No, this is not true. Violations of confidential material are daily occurrences, and while they sometimes result in a reprimand, they very rarely result in criminal charges. Criminal charges are usually filed only when the violations are repeated, or result in actual leaks of important information.
I served in the military, and had a secret clearance. I also worked a few years for a defense contractor. We should have occasional security sweeps, and they always found violations. Yet there were never any charges.
I've had extensive experience working DoD and other Federal programs myself.
If "I" had been caught sending the level of and sensitivity of, the same information it has been found Clinton sent...through or to my own email server at home, or a gmail account, etc.....I do fear I'd have been charged.
IF as you say, a reprimand....if I'd done that, my reprimand/punishment would have been being terminated, and likely classified as not being able to work for the Feds again.
You are never supposed to have classified networks crossing with unclassified ones, doing that accidentally somehow...might get you a reprimand. But I've been trained and signed away my life in the past, that if I'd sent the type of classified info she did on an insecure network, the consequences would have been much more than a slap on the hand for a first time error in judgement like that.
Definitely part of the long, gradual slide towards less anonymity.
Companies love it: the less nebulous we are to them the more they can profit off us.
Governments love it: all our transactions & interactions can be recorded, tracked and accessed whenever they so desire.
I also groan for the schmucks who use their work phone numbers for online access. If they're let go without notice - and have to surrender their work phone - they'll need to quickly remove that number from their various accounts.
I'll stick to using passwords as my primary log-in method.
I guess this new trend will also contribute to the growth trend in people that care about privacy buying burner phones and burner sim cards to use to register for online things.
Those centuries have included many oppressive governments, which have used "prosecutorial discretion" to a far greater extent than democracies. They prosecute their opponents, while giving their cronies a pass. That is what is happening in China today, as the opponents of Xi Jinping are arrested in the "corruption crackdown". When his brother-in-law was caught in the Panama Papers scandal, hiding billions in overseas accounts, it was not him
Seems to be this is exactly what is happening here in the Hillary email scandal....anyone else pulling this same exact thing, would have been indicted already.....and likely convicted.
But maybe there is salvation for rule of law n the US if they at least take it to court, and let it play out.
I think by vernacular GP meant the kind of writing mistake that only a native speaker could make, which is not what vernacular means to me at least. People who use things like "should of" strike me as illiterate on a fundamental level. They seem to only understand how to go from sounds to letters and vice-versa. They're probably also the same people who reply to my emails with just "call me."
If that bothers you, come to New Orleans and see how many times someone will try to "AX" you a question....
Well, if the Feds hadn't started giving out so MUCH money in loans, the schools wouldn't have started raising the tuition so high.
You can't blame the schools for trying to make every buck they can. If such large loans weren't so readily available, the schools couldn't charge as much.
In any case, I really wonder if there will ever even be a market here, as many people are relatively averse to putting something in their eye.
Well, there are millions out there that don't have a problem with it and wear contacts. A number of actors that don't need them have for eye effects, etc.
I for one found this article very interesting, but I'd not thought about the damned ads thing...I'd not like that.
But to have "Terminator" type vision would be very cool.
One thing I'd thought about would be if they can stuff all this into contacts, maybe they would also eventually be able to adjust the focal plane and strength of the lens itself in real time, which would keep from having to buy new contacts over time with prescription changes.
There's also a LOT of us that are much more afraid of having a laser shot into our eye, than putting a contact in....
One thing that scares me away...I have noticed that MOST of the eye doctors hawking lasik, are wearing GLASSES.
To me that's like having an un-married marriage counselor!!!
Having living in Australia and New Zealand, I know what visa processes are like. It's involved. Unless you're in a skilled profession, in an in-demand field and are willing to sign your life away, you're not going to Canada.
Hmm...why can't we enact something sensible like this in the USA?
Especially, if I have some documentation that I'll refer to more than a couple of times, I prefer to have a dead tree copy of it.
I often make notes and doodle in the margins of the dead tree copies, and when I need to remember where something was, I can "see" these doodles and notations in my head, and know what document it was in and where I put it....
I just can't track and as readily remember things like that on digital copies....to me, much harder to find things on a screen, especially with so many web pages of documentation buried on tons of little pages, rather than longer pages with more related info.
I guess it is something that varies between person to person....but I"ve always been this way. When I was in college and HS...during tests, I could close my eyes, and "see" in my minds eye my pages in my notebooks and text books where I'd written notes or doodles...and turn he pages in my head to get to where the answers were....sure did help.
I wish there were commercially available 'vertical' farm type set ups for the home that were more affordable...most I've seen so far are in the $1K range I think....
