Mueller's investigation was suppose to find out whether or not Trump "colluded" with Russia during the campaign
Actually, if you look it up, the relevant excerpt is: [The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct an investigation into..]
(b)..
(i) any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and
(ii) any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; and
(iii) any other matters within the scope of 28 C.F.R. 600.4(a).
(c) If the Special Counsel believes it is necessary and appropriate, the Special Counsel is authorized to prosecute federal crimes arising from the investigation of these matters.
(d) Sections 600.4 through 600.10 of Title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations are applicable to the Special Counsel.
So, yeah, whatever conspiracies the president and his team joined with Russia against the USA, fall under Mueller's authorization. And also, any other crimes that you uncover while taking to witnesses or seizing evidence, which have turned out to be many. So the president's crimes, his family's crimes and his campaign staff crimes are all fair game. Trump failed to compartmentalize his criminal enterprises. Even John Gotti was a smarter crook than this fuckwit. Trump needs to watch Kansas City Confidential and Reservoir Dogs, not just Sicario.
The only problem is that "collusion" is not a crime without an underlying illegal act.
As you can see now, they're only interested in all the illegal acts. It was never about "collusion," since the investigations had already moved far beyond that, even before Mueller was appointed.
Even the democrats acknowledged early on that there is no evidence that Russia's actions effected the actual voting process.
Apparently Mueller is one of those Republican cops, who all think that if you shoot your rifle at someone and miss, you'll still be charged with assault or attempted murder. The Democrats have totally failed to get through to him. All the fucker seems to care about is fighting crime.
(I think what's confusing you is that you've forgotten Trump's motive. Why did he conspire against America? The answer: he did it for the money. He did it to steal from America, and also to take bribes from foreign government to influence the Us government to do things for them instead of us, in any situations where our interests conflict with other countries'. He did it to help him commit further crimes against you and me. So nobody really cares whether or not Russia's help was effective. He conspired to attack America for profitable reasons, so he's going to eventually be prosecuted for the conspiracy.)
Even the democrats agree that so far the indictments Mueller has filed have absolutely nothing to do with Trump colluding with Russia which was the entre purpose of the investigation.
Yes. Even us non-Democrats agree to that. See item (b)(ii) and (c) above. Since so many of Trump's staff and family have committed other crimes in the attempt to cover up the conspiracy, and since they were so easily caught, they've given Mueller a gift to use, to roll them up. (Crooks don't usually make things this easy, but Mueller was fortunate to be charged with investigating some unusually stupid crooks.) The conspiracy with the Russians against America is Mueller's end game. Whether those charges will be the final charges he files, we don't know. But it's the main act, and everyone is looking forward to it. (The problem, of course, is that the president himself is one of the criminal conspirators, and sending presidents to prison is hard.)
I also understand that a content creator could do NOTHING WRONG, and could still have legitimate videos demonetized through no fault of their own.
Ok, they do nothing wrong, and the consequence are... oh, right, nothing bad happens.
It's hard to think of any game with lower stakes than youtube "monetization." Youtube never owed anyone anything, so it's basically impossible for a video maker to come out behind. The absolute worst case scenario is that some people might decide Youtube's free hosting service isn't as cool as some fanboys said it would be.
Passwords should be chosen to make sure that they do not harm any unborn children, because THEY ARE PEOPLE. Passwords must not be allowed to infringe our right to bear arms. Passwords should not pick winners and losers. Passwords should be selected with the understanding that America was founded as a Christian nation. Passwords should not be used as an excuse to make election day a national holiday, nor should passwords enable black or poor people to vote. Do not use a password's youth and inexperience against it. American taxpayers say they won't pay for a longer password, so guess what, the password just got five billion American taxpayer dollars longer. Passwords understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. Passwords put food on American families. Passwords took the initiative in creating the internet.
So.. what did we learn about just trying to tell a damn joke? No, Ol Olsoc, it's not that you can't do it. It's that you have to structure and give bigger hints up front. If someone is skimming instead of reading, they still need to see something a little ragged that makes them think, "wait... what?" and re-read it.
Have you ever tried simply using a simple mlipsppelling?
Trump has a lot to worry about when it comes to states. e.g. the inauguration money laundering company was incorporated in Virginia, and they (not just the IRS) were defrauded of income taxes on the laundered bribes.
But Stone? What state laws is he said to have violated?
Trump can't pardon him until he's actually convicted of something.
That seems very reasonable, but once Ford pardoned Nixon, Watergate stopped. Was that because prosecutors just didn't want to bother, or was it because the pardon legally "worked?" Nixon was never charged.
