If you do a longitudinal study on a thousand people living in an adverse environment, you need to account for the high likelihood that fewer of those with pre-dementia conditions will relocate to better neighborhoods during the study than those with normal mentation. It would be exceedingly hard to adjust a study of this kind to account for this differential out-migration.
In other words, those who have pre-dementia conditions are more likely to remain in an unhealthy environment than the average person. Persons with below average coping skills face higher barriers to relocating. Also, dementia, with its decreased ability to assess one's environment, increases a person's tolerance of negative environmental conditions. So it is also not only more difficult to move away, there is less of a perceived need to do so.
There is a strong "correlation does not imply causation" factor with regard to this study. It has value in strongly suggesting that if you want to find a neighborhood with a higher than average population of demented residents, you should look for places with lots of noise pollution, bad odors, relatively low tax bases, and similar markers of marginal living conditions. But I think we pretty much knew that already.
True that ---although it should be mentioned that it his sentence is just barely coherent.
More to the point, Trump's statement shows that he has direct evidence that none of the vote tally apparatus was targeted. Which he could only have if he were a partner in the conspiracy to wreck the American election process.
Which raises the concern that Trump may be a kind of Manchurian candidate, whose secret agenda is not to be an effective President but to do as much damage as possible to American society.
I'll continue to run my internet access computer with Ubuntu without Flash.
On a daily basis I scan Yahoo News, Google News, Slashdot, and several other news aggregators to try to keep up with the world, while avoiding getting sucked into any echo chambers or news bubbles. That means I see stories from a hundred or more different web sites over a week's time. If a story depends on a Flash component, then I am comfortable in blowing it off without reading it, since it is certain that if there was any real content, that story will be carried by another, more legitimate, website.
The presence of a notice that I must have Flash installed to see their precious content means, to me, that all that website is pushing is dross. It takes maybe a second to read that and push the "delete tab" key.
That phrase, "We have to make [whatever] great again" is inherently bigotted.
It begs three questions:
1. What was it about [whatever] that made it so great, back then in its Golden Age?
2. Who is the group that is f*cking that up? Who is this enemy?
3. How do we go about crippling the enemy's ability to continue to f*ck it up? Because surely if we do that, everything will go back to peaches and cream, right?
Since these questions are subliminal, not clearly stated but strongly suggested, there is no need for the demagogue to do more than suggest an answer to the second one, "who is responsible for this mess?". Those who do not use critical thinking skills (either through ignorance of the skills or through an unwillingness to do the work) will have no trouble filling in the blanks. The demagogue and his cronies need do no more than provide further suggestions to shape what has become an unthinking mob into doing their bidding.
A problem with Trump's approach is that the unthinking mob is a fickle and easily distracted flock of sheople that needs continuous shepherding to keep it moving and on track. Hitler and his cronies did not originally plan to kill 6 million Jews, but a demagogue must be a leader, and as a leader he must stay in front of his mob, no matter where it is going.
Trump is a demagogue: he is a master of turning sheople's frustrations and despair into an anger that can be directed. His tweets should be studied alongside the studies of how Hitler managed his rise to power. He is not going to create solutions to the USA's problems, because the power of his approach depends on constantly magnifying the enemy to keep his base stirred up. He has no policy goals or long term agenda because those get in the way of how he maintains his power on a daily basis.
I doubt that he will still be President at the end of 2017. I'm pretty sure that by then he will have driven the country so close to one brink or another that his impending failure will be obvious. He will then bail out, as he has always done. How many times has he driven one of his projects into a death spiral, only to use a bankruptcy parachute to save his own butt? He will abdicate, leaving Pence holding the bag. He will probably emigrate to some nation that has no extradition treaties with the USA. For after all, he is a cosmopolitan Citizen of the World with no particular ties to any one country.
I don't usually respond to A.C.'s comments, but this is an exception, since I can provide the A.C. with some useful guidance.
While it would be very difficult to build your own reality bubble (assuming you want to avoid being institutionalized or kept doped up on antipsychotic drugs), today thanks to the development of social media you don't have to build it yourself.
