So, "he'll be reining in some of the snooping conducted by the NSA".
Ho, hum. Wake me up when he gets that whole "right and wrong" thing figured our and schedules a welcome home dinner for Snowden at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
I need mister Starr's help to write a smartphone app that will tell me where mister Starr is at any given moment of every day. So that I can be at least one mile away at all times.
I am mostly in the U District, Fremont and Ballard orbit here in Seattle, so don't get up to Capitol Hill much, but I will need to make a trip to the Lost Lake Cafe
OK, whoi thinks the wireless networks are really wireless? Cell infrastructure requires physical backhaul and COs and such. If your basic POTS infrastructure is destroyed, your cell infrastructure isn't likely to be doing so hot, with the added prospect of saturation. Be nice to POTS.
I am getting pretty tired of reading asserions like "we can't even launch a damn website". What they were trying to launch was not a Website but a very complex, probably too complex, brokerage-type system to mate people with myriad insurance options.
While I think that the Shirky article makes a lot of excellent points, I'm not sure that it deals with a problem of sanity: We didn't try to land a man on the moon in this case. We naively believed that we could land one on Jupiter.
All of this is a predictable result of a flawed approach: placing the interests of insurers far above the interests of people who actually need health care.
Who has been telling the truth since June? Snowden.
I am amazed that so many are taking this sniff-test-doubtful story at face value and debating whether the engineered sysadmins should be fired or shot.
Ain't it funny how these "sources" might layer on a bit of devious sociopathy, to try to make Snowden fit the role of criminal wrecker?
Among the principals (NSA, GHCQ, executive branch, most politicians, Snowden) it is pretty much only Snowden's testimony and participation that hasn't been full to the gills with half-truths, contradictions, lies and attempts at character assassination.
Oh and how devious:
"People familiar with efforts to assess the damage to U.S. intelligence caused by Snowden's leaks have said assessments are proceeding slowly because Snowden succeeded in obscuring some electronic traces of how he accessed NSA records."
Read: "You ought to believe that Snowden did more than totally embarrass us, but he is so devious that you'll ave to take that on faith!"
If you weren't looking to be comforted and did want to be modded "Funny", I guess I should get the joke, but Taylor offers the sanest comment in the whole oiece. Let's repeat it:
' Worry more about the fact that when she's a teenager she might be driving around in cars with drunk boys.'
Yup, something that has an unfortunately high chance of happening which will kill your teenager dead or destroy their life that you can actually try to prevent.
What, 600 comments and nobody says how friggin' lopsided this is? A person with big personal issues -- but not a war criminal -- gets 35, while war criminals walk the streets unmolested, get thousands for speaking engagements and even get in our Face the Nation. Bradley, Chelsea, whatever. Not fair.
William Calley, the officer in charge of the My Lai massacre (murder of 304 civilians) server 3 1/2 years house arrest.
Not to detract from this important comparison, but the memorial at Son My/My Lai, which I have visited, lists 504 names, so maybe just a typo, as 304 is below even the US's minimizing estimate.
Bradley's motive was very simple. He was told by the Army that has was going to be chaptered out. He did what he did out of spite and a sense of revenge, nothing more.
I believe it was Nightline or 60 minutes that did a story on him. This was their conclusion as well. This guys got personal issues and he just compounded his problems by releasing all that info.
I'd trust Nightline or 60 Minutes about as far as I could spit a snake. But no matter. Issues and judgment and motives aside, about the only damage Manning did was to hiimself and to the credibility of our government and military. Imagine if you were sitting here today in ignorance and hadn't seen _Collateral Murder_. Amazingly, I still talk to the occasional American who has never heard of it.
After everything he has been through, I won't make too much of this. He's a very young guy with his own set of issues and he might not have exhibited the best judgment, but he gave us some invaluable presents that we would not have received otherwise.
No, Bradley, I am sorry. As your case slips from the headlines, your treatment in the hands of military prisons is not likely to improve. I indeed fear that 2 or 3 or 4 years from now your suicide may make the front page of the New York Times. Under the fold. I hope you can stay strong. You have my thanks.