...and all skeptics would be given a million dollars and a dozen 19 year old hookers as reward for promoting the use of completely harmless hydrocarbons for energy production.
Hmm.....
/me raises a hand and says "I'm a skeptic...and for an extra million, I"ll create plenty of good video and other promotional media proving how good oil is for us!!"
Rumor has it that it's an Israeli company. And most companies based in foreign nations that are involved in security or intelligence work are not available for purchase by outsiders.
Except, it seems...for the US, where just about any company or asset of the US is up for sale to other nations....freely.
I think I only have heard of ONE sale that in recent history was denied, one of the large shipping hubs I think on the east coast somewhere?
No, it will be because you THINK you were under real threat.
If someone breaks into my house, especially at night, then they are automatically a perceived threat to myself and loved ones...I have no qualms about unloading at least one magazine into them before checking to see if they still breath or not.
And in New Orleans, if the intruder is somehow able to make it back outside your door...the NOLA cops will often be nice enough to help drag the body back across the threshold before pictures are taken...
Regardless of the reasons, if you look deeper into the data... once again all of the data at the same time, not individual strands separated from the rest of the data... you will see that all too often, when this happens... when an innocent person is killed by the police... there is a disproportionate probability that that innocent person is going to be a black male than any other race or sex.
Well, I'd venture to say because a disproportionately large amount of the crime in the US happens in black communities Hence, if a stray bullet or such hits an innocent person, that person will be black.
You know...I'm not one to shy away from dropping the "F" bomb myself, but after the 47th time in two paragraphs, it loses a bit of its impact and just get monotonous.
Respectfully: What The Fuck is a 'gay agenda'? Equal rights? Enjoying the same rights as everyone else everywhere?
No, I'm talking about them getting special rights and laws passed. I don't see them getting particularly targeted for discriminatioin, they're not getting fired from jobs regularly because of who they sleep with....then don't need special protection.
As for marriage, I don't believe the govt should be in the marriage business at all. I think marriage is a religious ceremony, and should be done by whatever church you want...the govt should only be there to provide for and enforce civil contracts as far as property and all goes.
I do think, however, that a wedding caterer, or a photographer that has tightly held religious believes that homosexuality is against the word of God...they should not be forced to participate in a gay wedding or the sort. If they are just selling a product then I don't see much protection there, but having to to go and photograph and interact with the wedding, is forced participation and should not be forced upon a business owner with strict religious reasons.
Just on the personal side...I'm not convinced on the gay by birth thing...I think it is a sexual behavior of choice like any other like or fetish, at least until they can show me the gay gene set that flips the switch on a person...but that's just my opinion
I'm open to it being possible to being genetic, but I've not seen definitive proof yet...are you saying such an opinion should not be allowed and be suppressed?
Just say it, for fuck sake: MUSLIMS. You mean those dirty, rag-headed, gutteral, snarly, infidels who chop people's heads off and want to impose Shariah law on you and your loved ones? That's who you mean, right, when you spew mealy-mouthed phrases like 'certain groups'? How fucking precious.
Ok, when we're being overrun by terroristic actions by the Baptists or Suicide Presbyterian bombers, I'll relent that it is not just a problem out of one particular group with common belief in the world.
Goddamn right, you're being suppressed. If by 'suppressed' you mean 'told to shut your fucking yap until you derive at least the slightest clue about the subject you keep ranting about'.
Sounds like you want to suppress speech that does not agree with you or YOUR beliefs, goodness...sorry, I didn't realize YOU were the sage troll from which all correct thinking was to spew from...
Look, I get how you feel, but dude, seriously, your views are not just wrong, they're hurtful and harmful. Not to people's precious feelingsâ"to their lives. When you oppose the 'latest gay agenda', you're sentencing some very good friends of mine to not being able to hold a loved one's hand in the hospital. You're saying that someone who devoted their life to caring and tending for a home should be ineligible for their life partner's pension. You make it harder for people just to... be... fucking... normal.
Nothing I'm saying is affecting someones life...doesn't threaten them at all. And I guess it depends on your point of view of what is normal. What you take to assume is normal behavior is not necessarity that of the rest of the world...that is a relatively new thing...are you saying everyone that doesn't go with your terms of normal human behavior (which I'd generally term a something practiced by nearly the majority of humanity vs a small faction of it) are wrong and should be forced to adopt it and live with it...?
Where is the freedom of choice how to live there? Where is the freedom of speech there if one isn't allowed to speak about their disagreement of it....it doesn't matter which side you think is right.....BOTH sides still deserver to make their voices heard without being suppressed. Hateful and hurtful speech to either side is and still should be, protected speech.