Brietbart News Network probably has what you want. The cost is in a currency you won't miss: once you are in the bubble you no longer have any need for your personal integrity anyway.
Or if you feel that Brietbart is too dang newfangled for your taste, there is still room in Rush Limbaugh's classic bubble.
(I recognize parent post was probably intended as sarcasm. But the step from it to the purely farcical was a short one, and one I could not resist.)
What active Congressional investigation does not include testimony?
Why, any Congressional investigation that is active before the real investigators have determined what the facts of the matter are.
"Congressional investigations" are not investigations--- at best they are sounding boards to help determine how to best spin conclusions out of the stuff the true investigators bring before them. In the recent past they have rarely achievee in this low level of impartiality: as a general rule recent Congressional "investigation" committees have been nothing more than echo chambers pushing their own agendas.
The rest of parent comment are merely insults that have no value in a reasoned discussion. They merely suggest that the person who wrote them cannot keep his inner toddler from throwing tantrums when the way he wants things to be bump up against the way things actually are.
I am glad that I do not live in your reality. I am glad that your reality is not the real reality.
I worry quite a bit that too many voting Americans are living in fantasy realms that have been developed and are being tended by social media manipulators. Have we reached the "Four legs good, two legs BETTER!" stage of Animal Farm?
Your argument might carry more weight if you knew the difference between purging yourself (like bulimics do in the bathroom) and committing perjury. There is no excuse for this kind of sloppy writing, not since Google has made proofreading so easy.
About the subject: This is an active investigation. There can be no testifmony until it is completed.
There was a lot of doubt expressed about Iraq's supposed WMDs, that was well documented in the legitimate media. Of course if you self-censor your news sources--- if you live in a bubble--- you would not know that.
they keep saying "election hack" in all of the headlines
Who, exactly, is this "they" you are referring to? Please be specific: name some of the individuals or corporations who are part of this mysterious "they". Cite the times and places "they" supposedly made these statements.
Either do that, or admit that you are talking out of your ass and that you are pushing FUD without any basis in reality.
Total disruption of the Middle East with destruction of oil fields would push the cost of other fossil fuels up high enough that coal would become competitive again. That would also bail out Exxon's $500 billion partnership investment with Russia for long term exploitation of Arctic oil. If you cannot beat your competition in the marketplace, then kneecap them.
Trump will be in position to do a lot of kneecapping, before he abdicates and emigrates to some country which has no extradition treaty with the USA. Like, for instance, Russia....
If you don't think that possible, look at his history of screwing over contractors and milking his investments until its time to declare bankruptcy.
Thoughts on "one of the computer-controlled" scopes : one of my colleagues who has better skies than me for practical astronomy brought a little Meade "goto"scope about a dozen years ago (ETX-80 or ETX-90, I forget ; whichever came first), liked it a lot, and upgraded after a couple of years to the 125mm (4in~) version which he also likes. That and a decent tripod, a few fittings and he's routinely turning out cloud photos (noctilucents in particular), air-show photos, and occasional lunar photos that he's very happy with.
Thank you! This is very useful information.
But I suspect that I'd get more productive use from an account with a Pro-Am telescope that is operated over the Internet. I really should look at that again - not really followed up on it since my last bout of consideration last year.
Ah, a possibility that I had not considered. I will look into that. But the most profound observation I have ever made was seeing the look on a youngster's face after he had directly viewed the moons of Jupiter for the first time. That is the most significant use of a telescope that I have ever done, and I would like to repeat it.
Your guess of my age is off by a little more than 2 decades. It turns out that Charon was discovered much earlier than I had realized (in 1978, not circa 1998 when I became aware of it) during a time in my life when I was concerned with trying to make a 10 acre hobby farm profitable ---or at least a break-even activity--- to the exclusion of my astronomy hobby. With the information I gave you, your estimate of my age was a good one. My facts were wrong.