This is meaningless. I'll pay attention when he does something concrete and stops acting like a vindictive 8-year-old. For me, that would involve calling "No Harm, No Foul" and the restoration of Snowden's passport. With a little note that says "Gee sorry I screwed up and. Thanks for your gift to the country".
I don't expect this to happen, as not only has Obama been childishly wrong-headed, he has been incredibly inept and stupid. Rather than letting Snowden amble to Bolivia while pouting and complaining, Obama has to go all Rogue State on us. The minute he effectively downed Morales' plane in Vienna, asylum in Russia became perhaps the only option and he effectively ensured that the despicable Putin would take the opportunity to poke him in the eye. Repeatedly.
It's one thing if somebody pokes you in the eye, but it's another thing if you hand them the stick.
No one is being killed by the 5v on the USB bus. The problem is the counterfeit chargers are often poorly designed and can fail in a way that shorts the USB cable to the AC power.
Righto. And it would seem there must have been something else contributing, path-to-ground-wise.
In the Clinton era (think HRC and Ira Magaziner) the arrogant, doomed approach was to use the Democratic "Big Tent" and invite all players -- pharma and insurers included -- to invent some fanciful "Health Care Reform (TM)" that would make all parties happy. Instead, insurers and pharma burned down the tent, scattered the ashes, then stabbed Health Care Reform to death.
Fast forward to the Obama admiserablestration, and there's not even a pretense of making anybody happy beyond the guys with the knives. You might call Clinton's failure a blunder born of hubris, but Obama's "success" is a tawdry monument to special interests and avarice.
The one rational chance for "reform" would have been a hard-fought, progressive fight for single-payer. That chance sank to the ocean floor in 1993.
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I mean, we're Apple!
Just sayin...
So, "he'll be reining in some of the snooping conducted by the NSA".
Ho, hum. Wake me up when he gets that whole "right and wrong" thing figured our and schedules a welcome home dinner for Snowden at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
I need mister Starr's help to write a smartphone app that will tell me where mister Starr is at any given moment of every day. So that I can be at least one mile away at all times.
I am mostly in the U District, Fremont and Ballard orbit here in Seattle, so don't get up to Capitol Hill much, but I will need to make a trip to the Lost Lake Cafe
Starr? Glasshole.
OK, whoi thinks the wireless networks are really wireless? Cell infrastructure requires physical backhaul and COs and such. If your basic POTS infrastructure is destroyed, your cell infrastructure isn't likely to be doing so hot, with the added prospect of saturation. Be nice to POTS.
I am getting pretty tired of reading asserions like "we can't even launch a damn website". What they were trying to launch was not a Website but a very complex, probably too complex, brokerage-type system to mate people with myriad insurance options.
While I think that the Shirky article makes a lot of excellent points, I'm not sure that it deals with a problem of sanity: We didn't try to land a man on the moon in this case. We naively believed that we could land one on Jupiter.
All of this is a predictable result of a flawed approach: placing the interests of insurers far above the interests of people who actually need health care.
There are similar stories in circulation.
Who has been telling the truth since June? Snowden.
I am amazed that so many are taking this sniff-test-doubtful story at face value and debating whether the engineered sysadmins should be fired or shot.
Ain't it funny how these "sources" might layer on a bit of devious sociopathy, to try to make Snowden fit the role of criminal wrecker?
Among the principals (NSA, GHCQ, executive branch, most politicians, Snowden) it is pretty much only Snowden's testimony and participation that hasn't been full to the gills with half-truths, contradictions, lies and attempts at character assassination.
Oh and how devious:
"People familiar with efforts to assess the damage to U.S. intelligence caused by Snowden's leaks have said assessments are proceeding slowly because Snowden succeeded in obscuring some electronic traces of how he accessed NSA records."
Read: "You ought to believe that Snowden did more than totally embarrass us, but he is so devious that you'll ave to take that on faith!"
"Sources said". Blech
NO CLEMENCY FOR FEINSTEIN
I wish I had mod points.
How can anyone use the word "simple" in this discussion or somehow be surprised at the dog's breakfast that is healthcare.gov?
Obama and his advisors must have been asleep in 1993 and missed the last immense failure of cockamamie Democrat special-interest-friendly "reform".
