "marked classified".
A meaningless distinction, legally - but one designed to rally support amongst voters inclined to agree with her.
It would be technically impossible for documents marked classified on a secure server to retain those markings once they enter an insecure server. Classified information travels in a distinct, separate email system that lacks access to insecure email servers - you can't send a secure document to pantsuit@clintonemail.com from the secure servers.
Secretary Clinton's lawyer had security clearances through the State Department, and was the person who reviewed the emails for Clinton. So no law was violated there.
There are emails in the archive she provided that the FBI agents investigating this case don't have clearance to see, her lawyer has 'a' security clearance, he does not have the highest clearance level needed for all her emails.
Who reviewed her emails, to weed out the yoga routines? Was it someone with the highest security clearances possible (just in case they read a high-level email by mistake), or was it a few friends of Hillary's?
Did her lawyer really read 55,000 pages of emails personally? No one helped?
And in a first, the DOJ provided her lawyer with a secure safe to house the emails, finding the lawyers own security woefully inadequate. DOJ should have taken immediate possession of the archive and all known copies immediately.
Secretary Clinton instructed an aide to send unclassified information from a secure source through insecure channels. Not a crime.
Define, in the legal sense, 'conspiracy'... She conspired with coworkers to mishandle state secrets/secure documents.
Sounds like a crime, because it is a crime.
Apparently, at least one of the emails was about a NY Times article about the US classified drone program. Hard to imagine why an email about an article in a public newspaper would be classified.
'Hard to imagine'? You aren't even trying. The NY Times prints an article speculating about a 'classified drone program' and one of Hillary's underlings sends her an email saying something like 'Who leaked this?' or 'How did they find out about this?'
A link to a speculative report, plus a few more words from an assistant turns it into a confirmation of a 'classified drone program.'
Your problem is, I might suggest, you are letting Hillary and her team exclusively inform your opinion, without any common sense challenges to her claims.
Was it really 'easier' to set up her own private email server, rather than have Dept. of State technicians do all the work?
Can she, as Secretary of State and a Harvard-educated lawyer, plead ignorance of the laws she affirmed she understood on her first day in office?
And how, exactly, does information 'become' classified years after it is sent?
The failure to maintain classification markings is inherent in her having a private server - the metadata that marks content classified (confidential, secrecy or top secret) can not be maintained when outside the secure email server. It is literally impossible to send classified info from the secure email system to her private server - all such emails had to be copy-and-pasted into an insecure email account and sent to her private email server - that act alone is a crime, a crime made necessary by her refusal to access secure email systems. Her underlings will be prosecuted, at the VERY least.
Each year, the U.S. healthcare industry writes off $40 billion in bad debt from unpaid medical bills. "Then you consider that $6 billion is spent on cards and flowers for patients every year. Why can't we redirect that money and put it into a debit instrument restricted to medical spending only?" said Jagemann-Bane, CEO of Someone With Group.
Sure, sounds great, unless your family's income relies on selling flowers/cards or you happen to work in the flower or greeting card business...
$40 billion in medical debts reduced by (at best) $6 billion is flowers/greeting cards sales leaves $34 billion in unpaid medical debts (a 15% reduction) at the cost of shuttering two industries putting a few hundred thousand Americans on the unemployment line in the process...
Q: given the choice between two guns, similar in every regard (mfg, quality, caliber, etc) and with no price difference between the two, would you CONSIDER a 'childproof' gun?
Problem is, 'childproof' guns will cost much more than 'regular'/traditional guns, be less reliable, and likely come from lower-tier manufacturers.
But hey, they'd 'consider' it!
IF they were to buy another gun...they would CONSIDER a childproof gun?
That means nothing - they aren't even 'likely gun buyers', just folks that are WILLING to CONSIDER a 'childproof gun' IF they were to buy another gun.
They took a 30 year span (1951-1980), averaged the temperatures around the world in those 30 years to establish a 'baseline' - well, at least they didn't pick an arbitrary 'baseline'...
Then, 30 year average baseline in hand, they gather 135 years of temperature readings, ranging from 1880 to 2015 and discover - what? That global annual averages are trending up (and 'shattering' previous records!?) based on the arbitrary 'baseline', ever since Al Gore lost his run for the Presidency...
Seems totally legit.
but Round Up and similar crops have led to a massive increase in resistant weeds and insects.>/blockquote>
Of course! 'Round Up and similar crops' killed all the non-resistant weeds and insects...
And yes, we are very busy thanking Saudi Arabia for dumping the oil. They are doing that as a 'friend', because we asked, nicely, with a big pile of money and weaponry, and even more of your tax dollars will subsidize them should there be any difficulties with the locals.
Just wait till all those fracking jobs end, and the rig owners default on BILLIONS in loans made on the assumption oil would never go below $75/bbl... The economic meltdown will be huge.
But yeah, we paid the Saudis to destroy OPEC and ruin our economy.