One of the things I really missed when I moved from the cold, clear winter nights of New England to cloudy skies of western Oregon was star gazing. The four inch reflector telescope that gave me many pleasurable nights in high school did not make the trip out west, but instead went to my brother. Now that I am spending a handful of nights each year under the starry skies of eastern Oregon, I miss it, and I'm thinking of replacing it, perhaps with one of the new-fangled computer driven 'scopes. That would accept a camera. Thoughts on this, anyone?
I'm reaching way back into my long term memory, but IIRC, the existence of Pluto was predicted from disturbances in the orbits of Neptune and Uranus. However it was not where astronomers were looking for it, but further from the ecliptic than anyone expected. I believe it was first seen by a comet hunter. So that was a happy accident.
I was taught back in the day that Neptune's existence was first postulated from disturbances in Uranus' orbit, and Pluto was first inferred because Neptune did not account for all of Uranus' deviation from the expected path. I was taught this some 3 or 4 decades before we even knew about Charon. It sounds like we now know that Pluto is not massive enough to account for deviations. So I guess Pluto's discovery was one of those occasions when you look for something, but by accident find something else that at first looks like what you looking for. So that kind of accident.
A more careful reading of the article reveals that what is being tilted is the plane of the ecliptic. From a geocentric point of view, that appears to be a tilt of the Sun's axis, but to an observer outside the solar system, it is the plane of the orbits of all the known "non-dwarf" planets that is tilted. (IIRC, Pluto's orbit is outside the plane of the ecliptic-- which is part of the reason it took so long to find it after the maths showed it must exist.)
Do we have enough data to estimate the orbital period of Planet IX? If so, it may be possible to correlate its changing angle to the plane of the ecliptic with long term changes in Earth climates. It would seem that during the thousands of years when Planet IX is near the plane of the ecliptic, the Earth's orbit would become more oval. Currently Earth is closest to the Sun (and moving faster in its orbit) around January 3, give or take a day; and most distant around July 3 (moving most slowly in its orbit). This causes Summer in the northern hemisphere to be around 4 days longer than Summer in the southern hemisphere. If Planet IX can cause a tilt of the planetary orbits at this time, then when it is in line with the plane of the ecliptic the Earth should see northern Summers significantly longer than southern Summers (and southern Winters longer than northern Winters).
Flatland is a lot more dangerous than 3D space. So many factors to consider--- is that ball that just bounced across the road ahead being followed by a kid or a dog? Is there an icy patch on that shady curve up ahead? In the air, potential hazards can be spotted long before they become threats and there are a lot more options for avoiding them.
The way to reduce traffic fatalities is to put everyone in the air, but make it so that they have to leave the driving to the AI. The operator's input should be no more than what we tell our Garmen, Tom-Tom, or other GPS to do now: this is where I want to go, show me the alternate routes and I'll pick the one I want.
Aside from take-offs and landings, the problems the AI of a flying machine will face are a lot more simple than those an AI of a car must face. Drones show that many flying AI issues are already adequately solved. Issues concerning toddlers chasing after bouncing balls or ice on the shady curve just simply don't exist at flight levels above 10 feet. And take-offs and landings are probably not going to be much of an issue, what with sonar or laser assisted optical rangefinders managing the last little bit.
I look forward to the day when I can call up my personal drone on my smart phone, have it meet me on the rooftop, climb inside and tell it to take me the beach--- by the scenic route. It will join the airborne swarm and the distributed group AI will maintain safe distances between all the personal drones, cargo drones, airliners, and incoming meteors.
I don't think the future is like a flying car. I think the future is like a quadcopter on steroids, with wings for long distance aerodynamic flight.
Yes, running Linux is still the best option, for most Windows users.
Obviously if you are required to use software that only runs on Windows --perhaps you are a photographer who has to submit his finals in Photoshop format-- then you are stuck in the Microsoft microbiome. Too bad.
But most Windows users are not being coerced into that submissive role; they could switch to something like an Ubuntu LTS and be happy --and more productive at lower long term cost-- than if they continue to pay to be a commodity in an obsolete and slowly failing marketeers' world.
