Note your president. Who during the campaign relished the fact Wikileaks was helping him. Leaks that make him look good, he likes. Leaks that make him look bad, send in the marines.
As opposed to Obama (prosecuted more leaks than all previous presidents times two) and Hillary, who were perfectly happy with Trump's leaked tax returns and 'gram em by the pussy' audio? Let us not pretend that situational reasoning is only used by one party.
By not being willfully obtuse. Remember Dan Rather, CBS and the story they ran on Bush skipping out on his Air Guard commitments? The entire story was dismissed and Rather fired because a handful of memos couldn't be authenticated.
Do you think for one second that if Wikileaks had published documents that weren't up to snuff that the intelligence "community" and the media wouldn't be braying about that time in 2005 that they published something from Jason Blair, 24/7? It would have been the Dean Scream of leaking, the kiss of death.
You will be surprised, especially if you think Wikileaks is a force for transparency.
Well, they do have that 100% record for the accuracy of what they've leaked.
If you're really lazy, go read some posts by infosec experts and pro-privacy bloggers. They're already doing some of this work for you, and you will still be surprised at what they say. I don't want to spoil it by telling you.
Hmm, sounds more like "go do some work to prove my vague assertions so I don't have to get my lazy butt off the couch". Must not be familiar with Hitchen's razor.
Apple is actually capable of making things relatively secure and makes choices that are unpopular but increase security (walled garden, deep restrictions on app access to platform, signing Mac apps required by default). They are looking out for people who truly cannot and will not understand security around technical devices.
Or, more simply: with Apple, you are the consumer. With Samsung or any other Android manufacturer, the user is the product for Google's advertising and data mining businesses.
Trump had zero to do with Russian hacks, I would love to hear your frothing rabid explanation for how exactly Russia "hacked the election".
The entire Trump/Russia storyline is nothing more than the Birthering of the Democrats: people willing to believe the most pathetic bullshit if it undermines someone from the opposing party they don't like. That was true before this morning, but after this morning's Wikileaks dump - including a tidbit that the CIA can "fake" cyber attacks as coming from Russia - anyone who mindlessly repeats the Trump/Russia conspiracy theory isn't smart enough to handle their live savings, and send it to me, now. I'm a Nigerian prince after all, which means I know how to handle money....
Rather than using expensive li-ion batteries that will need to be replaced, just build more water towers - or artificial reservoirs if you have plenty of water. Take the excess energy generated and pump the water up, then release it through a turbine when your solar farm lacks sun and your wind farm lacks wind.
There are water towers and hydroelectric dams in use today that were built more than a century ago, so for an up-front cost you can have infrastructure that will last a very long time. If you're a fan of nuclear power and want to dismiss this idea, remember the whole purpose of your $10 billion nuclear plant is to heat water - to move a turbine to generate electricity.
The more sensible way to handle this would be to require companies to pay a minimum wage, and not a universal minimum wage, but one that follows the job description or something like that.
How about: companies must pay H1B's the "prevailing wage", plus a $100,000 annual fee per worker. Then we'd know they were actually unable to find a native worker for the job and not just blowing smoke.
I fail to see how any company like Google and Microsoft are benefiting from H1-Bs
H1B, by design, lowers labor costs for corporations by artificially increasing the supply of workers. You could work for a company that employs 50,000 workers, not one of them visa holders, but the company would still benefit from the H1B program.
Uber drivers are free to pick and choose rides and set their own rates now? Breaking news at 11!
Uber: Working in my very own customized "cubicle". Padded seats, stereo, air.
And putting wear on it that can drop your earnings below minimum wage.
Uber: Set my own hours. McD: Slave to schedule devised by aforementioned pimply faced youth.
And yet make more money in the process, and for a company that will pay out insurance in case of accident. And give you benefits if you work enough hours.
But, for me, my first approximation leans very heavily on the Uber side.
If you want to make less money while taking more risk to benefit some exploitive capitalist vultures, that's your call.
And the business model of Uber's entrenched competition is to pay off politicians to pass laws that unfairly protect their markets from upstarts like Uber.
