No wonder the Democrats didn't want this released. It just destroyed their narrative
Meanwhile most sane people are concluding that the memo destroys Trump's narrative on the Mueller investigation. Even conservatives see through it, well, the sane ones do.
The memo shows no evidence that the FISA system is being used as a political weapon. Carter Page was a person of interest to the FBI in 2013. Also, FISA warrants involve judges... so a judge looked at the *ENTIRE* application and approved it. There is currently no evidence to second guess the judges decision. And, my personal opinion, *LISTEN* to Carter Page: he has wannabe criminal written all over him.
We have the context of the entire opposition party protesting the release of this memo
Opposition party protests release of politically biased memo. Who would have thunk it. All this memo is supposed to do is give "official sounding" talking points to the talking heads on conservative media. And look, it works!
It's fun seeing Nunes go to battle with the people investigating the campaign _he_ worked on. A decent person would recuse themselves. This has all the hallmarks of political theater aimed at confusing rubes who will jump at anything that makes their side look good. I'm sure McCabe said lots of things, but the simple fact is that Carter Page is marginal to the Trump-Russia investigation, and besides, this wasn't even the first warrant application. And it's easy for Nunes to omit details to pull the wool of partisan nitwits, because partisanship makes people dumb.
Wrong.
The memo talks about "information" in the Steele dossier, but fails to mention if that information was corroborated. (The Dems are already stated that information was corroborated.) It fails to mention other information used in the wiretap request. You really just want this to be what you want it to be, don't you. I don't care about Dems or GOP, or Trump, or whatever. I want to know what's real. And this, my friend, is classic political theater aimed at rubes.
The executive doesn't make laws... he is supposed to follow them. Thus, when handling the FBI, the President is supposed to follow the act that congress passed -- the law that brought the FBI into existence.
Backdoor for domestic police state? That would be China. At least the USA has structural separation between businesses (like Intel), and the government. And is a country of laws.
There is no public good in having more and more governement intervention in the Internet.
I'm amazed by how poorly educated people are on this stuff. Like you can say "government intervention", and rubes suck it up. The problem with "pure" competition over the last mile of infrastructure is: barriers to entry. You even know what that means? You even know that net neutrality was the de facto standard since the 1980s?
That's a good definition of sexual harassment, but we all know that in this day and age, it's just a matter of what a woman thinks, or how she feels about something. She could be batsh*t insane, but no matter.
No just internet comment boards, the concept creep on sexual harassment is an intentional power grab by our moral betters to dictate the terms of their new Utopian socially just society. Problem is, (1) they're not grounded in reality, and (2) they don't understand the golden rule. What could go wrong?
Yeah, there was a few exploratory papers (no consensus), and then one was popularized in the media, and caught the public imagination. It seems that scientists are pinged for asking the hard questions (will dust cause net cooling), and then pinged again because the news media knew how to sell a good story.
I've lived in houses for 42 years, and have yet to have one burn down on me. As a rough approximation, we could say that the probability of my house burning down next year is less than 1 in 42, or less than 2.4%. Yet I have fire insurance, because it is worth it.
Same thing with climate change. The chances of catastrophe are small, but the best estimates put it about 2.4%. And real world experience has shown that the cost of doing something is, net, almost nothing. Sure there are winners and losers, and the losers are big carbon companies, who are behaving exactly like tobacco companies when faced with the same calculus.
This is what happens when you teach people to be victims. And the lawsuit is what happens when the radical left takes over large sections of the legal profession.
Using both statically and dynamically typed languages extensively for my day job, I much prefer statically typed languages when it comes to maintaining and refactoring code. Makes little difference when writing.
My stint in corporate IT featured shameless prowomen biases. For example, a man would work 10 years for a promotion that would be given to a woman in 2. And *any* woman. Only the most contentious men got promoted, but the bar for women was having a vagina.
I'd didn't really bother me back then, because I was all in with SJWhood. But now I look back at it I'm appalled. Some of the promoted women were twits. Some of the were good. But all of them were promoted. It's shamelessly unfair. But good if you're a woman I suppose.
This entire process of dividing people into groups based on immutable characteristics (whiteness, maleness, etc) and then treating them differently is STUPID. The end of all of this will be a caste system like in India.
Slashdot Mirror
No wonder the Democrats didn't want this released. It just destroyed their narrative
Meanwhile most sane people are concluding that the memo destroys Trump's narrative on the Mueller investigation. Even conservatives see through it, well, the sane ones do.
The memo shows no evidence that the FISA system is being used as a political weapon. Carter Page was a person of interest to the FBI in 2013. Also, FISA warrants involve judges... so a judge looked at the *ENTIRE* application and approved it. There is currently no evidence to second guess the judges decision. And, my personal opinion, *LISTEN* to Carter Page: he has wannabe criminal written all over him.
We have the context of the entire opposition party protesting the release of this memo
Opposition party protests release of politically biased memo. Who would have thunk it. All this memo is supposed to do is give "official sounding" talking points to the talking heads on conservative media. And look, it works!