HRC and her team did everything they said they were going to do: they curated the emails, marked the ones that were personal for deletion, then used bleachbit to do the actual deletion. There is nothing new in that story.
But Trey Gowdy has demonstrated an appalling level of ignorance wrt to technology, and to the recent history of Federal level Republican politics. Oliver North, in Reagan's Iran - Contra fiasco, demonstrated full well that when it is expedient to delete something, you better damn well delete it. And not simply mark it as deleted. Gowdy is either an ignorant fool, or a disingenuous fool. But note that "fool" remains a constant with him, in this context.
To repeat: the Clinton team handled the deletions that she said she was doing in a professional manner. Gowdy just thinks that is somehow criminal that HRC is competent at handling sensitive information.
At this point I'm beginning to see a pattern shaping up where HRC is being found to be too competent at what she has been doing for fifty years, and therefore we hates her, we do, yes, we hates how this mere woman who is not a Republican is competent. Yes, we hates her.
The GOP wasn't hacked cuz it was self-destructing on its own and didn't need any help from Russia to fall completely apart.
Also there is this possibility that Trump is a Russian agent, doing what he does best, to be rewarded with ownership of a prime vacation palace on the shores of the Crimea. I'm not saying that's what's going on... I mean you just got to wonder. You know? What with being so chummy with Vladimir. It could be.... we'll have to wait and see where Trump goes after he drops out of the race... but I'm just speculating. You know?
Carry a business card (not your own) and steg the password on its back using some variant of the following:
"Ben O. Aronsen: 237 Smith Place #12 Roxbury Vt 05669 ---Sally has phone number". This stegs the password "237SP#12RVt05669" for a Bank Of America account.
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If you do a longitudinal study on a thousand people living in an adverse environment, you need to account for the high likelihood that fewer of those with pre-dementia conditions will relocate to better neighborhoods during the study than those with normal mentation. It would be exceedingly hard to adjust a study of this kind to account for this differential out-migration.
In other words, those who have pre-dementia conditions are more likely to remain in an unhealthy environment than the average person. Persons with below average coping skills face higher barriers to relocating. Also, dementia, with its decreased ability to assess one's environment, increases a person's tolerance of negative environmental conditions. So it is also not only more difficult to move away, there is less of a perceived need to do so.
There is a strong "correlation does not imply causation" factor with regard to this study. It has value in strongly suggesting that if you want to find a neighborhood with a higher than average population of demented residents, you should look for places with lots of noise pollution, bad odors, relatively low tax bases, and similar markers of marginal living conditions. But I think we pretty much knew that already.
True that ---although it should be mentioned that it his sentence is just barely coherent.
More to the point, Trump's statement shows that he has direct evidence that none of the vote tally apparatus was targeted. Which he could only have if he were a partner in the conspiracy to wreck the American election process.
Which raises the concern that Trump may be a kind of Manchurian candidate, whose secret agenda is not to be an effective President but to do as much damage as possible to American society.
I'll continue to run my internet access computer with Ubuntu without Flash.
On a daily basis I scan Yahoo News, Google News, Slashdot, and several other news aggregators to try to keep up with the world, while avoiding getting sucked into any echo chambers or news bubbles. That means I see stories from a hundred or more different web sites over a week's time. If a story depends on a Flash component, then I am comfortable in blowing it off without reading it, since it is certain that if there was any real content, that story will be carried by another, more legitimate, website.
The presence of a notice that I must have Flash installed to see their precious content means, to me, that all that website is pushing is dross. It takes maybe a second to read that and push the "delete tab" key.
That phrase, "We have to make [whatever] great again" is inherently bigotted.
It begs three questions:
1. What was it about [whatever] that made it so great, back then in its Golden Age?
2. Who is the group that is f*cking that up? Who is this enemy?
3. How do we go about crippling the enemy's ability to continue to f*ck it up? Because surely if we do that, everything will go back to peaches and cream, right?