Hell, it isn't just the TLA (Three Letter Agency) fears that squelch minority or even relatively NON-PC speech....you have it in many levels of society today, look at todays college campuses.
You can't say anything there remotely non-PC, or have a dissenting voice on your beliefs if they go against the more politically correct liberal hive mind.
I saw on the news the other day, that students were saying they had been traumatized by someone writing in chalk "Trump 2016". I mean, I'm no Trump supporter, but seriously, traumatized?
If you aren't for the latest gay agenda, or if you raise the concern that a certain group does seem to have most of the terrorist problem coming from their ranks....well, you just cannot speak about that without repercussions. It isn't even just being shunned, but you are actively suppressed these days.
Look at how many comedians these days, won't do shows on college campuses anymore....
Theres major concern that any dissenting speech is being supressed, if it goes even remotely against the new social agenda.
Even what used to be common sense has no place in the public square these days. Sure some things change, and some things need to change.....but ALL speech needs to be protected, especially the uncomfortable speech, the fringe element speech....the minority speech.
But in addition to the privacy issues of the govt....other institutions are putting the clamp on speech that isn't pleasant.
At the very least...Freedom of Speech, preempts freedom from being offended, and no one should be censored by any means....govt or societal.
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Geez, I for the days of NOT that long ago, when the only words you couldn't use on TV were the George Carlin Famous 7.
I've had extensive experience working DoD and other Federal programs myself.
If "I" had been caught sending the level of and sensitivity of, the same information it has been found Clinton sent...through or to my own email server at home, or a gmail account, etc.....I do fear I'd have been charged.
IF as you say, a reprimand....if I'd done that, my reprimand/punishment would have been being terminated, and likely classified as not being able to work for the Feds again.
You are never supposed to have classified networks crossing with unclassified ones, doing that accidentally somehow...might get you a reprimand. But I've been trained and signed away my life in the past, that if I'd sent the type of classified info she did on an insecure network, the consequences would have been much more than a slap on the hand for a first time error in judgement like that.
First this..and well, you know it gets you in the midst of how Bernie is going to make college *FREE*...so, go Dems!!
The no verification thing on this, is the real kicker tho...
I guess this new trend will also contribute to the growth trend in people that care about privacy buying burner phones and burner sim cards to use to register for online things.
Welcome to the NEW USA...!!
These days, it seems almost NOTHING can be said anymore unless it is 100% vanilla....or you and your private and professional life will suffer.
I must say, it was much nicer in the decades before the 2000's in that regard.
Hm...now, I"m worried about the vanilla comment above...it may be taken as somehow "racial".
Seems to be this is exactly what is happening here in the Hillary email scandal....anyone else pulling this same exact thing, would have been indicted already.....and likely convicted.
But maybe there is salvation for rule of law n the US if they at least take it to court, and let it play out.
If that bothers you, come to New Orleans and see how many times someone will try to "AX" you a question....
You can't blame the schools for trying to make every buck they can. If such large loans weren't so readily available, the schools couldn't charge as much.
Well, there are millions out there that don't have a problem with it and wear contacts. A number of actors that don't need them have for eye effects, etc.
I for one found this article very interesting, but I'd not thought about the damned ads thing...I'd not like that.
But to have "Terminator" type vision would be very cool.
One thing I'd thought about would be if they can stuff all this into contacts, maybe they would also eventually be able to adjust the focal plane and strength of the lens itself in real time, which would keep from having to buy new contacts over time with prescription changes.
There's also a LOT of us that are much more afraid of having a laser shot into our eye, than putting a contact in....
One thing that scares me away...I have noticed that MOST of the eye doctors hawking lasik, are wearing GLASSES.
To me that's like having an un-married marriage counselor!!!
Hmm...why can't we enact something sensible like this in the USA?
I guess it depends on who's lifetime you're talking about...?
The hardwares lifetime?
Your lifetime?
The external servers lifetime (that the unit is dependent upon)?
Or the company's lifetime...which sounds like it was done away with in this case when Google bought them...?
Especially, if I have some documentation that I'll refer to more than a couple of times, I prefer to have a dead tree copy of it.
I often make notes and doodle in the margins of the dead tree copies, and when I need to remember where something was, I can "see" these doodles and notations in my head, and know what document it was in and where I put it....
I just can't track and as readily remember things like that on digital copies....to me, much harder to find things on a screen, especially with so many web pages of documentation buried on tons of little pages, rather than longer pages with more related info.
I guess it is something that varies between person to person....but I"ve always been this way. When I was in college and HS...during tests, I could close my eyes, and "see" in my minds eye my pages in my notebooks and text books where I'd written notes or doodles...and turn he pages in my head to get to where the answers were....sure did help.