Oh, the horror of making drivers properly trained, licensed, compensated and insured. Instead we need a Ponzi scheme, except one doesn't make the first drivers rich, but merely dependent on a new crop of desperate suckers who will wear out their car for you before they figure out they'd make more money working the same number of hours as McDonalds.
Comparing government illegally spying on your every personal communication to government oversight of monied interests is so far off-base that you're off-planet.
Had it dawn on you is that those who are considered living in the bubble and echo chambers are mostly coastal elites, living in their bubble, voting mostly democratic in blue states.
What you call "peasantry" has actually voted overwhelmingly against democrats in the United States, like they always had.
However many many many more workers and peasants were killed, starved and worked to death, later were drowned in the never ending rivers of alcoholism, depression and other fun activities while building the communism.
Boilerplate. Socialism is responsible for all ills, while capitalism is completely blameless. Half the people in the richest nation in the history of the world live in poverty? Blameless! A million people die due to a capitalist famine? Blameless!
If you are that clueless and feel so passionate about Soviet revolution, please ask survivors of soviet regime and ask their opinion.
Have you asked the poor in Russia what it's been like to no longer having the guarantee of a decent job, housing, education and health care?
She used a private email server for precisely one reason. She's old and she doesn't understand technology.
Then how did she end up with a private email server in the first place? You think a State Department employee is going to risk a sentence in federal pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary for mishandling classified evidence of his own volition?
1) Hillary was a corrupt hypocritical hack full of hubris 2) Hillary displayed a level of competence such that she could be trusted only to stock the State Department Keurig machine. And frequently she would fuck up and order the decaf.
Pick one. Either way, she had no business being a Senator, much less SOS, much less POTUS.
Intent is batshit irrelevant. The DOJ agreed that a navy man prosecuted for taking selfies on a sub had no intent to distribute them. The man got himself in more trouble after trying to destroy evidence - so Hillary Clinton could easily be serving a lengthly sentence for obstruction of justice on top of mishandling classified evidence.
Lets be clear about this: in neither case was using non-governmental email addresses illegal, so-long as they (eventually in both cases) complied with federal record keeping acts.
The illegality was mishandling classified information. The USG has prosecuted plenty of people for far more trivial matters than an unsecured, unauthorized email server used for top secret, privileged access information. Just ask the navy man serving time for taking a handful of selfies on a sub, on his unsecured, unauthorized cell phone.
Certainly the Secretary of State gets more classified documents, but by all accounts Clinton and her team were pretty good about keeping those on a separate device designated for classified communications
Separate device? She's the only SOS to exclusively use a private email server exclusively, and extensively. If her name were Hillary Johnson, she'd be serving an effective lifetime sentence in prison already.
So they're pikers compared to Communists and Socialists, who have worldwide under many "leaders" actively murdered millions and caused many millions more to die? Stalin alone is measured to have been responsible for 20M deaths.
Two problems with that capitalist propaganda:
1) The figures are pulled out capitalist asses
2) It blames communists for every death from famine, something capitalists never do to capitalist-created famines
Libertarianism is an important and necessary philosophical counterpoint to overwhelming collective power.
Which is laughable, when the overwhelming collective (and oppressive) power throughout human history has come from concentrated wealth and power. Libertarianism does nothing but strengthen the power of those monied interests by removing the token restraints placed on their power.
You don't make any sense. You start out claiming libertarians like a powerful state, and then lay out all sorts of ways in which they don't want the state to regulate anything. What would that large state be doing?
It's hard to get a libertarian to understand something, when his ideology is dependent on his not understanding it.
A decimated, war torn country with no industry doesn't give you the second largest economy in the world.
Of course it can, when most of the industrialized to semi-industrialized world had been devastated in the same war.
This notion that US industries simply had no competition for decades is simply very wrong.
More like simply facile pedantry. Microsoft has always had competition in the consumer OS market, but that doesn't mean that Microsoft hasn't utterly dominated the industry for decades.
rsilvergun, you're going to hate me for this - but I read in what you write the sense of entitlement causing a generation of people to think rewards come without work.
