Sorry, I mean "simply forgot" to mention it as his lawyer puts it. "Oh, you Congressmen were asking questions about that surveillance program? I thought you meant another one."
It was so nice of Edward Snowden to remind him about it. And what thanks does he get?
Similar experience: a technically illiterate boss blocked us fron using Git for months because 'git' is a childish insult in British English. He couldn't believe a polished piece of software would have a name like that. Explaining that Apache software did not derive its name from Native Americans but was a play on words of "a patch" for buggy software didn't help.
My wife is a lawyer and more clever than me (she says) but loves hippy-dippy, tree-hugging, unscientific "medicine". She gave birth to both our children with no drugs but lavendar oil. OK, it's only two data points but child birth is excruciatingly painful so do it twice is evidence to me there may be some merit to these claims.
You do know that the BBC receives £254 million (approximately $400 million) directly from the UK government, right? (See their own report here, p19).
Now, the BBC is not bad compared to all the other media outlets but almost half a billion dollars directly from the British Foreign Office compromises its claim to impartiality.
I believe Oracle does this with every JDK as they approach End of Life. ("Want us to continue patching JDK 8 rather than you upgrading to JDK 9? Fine, then pay us"). The story here is just the pricing model has changed AFAIK.
" it was learned that Guccifer 2.0 did in fact slip up and failed to activate his VPN client and exposed himself as being... in Moscow. This is a fact that is now accepted across the political spectrum."
The evidence of Russian hacking is either circumstantial (for example that hackers kept Moscow office hours because as we all know, hackers are famous for their 9-to-5 routine). Or the smoking gun has not been released by the consultancies the DNC is paying and government agencies who told us they had proof there are WMDs in Iraq.
Of the two links you post, the second refers to the first and both confuse Guccifer (Marcel Lazr Lehel who is currently in a Romanian jail) and Guccifer 2.0, the alleged Russian spy.
Now, obviously, there are going to be howls of "Russian Shill!" from ACs (see below) because I have deviated from the narrative. So, let me make it clear: it might be that the Russians did indeed hack the DNC. But the evidence that has currently been released is so weak there is at least the possibility that the whole story is an attempt to undermine the validity of the 2016 election.
Not necessarily. If I have good reason to believe that my right to life, my right to a fair trial etc will be violated, human rights law can potentially override criminal law.
(IANAL but I have chatted to an English lawyer about this).
I'm genuinely curious about this analysis. Iran had an election in 2013 where the moderate candidate won with just over 50% of the votes with the US and UK reacting relatively positively and neither denouncing the election as unfair.
Well, not quite fake. Snopes has it as "unproven".
When asked about it, Clinton said "I don't recall that" which is not the same thing as a denial. Remember, she is a lawyer and plausible deniability comes with the territory.
She replied (watch the video) that if it she had said it, it would have been a joke. People can choose to believe her or not believe her but it's not 100% certainty it's fake.
Good point. Also, Western corruption is formalized - see "Deferred Prosecution Agreements".
Want to money launder for the Mexican drug cartels without anybody going to prison (HSBC)? No problem, just pay this fee. Want to bribe Asian officials and business men (Rolls Royce)? Naughty boy, just deposit this money into the UK government's bank account. Want to fraudulently issue ratings on what banks are selling (pretty much all credit rating companies pre 2008) while those banks pay you? Failure of the free market. Sure it's not your fault etc etc.
"Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says anxiety over trade deals has grown because wages haven’t kept pace with labor productivity while income inequality has risen. To some extent, he says, trade deals have hastened the pace of these changes".
The fact that "most estimates conclude that the deal had a modest but positive impact on U.S. GDP of less than 0.5 percent" (from your link) is largely irrelevant when most people do not get to see the benefits. Indeed, median American income has been shrinking since the late 1990s (when adjusted for inflation) even while the mean has increased.
Don't get me wrong. I'm one of the people who has done well out of the whole arrangement. But I totally appreciate others have not and are angry about it.
"Russian personnel... were almost certainly on hand when the BUK was used since a BUK apparently requires override to enable it to fire at a commercial aircraft that was presumably broadcasting its IFF, something untrained personnel wouldn't have been likely to know how to do."