Since these questions are subliminal, not clearly stated but strongly suggested, there is no need for the demagogue to do more than suggest an answer to the second one, "who is responsible for this mess?". Those who do not use critical thinking skills (either through ignorance of the skills or through an unwillingness to do the work) will have no trouble filling in the blanks. The demagogue and his cronies need do no more than provide further suggestions to shape what has become an unthinking mob into doing their bidding.
A problem with Trump's approach is that the unthinking mob is a fickle and easily distracted flock of sheople that needs continuous shepherding to keep it moving and on track. Hitler and his cronies did not originally plan to kill 6 million Jews, but a demagogue must be a leader, and as a leader he must stay in front of his mob, no matter where it is going.
Trump is a demagogue: he is a master of turning sheople's frustrations and despair into an anger that can be directed. His tweets should be studied alongside the studies of how Hitler managed his rise to power. He is not going to create solutions to the USA's problems, because the power of his approach depends on constantly magnifying the enemy to keep his base stirred up. He has no policy goals or long term agenda because those get in the way of how he maintains his power on a daily basis.
I doubt that he will still be President at the end of 2017. I'm pretty sure that by then he will have driven the country so close to one brink or another that his impending failure will be obvious. He will then bail out, as he has always done. How many times has he driven one of his projects into a death spiral, only to use a bankruptcy parachute to save his own butt? He will abdicate, leaving Pence holding the bag. He will probably emigrate to some nation that has no extradition treaties with the USA. For after all, he is a cosmopolitan Citizen of the World with no particular ties to any one country.
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I don't usually respond to A.C.'s comments, but this is an exception, since I can provide the A.C. with some useful guidance.
While it would be very difficult to build your own reality bubble (assuming you want to avoid being institutionalized or kept doped up on antipsychotic drugs), today thanks to the development of social media you don't have to build it yourself.
Brietbart News Network probably has what you want. The cost is in a currency you won't miss: once you are in the bubble you no longer have any need for your personal integrity anyway.
Or if you feel that Brietbart is too dang newfangled for your taste, there is still room in Rush Limbaugh's classic bubble.
(I recognize parent post was probably intended as sarcasm. But the step from it to the purely farcical was a short one, and one I could not resist.)
What active Congressional investigation does not include testimony?
Why, any Congressional investigation that is active before the real investigators have determined what the facts of the matter are.
"Congressional investigations" are not investigations--- at best they are sounding boards to help determine how to best spin conclusions out of the stuff the true investigators bring before them. In the recent past they have rarely achievee in this low level of impartiality: as a general rule recent Congressional "investigation" committees have been nothing more than echo chambers pushing their own agendas.
The rest of parent comment are merely insults that have no value in a reasoned discussion. They merely suggest that the person who wrote them cannot keep his inner toddler from throwing tantrums when the way he wants things to be bump up against the way things actually are.
Wow.
I am glad that I do not live in your reality. I am glad that your reality is not the real reality.
I worry quite a bit that too many voting Americans are living in fantasy realms that have been developed and are being tended by social media manipulators. Have we reached the "Four legs good, two legs BETTER!" stage of Animal Farm?
Your argument might carry more weight if you knew the difference between purging yourself (like bulimics do in the bathroom) and committing perjury. There is no excuse for this kind of sloppy writing, not since Google has made proofreading so easy.
About the subject: This is an active investigation. There can be no testifmony until it is completed.
You have a selective, and faulty, memory.
There was a lot of doubt expressed about Iraq's supposed WMDs, that was well documented in the legitimate media. Of course if you self-censor your news sources--- if you live in a bubble--- you would not know that.
they keep saying "election hack" in all of the headlines
Who, exactly, is this "they" you are referring to? Please be specific: name some of the individuals or corporations who are part of this mysterious "they". Cite the times and places "they" supposedly made these statements.
Either do that, or admit that you are talking out of your ass and that you are pushing FUD without any basis in reality.