Starting with the fact that your kid hit college unprepared - sounds like she didn't push or excel in school, so doesn't have academic or athletic scholarships. And if that's the case, perhaps you should have encouraged her to try an alternative method to adulthood; vocational training. Learning a useful skill? My wife made some poor choices when she was younger, and isn't going to college until now - in her 40s - which her employer is paying for as long as she maintains As. Your daughter could do the same?
Why should someone have to excel to make a decent living and not be crushed with five figures in student loan debt? You do know that full ride scholarships are unicorns, right? That $500 scholarship or grant she applied for and got may count as a "scholarship", but it also might only pay for 2-3 books for a single semester. You also know that a bachelors degree is the new high school diploma for employers, yes?
Here's an idea - if you want your daughter to be economically sound, enlist her in the army.
Here's a better idea: just be open about your "beliefs" and openly advocate for a caste system, but one based on how much money your parents have as opposed to ancestry. If your parent flipped burgers, you will flip burgers. Want to be a doctor? Don't even think about it, unless you join the military - who might not even send you to medical school - and be an occupying capitalist stooge in return.
Why don't you google the number of students who have all or most of their tuition paid for. Applying and getting $250 certainly counts as a "scholarship", but it also might end up paying for a single textbook for a single class.
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As opposed to Obama (prosecuted more leaks than all previous presidents times two) and Hillary, who were perfectly happy with Trump's leaked tax returns and 'gram em by the pussy' audio? Let us not pretend that situational reasoning is only used by one party.
By not being willfully obtuse. Remember Dan Rather, CBS and the story they ran on Bush skipping out on his Air Guard commitments? The entire story was dismissed and Rather fired because a handful of memos couldn't be authenticated.
Do you think for one second that if Wikileaks had published documents that weren't up to snuff that the intelligence "community" and the media wouldn't be braying about that time in 2005 that they published something from Jason Blair, 24/7? It would have been the Dean Scream of leaking, the kiss of death.
But that hasn't happened. So, willfully obtuse.
Well, they do have that 100% record for the accuracy of what they've leaked.
Hmm, sounds more like "go do some work to prove my vague assertions so I don't have to get my lazy butt off the couch". Must not be familiar with Hitchen's razor.
Or, more simply: with Apple, you are the consumer. With Samsung or any other Android manufacturer, the user is the product for Google's advertising and data mining businesses.
The entire Trump/Russia storyline is nothing more than the Birthering of the Democrats: people willing to believe the most pathetic bullshit if it undermines someone from the opposing party they don't like. That was true before this morning, but after this morning's Wikileaks dump - including a tidbit that the CIA can "fake" cyber attacks as coming from Russia - anyone who mindlessly repeats the Trump/Russia conspiracy theory isn't smart enough to handle their live savings, and send it to me, now. I'm a Nigerian prince after all, which means I know how to handle money....
Rather than using expensive li-ion batteries that will need to be replaced, just build more water towers - or artificial reservoirs if you have plenty of water. Take the excess energy generated and pump the water up, then release it through a turbine when your solar farm lacks sun and your wind farm lacks wind.
There are water towers and hydroelectric dams in use today that were built more than a century ago, so for an up-front cost you can have infrastructure that will last a very long time. If you're a fan of nuclear power and want to dismiss this idea, remember the whole purpose of your $10 billion nuclear plant is to heat water - to move a turbine to generate electricity.
FTFY. Just put the fucker in space, you'll see much more for the same amount of money.
How about: companies must pay H1B's the "prevailing wage", plus a $100,000 annual fee per worker. Then we'd know they were actually unable to find a native worker for the job and not just blowing smoke.
H1B, by design, lowers labor costs for corporations by artificially increasing the supply of workers. You could work for a company that employs 50,000 workers, not one of them visa holders, but the company would still benefit from the H1B program.
Uber drivers are free to pick and choose rides and set their own rates now? Breaking news at 11!
And putting wear on it that can drop your earnings below minimum wage.
And yet make more money in the process, and for a company that will pay out insurance in case of accident. And give you benefits if you work enough hours.
If you want to make less money while taking more risk to benefit some exploitive capitalist vultures, that's your call.