Yes you could, but your probe will initially be headed not-straight-at it. Then you accelerate around Jupiter (or something), out of the plane, and now you're on an intercept course. You can gravity-assist to leave the solar system in any direction.
I'm keeping my license plate analog. If my license plate were to have discrete letters and digits, that would just make it easier for cops to identify me.
Tell you what, let's make it fair. She can run again as the Democratic candidate, if the Republicans will nominate Jeb Bush. If we're gonna make the monarchy-haters stay home or vote third party, then let's really do it!
On bigger computers, we learned that you need to avoid proprietary dependencies so you don't get utterly fucked. Then everyone got a proprietary handheld PC, where they are perpetually fucked.
On bigger computers, we noticed the prices just kept falling. Then everyone started buying handheld PCs, where the prices go.. up?!
Until they can effectively and promptly enforce consistent guidelines, it's all marketing drivel aimed at keeping the lawyers and regulators at bay.
So.. we good then? If you've solved the problem of lawyers and regulators, then you've solved the problem. It's not like it's in society's interest to censor web hosts.
Oh, you mean that core election promise that Mexico would pay for the wall with a one-off payment.
Did it ever occur to you that Comrade Trump might be lying about who he wants to raises taxes upon, to pay for the wall? Think about everything else he has said. He lies routinely. Lying is normal for him. He cheats on his wife and then pays people to not tell her what happened. He obstructs justice to keep cops from finding out the truth about crimes. Dishonesty is what he's all about.
That the campaign promise was just another lie, is the best explanation. He wants to tax the US for it, not Mexico. Everyone needs to forget about his promises. Why would you believe this president? Stop supporting him.
Good god, he even ran as a "conservative" and then gave the US the one of the biggest tax increases in history. Go buy a washing machine and you'll see your taxes have gone up nearly 50%! And then do you know why he raised all our taxes? Not for revenue; he did it because he wants to centrally manage the economy, "pick winners and losers" in sales, instead of leaving things to the free market. (And interfering with immigration is the same thing, but for labor instead of materials.) And he told voters he would be a conservative.
He's a liar. Face up to it. Stop pretending otherwise by bringing up his campaign promises. He's not going to keep any of them.
Looks like the Dems (and the GOP before Jan) are just holding him to that promise.
Democrats might have unrealistic standards for honesty. They need to think about the kind of scum they're dealing with. I think they should, instead of holding Trump to a promise that he never intended to keep, just let it go. Democrats should stop obsessing over the wall, keep it out of the budget (or at least until we have an adult (a law-abiding adult) president who won't criminally mismanage it or use it in yet another money laundering scheme), and their Senate members should just voice support for the House bill that doesn't divert any money away from border security to a wall at all.
And once you realize that many of Trump's statements about international issues just happen to be exactly the same as what Putin says, you will even get some sense of the motive he has for weakening our border by diverting money away from security, to a wall instead. Trump supporters can't explain why Putin would want anything good for us.
So just let go of the wall promise, Democrats. Join the betrayed conservatives in opposing Trump, instead of working with him like the Republicans do.
There's no reason conservatives shouldn't be happy to go along with Dems on this. (Do we have any conservative voters here, to confirm or deny that? Are any conservatives still members of the Republican party, or did you all leave in 2016?)
The economy doesn't need consumers. Consumers need the economy. Consumers are the "problem" that the economy tries to solve. If you take away consumers, you take away the need for everything else.
You're a fool to misunderestimate fools. Who is to say I can't use a $1000 cable from the computer that runs the streaming client, to the speaker? Who is to say a green marker on the edge of the case, and some gold solder on the case screws, wouldn't make my music sound better? You think you're so stupid, but I can out-stupid you.
No, it's just that it's irrelevant. Few people ever bought any of the CDs in question, and their malware was only compatible with Windows anyway. And Sony got their wrist slapped for it.
Yes, CDs are guaranteed to be DRM-free. Go buy a CD, and guess what? No DRM. Try it. You would have to go out of your way to buy one of those old novelty Sony rootkit CDs. You won't find it at your favorite music store, I bet.
Due to today's CenturyLink outage, my VPN to home is down so I can't easily look at what I've been watching, leaving me to rely on [oh, the horror!] my memory. That's bad for movies, but for TV there were three great shows very easy to recall off the top of my head:
Bobcat Goldthwait's Misfits and Monsters. It's a Twilight Zone/Black Mirror/Inside No 9 kind of thing, but lightheartedly funny. Sometimes I forget how much I love Bobcat, but then stuff like this reminds me.