Total disruption of the Middle East with destruction of oil fields would push the cost of other fossil fuels up high enough that coal would become competitive again. That would also bail out Exxon's $500 billion partnership investment with Russia for long term exploitation of Arctic oil. If you cannot beat your competition in the marketplace, then kneecap them.
Trump will be in position to do a lot of kneecapping, before he abdicates and emigrates to some country which has no extradition treaty with the USA. Like, for instance, Russia....
If you don't think that possible, look at his history of screwing over contractors and milking his investments until its time to declare bankruptcy.
Well put. If I had mod points right now....
Thoughts on "one of the computer-controlled" scopes : one of my colleagues who has better skies than me for practical astronomy brought a little Meade "goto"scope about a dozen years ago (ETX-80 or ETX-90, I forget ; whichever came first), liked it a lot, and upgraded after a couple of years to the 125mm (4in~) version which he also likes. That and a decent tripod, a few fittings and he's routinely turning out cloud photos (noctilucents in particular), air-show photos, and occasional lunar photos that he's very happy with.
Thank you! This is very useful information.
But I suspect that I'd get more productive use from an account with a Pro-Am telescope that is operated over the Internet. I really should look at that again - not really followed up on it since my last bout of consideration last year.
Ah, a possibility that I had not considered. I will look into that. But the most profound observation I have ever made was seeing the look on a youngster's face after he had directly viewed the moons of Jupiter for the first time. That is the most significant use of a telescope that I have ever done, and I would like to repeat it.
Your guess of my age is off by a little more than 2 decades. It turns out that Charon was discovered much earlier than I had realized (in 1978, not circa 1998 when I became aware of it) during a time in my life when I was concerned with trying to make a 10 acre hobby farm profitable ---or at least a break-even activity--- to the exclusion of my astronomy hobby. With the information I gave you, your estimate of my age was a good one. My facts were wrong.
One of the things I really missed when I moved from the cold, clear winter nights of New England to cloudy skies of western Oregon was star gazing. The four inch reflector telescope that gave me many pleasurable nights in high school did not make the trip out west, but instead went to my brother. Now that I am spending a handful of nights each year under the starry skies of eastern Oregon, I miss it, and I'm thinking of replacing it, perhaps with one of the new-fangled computer driven 'scopes. That would accept a camera. Thoughts on this, anyone?
The article states that what is postulated is a planet ten times the mass of Earth. That is way less than the mass of any kind of star.
I'm reaching way back into my long term memory, but IIRC, the existence of Pluto was predicted from disturbances in the orbits of Neptune and Uranus. However it was not where astronomers were looking for it, but further from the ecliptic than anyone expected. I believe it was first seen by a comet hunter. So that was a happy accident.
I was taught back in the day that Neptune's existence was first postulated from disturbances in Uranus' orbit, and Pluto was first inferred because Neptune did not account for all of Uranus' deviation from the expected path. I was taught this some 3 or 4 decades before we even knew about Charon. It sounds like we now know that Pluto is not massive enough to account for deviations. So I guess Pluto's discovery was one of those occasions when you look for something, but by accident find something else that at first looks like what you looking for. So that kind of accident.
A more careful reading of the article reveals that what is being tilted is the plane of the ecliptic. From a geocentric point of view, that appears to be a tilt of the Sun's axis, but to an observer outside the solar system, it is the plane of the orbits of all the known "non-dwarf" planets that is tilted. (IIRC, Pluto's orbit is outside the plane of the ecliptic-- which is part of the reason it took so long to find it after the maths showed it must exist.)
Do we have enough data to estimate the orbital period of Planet IX? If so, it may be possible to correlate its changing angle to the plane of the ecliptic with long term changes in Earth climates. It would seem that during the thousands of years when Planet IX is near the plane of the ecliptic, the Earth's orbit would become more oval. Currently Earth is closest to the Sun (and moving faster in its orbit) around January 3, give or take a day; and most distant around July 3 (moving most slowly in its orbit). This causes Summer in the northern hemisphere to be around 4 days longer than Summer in the southern hemisphere. If Planet IX can cause a tilt of the planetary orbits at this time, then when it is in line with the plane of the ecliptic the Earth should see northern Summers significantly longer than southern Summers (and southern Winters longer than northern Winters).