You understand that the Saudis pay for their weaponry with their own money - we don't 'give' them anything, we 'allow' them to buy - huge difference.
But the most interesting comment came from Hillary Clinton. After mentioning that Obama Administration officials had "started the conversation" with tech companies on the encryption issue, one of the moderators noted that the government "got nowhere" with its requests. Clinton replied, "That is not what I've heard. Let me leave it at that."
I'm sorry, but what makes you think she isn't simply covering for a mis-spoken answer?
I think she just wanted to seem on top of the issue, and when challenged answered (essentially) 'if I told you I'd have to kill you'.
As a person who ran her own mail server, did SHE have any back doors on her server?
Have we run out of challenges in the education system, now we need to invent new challenges?
Adding courses of studies does nothing for the high school dropout problem, nor does it address the basic challenges far too many kids have already with basic English/reading and math... For far too many students, this will just be yet another class to fail, another reason to develop low self-esteem.
I think it's a terrible sin that the vast majority of college-bound high school graduates fail to even comprehend the principles of compound interest (as relates to student, auto, home loans or credit cards).
What subject would the President remove/reduce to accommodate a new subject area?
Could we, perhaps, carve out an exception for students that can neither read nor do math at grade level?
There are legitimate uses for internet enabled hardware. But except for security monitors, there probably aren't all that many of them. The world probably will never have much need for digital toothbrushes or internet enabled pencil sharpeners.
I am old enough to think it is laughable that a thermostat needs an Internet connection to download firmware updates to perform what used to be done by an electromechanical thermostat did - keep my house at the right temperature.
The fix for this will likely be to add an option to program your vacation schedule into your thermostat so that firmware updates are suspended until you return from your vacation... What could go wrong?
Well, the "Baby Boomers" didn't name themselves. The previous generation did.
It was a marketing term dreamed up by advertising executives.
But that generation named themselves "The Greatest Generation."
No, their children did, when they stood in awe of what their parents accomplished. I've *never* heard a WW2-era veteran refer to themselves as part of 'the greatest Generation - they lost too many friends and family members to use such a boast to refer to themselves.
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Why offer poor people a discount for speeding? Can someone on public assistance speed without a penalty?
Increase the space of your Bitcoin 'farm'with non-electric consuming space - self-storage, indoor car parking, etc. How much power per square foot does a bitcoin farm use?
It is established policy, set forth in the DNC Causus Handbook.
"Heads Hillary Wins, Tails Bernie Loses"
So what's the problem?
...I suspect he gets special treatment, not that Twitter supports/agrees/condones his position, but if Twitter were to block a viable presidential candidate it would incur the wrath of his millions of supporters and potentially open itself up a legal challenge.
Think about that - we have seen emails where selected words/passages are redacted... We have seen emails where sender/recipient identies are redacted... But the seven email threads from her insecure server are so sensitive we can't even know WHO she corresponded, let alone even a single word contained in those emails. If only we could have seen those emails when she first got them, before they evolved Into classified emails!
OK, I'll bite... Rather than jump to conclusions, let's take a critical look at her claims: "I was allowed to do it." A claim totally unsupported by any law currently on the books. "Didn't do anything previous Secretary's of State didn't also do." Except they didn't - her claim is believable only if you think bypassing State Department emails is exactly the same as having emails that were sent to State Department email servers forwarded to a personal account - it isn't. "I was so busy I didn't have time to think about what email I was going to use." Right, it was easier to hire an outside contractor, but your own server, and put it in your bathroom than simply use a state department email server with taxpayer-funded 24 hour support and the highest levels of security. "I never sent nor received anything marked classified." That sounds like a good counter-argument, until you realize that it is technically impossible to send an email marked classified to an insecure server - once information is cut and pasted out of a secure environment to an insecure one (as we know Hillary directed at least one staffer to do) it loses it's confidential marking... Don't leap to conclusions, but honestly consider her non-sensicsl claims.
Hillary claimed to either personally (or caused her agent(s) to review each email on flash drive before she handed the flash drive to her lawyer. It would be very, very hard to argue ignorance of the contents of the drive, IMHO. Hillary was required, as Secretary of State, to positively affirm she fully-understood what information is 'classified' irregardless of any markings (for instance, correspondence with a foreign leader, satellite imagery, documents detailing the identities of agents, etc.). Hillary had no legal rights to retain copies of all her official emails once she left office - she was supposed to have signed a form to that effect (that she turned over all official correspondence, work products, etc.) when she left office.
A meaningless distinction, legally - but one designed to rally support amongst voters inclined to agree with her. It would be technically impossible for documents marked classified on a secure server to retain those markings once they enter an insecure server. Classified information travels in a distinct, separate email system that lacks access to insecure email servers - you can't send a secure document to pantsuit@clintonemail.com from the secure servers.