What I don't get about your theory is that if the Russian personnel had enough experience to know what they were doing (as you say) then they were deliberately trying to bring a commercial jet down. That seems unlikely given the panic that ensued and that it benefits nobody.
Can't comment about the new model but I'm typing this on an XPS 13 (with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) purchased in May 2014 and I've never had a problem with it in all that time.
Not saying you're right, not saying you're wrong but can you please cite some references? I did a (quick) Google and didn't find anything untoward.
Yes, it's not a proper invention but he's just a normal boy, taking things apart. From reading some posts here, you'd think he'd lied about having cured cancer and then been humiliatingly debunked.
"And yet, here in the US, we can't even manage to get reliable/functional wifi on amtrak."
At least they have reasonably clean toilets. Having travelled on Indian trains, I was wondering why Google didn't just donate toilets where you can't see the train tracks running beneath your arse. Now that would have wow-ed me.
I've just finished nursing a loved one with glioblastoma. It's frikken awful but it was short (the medium survival rate is about 14 months. My loved one went in 9). I think Parkinson's, Alzheimer's etc are far worse because they go on for years. My loved one didn't realize she was dying at the end as it severely impairs cognition.
I hope anybody who has a loved one with brain cancer takes some comfort from this.
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... after James Clapper lied to Congress.
Sorry, I mean "simply forgot" to mention it as his lawyer puts it. "Oh, you Congressmen were asking questions about that surveillance program? I thought you meant another one."
It was so nice of Edward Snowden to remind him about it. And what thanks does he get?
"That he actively colluded with Russia to screw with US election [has] been pretty well documented."
Has it? Where?
I mean there are lots of people expressing their opinion or those of "anonymous sources". But that's not the same thing as being well documented.
Nowhere near.
Similar experience: a technically illiterate boss blocked us fron using Git for months because 'git' is a childish insult in British English. He couldn't believe a polished piece of software would have a name like that. Explaining that Apache software did not derive its name from Native Americans but was a play on words of "a patch" for buggy software didn't help.
Well documented propaganda, I'm afraid.
Fake news ain't new.
"Experts confirm that Iran's president did not call for Israel to be 'wiped off the map''" The Guardian, 14 June 2006.
There are many reasons to criticize Iran but a constantly quoted mistranslation is not one of them.
My wife is a lawyer and more clever than me (she says) but loves hippy-dippy, tree-hugging, unscientific "medicine". She gave birth to both our children with no drugs but lavendar oil. OK, it's only two data points but child birth is excruciatingly painful so do it twice is evidence to me there may be some merit to these claims.
... after Obama wiretapped the German leader's 'phone.
You do know that the BBC receives £254 million (approximately $400 million) directly from the UK government, right? (See their own report here, p19).
Now, the BBC is not bad compared to all the other media outlets but almost half a billion dollars directly from the British Foreign Office compromises its claim to impartiality.
I believe Oracle does this with every JDK as they approach End of Life. ("Want us to continue patching JDK 8 rather than you upgrading to JDK 9? Fine, then pay us"). The story here is just the pricing model has changed AFAIK.
" it was learned that Guccifer 2.0 did in fact slip up and failed to activate his VPN client and exposed himself as being ... in Moscow. This is a fact that is now accepted across the political spectrum."
That's far from the consensus (see “Why would diabolically skilled Russian operatives operate so sloppily?”).
The evidence of Russian hacking is either circumstantial (for example that hackers kept Moscow office hours because as we all know, hackers are famous for their 9-to-5 routine). Or the smoking gun has not been released by the consultancies the DNC is paying and government agencies who told us they had proof there are WMDs in Iraq.
Of the two links you post, the second refers to the first and both confuse Guccifer (Marcel Lazr Lehel who is currently in a Romanian jail) and Guccifer 2.0, the alleged Russian spy.
Now, obviously, there are going to be howls of "Russian Shill!" from ACs (see below) because I have deviated from the narrative. So, let me make it clear: it might be that the Russians did indeed hack the DNC. But the evidence that has currently been released is so weak there is at least the possibility that the whole story is an attempt to undermine the validity of the 2016 election.
Yes, indeed, he is a professor of marketing and this is great marketing for his career! (Expect a forthcoming book by Fall).
Meanwhile, the rest of the world will leave such matters to the professors of law where they belong.