Flatland is a lot more dangerous than 3D space. So many factors to consider--- is that ball that just bounced across the road ahead being followed by a kid or a dog? Is there an icy patch on that shady curve up ahead? In the air, potential hazards can be spotted long before they become threats and there are a lot more options for avoiding them.
The way to reduce traffic fatalities is to put everyone in the air, but make it so that they have to leave the driving to the AI. The operator's input should be no more than what we tell our Garmen, Tom-Tom, or other GPS to do now: this is where I want to go, show me the alternate routes and I'll pick the one I want.
Aside from take-offs and landings, the problems the AI of a flying machine will face are a lot more simple than those an AI of a car must face. Drones show that many flying AI issues are already adequately solved. Issues concerning toddlers chasing after bouncing balls or ice on the shady curve just simply don't exist at flight levels above 10 feet. And take-offs and landings are probably not going to be much of an issue, what with sonar or laser assisted optical rangefinders managing the last little bit.
I look forward to the day when I can call up my personal drone on my smart phone, have it meet me on the rooftop, climb inside and tell it to take me the beach--- by the scenic route. It will join the airborne swarm and the distributed group AI will maintain safe distances between all the personal drones, cargo drones, airliners, and incoming meteors.
I don't think the future is like a flying car. I think the future is like a quadcopter on steroids, with wings for long distance aerodynamic flight.
Yes, running Linux is still the best option, for most Windows users.
Obviously if you are required to use software that only runs on Windows --perhaps you are a photographer who has to submit his finals in Photoshop format-- then you are stuck in the Microsoft microbiome. Too bad.
But most Windows users are not being coerced into that submissive role; they could switch to something like an Ubuntu LTS and be happy --and more productive at lower long term cost-- than if they continue to pay to be a commodity in an obsolete and slowly failing marketeers' world.
What indications are those? Please specify. Otherwise please quit making noise.
HRC and her team did everything they said they were going to do: they curated the emails, marked the ones that were personal for deletion, then used bleachbit to do the actual deletion. There is nothing new in that story.
But Trey Gowdy has demonstrated an appalling level of ignorance wrt to technology, and to the recent history of Federal level Republican politics. Oliver North, in Reagan's Iran - Contra fiasco, demonstrated full well that when it is expedient to delete something, you better damn well delete it. And not simply mark it as deleted. Gowdy is either an ignorant fool, or a disingenuous fool. But note that "fool" remains a constant with him, in this context.
To repeat: the Clinton team handled the deletions that she said she was doing in a professional manner. Gowdy just thinks that is somehow criminal that HRC is competent at handling sensitive information.
At this point I'm beginning to see a pattern shaping up where HRC is being found to be too competent at what she has been doing for fifty years, and therefore we hates her, we do, yes, we hates how this mere woman who is not a Republican is competent. Yes, we hates her.
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Have gnu, will travel.
That is SO wrong. As someone who has been using various FOSS since before it was FOSS, LMFTFY:
Have gnu, will travail.
The GOP wasn't hacked cuz it was self-destructing on its own and didn't need any help from Russia to fall completely apart.
Also there is this possibility that Trump is a Russian agent, doing what he does best, to be rewarded with ownership of a prime vacation palace on the shores of the Crimea. I'm not saying that's what's going on... I mean you just got to wonder. You know? What with being so chummy with Vladimir. It could be.... we'll have to wait and see where Trump goes after he drops out of the race... but I'm just speculating. You know?
Passwords in wallets:
Carry a business card (not your own) and steg the password on its back using some variant of the following:
"Ben O. Aronsen: 237 Smith Place #12 Roxbury Vt 05669 ---Sally has phone number". This stegs the password "237SP#12RVt05669" for a Bank Of America account.
Like the Purloined Letter, the password hides in plain sight. Ain't stegging wunnerful?