Who Is America? Sasha Baron Cohen does his usual Borat thing (trolling people) but I liked this quite a bit more than his movies. He found some absolute fuckwits and gave them all the rope they wanted, and they tied such wonderful nooses before stepping in and hoisting themselves.
Mike Judge's Tales from the Tour Bus. This was better last year (country), but this year's (funk) was still good. I wonder what genre he'll do next.
For movies, about all I remember is liking The Death of Stalin and Sorry to Bother You. Don't remember anything else.
For music I've mostly been exploring the 1970s for the last couple years, but I seem to remember the new Weedpecker album was pretty good. (Funny name, Weedpecker, but once you hear them you stop laughing.)
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, if you look it up, the relevant excerpt is: [The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct an investigation into..]
So, yeah, whatever conspiracies the president and his team joined with Russia against the USA, fall under Mueller's authorization. And also, any other crimes that you uncover while taking to witnesses or seizing evidence, which have turned out to be many. So the president's crimes, his family's crimes and his campaign staff crimes are all fair game. Trump failed to compartmentalize his criminal enterprises. Even John Gotti was a smarter crook than this fuckwit. Trump needs to watch Kansas City Confidential and Reservoir Dogs, not just Sicario.
As you can see now, they're only interested in all the illegal acts. It was never about "collusion," since the investigations had already moved far beyond that, even before Mueller was appointed.
Apparently Mueller is one of those Republican cops, who all think that if you shoot your rifle at someone and miss, you'll still be charged with assault or attempted murder. The Democrats have totally failed to get through to him. All the fucker seems to care about is fighting crime.
(I think what's confusing you is that you've forgotten Trump's motive. Why did he conspire against America? The answer: he did it for the money. He did it to steal from America, and also to take bribes from foreign government to influence the Us government to do things for them instead of us, in any situations where our interests conflict with other countries'. He did it to help him commit further crimes against you and me. So nobody really cares whether or not Russia's help was effective. He conspired to attack America for profitable reasons, so he's going to eventually be prosecuted for the conspiracy.)
Yes. Even us non-Democrats agree to that. See item (b)(ii) and (c) above. Since so many of Trump's staff and family have committed other crimes in the attempt to cover up the conspiracy, and since they were so easily caught, they've given Mueller a gift to use, to roll them up. (Crooks don't usually make things this easy, but Mueller was fortunate to be charged with investigating some unusually stupid crooks.) The conspiracy with the Russians against America is Mueller's end game. Whether those charges will be the final charges he files, we don't know. But it's the main act, and everyone is looking forward to it. (The problem, of course, is that the president himself is one of the criminal conspirators, and sending presidents to prison is hard.)
WTF? I know it was ok to do that in 2018. Who changed the rules and why wasn't anyone notifed?
But that makes the air in your house as smokey as the air in Boulder!
Ok, they do nothing wrong, and the consequence are ... oh, right, nothing bad happens.
It's hard to think of any game with lower stakes than youtube "monetization." Youtube never owed anyone anything, so it's basically impossible for a video maker to come out behind. The absolute worst case scenario is that some people might decide Youtube's free hosting service isn't as cool as some fanboys said it would be.
Hold on there, I haven't finished my patent search for "ordering a cab .. with a computer!"
Passwords should be chosen to make sure that they do not harm any unborn children, because THEY ARE PEOPLE. Passwords must not be allowed to infringe our right to bear arms. Passwords should not pick winners and losers. Passwords should be selected with the understanding that America was founded as a Christian nation. Passwords should not be used as an excuse to make election day a national holiday, nor should passwords enable black or poor people to vote. Do not use a password's youth and inexperience against it. American taxpayers say they won't pay for a longer password, so guess what, the password just got five billion American taxpayer dollars longer. Passwords understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. Passwords put food on American families. Passwords took the initiative in creating the internet.
So.. what did we learn about just trying to tell a damn joke? No, Ol Olsoc, it's not that you can't do it. It's that you have to structure and give bigger hints up front. If someone is skimming instead of reading, they still need to see something a little ragged that makes them think, "wait... what?" and re-read it.
Have you ever tried simply using a simple mlipsppelling?
Trump has a lot to worry about when it comes to states. e.g. the inauguration money laundering company was incorporated in Virginia, and they (not just the IRS) were defrauded of income taxes on the laundered bribes.
But Stone? What state laws is he said to have violated?
That seems very reasonable, but once Ford pardoned Nixon, Watergate stopped. Was that because prosecutors just didn't want to bother, or was it because the pardon legally "worked?" Nixon was never charged.
Yes you could, but your probe will initially be headed not-straight-at it. Then you accelerate around Jupiter (or something), out of the plane, and now you're on an intercept course. You can gravity-assist to leave the solar system in any direction.