Oh, the horror of making drivers properly trained, licensed, compensated and insured. Instead we need a Ponzi scheme, except one doesn't make the first drivers rich, but merely dependent on a new crop of desperate suckers who will wear out their car for you before they figure out they'd make more money working the same number of hours as McDonalds.
dl;dr pound sand, corporatist apologist
Comparing government illegally spying on your every personal communication to government oversight of monied interests is so far off-base that you're off-planet.
You mean your fellow right wing bourgeois? What about them?
Boilerplate. Socialism is responsible for all ills, while capitalism is completely blameless. Half the people in the richest nation in the history of the world live in poverty? Blameless! A million people die due to a capitalist famine? Blameless!
Have you asked the poor in Russia what it's been like to no longer having the guarantee of a decent job, housing, education and health care?
Oh, it's pretty clear by this point, that you're the lone voice that's continuing to insist that yes, the Emperor really is wearing clothes!
The NYTimes? Then its safe to say you wouldn't know "left wing" if Zombie Stalin and Zombie Lenin took turns biting you on the ass.
Then how did she end up with a private email server in the first place? You think a State Department employee is going to risk a sentence in federal pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary for mishandling classified evidence of his own volition?
This excuse dog doesn't hunt. A mere two years after savaging the Bush Administration for using private email servers, she was doing the same thing herself.
So, either:
1) Hillary was a corrupt hypocritical hack full of hubris
2) Hillary displayed a level of competence such that she could be trusted only to stock the State Department Keurig machine. And frequently she would fuck up and order the decaf.
Pick one. Either way, she had no business being a Senator, much less SOS, much less POTUS.
Intent is batshit irrelevant. The DOJ agreed that a navy man prosecuted for taking selfies on a sub had no intent to distribute them. The man got himself in more trouble after trying to destroy evidence - so Hillary Clinton could easily be serving a lengthly sentence for obstruction of justice on top of mishandling classified evidence.
The illegality was mishandling classified information. The USG has prosecuted plenty of people for far more trivial matters than an unsecured, unauthorized email server used for top secret, privileged access information. Just ask the navy man serving time for taking a handful of selfies on a sub, on his unsecured, unauthorized cell phone.
Separate device? She's the only SOS to exclusively use a private email server exclusively, and extensively. If her name were Hillary Johnson, she'd be serving an effective lifetime sentence in prison already.
Two problems with that capitalist propaganda:
1) The figures are pulled out capitalist asses
2) It blames communists for every death from famine, something capitalists never do to capitalist-created famines
Which is laughable, when the overwhelming collective (and oppressive) power throughout human history has come from concentrated wealth and power. Libertarianism does nothing but strengthen the power of those monied interests by removing the token restraints placed on their power.
And maximizing the power of monied interests in the process, which is the real point of your brand of religious fanaticism.
It's hard to get a libertarian to understand something, when his ideology is dependent on his not understanding it.
Of course it can, when most of the industrialized to semi-industrialized world had been devastated in the same war.
More like simply facile pedantry. Microsoft has always had competition in the consumer OS market, but that doesn't mean that Microsoft hasn't utterly dominated the industry for decades.
Stay classy, Old Economy Steve.
Why should someone have to excel to make a decent living and not be crushed with five figures in student loan debt? You do know that full ride scholarships are unicorns, right? That $500 scholarship or grant she applied for and got may count as a "scholarship", but it also might only pay for 2-3 books for a single semester. You also know that a bachelors degree is the new high school diploma for employers, yes?
Here's a better idea: just be open about your "beliefs" and openly advocate for a caste system, but one based on how much money your parents have as opposed to ancestry. If your parent flipped burgers, you will flip burgers. Want to be a doctor? Don't even think about it, unless you join the military - who might not even send you to medical school - and be an occupying capitalist stooge in return.
On some other planet where he didn't systematically dismantle Nota's classist calvanism and general detachment from reality?
Why don't you google the number of students who have all or most of their tuition paid for. Applying and getting $250 certainly counts as a "scholarship", but it also might end up paying for a single textbook for a single class.