"Breach of bail conditions is a crime."
Not necessarily. If I have good reason to believe that my right to life, my right to a fair trial etc will be violated, human rights law can potentially override criminal law.
(IANAL but I have chatted to an English lawyer about this).
"What do you call someone that has sex with a woman outside of her consenting terms?
A rapist."
So, a man who cheats on his wife is a rapist?
I'm genuinely curious about this analysis. Iran had an election in 2013 where the moderate candidate won with just over 50% of the votes with the US and UK reacting relatively positively and neither denouncing the election as unfair.
This makes Iran one of the most democratic countries in the Middle East (admittedly, it's not up against stiff competition for that title). Certainly, when you compare it to our "ally" Saudi Arabia who promote terrorism in Europe, fight alongside al Qaeda in their brutal war in Yemen and has an appalling record of human rights abuses, Iran does not appear to be the greatest threat.
Could it be because "the Obama administration has offered to sell $115bn worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia over its eight years in office, more than any previous US administration"? (Note that Trump is no better).
If Iran pumped billions into the US and UK economy, they might not be quite so high on our shit list.
If you don't like it done to you then don't do it to others.
Aside from all the elections America has interfered in, the US recently targeted its allies and hacked the phone of the German leader.
Er, and why precisely would I believe the CIA?
Well, not quite fake. Snopes has it as "unproven".
When asked about it, Clinton said "I don't recall that" which is not the same thing as a denial. Remember, she is a lawyer and plausible deniability comes with the territory.
She replied (watch the video) that if it she had said it, it would have been a joke. People can choose to believe her or not believe her but it's not 100% certainty it's fake.
Good point. Also, Western corruption is formalized - see "Deferred Prosecution Agreements". Want to money launder for the Mexican drug cartels without anybody going to prison (HSBC)? No problem, just pay this fee. Want to bribe Asian officials and business men (Rolls Royce)? Naughty boy, just deposit this money into the UK government's bank account. Want to fraudulently issue ratings on what banks are selling (pretty much all credit rating companies pre 2008) while those banks pay you? Failure of the free market. Sure it's not your fault etc etc.
From your own link:
"Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says anxiety over trade deals has grown because wages haven’t kept pace with labor productivity while income inequality has risen. To some extent, he says, trade deals have hastened the pace of these changes".
The fact that "most estimates conclude that the deal had a modest but positive impact on U.S. GDP of less than 0.5 percent" (from your link) is largely irrelevant when most people do not get to see the benefits. Indeed, median American income has been shrinking since the late 1990s (when adjusted for inflation) even while the mean has increased.
Don't get me wrong. I'm one of the people who has done well out of the whole arrangement. But I totally appreciate others have not and are angry about it.
He is European so he probably understands irony.
"Russian personnel ... were almost certainly on hand when the BUK was used since a BUK apparently requires override to enable it to fire at a commercial aircraft that was presumably broadcasting its IFF, something untrained personnel wouldn't have been likely to know how to do."
What I don't get about your theory is that if the Russian personnel had enough experience to know what they were doing (as you say) then they were deliberately trying to bring a commercial jet down. That seems unlikely given the panic that ensued and that it benefits nobody.
Can't comment about the new model but I'm typing this on an XPS 13 (with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) purchased in May 2014 and I've never had a problem with it in all that time.
Not saying you're right, not saying you're wrong but can you please cite some references? I did a (quick) Google and didn't find anything untoward.
Yes, it's not a proper invention but he's just a normal boy, taking things apart. From reading some posts here, you'd think he'd lied about having cured cancer and then been humiliatingly debunked.
"And yet, here in the US, we can't even manage to get reliable/functional wifi on amtrak."
At least they have reasonably clean toilets. Having travelled on Indian trains, I was wondering why Google didn't just donate toilets where you can't see the train tracks running beneath your arse. Now that would have wow-ed me.
I've just finished nursing a loved one with glioblastoma. It's frikken awful but it was short (the medium survival rate is about 14 months. My loved one went in 9). I think Parkinson's, Alzheimer's etc are far worse because they go on for years. My loved one didn't realize she was dying at the end as it severely impairs cognition. I hope anybody who has a loved one with brain cancer takes some comfort from this.