Maybe a just a lot of pr0n.....?
I wish there were commercially available 'vertical' farm type set ups for the home that were more affordable...most I've seen so far are in the $1K range I think....
Hmm...well, perhaps all those flies in those videos are more calorie dense than we all thought...
Well....you get what you pay for, eh?
I don't want a family car....
Well, the HuffPo is pretty well known for having a leftist, liberal slant to most of their stories...in both choice of subject and type of coverage.
Much the same as in how Fox News tips a bit to the right.
With either, if you find a source more centrist, it adds to the authenticity of the story as published.
Hmm.....
Hey...c'mon, everyone has their price!!
Except, it seems...for the US, where just about any company or asset of the US is up for sale to other nations....freely.
I think I only have heard of ONE sale that in recent history was denied, one of the large shipping hubs I think on the east coast somewhere?
If someone breaks into my house, especially at night, then they are automatically a perceived threat to myself and loved ones...I have no qualms about unloading at least one magazine into them before checking to see if they still breath or not.
And in New Orleans, if the intruder is somehow able to make it back outside your door...the NOLA cops will often be nice enough to help drag the body back across the threshold before pictures are taken...
Well, because the overwhelming MAJORITY of these crimes go to trial, or plea'ed out...and found guilty.
It is a very small minority of people that are killed by cops.
Well, I'd venture to say because a disproportionately large amount of the crime in the US happens in black communities Hence, if a stray bullet or such hits an innocent person, that person will be black.
No, I'm talking about them getting special rights and laws passed. I don't see them getting particularly targeted for discriminatioin, they're not getting fired from jobs regularly because of who they sleep with....then don't need special protection.
As for marriage, I don't believe the govt should be in the marriage business at all. I think marriage is a religious ceremony, and should be done by whatever church you want...the govt should only be there to provide for and enforce civil contracts as far as property and all goes.
I do think, however, that a wedding caterer, or a photographer that has tightly held religious believes that homosexuality is against the word of God...they should not be forced to participate in a gay wedding or the sort. If they are just selling a product then I don't see much protection there, but having to to go and photograph and interact with the wedding, is forced participation and should not be forced upon a business owner with strict religious reasons.
Just on the personal side...I'm not convinced on the gay by birth thing...I think it is a sexual behavior of choice like any other like or fetish, at least until they can show me the gay gene set that flips the switch on a person...but that's just my opinion
I'm open to it being possible to being genetic, but I've not seen definitive proof yet...are you saying such an opinion should not be allowed and be suppressed?
Ok, when we're being overrun by terroristic actions by the Baptists or Suicide Presbyterian bombers, I'll relent that it is not just a problem out of one particular group with common belief in the world.
Sounds like you want to suppress speech that does not agree with you or YOUR beliefs, goodness...sorry, I didn't realize YOU were the sage troll from which all correct thinking was to spew from...
Nothing I'm saying is affecting someones life...doesn't threaten them at all. And I guess it depends on your point of view of what is normal. What you take to assume is normal behavior is not necessarity that of the rest of the world...that is a relatively new thing...are you saying everyone that doesn't go with your terms of normal human behavior (which I'd generally term a something practiced by nearly the majority of humanity vs a small faction of it) are wrong and should be forced to adopt it and live with it...?
Where is the freedom of choice how to live there? Where is the freedom of speech there if one isn't allowed to speak about their disagreement of it....it doesn't matter which side you think is right.....BOTH sides still deserver to make their voices heard without being suppressed. Hateful and hurtful speech to either side is and still should be, protected speech.
You can't say anything there remotely non-PC, or have a dissenting voice on your beliefs if they go against the more politically correct liberal hive mind.
I saw on the news the other day, that students were saying they had been traumatized by someone writing in chalk "Trump 2016". I mean, I'm no Trump supporter, but seriously, traumatized?
If you aren't for the latest gay agenda, or if you raise the concern that a certain group does seem to have most of the terrorist problem coming from their ranks....well, you just cannot speak about that without repercussions. It isn't even just being shunned, but you are actively suppressed these days.
Look at how many comedians these days, won't do shows on college campuses anymore....
Theres major concern that any dissenting speech is being supressed, if it goes even remotely against the new social agenda.
Even what used to be common sense has no place in the public square these days. Sure some things change, and some things need to change.....but ALL speech needs to be protected, especially the uncomfortable speech, the fringe element speech....the minority speech.
But in addition to the privacy issues of the govt....other institutions are putting the clamp on speech that isn't pleasant.
At the very least...Freedom of Speech, preempts freedom from being offended, and no one should be censored by any means....govt or societal.