There are emails in the archive she provided that the FBI agents investigating this case don't have clearance to see, her lawyer has 'a' security clearance, he does not have the highest clearance level needed for all her emails. Who reviewed her emails, to weed out the yoga routines? Was it someone with the highest security clearances possible (just in case they read a high-level email by mistake), or was it a few friends of Hillary's? Did her lawyer really read 55,000 pages of emails personally? No one helped? And in a first, the DOJ provided her lawyer with a secure safe to house the emails, finding the lawyers own security woefully inadequate. DOJ should have taken immediate possession of the archive and all known copies immediately.
Define, in the legal sense, 'conspiracy'... She conspired with coworkers to mishandle state secrets/secure documents. Sounds like a crime, because it is a crime.
'Hard to imagine'? You aren't even trying. The NY Times prints an article speculating about a 'classified drone program' and one of Hillary's underlings sends her an email saying something like 'Who leaked this?' or 'How did they find out about this?' A link to a speculative report, plus a few more words from an assistant turns it into a confirmation of a 'classified drone program.' Your problem is, I might suggest, you are letting Hillary and her team exclusively inform your opinion, without any common sense challenges to her claims. Was it really 'easier' to set up her own private email server, rather than have Dept. of State technicians do all the work? Can she, as Secretary of State and a Harvard-educated lawyer, plead ignorance of the laws she affirmed she understood on her first day in office? And how, exactly, does information 'become' classified years after it is sent? The failure to maintain classification markings is inherent in her having a private server - the metadata that marks content classified (confidential, secrecy or top secret) can not be maintained when outside the secure email server. It is literally impossible to send classified info from the secure email system to her private server - all such emails had to be copy-and-pasted into an insecure email account and sent to her private email server - that act alone is a crime, a crime made necessary by her refusal to access secure email systems. Her underlings will be prosecuted, at the VERY least.
Sure, sounds great, unless your family's income relies on selling flowers /cards or you happen to work in the flower or greeting card business...
$40 billion in medical debts reduced by (at best) $6 billion is flowers/greeting cards sales leaves $34 billion in unpaid medical debts (a 15% reduction) at the cost of shuttering two industries putting a few hundred thousand Americans on the unemployment line in the process...
Q: given the choice between two guns, similar in every regard (mfg, quality, caliber, etc) and with no price difference between the two, would you CONSIDER a 'childproof' gun? Problem is, 'childproof' guns will cost much more than 'regular'/traditional guns, be less reliable, and likely come from lower-tier manufacturers. But hey, they'd 'consider' it!
IF they were to buy another gun...they would CONSIDER a childproof gun? That means nothing - they aren't even 'likely gun buyers', just folks that are WILLING to CONSIDER a 'childproof gun' IF they were to buy another gun.
Get calls from Mark Cuban, visit Facebook and Google, get scholarships to ivy-league universities and visit the whitehouse?
They took a 30 year span (1951-1980), averaged the temperatures around the world in those 30 years to establish a 'baseline' - well, at least they didn't pick an arbitrary 'baseline'... Then, 30 year average baseline in hand, they gather 135 years of temperature readings, ranging from 1880 to 2015 and discover - what? That global annual averages are trending up (and 'shattering' previous records!?) based on the arbitrary 'baseline', ever since Al Gore lost his run for the Presidency... Seems totally legit.
Just wait till all those fracking jobs end, and the rig owners default on BILLIONS in loans made on the assumption oil would never go below $75/bbl... The economic meltdown will be huge. But yeah, we paid the Saudis to destroy OPEC and ruin our economy. You understand that the Saudis pay for their weaponry with their own money - we don't 'give' them anything, we 'allow' them to buy - huge difference.
I'm sorry, but what makes you think she isn't simply covering for a mis-spoken answer? I think she just wanted to seem on top of the issue, and when challenged answered (essentially) 'if I told you I'd have to kill you'. As a person who ran her own mail server, did SHE have any back doors on her server?
How about working to have more than half of high school graduates reading at grade level? http://m.nydailynews.com/news/...
Have we run out of challenges in the education system, now we need to invent new challenges? Adding courses of studies does nothing for the high school dropout problem, nor does it address the basic challenges far too many kids have already with basic English/reading and math... For far too many students, this will just be yet another class to fail, another reason to develop low self-esteem. I think it's a terrible sin that the vast majority of college-bound high school graduates fail to even comprehend the principles of compound interest (as relates to student, auto, home loans or credit cards).
What subject would the President remove/reduce to accommodate a new subject area? Could we, perhaps, carve out an exception for students that can neither read nor do math at grade level?
I am old enough to think it is laughable that a thermostat needs an Internet connection to download firmware updates to perform what used to be done by an electromechanical thermostat did - keep my house at the right temperature. The fix for this will likely be to add an option to program your vacation schedule into your thermostat so that firmware updates are suspended until you return from your vacation... What could go wrong?
It was a marketing term dreamed up by advertising executives.
No, their children did, when they stood in awe of what their parents accomplished. I've *never* heard a WW2-era veteran refer to themselves as part of 'the greatest Generation - they lost too many friends and family members to use such a boast to refer to themselves.