Arrogant, inept, and insane.
34? That's old.
If you weren't looking to be comforted and did want to be modded "Funny", I guess I should get the joke, but Taylor offers the sanest comment in the whole oiece. Let's repeat it: ' Worry more about the fact that when she's a teenager she might be driving around in cars with drunk boys.' Yup, something that has an unfortunately high chance of happening which will kill your teenager dead or destroy their life that you can actually try to prevent.
Firesign FTW!
Brilliant move, Britannia.
Having spent a fair amount of time in Texas over the years I think can understand why there might be a certain degree of skepticism about evolution.
... it is mass hysteria.
What, 600 comments and nobody says how friggin' lopsided this is? A person with big personal issues -- but not a war criminal -- gets 35, while war criminals walk the streets unmolested, get thousands for speaking engagements and even get in our Face the Nation. Bradley, Chelsea, whatever. Not fair.
William Calley, the officer in charge of the My Lai massacre (murder of 304 civilians) server 3 1/2 years house arrest.
Not to detract from this important comparison, but the memorial at Son My/My Lai, which I have visited, lists 504 names, so maybe just a typo, as 304 is below even the US's minimizing estimate.
Bradley's motive was very simple. He was told by the Army that has was going to be chaptered out. He did what he did out of spite and a sense of revenge, nothing more.
I believe it was Nightline or 60 minutes that did a story on him. This was their conclusion as well. This guys got personal issues and he just compounded his problems by releasing all that info.
I'd trust Nightline or 60 Minutes about as far as I could spit a snake. But no matter. Issues and judgment and motives aside, about the only damage Manning did was to hiimself and to the credibility of our government and military. Imagine if you were sitting here today in ignorance and hadn't seen _Collateral Murder_. Amazingly, I still talk to the occasional American who has never heard of it.
After everything he has been through, I won't make too much of this. He's a very young guy with his own set of issues and he might not have exhibited the best judgment, but he gave us some invaluable presents that we would not have received otherwise.
No, Bradley, I am sorry. As your case slips from the headlines, your treatment in the hands of military prisons is not likely to improve. I indeed fear that 2 or 3 or 4 years from now your suicide may make the front page of the New York Times. Under the fold. I hope you can stay strong. You have my thanks.
This is meaningless. I'll pay attention when he does something concrete and stops acting like a vindictive 8-year-old. For me, that would involve calling "No Harm, No Foul" and the restoration of Snowden's passport. With a little note that says "Gee sorry I screwed up and. Thanks for your gift to the country".
I don't expect this to happen, as not only has Obama been childishly wrong-headed, he has been incredibly inept and stupid. Rather than letting Snowden amble to Bolivia while pouting and complaining, Obama has to go all Rogue State on us. The minute he effectively downed Morales' plane in Vienna, asylum in Russia became perhaps the only option and he effectively ensured that the despicable Putin would take the opportunity to poke him in the eye. Repeatedly.
It's one thing if somebody pokes you in the eye, but it's another thing if you hand them the stick.
Wrong, stupid, inept, and wrong.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Stem Cells
No one is being killed by the 5v on the USB bus. The problem is the counterfeit chargers are often poorly designed and can fail in a way that shorts the USB cable to the AC power.
Righto. And it would seem there must have been something else contributing, path-to-ground-wise.
Whatever his tribulations, Carter is the last US president that I had any respect for, and my esteem has increased with time..
In the Clinton era (think HRC and Ira Magaziner) the arrogant, doomed approach was to use the Democratic "Big Tent" and invite all players -- pharma and insurers included -- to invent some fanciful "Health Care Reform (TM)" that would make all parties happy. Instead, insurers and pharma burned down the tent, scattered the ashes, then stabbed Health Care Reform to death.
Fast forward to the Obama admiserablestration, and there's not even a pretense of making anybody happy beyond the guys with the knives. You might call Clinton's failure a blunder born of hubris, but Obama's "success" is a tawdry monument to special interests and avarice.
The one rational chance for "reform" would have been a hard-fought, progressive fight for single-payer. That chance sank to the ocean floor in 1993.
They hate that!