Haha, this wasn't the 1st FISA warrant on Carter Page, who became a person of interest to the FBI in 2013. The Steele document was a thing until 2016!
This has NOTHING to do with Manafort's laundering and Russia connections, contact between Papadopoulos and Russia, or Russia hacking the DNC to help the GOP win the election, or Trump's son and son-in-law meeting with Kremlin connected Russians, or Trump firing the FBI director, because, by his own admission, he wanted to hinder the Russia investigation.
It's fun seeing Nunes go to battle with the people investigating the campaign _he_ worked on. A decent person would recuse themselves. This has all the hallmarks of political theater aimed at confusing rubes who will jump at anything that makes their side look good. I'm sure McCabe said lots of things, but the simple fact is that Carter Page is marginal to the Trump-Russia investigation, and besides, this wasn't even the first warrant application. And it's easy for Nunes to omit details to pull the wool of partisan nitwits, because partisanship makes people dumb.
Thank goodness you wrote this. I do find partisan nutcases tiresome. So conceited. So full of sh*t.
"They lied to the court"
You just keep doing you.
Wrong. The memo talks about "information" in the Steele dossier, but fails to mention if that information was corroborated. (The Dems are already stated that information was corroborated.) It fails to mention other information used in the wiretap request. You really just want this to be what you want it to be, don't you. I don't care about Dems or GOP, or Trump, or whatever. I want to know what's real. And this, my friend, is classic political theater aimed at rubes.
The executive doesn't make laws... he is supposed to follow them. Thus, when handling the FBI, the President is supposed to follow the act that congress passed -- the law that brought the FBI into existence.
Backdoor for domestic police state? That would be China. At least the USA has structural separation between businesses (like Intel), and the government. And is a country of laws.
There is no public good in having more and more governement intervention in the Internet.
I'm amazed by how poorly educated people are on this stuff. Like you can say "government intervention", and rubes suck it up. The problem with "pure" competition over the last mile of infrastructure is: barriers to entry. You even know what that means? You even know that net neutrality was the de facto standard since the 1980s?
The problem net neutrality is trying to solve is entirely caused by these government-granted cable/phone monopolies.
Bullpucky. The problem is the barriers to entry (for the last mile).
Most parents, most teachers. Simple truth is we're terrified of _real_ critical thinking, because it pulls apart the core myths of our identity.
That's a good definition of sexual harassment, but we all know that in this day and age, it's just a matter of what a woman thinks, or how she feels about something. She could be batsh*t insane, but no matter.
No just internet comment boards, the concept creep on sexual harassment is an intentional power grab by our moral betters to dictate the terms of their new Utopian socially just society. Problem is, (1) they're not grounded in reality, and (2) they don't understand the golden rule. What could go wrong?
Yeah, there was a few exploratory papers (no consensus), and then one was popularized in the media, and caught the public imagination. It seems that scientists are pinged for asking the hard questions (will dust cause net cooling), and then pinged again because the news media knew how to sell a good story.
I've lived in houses for 42 years, and have yet to have one burn down on me. As a rough approximation, we could say that the probability of my house burning down next year is less than 1 in 42, or less than 2.4%. Yet I have fire insurance, because it is worth it.
Same thing with climate change. The chances of catastrophe are small, but the best estimates put it about 2.4%. And real world experience has shown that the cost of doing something is, net, almost nothing. Sure there are winners and losers, and the losers are big carbon companies, who are behaving exactly like tobacco companies when faced with the same calculus.
I don't think anything ever improved by people saying "eh, that's just how it is, what can we do?"
That is a false dichotomy. Incrementalism is about grounding change in what we know works, and being realistic and cautious.
This is what happens when you teach people to be victims. And the lawsuit is what happens when the radical left takes over large sections of the legal profession.
Using both statically and dynamically typed languages extensively for my day job, I much prefer statically typed languages when it comes to maintaining and refactoring code. Makes little difference when writing.
My stint in corporate IT featured shameless prowomen biases. For example, a man would work 10 years for a promotion that would be given to a woman in 2. And *any* woman. Only the most contentious men got promoted, but the bar for women was having a vagina.
I'd didn't really bother me back then, because I was all in with SJWhood. But now I look back at it I'm appalled. Some of the promoted women were twits. Some of the were good. But all of them were promoted. It's shamelessly unfair. But good if you're a woman I suppose.
This entire process of dividing people into groups based on immutable characteristics (whiteness, maleness, etc) and then treating them differently is STUPID. The end of all of this will be a caste system like in India.
Is it not as interested or that our society (still) actively discourages women - and especially, school age girls - from tech jobs?
Why can't it be both? In which case, you'd be 100% in alignment with what the memo says.
That's seems pretty straight-forward non-ranty too me. Maybe you're biases are interpreting the words for you.
That is because LOWERED is precisely correct. And it's illegal btw. Google == law breaker.
The mainstreaming of anti-male rhetoric is new. It's now the received wisdom in elite circles that men are just bad bad bad.