I'm keeping my license plate analog. If my license plate were to have discrete letters and digits, that would just make it easier for cops to identify me.
Tell you what, let's make it fair. She can run again as the Democratic candidate, if the Republicans will nominate Jeb Bush. If we're gonna make the monarchy-haters stay home or vote third party, then let's really do it!
On bigger computers, we learned that you need to avoid proprietary dependencies so you don't get utterly fucked. Then everyone got a proprietary handheld PC, where they are perpetually fucked.
On bigger computers, we noticed the prices just kept falling. Then everyone started buying handheld PCs, where the prices go .. up?!
It's like phones are desktops for retards.
So.. we good then? If you've solved the problem of lawyers and regulators, then you've solved the problem. It's not like it's in society's interest to censor web hosts.
That's because nobody ever prosecutes them!! Hand down a few stiff sentences and fines, and then we'll see how suicidal they really are.
Does it work with mpv/mplayer? VLC? What standards does Netflix support?
Oh.. section f. Hmm. Why doesn't that ever get used?
You talking about something in here? I'm not finding it.
They're familiar with the fact that, after twenty years, there are still not any criminal penalties for bogus DMCA notices.
Did it ever occur to you that Comrade Trump might be lying about who he wants to raises taxes upon, to pay for the wall? Think about everything else he has said. He lies routinely. Lying is normal for him. He cheats on his wife and then pays people to not tell her what happened. He obstructs justice to keep cops from finding out the truth about crimes. Dishonesty is what he's all about.
That the campaign promise was just another lie, is the best explanation. He wants to tax the US for it, not Mexico. Everyone needs to forget about his promises. Why would you believe this president? Stop supporting him.
Good god, he even ran as a "conservative" and then gave the US the one of the biggest tax increases in history. Go buy a washing machine and you'll see your taxes have gone up nearly 50%! And then do you know why he raised all our taxes? Not for revenue; he did it because he wants to centrally manage the economy, "pick winners and losers" in sales, instead of leaving things to the free market. (And interfering with immigration is the same thing, but for labor instead of materials.) And he told voters he would be a conservative.
He's a liar. Face up to it. Stop pretending otherwise by bringing up his campaign promises. He's not going to keep any of them.
Democrats might have unrealistic standards for honesty. They need to think about the kind of scum they're dealing with. I think they should, instead of holding Trump to a promise that he never intended to keep, just let it go. Democrats should stop obsessing over the wall, keep it out of the budget (or at least until we have an adult (a law-abiding adult) president who won't criminally mismanage it or use it in yet another money laundering scheme), and their Senate members should just voice support for the House bill that doesn't divert any money away from border security to a wall at all.
And once you realize that many of Trump's statements about international issues just happen to be exactly the same as what Putin says, you will even get some sense of the motive he has for weakening our border by diverting money away from security, to a wall instead. Trump supporters can't explain why Putin would want anything good for us.
So just let go of the wall promise, Democrats. Join the betrayed conservatives in opposing Trump, instead of working with him like the Republicans do.
There's no reason conservatives shouldn't be happy to go along with Dems on this. (Do we have any conservative voters here, to confirm or deny that? Are any conservatives still members of the Republican party, or did you all leave in 2016?)
The economy doesn't need consumers. Consumers need the economy. Consumers are the "problem" that the economy tries to solve. If you take away consumers, you take away the need for everything else.
Only Democrats use science anyway.
You're a fool to misunderestimate fools. Who is to say I can't use a $1000 cable from the computer that runs the streaming client, to the speaker? Who is to say a green marker on the edge of the case, and some gold solder on the case screws, wouldn't make my music sound better? You think you're so stupid, but I can out-stupid you.
No, it's just that it's irrelevant. Few people ever bought any of the CDs in question, and their malware was only compatible with Windows anyway. And Sony got their wrist slapped for it.
Yes, CDs are guaranteed to be DRM-free. Go buy a CD, and guess what? No DRM. Try it. You would have to go out of your way to buy one of those old novelty Sony rootkit CDs. You won't find it at your favorite music store, I bet.
Due to today's CenturyLink outage, my VPN to home is down so I can't easily look at what I've been watching, leaving me to rely on [oh, the horror!] my memory. That's bad for movies, but for TV there were three great shows very easy to recall off the top of my head:
For movies, about all I remember is liking The Death of Stalin and Sorry to Bother You. Don't remember anything else.
For music I've mostly been exploring the 1970s for the last couple years, but I seem to remember the new Weedpecker album was pretty good. (Funny name, Weedpecker, but once you hear them you stop laughing.)